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 Grand Theft Auto IV
 Memory Leak/Shuttering(ect) Solution, sticky if necessary
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Player Hater
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Virse X Guide to Solution! Do you ever get slow downs when playing Grand Theft Auto 4 for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes? and Does
it get ridiculously frustarding!!(yes frustarding) when you either have to close the game, or do some memory turbo Ram
defragging,
Well This is a simple guide to solving this so called memory leak, or i would like to call it Cpu cut backs.
Warning this only may work for Intel processors, If your computer explodes inside with candy i am not responsible
but might be responsible for eating some of it, USE GUIDE AT OWN RISK
Alright when you launch gta 4 and make some cars go boom, run over fat slobes that make dents in your cars, or
just basicly kill anyone in your way, your Cpu calculates these things and has a cycle to continue to Calculate running
over fat people. This is what i found out using a program.
When playing more then 10 minutes i would automatically get a memory leak or shuttering and we some how got the idea that
our Memory is not enough for the game to use its full potential.( They usually tell you, your processor is weak Sh*t or
you need a better graphics card) Not true at all.
Acer Aspire 6920g (laptop)
Processor: Intel Centrio Duo t5550 1.83ghz
Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce 9500m GS
Memory: 3GB with 4gb ready boast (it runs a bit better with ready boast)
I can run this game at a playable rate No shuttering nor "memory leaks" due to this discovery. RMCLOCK Program is to thank for this blessing I have used Rmclock to Overview my Processors Performance while Playing Grand theft auto 4 and seeing if it had anything to do with the shuttering/ memory leaking. These are my low power settings: These are my Max settings right before i play Grand Theft Auto 4: Now i load Grand Theft Auto 4 and wait until i start to Shutter.
When i suddenly start to shutter like mad and i have no option but to press esc and either Alt+f4 that sh*t or window key
it.
I Window Key Grand theft auto so it runs in the background and i check to see my RMClock Specs, and these are what came
out:
My Throttle has gone down by half of what it was before playing Grand theft auto 4.(I believe the throttle is how much the
CPU cycles are per second)
When i played with some configurations with Rm clock, i now play a Rock star sh*t free game.
CONFIGURATIONSTHESE WERE DONE WITH AN INTEL CPU, AMD CPU's MAY VARY!
First of all download RMClock using this URL=> RightMark
http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml
and Find Files located under "(RMCLOCK)"
And for 64bit OS versions download the following rmclock system file and copy replace in the Rmclock directory after
installing
URL=>Megaupload
Open up RMclock and browse your settings to get used to the functions of this program,
Step 1:
In the side click "Advanced CPU Settings" and check at the bottom to see your current feature is between (Auto-detect
,Desktop, and mobile) If Desktop is not selected check it in and apply to restart your application. (THIS RAISES YOUR
VOLTAGE FOR FASTER PERFORMANCE)
Step 2:
Click "Management" on the side and configure your settings to mine below in the picture and apply. (Make sure your using
your max settings)
Step 3:
Click "Advanced CPU Settings" and on the top click "Throttling". WARNING BEFORE CHANGING
ANYTHING, DO NOT MAKE "Throttle Duty cycle" BELOW 50% UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING
Step 3A:
Methods to locking your throttle speed is to check in "Lock throttling settings" so that your max throttling speed will
never change.
Step 3B:
If your throttle still changes use the following settings in the picture below.
Your throttle speed will be 87.5% of the maximum with guaranteed no change.
Results for 3B:
Now once you have applied everything, go into your "RMCLOCK" Directory and double click "RMCLOCKHTL.EXE" (this will
stabilize your cpu speed)
Now your done configuring RMclock and Create a commandline.txt in your GTA 4 Directory with the commandline "-memrestrict
629145600" and save
Launch Grand Theft Auto 4 and When the loading screen is up Window key to Desktop.
Open up Task Manager and change Priority for GTA.exe to "High" nothing above high.
enjoy memory leak or shutter free  (Don't forget to keep checking your RMclock status)
OTHER TWEAKSI Overclocked my GPU for extra performance 
I also use Memturbo which it is useful for sparing some memory for Grand Theft Auto 4.
I hope this helps fallen RockStar fans across the globe and if you have any questions or need help please post
positively Thank you
-Virse X This post has been edited by Virse X on Jan 13 2009, 03:20
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| TruXter |
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retXurT
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Very witty rebuttal. I am pretty sure you google it, you will see a million people using it. Whatta ya know. They even have your shirt. https://www.tisortum.com/site/page.asp?dsy_id=5044I like when new kids use old stuff to sound brilliant. Witty rude retorts, do not reflect intellect, they reflect an angry troll with something to prove. Nice work asshat (fyi, that's a long gone website where it made fun of buzzword f*gs like yourself) To be fair I have read many pissy rants here on the forums about how GTAIV sucks or is poorly optimized or how it's coded wrong, and causes memory leaks and such. You must understand why I feel the way I do about the game. I have installed the game on probably 5 or 6 machines of my own and have not fallen into any unexpected issues yet. Might be because I know what I am doing will take the time to fix my machine and use google as apposed to look for a cure all pill. and when that does not work, break out in a temper tantrum. Yeah you plainly prove to be a newb. |
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retXurT
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Don't like the game?
GTFO
I like the game. So um, look up at the link newb.. it's a gta fansite and this area is clearly for gtaiv pc fans.
so um, who is trolling?
nice copy and paste . now I pick it apart .
no dedicated server support -- mta team is at it now, if you where not such a newb, you would know this.
Multiplayer issues (kicked back to lobby etc) you lag, fix your sh*t
no anti cheat join a better game or host it yourself, kick them as they enter.
poor server admin controls what do you want? server usage is free
poor control mapping hmm I adjusted. not many people griping about it anymore
Many Popular game controllers not supported (including wheels and pedals etc) like console gamers use? I think many people have a fix, start game with controller unplugged. plug game in while in. and there is a reg swap.
heavily unoptimized (DUH) <----- false, just to much for your machine. Experience teaches you this one.
RGSC bloatware Oh boy a whole 2-20 megs of memory being allocated,
Window live bloatware damn you got me there with another 2-20 (depends on activities)
Reflections tied to resolutuon do you know what that means? you sure can't spell it. I really don't want to hear you describe something you found in a wiki
poor graphic options (they didnt want to confuse us lol) The graphics options are great, just limited by your hardware at default refer back to the one where I talk about experience.
missing textures so far on all the machines I have installed on, it only happened to the ones that exceeded 46c/115f. It happens fast
pop ins like it does on the 360, like all games that are to much for hardware, like all gta games have been from the beginning????
poor management of gpu (leans heavily on cpu) only if your cpu is your bottleneck.
No AA (this is a big one for most people) gta never had AA
Poor cpu optimization (3 cores) did you alrady say this?.. I mean now it just feels like filler
poor shadows (flickering also) turn them up, it fixes. higher resolution, better the shadows look.
minimum sys requirements (lies) yeah show me a game that tells the truth about min/max reqs. this is a stupid rant
windows 64bit optimized (lies)
catalyst 8.12 optimized driver (lies) to you but not others??? It would so rock if Rockstar made drivers. let's blame nuclear waste on R* ... k?
no sli support got me there. guess they just didn't use it. =-\ dunno
crossfire support is poor Does anyone use crossfire?
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| turbo1508 |
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| QUOTE (TruXter @ Jan 13 2009, 05:59) | Don't like the game?
GTFO
I like the game. So um, look up at the link newb.. it's a gta fansite and this area is clearly for gtaiv pc fans.
so um, who is trolling?
nice copy and paste . now I pick it apart .
no dedicated server support -- mta team is at it now, if you where not such a newb, you would know this.
Multiplayer issues (kicked back to lobby etc) you lag, fix your sh*t
no anti cheat join a better game or host it yourself, kick them as they enter.
poor server admin controls what do you want? server usage is free
poor control mapping hmm I adjusted. not many people griping about it anymore
Many Popular game controllers not supported (including wheels and pedals etc) like console gamers use? I think many people have a fix, start game with controller unplugged. plug game in while in. and there is a reg swap.
heavily unoptimized (DUH) <----- false, just to much for your machine. Experience teaches you this one.
RGSC bloatware Oh boy a whole 2-20 megs of memory being allocated,
Window live bloatware damn you got me there with another 2-20 (depends on activities)
Reflections tied to resolutuon do you know what that means? you sure can't spell it. I really don't want to hear you describe something you found in a wiki
poor graphic options (they didnt want to confuse us lol) The graphics options are great, just limited by your hardware at default refer back to the one where I talk about experience.
missing textures so far on all the machines I have installed on, it only happened to the ones that exceeded 46c/115f. It happens fast
pop ins like it does on the 360, like all games that are to much for hardware, like all gta games have been from the beginning????
poor management of gpu (leans heavily on cpu) only if your cpu is your bottleneck.
No AA (this is a big one for most people) gta never had AA
Poor cpu optimization (3 cores) did you alrady say this?.. I mean now it just feels like filler
poor shadows (flickering also) turn them up, it fixes. higher resolution, better the shadows look.
minimum sys requirements (lies) yeah show me a game that tells the truth about min/max reqs. this is a stupid rant
windows 64bit optimized (lies)
catalyst 8.12 optimized driver (lies) to you but not others??? It would so rock if Rockstar made drivers. let's blame nuclear waste on R* ... k?
no sli support got me there. guess they just didn't use it. =-\ dunno
crossfire support is poor Does anyone use crossfire? |
Your ignorant to the point that your fanboyism (if there is such a word) is blatant and disgusting. The whole reason developers keep getting away with pumping out half finished products is because failures like yourself find an excuse/settle for it and say sh*t like 'OMG THIS IS A GREAT PRODUCT ' when infact its just a bloated unoptimized mess. I cbf going through and hammering you for each excuse as to why no ded server support or multiplayer issues etc etc etc. You Fail, and so did Rockstar when the released this joke of a product. |
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retXurT
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| QUOTE (Pasanen @ Jan 13 2009, 07:36) | | QUOTE (TruXter @ Jan 13 2009, 04:07) | | THERE IS NO MEMORY LEAK, IT IS JUST A SIMPLE PURE OLD SCHOOL FINE EXAMPLE OF SOFTWARE EXCEEDING HARDWARE.! |
Right... no leak what so ever... 
GTAIV.exe takes little over a gig...
http://i41.tinypic.com/2h499jr.jpg
...but RAM is filled brim...
http://i43.tinypic.com/2dadnqe.jpg
...and once you close the game...
http://i42.tinypic.com/35a6440.jpg
However, despite all this, I was able to complete the game without a single crash @19x12, High, Very High, 25-50-75-0. Slowdowns and dips below 30fps did occur however, and texture pop-ins. Still hoping they'll fix it tho... |
HAHAHA where to start dude. 55 processes. one of which is Utorrent. punk buster on auto run. http://i41.tinypic.com/2h499jr.jpgactually. just seeing U torrent running in the background says plenty. you nee to control your start up. and there is no telling how long your game is running. what I mean by that is task manager is not saying that gta just suddenly sucked one gig of data from your machine in a split second. you have to think of it like this. If I had hard ware, like a ten gig processor, and 10 gigs of ram with a fsb in the gigs area, I would not be feeling any lag. again the hardware would be exceeding the software. if you feel no memory leak then. then there is no corrupt code in the game. corrupt code hurts everyone. This game is not hurting everyone, so something else is going on. what you might want to admit to or a fact you might want to face, is up to you. but I will tell you what it is, might be a year or so before you believe or understand. You do not know squat about your computer other than what you read on the box it came in. http://pcpitstop.com/ here do a benchmark here before you tweak http://www.hijackfree.com/en/http://www.download.com/Trend-Micro-Hijack...4-10227353.htmlhttp://www.blackviper.com/http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/ctxfihlp.exe.html update drivers http://truxtertech.com/pcrepair/ clean a virus, and speed up your junker. Turn of trillion, it's the simplest earliest tip you learn. This post has been edited by TruXter on Jan 13 2009, 07:59
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ROIDEDOUT450S
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| QUOTE (TruXter @ Jan 13 2009, 05:59) | Don't like the game?
GTFO
I like the game. So um, look up at the link newb.. it's a gta fansite and this area is clearly for gtaiv pc fans.
so um, who is trolling?
nice copy and paste . now I pick it apart .
no dedicated server support -- mta team is at it now, if you where not such a newb, you would know this.
Multiplayer issues (kicked back to lobby etc) you lag, fix your sh*t
no anti cheat join a better game or host it yourself, kick them as they enter.
poor server admin controls what do you want? server usage is free
poor control mapping hmm I adjusted. not many people griping about it anymore
Many Popular game controllers not supported (including wheels and pedals etc) like console gamers use? I think many people have a fix, start game with controller unplugged. plug game in while in. and there is a reg swap.
heavily unoptimized (DUH) <----- false, just to much for your machine. Experience teaches you this one.
RGSC bloatware Oh boy a whole 2-20 megs of memory being allocated,
Window live bloatware damn you got me there with another 2-20 (depends on activities)
Reflections tied to resolutuon do you know what that means? you sure can't spell it. I really don't want to hear you describe something you found in a wiki
poor graphic options (they didnt want to confuse us lol) The graphics options are great, just limited by your hardware at default refer back to the one where I talk about experience.
missing textures so far on all the machines I have installed on, it only happened to the ones that exceeded 46c/115f. It happens fast
pop ins like it does on the 360, like all games that are to much for hardware, like all gta games have been from the beginning????
poor management of gpu (leans heavily on cpu) only if your cpu is your bottleneck.
No AA (this is a big one for most people) gta never had AA
Poor cpu optimization (3 cores) did you alrady say this?.. I mean now it just feels like filler
poor shadows (flickering also) turn them up, it fixes. higher resolution, better the shadows look.
minimum sys requirements (lies) yeah show me a game that tells the truth about min/max reqs. this is a stupid rant
windows 64bit optimized (lies)
catalyst 8.12 optimized driver (lies) to you but not others??? It would so rock if Rockstar made drivers. let's blame nuclear waste on R* ... k?
no sli support got me there. guess they just didn't use it. =-\ dunno
crossfire support is poor Does anyone use crossfire? |
wrong. previous GTA games worked with AA if i forced it in nVidia control panel. GTA4 however goes unchanged even if I force 16xAA i remember being able to play GTA3 with AA after i went from onboard video to FX5600 |
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