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20 Nov 2011
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#11 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 Cheshire, United Kingdom |
Quote: Originally Posted by DeEmanon 
Quote: Originally Posted by Richardc269
Quote: Originally Posted by Wishmaster
This.
GTA IV doesn't run perfectly smooth even on the best even on the highest end PCs.
If you got it running fairly smooth overall & stable, your good to go. I wouldnt worry to much about it.
However, I would suggest a good defrag of the HD. The occasional lag you descibe "may" be a bit of harddrive hitching when the game is calling for more data to load.
A defrag could potentially help a bit in this regard. This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is. thing is, i read an article a while back about how defragmenting your win 7 is a bad idea, and how it only really makes the difference in XP nahh, it helps, i've had very quick loading times on my system after a defrag and a week earlier it was super slow, it just depends on what you use to defrag, it's really down to the graphics card, the more onboard memory your GPU has, the better the game will run, but considering i'm on an older card, the game runs like a tied down tortoise | My System Specs |
| Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
CPU Intel Q6600 @ 2.6Ghz
Motherboard Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
Memory 4Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 800Mhz 5-5-5-15
Graphics Card EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
Sound Card Realtek HD 7.1 Audio, Plantronics GameCom780 7.1 Headset
Monitor(s) Displays Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard Logitech generic keyboard
Mouse Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
PSU Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
Case Antec 900 Gaming Case
Cooling Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium
Hard Drives Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA
Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA
WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA
Internet Speed 120Mb Virgin Media Fibre Optic
Other Info Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
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20 Nov 2011
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#12 | |
Windows 7 Ultumate x64 Chittagong, Bangladesh. |
dude i didnot even know that GTA IV doesnt support SLI!! i mailed the bloody support team cause like i cudn max up the DRAW DISTANCE and they told me it does not support sli and  it pissed me off!!
well if youre using a single graphics card..it shud run fine!! i finised GTAV with the draw distance to around 35 i guess  bad LUCK! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Built
OS Windows 7 Ultumate x64
CPU Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. P6T (LGA1366)
Memory 6GB DDR3
Graphics Card 2GB DDR5 ASUS Nvidia GTX 560 Ti
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Monitor(s) Displays LG Flatron E2241 22"
Screen Resolution 1920*1080
Keyboard Logitech K230
Mouse HP KY620AA
Hard Drives 977 Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 ATA device (SATA) * 2
Internet Speed 2Mbps
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20 Nov 2011
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#13 | |
7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME) Yellow Snow, Japan |
Quote: Originally Posted by MrNeeds
Quote: Originally Posted by DeEmanon
Quote: Originally Posted by Richardc269
This really only applies when the drive is heavily fragged. Depending on your hardware, that is.
thing is, i read an article a while back about how defragmenting your win 7 is a bad idea, and how it only really makes the difference in XP nahh, it helps, i've had very quick loading times on my system after a defrag and a week earlier it was super slow, it just depends on what you use to defrag, it's really down to the graphics card, the more onboard memory your GPU has, the better the game will run, but considering i'm on an older card, the game runs like a tied down tortoise What tool do you suggest? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Service
OS 7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME)
CPU AMD Athlon II X3 445 (3.2GHz) (overclocked to X4)
Motherboard ASUS M4A77T
Memory 12 GB Patriot 1333 MHz
Graphics Card AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 2GB(Thats right, 2GB in a 6570:P
Sound Card Will need to find out.
Monitor(s) Displays Techinka LCD (tv/hdmi/vga) screen
Screen Resolution 1280x1024 VGA
Keyboard qwerty one ;P
Mouse Works
PSU 650W WinPower (ATX)
Case N/A
Cooling wooh, too many to name, but air cooled
Hard Drives 2x 500GB Seagate Barra'cuda 7200
Internet Speed It is what most would call average
Other Info N/a
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20 Nov 2011
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#14 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Southern Ohio |
Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.
As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.
In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.
Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom (Self Build)
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU Intel Core i7 2700k
Motherboard eVGA P67 SLI
Memory 8GB Mushkin Redline Ridgebacks @1866
Graphics Card EVGA GTX570 SC
Sound Card XiFi Titanium HD
Monitor(s) Displays LG W2453V
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Saitek Cyborg
PSU Seasonic x750
Case Corsair 600T SE White
Cooling eVGA Superclocked CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Intel 320 80GB -- Intel X25-V 40GB --WD Black 1TB x2 -- WD Blue 640GB
Antivirus Kaspersky
Browser IE
Other Info LG BD/DVD
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20 Nov 2011
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#15 | |
7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME) Yellow Snow, Japan |
Quote: Originally Posted by Wishmaster Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.
As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.
In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.
Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app. so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''? | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Service
OS 7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME)
CPU AMD Athlon II X3 445 (3.2GHz) (overclocked to X4)
Motherboard ASUS M4A77T
Memory 12 GB Patriot 1333 MHz
Graphics Card AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 2GB(Thats right, 2GB in a 6570:P
Sound Card Will need to find out.
Monitor(s) Displays Techinka LCD (tv/hdmi/vga) screen
Screen Resolution 1280x1024 VGA
Keyboard qwerty one ;P
Mouse Works
PSU 650W WinPower (ATX)
Case N/A
Cooling wooh, too many to name, but air cooled
Hard Drives 2x 500GB Seagate Barra'cuda 7200
Internet Speed It is what most would call average
Other Info N/a
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20 Nov 2011
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#16 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Southern Ohio |
Quote: Originally Posted by DeEmanon
Quote: Originally Posted by Wishmaster Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.
As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.
In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.
Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app. so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''? If you do not know much about fragmentation, and defragmenting, please have a look here: File system fragmentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It should help answer all questions.
Fragmentation is actually quite normal. You can see how much there is, by typing "defrag" in you start menu search box, than open the Disk Defragmenter.
Just press the analyse button, and it will give you an idea in a percentage.
Less than 10% is generally regarded as being OK, and should not cause much of a performance issue.
More than 10% typically means a defrag pass is needed.
Heavily fragmented would be something like 20% or more fragementation.
Please bear in mind, all of this applies to mechanical Hard Drives. Solid State (SSD) suffer no ill effects from it as they work entirely different than a mechanical, platter type hard drive.
It is also worth mentioning, that by default, Windows 7 defrag passes should occur automatically any time the level get close to or exceeds 10%.
Unless you intentionally disbaled it. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom (Self Build)
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU Intel Core i7 2700k
Motherboard eVGA P67 SLI
Memory 8GB Mushkin Redline Ridgebacks @1866
Graphics Card EVGA GTX570 SC
Sound Card XiFi Titanium HD
Monitor(s) Displays LG W2453V
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Saitek Cyborg
PSU Seasonic x750
Case Corsair 600T SE White
Cooling eVGA Superclocked CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Intel 320 80GB -- Intel X25-V 40GB --WD Black 1TB x2 -- WD Blue 640GB
Antivirus Kaspersky
Browser IE
Other Info LG BD/DVD
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20 Nov 2011
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#17 | |
7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME) Yellow Snow, Japan |
Quote: Originally Posted by Wishmaster
Quote: Originally Posted by DeEmanon
Quote: Originally Posted by Wishmaster Windows built in Defrag does just fine for the most part.
As mentioned, it really will only make a difference if the drive is currently heavily fragmented.
In regards to other free alternatives that may be better than Win7s own, not sure.
Ive always used, and prefer Perfect Disc. But, its not a free app. so what do you mean ''heavily fragged''? If you do not know much about fragmentation, and defragmenting, please have a look here: File system fragmentation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It should help answer all questions.
Fragmentation is actually quite normal. You can see how much there is, by typing "defrag" in you start menu search box, than open the Disk Defragmenter.
Just press the analyse button, and it will give you an idea in a percentage.
Less than 10% is generally regarded as being OK, and should not cause much of a performance issue.
More than 10% typically means a defrag pass is needed.
Heavily fragmented would be something like 20% or more fragementation.
Please bear in mind, all of this applies to mechanical Hard Drives. Solid State (SSD) suffer no ill effects from it as they work entirely different than a mechanical, platter type hard drive.
It is also worth mentioning, that by default, Windows 7 defrag passes should occur automatically any time the level get close to or exceeds 10%.
Unless you intentionally disbaled it. There is the result  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self Service
OS 7 Ultimate x64 no sp. also using Ubuntu 10.10 and Mint 9 (GNOME)
CPU AMD Athlon II X3 445 (3.2GHz) (overclocked to X4)
Motherboard ASUS M4A77T
Memory 12 GB Patriot 1333 MHz
Graphics Card AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 6570 2GB(Thats right, 2GB in a 6570:P
Sound Card Will need to find out.
Monitor(s) Displays Techinka LCD (tv/hdmi/vga) screen
Screen Resolution 1280x1024 VGA
Keyboard qwerty one ;P
Mouse Works
PSU 650W WinPower (ATX)
Case N/A
Cooling wooh, too many to name, but air cooled
Hard Drives 2x 500GB Seagate Barra'cuda 7200
Internet Speed It is what most would call average
Other Info N/a
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20 Nov 2011
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#18 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Southern Ohio |
Yea, I would go ahead and let it defrag  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom (Self Build)
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
CPU Intel Core i7 2700k
Motherboard eVGA P67 SLI
Memory 8GB Mushkin Redline Ridgebacks @1866
Graphics Card EVGA GTX570 SC
Sound Card XiFi Titanium HD
Monitor(s) Displays LG W2453V
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Saitek Cyborg
PSU Seasonic x750
Case Corsair 600T SE White
Cooling eVGA Superclocked CPU Cooler
Hard Drives Intel 320 80GB -- Intel X25-V 40GB --WD Black 1TB x2 -- WD Blue 640GB
Antivirus Kaspersky
Browser IE
Other Info LG BD/DVD
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20 Nov 2011
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#19 | |
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 Cheshire, United Kingdom |
wow, that is fragged! mines barely on 1%, i use auslogics disk defragmenter as it's very quick and reliable, and free! | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
CPU Intel Q6600 @ 2.6Ghz
Motherboard Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
Memory 4Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 800Mhz 5-5-5-15
Graphics Card EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
Sound Card Realtek HD 7.1 Audio, Plantronics GameCom780 7.1 Headset
Monitor(s) Displays Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
Keyboard Logitech generic keyboard
Mouse Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
PSU Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
Case Antec 900 Gaming Case
Cooling Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium
Hard Drives Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA
Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA
WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA
Internet Speed 120Mb Virgin Media Fibre Optic
Other Info Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
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