Welp it's about that time of the year where I re-install GTAIV for another month or two until I get tired of it :p

However my frames are really weirdly choppy, depending on the area I'm in. I understand more mods is more instability and I actually believe it might be the HD Road textures which I'm ridding of right now, besides that with Textures, and Shadows on high I get around 40-50fps which sounds great but honestly it's kind of annoying compared to the 60 I'm used to, I really don't know how I used to play with 15-20 on my laptop. With shadows off I get around 60-70fps with nothing going on, but no shadows looks more odd than bad.

 

Does anyone have any options they play with that get great performance even with some mods installed? what about a good commandline? My old one wont work, all it did was turn everything down to the lowest possible. I'm gonna try the FarClip method to save up some memory, I don't get texture loss or anything like that it's just the up and down of framerate in different areas.

Edit: Old road textures are back, FPS doesn't seem unbearable. Any useful commands can be posted still but it seems to be fine for now, I'll try to refrain from installing more mods.

Edited May 8, 201510 yr by Sonny236

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Edited August 2, 201510 yr by AlconH

To be honest, FPS is completely dependant on your PC and your setup in terms of mods.

Try closing all background programs before playing and keeping mods to a minimum.

If you have time, remove GTA IV and go for a clean install. Then create backups of your game and add mods in one by one. If you take too big of a performance hit on a particular mod, then remove it and find an alternative or don't use it.

It's all about finding what's best for you.

Also, if you're an advanced user, look into overclocking your CPU and GPU for additional performance, though I wouldn't recommend this if you haven't got experience in this.

​I use whatever mods I usually do. A couple nesseicites (like TrafficFlow and LessOvertake) and some small things like Finkone's mods (Backup calllout, and his Stop-sticks). Then some vdH stuff, although they are outdated and I don't see abraxas coming back so they might end up a burden. I seem to be at a somewhat stable FPS right now on medium texture, high shadows, medium render distance. If I go into the 60's of detail and view distance thats when it starts to hit my game and I drop to the 40's and 30's, which is really annoying.

 

I've already overclocked my CPU to it's peak at 4.0GHz, my FX-8320 can't really go any higher, and my GPU has been overclocked as well. temps don't seem to be a problem, my CPU is liquid cooled and stays below 50c at all times, even under 100% load it hasnt managed to go above 48c. My GPU is usually in the mid 60's and sometimes 70's, it's designed to get up to 95c so I'm fine there really.

I honestly think most of the problems I have is my CPU, It's a shitty processor, most AMD processors are bad, even for 8 cores and its clockspeed. I'd much rather have an i5 or i7, a quad core i7 at 3.5GHz easily beats what I have now (Depending on the i7, a 4770k would be nice.) when I got this PC i was on a heavy budget and I didn't even build it. My next build is defeintly going to be Intel CPU and i'll continue using R9 200 series since that never failed me.

Thanks for the tips. If it gets any more unstable I'll try removing unnecessary things

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Edited August 2, 201510 yr by AlconH

wow.... i have a FX-8150 + Radeon HD7850 2Gb and 12Gbram and cant reach 60 FPS with a LOW-end ENB Cry V1 setting... and couple mods...

What GPU do you have? I have an AMD Phenom II X4 960T unlocked to six cores, along with an MSI GTX 560Ti 1GB and I get 60FPS when playing with mods....

​Well I can tell you the FX-series is shit, at least with my experience. Especially with any games that are CPU heavy like Arma. AMD-FX 8320 clocked at 4GHz, 8 cores and an AMD R9 280-3GB as my GPU.  didn't really want to get a reference card but like I said, I didn't build this PC so I kind of had no choice. At the end of the year I'm upgrading to a Saphire Tri-x R9 290 4GB; any probably my power suppply as it already has some issues. I would gladly upgrade my CPU but the motherboard won't allow it, i"d practically be building a new PC if I replaced it. I'll wait until this thing dies in a couple years, since it does me fine with most other games and then I'm building a computer.

 

Anyways, back to my GTA issue. I honestly think It's LCPDFR. I noticed as more updates came the game got harder to run. when I very first tested gta at max settings (besides water and reflections, I think they are unnecessary) I got a solid 60-70 FPS with small drops down to the 50's at most. Gradually, as I installed mods and once LCPDFR updated through the 1.0's and into 1.1 it got worse, I noticed a big change from one of them that other people complained about too. I even used to be able to run CryENB at medium with no issues, now I can barely run the stock game graphics with some mods. I shouldn't say barely, I get 40 FPS at minimum but it's the fact that its a noticeable drop from 60

Edited May 9, 201510 yr by Sonny236

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Edited August 2, 201510 yr by AlconH

​Yeah, I've heard that from everyone. I had a choice between the two when I built this PC, so glad I chose the Phenom over the FX.

I've not noticed any changes at all. I can't really offer any advice tbh.

​Yeah its all good. I'll just deal with it for now, I don't play it that often anyways but it's playable for now. eventually, I'll upgrade or just build a new rig and I should be okay then. maybe after this GPU upgrade things will go a bit smoother.