[Raziel_cN]

I've been playing GTA for quite a while now, I have stopped playing for a bit and now I can't run it anymore. It will get to the loading screen once you sign into your windows account and go to GTA4 episodes and click start. While showing the characters and such it will just keep showing them over and over and over. I ctrl+alt+delete and saw that GTA4 was "Not Responding" I went to the process and saw it was running 32 bit and my computer is 64, I'm not sure if it was running this all the time or what. I've bought the game from steam and I never had an issue like this before. Here are my computer specs:




3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM (6MB Cache, up to 3.3GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0)
Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit
6GB DDR3 at 1600MHz (2DIMMS)
2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M (And a Intel HD4000 graphics onboard)
1000GB5 SATA hard drive (7200RPM)
High Capacity 9-cell Lithium Ion (90whr)


Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Raziel_cN]

I REALLY NEED HELP ON THIS SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!

[miromiro]

Make sure that VSync in game options is off. Besides, do you have any mods installed?

[Raziel_cN]

QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 20:28)

Make sure that VSync in game options is off. Besides, do you have any mods installed?

I don't have any mods installed and for some reason the game options are really messed up

[miromiro]

Have you tried deleting your game settings or re-installing the game? You might also consider installing the Games For Windows Live Update if nothing works.

[Spider-Vice]

You say the settings are messed up? Did you happen to downgrade a patch? For example install 1.4 on top of 1.7?

[Raziel_cN]

QUOTE (Spider-Vice @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 21:01)

You say the settings are messed up? Did you happen to downgrade a patch? For example install 1.4 on top of 1.7?

I installed the game a month ago. I didn't instal any patches or anything and the settings are "messed up" meaning for some reason I can't change them. It "changes" and go immediately back.

[miromiro]

QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:38)

Have you tried deleting your game settings or re-installing the game? You might also consider installing the Games For Windows Live Update if nothing works.

Could you tell me if any of these suggestion changed anything?

[Raziel_cN]

QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 21:33)

QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:38) Have you tried deleting your game settings or re-installing the game? You might also consider installing the Games For Windows Live Update if nothing works. Could you tell me if any of these suggestion changed anything?

I can't delete the settings, I installed through steam so Idk where the setting thing is. And I went to the graphic options in the game it said my graphic options are exceeding my graphing thing. It also said I only had 24mb allocated to the game. >_>

My graphic card is one of the top of the line gfx cards there are for laptops

[Raziel_cN]

I just COMPLETELY reset my system graphic card to default and it is still doing it. So it is something wrong with the game. It hasn't asked me to install any updates or anything. I don't know what is wrong with it. Please someone help I'm far into the game and I wanna see the ending and everything.

[jpm1]

with steam you don't need to install any update , steam does it automatically . when you change your game settings , you should always stay in green . for example 650 Mo / 1024 . try updating your card drivers and direct x too . your rig should run the game with no problem (and probably with everything on high)

[Spider-Vice]

If nothing works I think one of the solutions you have is to reinstall the game You won't lose your savegames, the installer prompts you for that.

[Raziel_cN]

QUOTE (jpm1 @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:17)

with steam you don't need to install any update , steam does it automatically . when you change your game settings , you should always stay in green . for example 650 Mo / 1024 . try updating your card drivers and direct x too . your rig should run the game with no problem (and probably with everything on high)

My rig is a beast, I don't get it. I have DirectX 11 and my graphic drivers are updated automatically using a program I made. I'm reinstalling now. I was really hoping it doesn't delete save games. Thank GOD. Now the issue is my internet. it's gonna take 20+ hours to download again.

[mkey82]

QUOTE (Raziel_cN @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:40)

QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 21:33) QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:38) Have you tried deleting your game settings or re-installing the game? You might also consider installing the Games For Windows Live Update if nothing works. Could you tell me if any of these suggestion changed anything? I can't delete the settings, I installed through steam so Idk where the setting thing is. And I went to the graphic options in the game it said my graphic options are exceeding my graphing thing. It also said I only had 24mb allocated to the game. >_> My graphic card is one of the top of the line gfx cards there are for laptops

The settings are where girish said they are.

Problem with the settings you're experiencing is due to the new CPU lineups where GTAIV can't detect the discrete GPU correctly. So you need to use nomemrestrict -> http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=458859

You'll also want to try starting a new game as it's possible your savegame was corrupted.

This post has been edited by mkey82 on Wednesday, Aug 15 2012, 09:05

[Raziel_cN]

QUOTE (mkey82 @ Wednesday, Aug 15 2012, 09:00)

QUOTE (Raziel_cN @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:40) QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 21:33) QUOTE (miromiro @ Tuesday, Aug 14 2012, 23:38) Have you tried deleting your game settings or re-installing the game? You might also consider installing the Games For Windows Live Update if nothing works. Could you tell me if any of these suggestion changed anything? I can't delete the settings, I installed through steam so Idk where the setting thing is. And I went to the graphic options in the game it said my graphic options are exceeding my graphing thing. It also said I only had 24mb allocated to the game. >_> My graphic card is one of the top of the line gfx cards there are for laptops The settings are where girish said they are. Problem with the settings you're experiencing is due to the new CPU lineups where GTAIV can't detect the discrete GPU correctly. So you need to use nomemrestrict -> http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=458859 You'll also want to try starting a new game as it's possible your savegame was corrupted.

It can't be my saved game, because the issue also starts when starting the game. I try going to options then graphics and it's all weird. It won't let me change anything and everything is on the lowest setting.

I tried that commandline switch thing, I don't know if I did it right but it still didn't work. I'm getting REALLY pissed at this thing.