Hey guys,

 

So I finally got my custom rig working yesterday, and I downloaded GTA IV and let it download overnight via Steam. I woke up this morning, started playing (with no mods) and it worked smoothly. I then downloaded LCPDFR, PoliceHelper, Policing, ELS and Game4Video's ENB and now after 10 minutes of gameplay, it starts freezing every couple of seconds, and then my Teamspeak starts going all weird as well. I was thinking this was an issue with Game4Video, however I ruled that out since I remembered it happened with another ENB I tried prior to Game4Video. I then thought it was my PC, however all my other games work really nicely, up til two hours ago, I thought it was GTA, but again, that theory was futile, since the conclusion came back to the one when I thought it was my PC. Now, I'm thinking it's my internet, since the multiplayer game was lagging (uses Internet) and since my TS was lagging (also using internet). Is anyone else having this problem? I really need help since I was so excited about this rig. PC specs are as follows:

 

 

Intel Core i5 4570 

Asus B85M-E ATX Motherboard

8GB RAM - Kingston HyperX Blu (2 sticks of 4)

Antec 550W PSU

Nvidia GeForce GTX 650Ti BOOST

 

 

I really want to get to the bottom of this. Thanks.

Try creating a file called commandline.txt in your main GTA IV directory with the following lines: 

-norestrictions -availablevidmem 2 -percentvidmem 100 -nomemrestrict

 

Try creating a file called commandline.txt in your main GTA IV directory with the following lines: 

-norestrictions -availablevidmem 2 -percentvidmem 100 -nomemrestrict

 

And what does this do? I'll try this. 

It forces the game to use all of your computers power. 

It forces the game to use all of your computers power. 

 

Well, I'm kind of worried, because even though it says 700MB/3400 MB while using the commandline, it says my graphics settings are too high. And could it be the ENB I'm using? I'm going to try and see if the problem happens in another game.

Do that, or change the ENB. It could very well be the ENB. 

The command lines -percentvidmem 100 and -availablevidmem 2.0 are contradicting each other, remove -percentvidmem 100 and set -availablevidmem 2.0 to 3.4. And I don't think that the ENB is causing the game to freeze every 10 minutes, especially Game4videos ENB.

The command lines -percentvidmem 100 and -availablevidmem 2.0 are contradicting each other, remove -percentvidmem 100 and set -availablevidmem 2.0 to 3.4. And I don't think that the ENB is causing the game to freeze every 10 minutes, especially Game4videos ENB.

Well that's funny. Must have been the ENB series it came with then. I'm using Savior ENB and it works great. Although, I really don't want this to happen again.

The command lines -percentvidmem 100 and -availablevidmem 2.0 are contradicting each other, remove -percentvidmem 100 and set -availablevidmem 2.0 to 3.4. And I don't think that the ENB is causing the game to freeze every 10 minutes, especially Game4videos ENB.

Huh, I always thought that "-percentvidmem 100" makes all videomemory available to GTA IV and availablevidmem adds 2 gb more. Guess I was wrong there. Thanks for clearing that up! :)