[Oxytoe]

mine doesnt lag but jus completley freezes all of a sudden

[Pixelated]

When troubleshooting you need to remove as many variables as possible. Lower you settings all the way to low. Put your resolution at something like 1280x1024 and play for a half hour. Then come back here and post if it still happens. If it doesn't then slowly one by one raise the settings a little bit, starting with the textures until it looks good and doesn't lag.

I think most of the problems with this sort of issue is that too many people are trying to max out the settings with inadequate hardware. An Nvidia 9600GT and 2.4Ghz Core2Duo will not even get a good result on medium settings. Sorry but this game needs a lot of CPU power and memory bandwidth both on the video and system sides.


My system is in my sig. I am playing with these settings.


Texture: High
Render Quality: Highest
Draw Distance: 20
Detail Distance: 100
Vehicle Density: 33
Shadow Density: 9

With that I'm getting a solid 35-45 FPS.

This post has been edited by Pixelated on Saturday, Dec 13 2008, 16:46

[D. Eiht]

My game's not getting laggy - it crashes! Everytime.
I can do whatever I want, like lowering all the settings to min or even raise 'em to max - it doesn't make any difference. (But in FPS )

Just after about 30 minutes of playing (I got a 5-10 FPS boost after patching ) - "GTAIV.exe doesn't work anymore". (Or similar, I have a german Vista)
And that's a "new feature" of the patch... Before the patch it never crashed ingame! (If I passed the license screen...)

My specs:

Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz
Corsair XMS2 DHX CM2X2048-6400C4DHX (2x 2048 MB DDR2-800)
Gigabyte EP35-DS4 Mainboard
ASUS HD4850
Vista Home Premium SP1 x86

This post has been edited by D. Eiht on Saturday, Dec 13 2008, 16:56

[iWolfgang]

QUOTE (Kakashi_sensei @ Dec 13 2008, 16:06)

When your game starts lagging after a few minutes, go to windows task manager (without quitting the game i.e. press ctrl-alt-del) and click the Processes tab, then find GTAIV.exe on the list, right click it and set priority to realtime. Should solve it

just tested the mothed,lots of thanks to you but for me,it not works like a charm,this problem is just killing me,really

[Pixelated]

QUOTE (D. Eiht @ Dec 13 2008, 16:53)

My game's not getting laggy - it crashes! Everytime. I can do whatever I want, like lowering all the settings to min or even raise 'em to max - it doesn't make any difference. (But in FPS ) Just after about 30 minutes of playing (I got a 5-10 FPS boost after patching ) - "GTAIV.exe doesn't work anymore". (Or similar, I have a german Vista) And that's a "new feature" of the patch... Before the patch it never crashed ingame! (If I passed the license screen...) My specs: Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3GHz Corsair XMS2 DHX CM2X2048-6400C4DHX (2x 2048 MB DDR2-800) Gigabyte EP35-DS4 Mainboard ASUS HD4850 Vista Home Premium SP1 x86

Are you using the German bought or German version of GTA?

[D. Eiht]

I'm using the german version. BTW, the application crash window tells me "critical runtime error".

[reznor]

Same problem, lagging after 30 min... (patched version)

On Q6600 / ATI HD2600xt 512 / 2Go ram / Vista 32 sp1

[neccu]

QUOTE (Kakashi_sensei @ Dec 13 2008, 16:06)

When your game starts lagging after a few minutes, go to windows task manager (without quitting the game i.e. press ctrl-alt-del) and click the Processes tab, then find GTAIV.exe on the list, right click it and set priority to realtime. Should solve it

Hmm very intresting.
I started the GTAIV and it lagging again, I set GTAIV.exe priority to realtime and then game runs very smooth and I don't have any lagging. Thank you for your great tip.

[reznor]

it's not dangerous for processor or other (overheating) to put priority to realtime ?

[NecroViolator]

Realtime Priority doesnt help...
It just makes the computer put GTA IV first...

It should put GTA IV in the garbage bin on the dekstop... Then we all say it was Microsoft that made us do it... ...

Ive tried this, but it made my game go REALLLLYYYY SLOOOOOWWW........
Super crappy idea for me... ...

[killerkid]

I had this, Get a program called "CacheBoost" and run it while playing the game, it fixed it for me.

[neccu]

QUOTE (NecroViolator @ Dec 13 2008, 17:49)

Realtime Priority doesnt help... It just makes the computer put GTA IV first... It should put GTA IV in the garbage bin on the dekstop... Then we all say it was Microsoft that made us do it... ... Ive tried this, but it made my game go REALLLLYYYY SLOOOOOWWW........ Super crappy idea for me... ...

Yup... it still lagging... but when I go to desktop and then back to game it's work again about two minutes..

[reznor]

I tried but no change for me, always very lagging

is CacheBoost works with Vista ?

[NYHoustonman]

QUOTE (reznor @ Dec 13 2008, 18:36)

I tried but no change for me, always very lagging is CacheBoost works with Vista ?

Yes; just as an fyi, this solved the problem for me:
http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=382884

It seems like those with 2GB of memory (or less) who were suffering from hard drive swapping are the ones who are seeing the biggest improvement here.

[TheJanManShow]

QUOTE (reznor @ Dec 13 2008, 17:34)

Same problem, lagging after 30 min... (patched version) On Q6600 / ATI HD2600xt 512 / 2Go ram / Vista 32 sp1

i had the same problem. Resetting all values to default in my nvidia control panel solved the problem for me :-)

[BacJe]

I also have this problem...after few minutes of playing the game freezes if i en application in task manager the computer restarts...my computer is good(nvidia 9800GT, 3.25 ram, 3ghz processor, 500gb free space...)so the game should teoreticaly work fine, but it doesnt...at the graphics settings i have a 992mb limit, i have settings on so it takes a 852 limit space, but the game freezes every 10 minutes...i tryed to lower the settings to minimum and praise god that would work but it didnt maybe it works 5-10 minutes longer but then it freezes again...please help me because this is very good game and i want to play it! PLEASE HELP!


oh i also have windows xp SP3

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