Hey guys, I recently did a benchmark with settings as high as they will possibly go and only got an average of 37.22 FPS.

My system is a monster, with a 3930K CPU, Dual 660ti's in SLI. Intell SSD's etc. etc. etc. You prolly get the pic. Any ideas why frames are so bad. Is GTA really THAT bad of a port?

while the game is running press Ctrl+Alt+Delete>open task manager>processes>right click gta iv>set priority(high)>set affinity>all check boxs checked>see if you lagg after that.

the main answer to your question......YES!!!!! GTA IV is a bad port.

It's a shoehorned port of its console brethren... poor memory pooling and very CPU dependent. That aside, it's not a total slideshow (unplayable), you just have to baby it a little.

Well i get the 37.22 FPS running on full settings. My GPU never goes about 21% my CPU never goes above 32% and mem never above 9% consumption according to GTA's bench mark. Seems like if I have that much processing power left over on the CPU, GPU, and Mem then I should be getting a LOT more than 37.22 FPS.

Here's the benchmark. You can see my resource usage is very low, so I cannot understand the low frames. It should be pushing my hardware and it's settling for some kind of throttled down "good enough" frame rendering or something.

Statistics

Average FPS: 37.22

Duration: 33.32 sec

CPU Usage: 20%

System memory usage: 21%

Video memory usage: 41%

Graphics Settings

Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)

Texture Quality: High

Shadow Quality: Very High

Reflection Resolution: Very High

Water Quality: Very High

Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x16

Night Shadows: Very High

View Distance: 100

Detail Distance: 100

Hardware

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit

Service Pack 1

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti SLI X2

Video Driver version: 306.02

Audio Adapter: Speakers (Corsair Vengeance 1500)

Intel® Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (OC to 4GHz)

go to your LaunchGTAIV.exe and right click, create shortcut, then move the shortcut to the desktop, right click the short cut, then properties, and under the shortcut tab, make the Target look like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV\LaunchGTAIV.exe" -norestrictions

so that it has the -norestrictions after it. Then launch using this shortcut and you should do better. R* thinks they know our computers better than us so they limit what the game can actually use from your system.

If your using steam, and want to run it through steam, you can in the ROOT folder make a txt first called commandline.txt and add the -norestrictions to it. It should work the same way.

Thanks Faracus, already did that. My problem isn't being able to change graphics settings. It's getting 37 fps with the specs I have for this PC. Should be A LOT higher for a 3.5 yr old game. There should be absolutely zero reason for me to have to reduce one single setting with the set up that I have. I play games that are still in Beta and not optimized at 120 FPS. Either GTA for PC is a total failure or I need to RMA some parts, and I'm thinking my parts are just fine.