When I play GTA IV it will completely freeze my computer. I have these mods installed: First Person, DAS, LCPDFR, ELS, PoliceHelper, TowHelper, K9 Script, ALPR, PSS and my clans vehicles and peds. Every time it freezes the computer is very slow. Could it be a virus, too many scripts? Any help will be great!

 

Brady 

Legal copy of the game? Specs will help immensely.

Yes, legal copy, bought from Steam.

Are you running the game as administrator? 

Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Processer: AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processer 5600+

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Am I missing anything?

yes running as admin

Yeah, your GPU specs. 

 

Also, does it lag without mods? 

No lagging, just freezing,

and GPU specs?

I would say remove all mods, and then install them one by one to find the culprit. 

 

Yeah, your GPU specs. What kind of graphics card are you using? 

Edited December 17, 201312 yr by ineseri

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

 

is that it? lol

With that card I am not surprised you have lag. Can you try my suggestion? I'm guessing it's your car pack btw. 

I don't have lag, its just my computer freezes when I play.

It's your card I would say, it's not powerful enough to run GTA IV. But, to circumvent a less powerful computer, and maybe get the game up and running, create a txt file called “commandline.txt” (without quotes) in your main GTA IV installation directory and insert the following lines:

-renderquality 0 -shadowdensity 0 -texturequality 0 -viewdistance 0 -detailquality 0 -novblank -norestrictions -percentvidmem 100 -minspecaudio -novsync -renderquality 0 -frameLimit 0 -nomemrestrict

 

 

there, hopefully that works, thanks

oh btw my dad has Flight Simulator 2004 on this computer with many texture add-ons and weather add-ons and that works perfectly. 

there, hopefully that works, thanks

oh btw my dad has Flight Simulator 2004 on this computer with many texture add-ons and weather add-ons and that works perfectly. 

But FS2004 is not near the demands that GTA4 has. If someone tried to install it on a NASA computer, it would work without lag, on a normal PC it can have FPS drops that goes from 10-100 in drops. 

What Vic said. + that GTA IV is a crappy port, it lags even on high end computers. 

ok

Actually, my friend plays with a 440, but every computer is different I suppose.