Anyone else spot this particular 'mod' yet?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/07/04/gta-iv-mod-makes-incredible-graphical-overhaul/

Personally thinking of it and LCPD:FR tied together, I'm already drooling a bit, as judging from the video segments, it appears to me that whatever 'engine' tweaks he managed to figure out finally bypassed poly issues and tons of taxi's, which could certainly pave way for finally having a nice collection of custom police/emergency vehicles.

Looks amazing. I probably won't even run this on 800x600.

Well improved appearance doesn't necessarily mean increased requirements. A good example is TES IV: Oblivion, it's had a few graphical/conversion mods out, such as Nehrim, which managed to increase a lot of visual appeal without sacrificing hardware needs.

The newly-coming "Andoran: Prologue" Conversion for it also shows a lot, supposedly has not really increased the need of hardware requirements, yet they managed to tweak the engine to borderline appear Skyrim, which is huge considering the TES V: Skyrim game is a completely -new- engine.

But yeah, I'll be interested to check it out when it's fully complete, more so if it found a way to stably override the old engine limits.

Shiz.. Only thing that can be tricky will be to downgrade my steam Gta:IV from 1070 to 1040, as it almost not runs on 1060 and 1070 patches.. :(

Shit, this would break my CPU in half and blow everything up.

This looks amazing .......

lol, like I said, better visual doesn't necessarily mean higher requirements, but we'll see. It all depends really on just WHAT kind of tweaks he figured out he could do I guess, considering what people have been showing they can do through the modding API (such as the one 'Winter' mod I saw back in the winter season), it's possible he found a ground to soup up the visual and poly issues, while fixing the drawbacks of the engine maybe.

I think it would just be nice to actually be able to possibly have a full custom set of police vehicles, rather than just one or two with worries of tons of taxi's...

lol, like I said, better visual doesn't necessarily mean higher requirements, but we'll see. It all depends really on just WHAT kind of tweaks he figured out he could do I guess, considering what people have been showing they can do through the modding API (such as the one 'Winter' mod I saw back in the winter season), it's possible he found a ground to soup up the visual and poly issues, while fixing the drawbacks of the engine maybe.

I think it would just be nice to actually be able to possibly have a full custom set of police vehicles, rather than just one or two with worries of tons of taxi's...

I just downloaded ICEnhancer 1.2, but it crashes on me. It only works on 1.0.4.0 they said. >:(

I didn't even realize there was a release yet to be honest, I got the impression it was still pretty beta-ish, mostly was waiting to hear of more news of it before I went looking.

I'll have to try this out :d

Wow... It looks so real! :ohmy:

I'm going to give it a try. Wish me luck, gentlemen.

I'm going to give it a try. Wish me luck, gentlemen.

Before you do anything, if you use a nVidia card, stay away from it. It overheats the card.

Otherwise, good luck :biggrin:

Edited July 6, 201114 yr by Jacob

why only nVidia cards?

I don't know the specifics, but its in the readme.

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

This version uses the 0.082 DLL as a base

Which means :

Overheating of videocards NVidia GF8800, high end from GF2xx series and most from GF4xx, GF5xx

Be careful.

No one is responsible if you have any hardware problems.

Just try to avoid overheating using a better fan.

If you results some artefacts , bugs , everything going all blue , and massive slowdown for

no reasons.

Stop playing.

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

why only nVidia cards?

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

This version uses the 0.082 DLL as a base

Which means :

Overheating of videocards NVidia GF8800, high end from GF2xx series and most from GF4xx, GF5xx

Be careful.

No one is responsible if you have any hardware problems.

Just try to avoid overheating using a better fan.

If you results some artefacts , bugs , everything going all blue , and massive slowdown for

no reasons.

Stop playing.

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't count for all nVIDIA cards, but some do.

Edited July 6, 201114 yr by Interference

It counts for all of them, its just worse for some of them, I think

Only counts for some. It would mention all if it really would.

Worked great btw.

oh 0.082 SORA, you could have told me that. Yeah the ENB devs being to lazy to make a new version. Oh well.

Not so much a bug of that mod as a bug of old nVidia cards, though I'm pretty sure the overheating issue was fixed in the core nVidia drivers themselves, if you have the latest you should be fine.