Hello. I'm getting a customized gaming laptop and I wanted to know how well GTA 4 (heavily) modded on high settings runs on PC for you compared to what my new pc specs will be. I know there is a similar topic by someone else in this section, but I wanted to see how GTA 4 works for everyone on PC so I can better judge how well my new gaming laptop will perform. Please list how well or how bad your game runs ( if any crashing, texture loss, lag, etc and how often, in game circumstances, etc.), your FPS, and your PC specs (processor, RAM, graphics card, etc.).

Thank you!

Edited June 29, 201510 yr by BROOKLYNBOY2497

The game is very unstable with modifications, especially when you heavily modify it. I'll put it this way. The less mods you use, the more stable you are. I wouldn't recommend buying a gaming PC just for GTA IV and LCPDFR. The game runs like shit 90% of the time. If you really want something, pick up GTA V for PC and try out LSPDFR. I haven't crashed since day 3 of the mod's release. My PC should be able to run GTA IV perfectly smooth at ultra settings, but due to the game being an unstable piece of crap, that reduces it dramatically. Sometimes, i'll get no more than 25 FPS. However, I run GTA IV on Very High to Ultra with about 35fps. My PC isn't all top of the line anymore, either. It's fitted with a GTX 670 3gb model. I'd highly recommend Grand Theft Auto V, though. That game is great. Especially when you have LSPDFR. Great for recording clips.

The game is very unstable with modifications, especially when you heavily modify it. I'll put it this way. The less mods you use, the more stable you are. I wouldn't recommend buying a gaming PC just for GTA IV and LCPDFR. The game runs like shit 90% of the time. If you really want something, pick up GTA V for PC and try out LSPDFR. I haven't crashed since day 3 of the mod's release. My PC should be able to run GTA IV perfectly smooth at ultra settings, but due to the game being an unstable piece of crap, that reduces it dramatically. Sometimes, i'll get no more than 25 FPS. However, I run GTA IV on Very High to Ultra with about 35fps. My PC isn't all top of the line anymore, either. It's fitted with a GTX 670 3gb model. I'd highly recommend Grand Theft Auto V, though. That game is great. Especially when you have LSPDFR. Great for recording clips.

Agreed- GTA 4 is very unstable. But if you know what mods/scripts conflict with what, and what will crash your game, you can avoid crashing it if everything is done in the correct balance. I'm getting the gaming PC for GTA 4 with LCPDFR and GTA 5 with LSPDFR, each having in their own mods, scripts, ENB, etc. My plan is to use GTA 4 (as I have been doing) for mimicking local PD as well as NYPD and using GTA 5 with mods and LSPDFR for fun and hopefully will grow to be a much more stable and perfected version of gta 4 with mods, etc.

My PC specs now (Lenovo G780 Laptop):

Intel Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz  2.20 GHz

GeForce GT 635M with 4GB total available graphics memory. dedicated video memory: 2GB DDR3 and 2GB of shared system memory

8GB of RAM

Windows 8

New PC specs (Sager NP9377-S Customized Gaming Laptop):

4th Generation Intel® Haswell Core™ i7-4710MQ (2.5GHz - 3.5GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M (8.0GB) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11 (Maxwell)

24GB DDR3 1600MHz [3x8GB] Kingston HYPER X (CL9) Dual Channel Memory RAM

Windows 8

 

Yeah same here, I have a i7 4950k and a GTX 970, with my GTA 4 I can get about 50-60 fps constant. I have a custom car pack that fully replaces every car, personally skinned police pack with ELS, EyeCandy V6 ENB and LCPDFR along side of several other smaller scripts. Still after playing for some time, like 1hr maybe, Ill begin to see stuff like texture loss and stuttering. Great game for modding but GTA4 just runs soooo poorly.

Edited June 29, 201510 yr by Hatreyu

Yeah same here, I have a i7 4950k and a GTX 970, with my GTA 4 I can get about 50-60 fps constant. I have a custom car pack that fully replaces every car, personally skinned police pack with ELS and LCPDFR along side of several other smaller scripts. Still after playing for some time, like 1hr maybe, Ill begin to see stuff like texture loss and stuttering. Great game for modding but GTA4 just runs soooo poorly.

how many GB does your GTX 970 have and your RAM?

I have fully modded police, firetruck, and ambulance vehicles along with custom textures for each. I have no ENB and then a bunch of scripts like door chime, traffic flow, police helper, etc. and plugins for LCPDFR along with ELS. With my current pc specs listed above and even with my game's settings on their lowest I average about 30-40 fps. It's like pulling teeth to be able to have a "normal" or "realistic" patrol w/o texture loss, lag, slowness, crashing, and all of those other wonderful things.

Edited June 29, 201510 yr by BROOKLYNBOY2497

how many GB does your GTX 970 have and your RAM?

16 gb of system ram and the 970 is only 4 gb. Task manager never shows GTA4 using more than 1.6gb that ive seen and ENB profiler shows mods only using 1.2 gb of my card but still game just cant handle the full on mod treatment very well.

Edited June 29, 201510 yr by Hatreyu

16 gb of system ram and the 970 is only 4 gb

does system RAM also affect how well gta 4 plays? Or would a 16GB RAM be more than enough to handle GTA 4 and 5 since the graphics card holds 8GB?

Edited June 29, 201510 yr by BROOKLYNBOY2497

does system RAM also affect how well gta 4 plays?

Only on integrated graphics.