[PrometheusX]

Memrestrict is mostly used to fix stuttering issues - it won't help in your case. Your graphics card is an Entry-level GPU, it wasn't designed for gaming purposes, thus the low framerate you\re having.

As for getting more FPS in multiplayer, yeah it could be due to a lower level of vehicle density, which you could adjust from the Graphics settings in-game.

[Cottontop3000]

Ah, I see. Thanks. Could you recommend a gpu for my computer? Also, any advice about the anti-virus and firewall? I'd think, leave them on, but I wondered if rockstar and windows had some sort of protection. I don't know. Thanks.

[Cottontop3000]

Sorry, off topic.

[PrometheusX]

QUOTE (Cottontop3000 @ Saturday, Jan 12 2013, 00:02)

Ah, I see. Thanks. Could you recommend a gpu for my computer? Also, any advice about the anti-virus and firewall? I'd think, leave them on, but I wondered if rockstar and windows had some sort of protection. I don't know. Thanks.

Anti-viruses and firewalls don't really affect the game's performance at all. As for the GPU, you should post your PC specs [including the PSU] and your budget before receiving advice on which GPU to buy. It's better if you create a topic in the PC Performance forum; as you'll receive more help there.

[roudabout6]

If anyone could help me I have extreme slow loading textures and pop-ins and you name it. I have tried literally everything and have been working on it for days now and can get it resolved. My gta is modded to is full extend with 7 gbs+ of textures and a 400mb car pack with traffic load and different sounds/scripts and player models. If I take one step outside of spawn is is just 16 bit buildings any help at all will be greatly thanked
Specs:
i5 3570k (4.4ghz)
Sapphire 7950 ( 1100/1525)
8Gb 1600mhz
Gigabyte z77 ud3h
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
1tb 7200 rpm 64m cache hdd

[PrometheusX]

This problem is commonly caused for the Vehicle Pack. Create a text file in the game's main directory named commandline, and copy/paste this in the file:

CODE

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict -refreshrate 60 -availablevidmem 2.0 -percentagevidmem 100 -novblank -framelimit 0 -noprecache

The game will show that you'll have double the resource usage, but try not to go over the originally allocated.

If this doesn't work, then I guess you'll have to remove the pack and install each vehicle manually.

[slooow]

OK, if someone PLEASE could tell me what to do...
Few years ago I installed GTA 4 and it ran perfectly, NO stuttering!! Then I uninstalled it half a year ago.
Last week I installed it again and since then I simply cant get rid of stuttering!! I have tried everything, all memrestricts, Vsync, turning of event log etc. and nothing helped. Then i used commandline -refreshrate 28 -framelimit 1 and it worked!! Game was even faster then before, it was amazing. BUT, I added better city textures and then stuttering was back again (dunno why?). I said OK I ll reinstall the game and wont put better city textures again. So i installed the game again and put all settings, patches back like they were when I managed to get the game running smoothly without stuttering, I put the same commandline BUT its stuttering again??!? I mean WTF?? Like the game does what it wants and its messing with me. It looks like it simply doesnt recognize commandline -refreshrate 28 - framelimit 1 anymore, cause it reacts on every other commandline besides that.
Please does anyone has any kind of a idea cause i ran out of it.

[shiva s]

Sorry for being a little weird here but are "-refreshrate -framelimit", the only commandlines you're using?

You should also try using the below commands

QUOTE

HIGH TEXTURES (1Gig+ Video Cards) -memrestrict 650117120 -memrestrict 681574400

You can keep increasing the values until you notice further slutterings.

[slooow]

i tried only -framelimit and -refreshrate, but also combined it with many memrestricts...idk, the problem is it was smooth but why wont be smooth again when i did everything like before...

[shiva s]

Post your system specs.

Try defragmenting your HDD As it might reduce the sluttering to a considerable extent.

You should als try disabling Windows Event Log. Go to Task Manager, click Services, right click "Windows Event Log" and turn it off.

[slooow]

Here:
Windows 7 64-bit SP3
Athlon II X4 620 2.60ghz
4GB RAM
HD 4870 1GB

event log is already off (i tried those 9 tips from steam forum for stuttering elimination)...ill try defragmenting HDD...actually the only thing that troubles me (a lot) is why commandline mentioned before that helped me wont work again??

[slooow]

i used fraps and noticed that low fps could actually be the problem, i get only 12-16 fps outside ( the thing is that fps doesnt change even if i put everything to minimum!)...i played in windowed mode with memturbo on and saw that when playing gta 4 it uses only 1200-1500MB of RAM, how can that be fixed, i mean i have 2X more RAM to use...