Game Graphics Help, GTA4 > General Discussion

Posted: 5/7/2011 11:55:08 AM EDT

I just reinstalled GTA4 and the graphics are choppy and barely work. I have a new system I built, previously it had worked fine. I have Win 7 64 bit, Intel Core i7 950 processor, 6 GB ddr3 RAM, and a Geforce GTS 450 video card with 1GB DDR5 RAM.

I have never had a problem before with it till the upgraded system. Any ideas, please? Thanks.

Posted: 5/7/2011 11:58:54 AM EDT

[#1]

OP be sure to cross post this in General > Urban Commandos

Posted: 5/7/2011 11:59:08 AM EDT

[#2]

buy an Xbox.

Posted: 5/7/2011 11:59:45 AM EDT

[#3]

sorry, but your computer is overqualified for the job

Posted: 5/7/2011 12:15:39 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:

buy an Xbox.

Pretty much.

Posted: 5/7/2011 12:18:35 PM EDT

[#5]

whats your hard drive speed? 5400?

Posted: 5/7/2011 12:22:00 PM EDT

[#6]

drive speed is 7200

I tried installing the new patch but can find nothing about where to install it, it does not install automatically.

Posted: 5/7/2011 12:34:13 PM EDT

[#7]

Latest nvidia driver for your card?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-270.61-whql-driver.html

Posted: 5/7/2011 1:24:15 PM EDT

[#8]

Download the lastest nVidia drivers, then the latest directX

Go to device manager, look at the properties of the IDE Controllers, make sure they are running in DMA mode on the "advanced properties" instead of PIO mode. That is a wierd glitch that will KILL the performance of a system, happens after upgrades without a clean install sometimes.

Other than those two things (Video drivers/directX, and HDD), not sure what would cause such a hit on performance.

Posted: 5/7/2011 1:44:51 PM EDT

[#9]

Try shutting off any processor throttling programs in bios and windows.. I've heard a few times where the cpu will throttle back to under 1ghz with some games.

Posted: 5/7/2011 1:51:51 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:

buy an Xbox.

Pretty much.

Posted: 5/7/2011 1:57:37 PM EDT

[#11]

And now it says to save a game that I have to log into Windows live and yet I am logged into Windows live, but the game does not recognize it. Pissing me off!!!!

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