I posted this here because its not a LCPDFR support related topic. I have been playing LCPDFR for months now on high settings with no issues. The game ran smoothly and didn't have a choppy or laggy feel to it at all. I was playing all day yesterday and it ran nice and smooth. Today I get on and the game is super choppy. The loading music is skipping beats, when I drive its like watching a frame by frame movie or something. I am not sure what has happened. I never did any of those configuration to try and make it run better for low end computers because my computer isn't really low end and it always ran smoothly. I did try lowering all my settings just before I called it quits a few minutes ago but it still was choppy.

If anyone has any ideas why my game out of the blue started slowing down please let me know. Game is unplayable like it is.

Updated your graphics card drivers lately? or it could be a problem with bad memory sticks? Had a bad memory stick here one day, that gave me the same problems.

Updated your graphics card drivers lately? or it could be a problem with bad memory sticks? Had a bad memory stick here one day, that gave me the same problems.

The main problem I have it is a family members computer and I don't want to F it up. Where do I go to find the graphic card drivers. If it is a bad memory stick I guess when they get home to play their game it will be messed up too and we can go from there but they were playing all day with no issues on their own game.

There are also so many youtube videos with suggestions to stop the lag and I cant tell which ones are the bullcrap don't do a thing solutions from the ones that will work.

I am still stumped at why it would be fine one day and crap the next.

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by HolyOrangeJuice

I've been having the same issue starting two days ago. My game ran perfectly fine (my specs are well over sufficient) and I turn my computer on the next day and IV plays like it would on a low end computer. For the most part i usually get 30-40fps on high settings now I'm getting anywhere from 15 to 10 or less fps on ANY setting and resolution. It jumps/spikes from 25ish to 10 or lower fps constantly throughout. Since I have the steam version I'm going to validate my steam files and then see if that doesn't fix whatever issues that may be or I'll just have to redownload and reinstall it.

The main problem I have it is a family members computer and I don't want to F it up. Where do I go to find the graphic card drivers. If it is a bad memory stick I guess when they get home to play their game it will be messed up too and we can go from there but they were playing all day with no issues on their own game.

There are also so many youtube videos with suggestions to stop the lag and I cant tell which ones are the bullcrap don't do a thing solutions from the ones that will work.

I am still stumped at why it would be fine one day and crap the next.

Graphics drivers i guess you will find on either ATI.com or NVIDIA.com and choose the Windows version you are running .. try to install the latest driver. Sometimes drivers in Windows can get out of hand.. For example if Windows Update is turned on.

If there is a bad memory stick, it should affect more than just GTA. Laggy desktop, bluescreen or fail when copying f.ex.

It could also be overheating? Family pc's dont get the magic touch of a vacuumcleaner too often ;)

But it sounds very strange that the game suddenly started to lag.

Graphics drivers i guess you will find on either ATI.com or NVIDIA.com and choose the Windows version you are running .. try to install the latest driver. Sometimes drivers in Windows can get out of hand.. For example if Windows Update is turned on.

If there is a bad memory stick, it should affect more than just GTA. Laggy desktop, bluescreen or fail when copying f.ex.

It could also be overheating? Family pc's dont get the magic touch of a vacuumcleaner too often ;)

But it sounds very strange that the game suddenly started to lag.

Okay, about overheating. We have a radeon 6770 card installed and the guy at out local computer shop added a couple extra fans free of charge because he said with the small tower we could have overheating issues. Well it was working fine and one day when we shut down the computer and turned it back on we heard beeping noises and it wouldn't turn on. We eventaully got it turned on and now only put the computer to sleep and we haven't had any issues.

My family member plays WOW and SWTOR while i use it for GTA 4. He hasn't complained and I seem to be the only one having issues. I'll try updating the drivers. The memory stick cannot be the issues since its just my game...but maybe overheating or issue with the card might be it.

Can you post up your Computer Specs? Such as Processor and your GB?

Edited February 1, 201214 yr by Sharp-

Update drivers and the game is playable but no where near what it use to be. I still got some laggy spots that i didn't get before. Unfortunate. I hate computers.

Ahaha. You just need a update in your drivers card. That should really help.

Good luck!

Ahaha. You just need a update in your drivers card. That should really help.

Good luck!

I hope so...so far idk

Well did a virus scan and cleaned a bunch of crap off my computer. Fixed good as new. Runs super smooth.

there's a program called "clean-up" i have it and use it ONLY once a week, it sound's like a flushing toilet lol anyway, if you use it once a week, it deletes all the files you don't need and put's the files you DO need where they need too be and speed's your computer up BUT when using this program i can't stress enough ONLY USE IT ONCE A WEEK, it can COMPLETELY erase your HD then you will be back at square one.