[glassprison142]

Earlier this week I bought GTA IV and all of the DLCs off of Steam. Whenever I try to start it up and it asks me to log into Windows Live and I accept, the log in keeps loading. The only way I have ever stopped this was when I have to minimize the game and then maximize it again. when this happens, it gives the little pop up that says hit the home button to bring up Windows Live, and two commands at the bottom to hit escape and enter. But at this point the game freezes and I need to open up task manager to close it at this point. I got around this by logging onto GTA IV offline from Windows Live and then when I am in the game, I log on and it works. But the first time I tried this, after about an hour of playing I got a fatal error: ZLIB20. If I were to reinstall the game would I be able to keep my saves? Has anyone else experienced this problem and fixed it successfully?

[marmoo]

What's your system spec's glass?

[glassprison142]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: GA-970A-UD3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD FX™-4100 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8174MB RAM
Page File: 3409MB used, 12934MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7601.17514 32bit Unicode

my card is a Radeon HD 6950, I'm able to run the game on max settings

[jpm1]

you forgot the most important , the GPU . GFWL problem may be caused by several things . it could be a bad installation , a lack of update .. i suggest you to install xliveless for your game version , this will allow you to get rid of GFLW thing

[glassprison142]

At this point the game has been freezing every single time I cross the algonquin bridge. The game doesn't lag whatsoever so I can't figure out the problem. Would reinstalling help?

[jpm1]

is your GPU enough . did you installed mods . are your gpu drivers , direct x up to date . do you have an internet browser or a media player running in the background

[glassprison142]

Well my GPU (Sapphire Radeon HD 6950) runs everything on ultra including crysis which is more graphics entensive than GTA IV. I lowered all graphics settings to nothing and tried to cross the bridge again, but my game still froze. The only thing I ever have running in the backround is Skype, but I don't think that has anything to do with the problem. I'm using no mods, I just bought the game off steam like 4 days ago. This computer is brand new so everything is up to date. If it matters i'm using windows 7 ultimate with I assume service pack 1.

[jpm1]

QUOTE (glassprison142 @ Thursday, Aug 23 2012, 00:37)

Well my GPU (Sapphire Radeon HD 6950) runs everything on ultra including crysis which is more graphics entensive than GTA IV...

not totally sure about that . GTA is a nice game but very detailled and thus very ressource demanding . but your lag is weird . did you check your FW and AV to see if they were interfering in background

[glassprison142]

QUOTE (jpm1 @ Thursday, Aug 23 2012, 01:54)

QUOTE (glassprison142 @ Thursday, Aug 23 2012, 00:37) Well my GPU (Sapphire Radeon HD 6950) runs everything on ultra including crysis which is more graphics entensive than GTA IV... not totally sure about that . GTA is a nice game but very detailled and thus very ressource demanding . but your lag is weird . did you check your FW and AV to see if they were interfering in background

I'd be lying if I said I knew completely what you were talking about :X All I know is that when I am running the game nothing else is running in the backround. I actually tried lowering the graphics to see if it had something to do with it but it didn't. I'm now reinstalling the game to see if it will work.

[mkey82]

He's talking about antivirus (AV) and firewalls (FW.)

From what you're telling us, it seems to me that:
a) your download was busted, in that case a cache verification from the steam game options can help
b) your hard drive is heavily fragmented, in that case I recommend doing defragmenting your drives
c) the drive may have bad sectors, but if you say the PC is newly build, that's not very probable

[glassprison142]

Finally I can now cross the bridge. But still, unless I am missing something (New to PC gaming) I feel like I am missing important folders from my GTA IV folder from the installation. I would call myself an idiot if I thought the only folder in the GTA IV folder is the Music one.my folder

[mkey82]

Steam games are installed in the steam folder in program files.