GTA 4 Complete Edition under R70 on Steam

Last time I tried this game on PC it had utter rubbish performance. I would like to play it but I can't when it sucks so much on PC.
 
Yeah, at launch it was bad. I hear they have fixed it up a lot through patches - they even removed the godawful GFWL. I've also upgraded to a more powerful PC since it came out. I'm interested in picking this up for the Liberty City Stories stuff which I haven't played before. R65 is a tempting price for a really good set of games.
 
I don't recall having any performance issues when playing last year. With the legit version the last patch fixed the problems and better hardware I guess.
 
czc said:
I don't recall having any performance issues when playing last year. With the legit version the last patch fixed the problems and better hardware I guess.
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Never had issues either.

Thing with GTA IV was that it was heavily optimised for quad-cores and at least 4GB of RAM. Anything less and I'm really not surprised there were issues for some folks :x
 
Lycanthrope said:
Never had issues either.

Thing with GTA IV was that it was heavily optimised for quad-cores and at least 4GB of RAM. Anything less and I'm really not surprised there were issues for some folks :x
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Yup; back at launch on PC I think I had a dual-core Intel CPU, an Nvidia 6800 GTS 512MB, and 4GB of RAM. By no means was that a bad PC at the time, it even played Crysis with reasonably high settings. GTA 4 struggled though, especially when using anything other than low-res shadows. Still, after a bit of tweaking I got the game running smoothly and it was great fun. Glad to hear those patches have sorted everything out now; might be time to revisit Liberty City :D
 
James said:
Yup; back at launch on PC I think I had a dual-core Intel CPU, an Nvidia 6800 GTS 512MB, and 4GB of RAM. By no means was that a bad PC at the time, it even played Crysis with reasonably high settings. GTA 4 struggled though, especially when using anything other than low-res shadows. Still, after a bit of tweaking I got the game running smoothly and it was great fun. Glad to hear those patches have sorted everything out now; might be time to revisit Liberty City :D
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Hope so.

I haven't played it in quite some time.

I wanted to buy the GTA collection that was on sale in December but I never got around to it (procrastinating sucks).

Kind of looking forward to trying Episodes From Liberty City. Us poor PC sobs were loved pretty late on that, so I never bothered with them.
 
James said:
Yeah, at launch it was bad. I hear they have fixed it up a lot through patches - they even removed the godawful GFWL. I've also upgraded to a more powerful PC since it came out. I'm interested in picking this up for the Liberty City Stories stuff which I haven't played before. R65 is a tempting price for a really good set of games.
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LIES!

It persists!

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James said:
Yeah, at launch it was bad. I hear they have fixed it up a lot through patches - they even removed the godawful GFWL. I've also upgraded to a more powerful PC since it came out. I'm interested in picking this up for the Liberty City Stories stuff which I haven't played before. R65 is a tempting price for a really good set of games.
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do it! that is a bargain of note! The Ballad of Gay Tony is about the same size as the original(gameplay wise) and funnier. The Lost and the Damned is cool because of the biker gang shenanigans but has a more serious, darker tone. All games have a replay editor feature which I have lost many hours too as well.
 
czc said:
Yes, it is there. Had some issues when I wanted to play MP with Sky.
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It are way much teh suck :(

I'd still like to know what Win8's future (as a gaming platform) will be if it's been almost a decade and they still can't get GFWL to be anything other than a frustrating pain in the ass.
 
so typical of my luck. or should i rather say lack of.

I hadnt played this game cos when it first launched it was plagued with performance issues and my pc was a bit rubbish at the time. saw gta4 at bt games for R100 on the weekend and was bored so thought hey why not get it and see if it runs on my new pc with the patches that are out. Typically the complete edition would come on special after I have spent my R100 :(
 
Lycanthrope said:
Never had issues either.

Thing with GTA IV was that it was heavily optimised for quad-cores and at least 4GB of RAM. Anything less and I'm really not surprised there were issues for some folks :x
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That's all very well if the game has decent graphics. I run newer games on nearly full graphics with my measly Core2Duo. I must try it again with patches though.
 
Pooky said:
That's all very well if the game has decent graphics. I run newer games on nearly full graphics with my measly Core2Duo. I must try it again with patches though.
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I don't understand what you mean, are you trying to insinuate GTA IV doesn't have "decent graphics?" O.o

The arguably good thing about GTA IV is that the graphics settings are pretty customisable with "max" being really far out--far more complexity than the consoles could handle (loads of objects loaded up and being displayed at once, massive viewable distance, heavy shaders/shadows, etc) and for enthusiasts, this was great.

Unfortunately, that also meant that everyone tried to max everything out and then moan when their antique furniture couldn't handle it.

But yeah, it was badly optimised for PC in that regard and I think it has improved since then.

Modern hardware should be able to breeze through it. But I still have my doubts about whether anything less than a quad-core CPU would be of any use.
 
Installed it today, and has been running at about 50-60 FPS with my I5-2500K oc'd @4.6Ghz and radeon hd 7950 everything MAX

Actually looks quite good
 
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