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[Resolved (sort of)] Eliminating IV texture loss on my laptop?


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Something is not right with GTA IV on my rig. My laptop is a mid-end gaming Alienware 13t R1 running on Windows 8.1 x64, with a Haswell i5-4210U processor, 16gb DDR3 Ram, NVidia GTX 860M, and a Samsung 512GB SSD. With my graphics card, I can run 1.0.7.0 at 2560 x 1440. I know my laptop is not the best nor the worst but, there's something wrong if it can handle GTA V better than IV.


In the game, it says I'm only using something like 532mb of 2k of visual Ram.


I have a few visual enhancements like Cry V3 ENB, HD trees, and Realistic Roads. Still, I am getting texture issues. 
My commandline is:...

Spoiler

-norestrictions
-availablevidmem "2000."
-percentvidmem "100"
-novblank
-noprecache


Do you guys have any suggestions to cut down on the texture loss? I have a feeling I am using improper command lines

I've used the process tamer trick (which helped a lot) and changed the Stream.ini settings to 16384000

Thanks :smile:

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Yeah I should of upgraded to Windows 10 when I had the chance. I'm still planning on buying it and duel booting it (already have a partition set up) but its going to be probably 8 months before i can acquire 10, and play around with installing it on my other partition.

 

In the meantime, 8.1 is all I got.

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7 hours ago, TRDOffroad03 said:

Yeah I should of upgraded to Windows 10 when I had the chance. I'm still planning on buying it and duel booting it (already have a partition set up) but its going to be probably 8 months before i can acquire 10, and play around with installing it on my other partition.

 

In the meantime, 8.1 is all I got.

  Hi,

 

  First, if you want run GTA IV smooth with mods, special with enbs, you got to have a great gaming pc for best experience, laptop can't handle that

 

much, but if your laptop can  run GTA V, then you have to work on your commandlines; 

 

  Second, you have to work on your commandline, everyone's commandlines are different, because it depends on what pc you have, 

 

  Also, if you don't have windows 10, don't worry, sick with your current windows version, but remember, upgraded to windows 10 will not make

 

your game completely sable with any kind of mods. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Peace 

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1 hour ago, UnitedOrange said:

  Hi,

 

  First, if you want run GTA IV smooth with mods, special with enbs, you got to have a great gaming pc for best experience, laptop can't handle that

 

much, but if your laptop can  run GTA V, then you have to work on your commandlines; 

 

  Second, you have to work on your commandline, everyone's commandlines are different, because it depends on what pc you have, 

 

  Also, if you don't have windows 10, don't worry, sick with your current windows version, but remember, upgraded to windows 10 will not make

 

your game completely sable with any kind of mods. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Peace 

Thanks again for your help. I was really pushing the limits to my half school laptop half mid tier gaming one. As it turns out, I had a few culprets for causing texture issues.

 

1. overloading the game [Memory]

  •  had a massive addon map running in the background which always loaded with the game (unsure how to turn it off at this point) [explains why the further away I was from this island the better the textures loaded]
  • Had a few memory intensive scripts running at the same time
    • Installed too many extremely High Poly cars causing texture loss [especially when the police decide to get involved and would not shoot at me due to memory leakage]
    • When game was getting throttled, a F22 Raptor and a F16 would spawn on the street and pretend to be a car before understeering and crashing causing usually a huge traffic jam.

2. Letting Xlive and Dsound into the same game version (gotta love auto-installs lol)

 

Lessons learned: Never install mods when your tired, Be familiar with your game\computer's limits,  avoid auto-installs (extract when you can) and worse case make sure you save a log to reverse changes, and don't be afraid to create a second directory or prioritize features biased on what you want and your game's limits.

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Change -availablevidmem "2000." to -availablevidmem "10"

 

That value is way too high and even 10 is pushing it a little, but it works. If you give it video memory which doesn't exist, texture loss is inevitable. No idea why you have a full stop there either.

 

Try this:

 

 

And look in the Knowledge Base

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10 hours ago, sjain said:

Change -availablevidmem "2000." to -availablevidmem "10"

 

That value is way too high and even 10 is pushing it a little, but it works. If you give it video memory which doesn't exist, texture loss is inevitable. No idea why you have a full stop there either.

 

Try this:

 

 

And look in the Knowledge Base

Thanks M8 yeah, that old like was definetly overkill. Changing it to -availablevidmem 10 improved my gameplay and fixed 99% texture loss.

GTA Iv is not the most stable game but, I'm doing a lot better off now than before when I created this thread.


Thanks Everyone :)

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