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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

We'll need to see your specs to help determine why you're lagging.

To find your graphics card related info, type dxdiag in the run box in the start menu. Click the "Display" tab to see your graphics card.

To find CPU / RAM, go to start --> right click on Computer --> properties.

Edit: Forgot, dxdiag can also tell you CPU and RAM so above step is not always necessary. This info will be on the "system" tab.

Edited November 27, 201114 yr by Iconography

Windows 7 Home Premium

Dell XPS 8300

Intell Core i5-2320 CPU 3.00 GHz

6 GB RAM

64-bit

And, that's all I found under the "system" tab.

What about the graphics card? As Icon said, this will be under the "Display" tab.

Your CPU seems perfectly fine for GTA, as well as your RAM. At this point I highly suspect your GPU is the problem here, but I will need to see its name found in the "Display" tab.

Edited November 27, 201114 yr by Iconography

Oops sorry. (I'm just typing what I see):

Name:AMD RADEON HD 6450

Is that what you wanted?

Edited November 27, 201114 yr by theninja35

Yeah, that's all we need.

You should definitely think about a new graphics card.

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

There are so many cards out there, I can't list just one. I, myself, recommend Nvidia based cards (like my EVGA GTX 560 Ti). However, depending on your power supply, you may want to settle for a less powerful card.

Sites like Newegg (US and Canada) are good, but there are many other sites to get cards, not to mention physical stores.

Edited November 27, 201114 yr by Iconography

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

Cards range anywhere from $50 (really low-end cards, not what you want) to high end $1,000 cards (extreme dual GPU cards with water cooling systems for extreme systems). I would expect, for your needs, to pay about $200 for a card in order to play GTA well. I don't have any more time to stay on the forums now, so someone else can take over from here.

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

HD5870 is kinda cheap now for what you get. You will get one for

Edited November 27, 201114 yr by Molten

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

Yeah, there is a huge range of graphics cards out there. It would help to know what your price range is. That makes it much easier to narrow down cards.

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

ATI Radeon 9250. Would that work?

256MB of VRAM? No, not for GTA IV. Sorry :confused:

Edited November 28, 201114 yr by Iconography

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Edited June 20, 20241 yr by tobeymaguire

Still not enough memory :/ You're looking for a card with at least 800MB of video memory installed. Preferably 1GB.

if we had even a rough estimate of a price range we could find one.

Edited November 28, 201114 yr by Iconography