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At max settings GTA 4 uses about 1.8 GB of vRAM.
At max settings GTA 4 uses about 1.8 GB of vRAM.
The game is so buggy it is not worth bothering with. When it was first released the devs came out with the poor excuse that it was optimised for future computers, how they got away with selling it as a finished product is unbelievable.
Good luck with that:)
ot: 1280x1024 isnt allways 17" (my 19" crahp)
It's around 1.1GB. I play with everything on max.
And getting a 5970 won't make any difference. It's 2GB per core, and GTA will still only list it as 1GB total usable.
It's actually a lot better now they've updated it quite extensively.
Nothing wrong with the graphics engine. It was just a poor port to PC.
If you are sticking with your current monitor - stay with a 5870.
To fully drive (utilise) a 5970 you'd need to have a CPU clock of 3.4ghz - 3.6ghz and as already mentioned, a resolution of 1680x1050+
Otherwise a 5970 wont offer you any real advantage over a 5870 in GTA IV, or any other games.
At lower resolutions, you are still essentially CPU bound. It's only at resolutions above 1680x1050 that the GPU starts to take the majority of the load.
Unfortunately, GTA IV will never be a truly 'smooth' game to play with max IQ settings, at least not with any hardware available atm.
With my specs at 1920x1200, GTA IV is smoother overall - but it still suffers from a lot of min FPS drops depending on in game time and area.
At 5760x1200 (Eyefinity) it makes both me and PC cry
It's definitely improved, but it's still not the most stellar performing game
Well, thanx a lot for all the info
I have a Samsung 740bf 17" screen for the moment but I will upgrade to a 19" soon, that's why I prefered choose the HD 5970. Btw, any suggestions for a good 19" monitor? I heard ViewSonic are very nice for games.
Many professionals, also friends told me that Ghz don't really do the difference because it depends on the CPU build.
AMD and Intel Ghz are never equal, like an AMD chip operating at 2.8GHz would process data faster than an Intel chip running at 4.0GHz...
I first decided to upgrade my computer for StarCraft II (to run all on ultra), but I was tempted to finally get GTA IV because I'm a fan, so I guess I will wait a little longer before I buy GTA IV on PC, it seems really to be very bad optimized for nowadays hardware, pity... because it's kinda a lying advertise for the PC version, if it can't run well with these extra settings...
Is that really true?
So me running my GTA4 at 800x600 res is basically being run by the CPU?
I have all my settings to the lowest it can go, all the bars set at 1, and running 800x600 @ 60MHZ, and the best FPS i can get is like 40, and it also varies on whats going on in the game, like rain ill go down to like 20-15 fps... :/