GTA4 Run As Administrator Problems

[Slivinski71 0]

Hello everybody, I recently got LCPDFR and I love it, I have been having some issues lately though, I'm able to play this but after 20-30 minutes it crashes, I took to the net to find a solution and one was to run GTA4 as an administrator, I set my GTA4 to that but I'm unable to set the launch.exe to run as admin. I'm running a ASUS Republic of Gamers Laptop, this thing is a beast and runs everything at good quality, I'm able to play GTA with all settings turned up to the max if I wanted to, but when I do run the launch.exe as an admin I'm unable to change the graphics in game, I've done the launch options through steam but it doesn't work through the launch.exe and it sets everything to the lowest quality until I click the recommended settings, it turns everything to low but it turns the resolution to 800x600 I believe, the lowest one. I'm able to do a 1920x1080 so I don't understand what the problem is. Sorry if I left out any info or if I posted this is the wrong thread, really could use some help. Thanks. 

[SoCal Thero 501]

The game unfortuantly is not the best ported game and isn't stable and adding mods on top of it doesn't make it any easier on stability. Most of the time you will see game crashes not based on your PC's performance but the fact that the game was poorly ported to PC and is getting on the older side and can't handle modding it so extensively. 

[ineseri 5,125]

Disable UAC and run the game again. If you still cannot change the settings, you may need a commandline. 

[Slivinski71 0]

Sorry I'm not all that great with computer tech yet, only had my laptop for about 5 months, what's UAC and how do I get/use the command line?

[ineseri 5,125]

Open up the start menu and type "UAC". Select user account control and disable it :)

For the commandline, create a text file in your GTA IV root directory with the name "commandline.txt" and fill it with the contents -norestrictions

[Slivinski71 0]

Can I create a text file with notepad? And I use the current launch options -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -availablevidmem 30.0 so should I put all that into it? Thanks for the help I appreciate it.

[ineseri 5,125]

No, remove all of that. They're contradicting themselves. Be sure to read up on how to use the commandlines before actually applying them :) 

[Slivinski71 0]

Okay thank you. I've figured mostly everything out but I created another post on here with the last issue I'm having, this one can be deleted at your discretion. Thanks again!