[livilaNic]

QUOTE (TiRANB @ Mar 26 2009, 20:05)

I had that problem too. I restarted my PC 3 times and it worked again

Heh. Three's a crowd, get outta here...

[vabellabel]

hey rockstar! what mem restrict do you recommend me using? im using medium texture and i have a 1gb gefore 8800 gt card. thanks!

[Girish]

QUOTE (vabellabel @ Mar 28 2009, 13:11)

hey rockstar! what mem restrict do you recommend me using? im using medium texture and i have a 1gb gefore 8800 gt card. thanks!

Any one of these will do;
-memrestrict 262144000
-memrestrict 293601280
-memrestrict 314572800

It's a trial and error method, tbh. You'll have to check and see which one gets rid of the stuttering issue for you.

[ShamelessPie]

Rolled drivers back to 181.22 as mentioned before. Works perfectly. Ran for 6 hours strait without dying. Kudo's to whoever mentioned that.

[rawzon]

why doesnt R* just fix the problem with a patch instead of coming up with these BS solutions that people that paid $50 bucks for a game shouldnt have to do? i've tried all these stupid settings and the game still goes into a lockup after about 20 minutes.

[LukeDuke3]

This game is amazing. I just found a way how to make game run allmost perfect smooth.. fresh install xp sp3 and gta 4
pc is: gtx 260, q6600, 4g ram
screenshot settings

[rawzon]

QUOTE (LukeDuke3 @ Mar 28 2009, 19:38)

This game is amazing. I just found a way how to make game run allmost perfect smooth.. fresh install xp sp3 and gta 4 pc is: gtx 260, q6600, 4g ram screenshot settings

kinda crazy all the hoops you have to jump to get a game to work, i have

amd2 6000
BFG 9800GT
and 4gigs of ram

still can get the game to play longer then 30 minutes.

[kn00tcn]

QUOTE (rawzon @ Mar 28 2009, 11:01)

why doesnt R* just fix the problem with a patch instead of coming up with these BS solutions that people that paid $50 bucks for a game shouldnt have to do?  i've tried all these stupid settings and the game still goes into a lockup after about 20 minutes.

as if rockstar is in charge of everything, refer to

QUOTE (ShamelessPie @ Mar 28 2009, 05:03)

Rolled drivers back to 181.22 as mentioned before. Works perfectly. Ran for 6 hours strait without dying. Kudo's to whoever mentioned that.

a complicated giant game on incredibly varied hardware, software, drivers, users, etc is going to have hiccups

what can another patch do, pick these tweaks automatically? it probably does that already, commandlines are overrides

[kvic]

I think they should start paying people to beta test the patches before they release them.

[Vichello]

Guys, you should try Systweak Cacheboost. It's a handy program that helps cache memory en RAM usage. Whenever I play GTA without it i get stuttering after about 30mins, with this program NO STUTTERING WHAT SO EVER, im NOT saying better FPS, im saying no stuttering.

You can get the program easily from the 'web'. Just install it and let the service run on startup(not the trayicon). press 'optimze now' and 'empty cache memory' before u play.

[ifoxhound]

QUOTE (Vichello @ Mar 30 2009, 08:52)

Guys, you should try Systweak Cacheboost. It's a handy program that helps cache memory en RAM usage. Whenever I play GTA without it i get stuttering after about 30mins, with this program NO STUTTERING WHAT SO EVER, im NOT saying better FPS, im saying no stuttering. You can get the program easily from the 'web'. Just install it and let the service run on startup(not the trayicon). press 'optimze now' and 'empty cache memory' before u play.

I've tried this and got BSOD after a minute of play . Had to back out to the -memrestrict. Thanks for advice anyway. I'm always up for some new suggestions which might fix the stuttering and texture popping together.
So far we were able to either fix the stuttering (freezing) but the textures popping stays OR we got no popping but the game stutters and crashes afterwards.

[Thek76]

Hi all. not sure if my post belongs here or not. When I first start playing the game everything is fine. Then all of a sudden the game comes to a halt almost. And sometimes the sounds go funny, like tyres screeching on a loop and horns sounding constantly. My system should meet min specs, I don`t think its over heating as computer behaves normally when I get the game to end. Here are some specs if you need them.

AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Cpu Speed 2.51 GHz
Ram 3.0 GB
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Thanks for looking at this

[rawzon]

QUOTE (Thek76 @ Mar 30 2009, 20:08)

Hi all. not sure if my post belongs here or not. When I first start playing the game everything is fine. Then all of a sudden the game comes to a halt almost. And sometimes the sounds go funny, like tyres screeching on a loop and horns sounding constantly. My system should meet min specs, I don`t think its over heating as computer behaves normally when I get the game to end. Here are some specs if you need them. AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ Cpu Speed 2.51 GHz Ram 3.0 GB ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Thanks for looking at this

i get the same thing.

amd2 6000
4 gigs of ram
BFG 9800gt

[Unit Deserviced]

QUOTE (ShamelessPie @ Mar 28 2009, 10:03)

Rolled drivers back to 181.22 as mentioned before. Works perfectly. Ran for 6 hours strait without dying. Kudo's to whoever mentioned that.

Just thought I would chime in and say that this cured all of my problems as well. I was even able to jack the settings up higher than I had them before without using the command line or -memrestrict, while maintaining superior performance. Kind of a bittersweet solution, but whatever works, I guess.

[{HHx}Bud_Gld]

This game is Bull s h i t. I run a quad and i had no probs until i put patch 1.3 in. I wasted hours with command line BS. I t is not the system it is the port. Thanks for selln me a beta and patchin it 3 times. Ill admit with patch 3 i upgraded my drivers to no help if i install the game and patch till 1.2 it runs great. But patch 1.3 with in 1-2 min it chops or stutters or what ever u wanna call it. Most forum questions are never answerd by r o ck star. but are answerd by peeps spending hours to fix there own probs. then postin fixes . So cheers to them . I run a 2.2 quad with a 3870 vid and 3 gigs of ram. cmon its not a great system but supasses all min requirements. i will give u r o cks tar another 20 bucks and u can call it a mod like e a does u no what i mean.

[YoungGun]

QUOTE (LukeDuke3 @ Mar 28 2009, 11:38)

This game is amazing. I just found a way how to make game run allmost perfect smooth.. fresh install xp sp3 and gta 4 pc is: gtx 260, q6600, 4g ram screenshot settings

i have the same gpu and cpu as you do with only 2GBs of RAM but I can the game at much better settings..

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/979/gta1898607.jpg

[Th3 ProphetMan]

Is any info confirmed about how the quantity of system RAM afffects sttutering?

I understand that the memrestrict command tells the game the GFX card has less memory than it actually has so that when the leak starts growing it grows on the Video ram and not the system RAM, because if SYS RAM reaches 2GB it causes sttutering. Is that it? That's the only way i can possibly make sense of all this sttutering issue and it's workaround..

Please rockstar give as an exact explanation about what causes the sttutering and how memstrict helps fixxing it so that we know how to handle it better

[kvic]

NO MORE STUTTERING I redid my entire system all new drivers,the newest direct x,installed it on it's own partition and I even got my old xbox controller working prefect ,I did have to use one of the recommended memrestrict fixes but it is running great.

Statistics
Average FPS: 51.24
Duration: 37.06 sec
CPU Usage: 62%
System memory usage: 48%
Video memory usage: 78%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 37

Hardware
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Service Pack 3
Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series
Video Driver version: 6.14.10.6925
Audio Adapter: Realtek HD Audio output
AMD Phenom™ II X4 940 Processor

File ID: benchmark.cli

[ikt]

I don't even see when the game stutters. It runs at 15fps... lol.

[PharmacisT-]

Does this "Tweak" improve FPS or something?

Or is it only for ppl who have stuttering issues