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I used to play GTA IV on a similar laptop setup, Core i3 @2.40Ghz with 3GB memory and an integrated Intel HD Graphics (768MB). I expended a lot of time working on the game optimization and getting it's best possible performance with not much lost visual experience. What you can do to gain many fps:
-Use EditIV to modify the timecyc.dat file to change the view distance: once you executed EditIV and timcyc.dat is opened (gtaiv/pc/data), go to the "Visual Effects" tab and change Misc/Far Clip to 350/400, then under that box, change Fog Start to 80/90, do this for EVERY weather and EVERY time (you can mark all). Less value = more fps but less view distance (Back up your timecyc.dat)
-Use OpenIV to remove tree textures (they REALLY demand CPU usage): Once executed, go and open pc/data/maps/props/ext_veg.img (of course back up this file if you don't like how the trees look now) and remove everything but the collision file (.col) if you don't want to go across the tree stick. Rebuild the file (file, rebuild... duhh xD)
-Use EDGE v2.6. It's a pack of optimized files that you need to replace, back up your all original ones or directly the whole folders cause they're a lot.
-Remove as much cars as you can. Use OpenIV and browse pc/models/cdimages/vehicles.img and simply delete the .wtd and .wft files from the cars you will never use or you don't like to see, rebuild the file.Then go to common/data/cargrp.dat and just delete every car name you just deleted from vehicles.img with OpenIV.
-Search "gta iv gtxd.img fps improve" on Google and get that file, replace it.
 
Ok, these are the logical ways to improve the game performance, by optimizing and sacrificing some things... Also defrag your HDD :P
I hope this help, cya!

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What are your favourite or lest favourite games?

Rules:
Must be fully released, no early access games.
You must have played every game on the list
 
I will say the game and a few words on why it is where it is

Best:
Grand Theft Auto V - It's GTA
Just Cause 2 - It's Military GTA
Need For Speed Most Wanted - It has great customization, car variety and cop AI
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - It has great car variety and AI
Gran Turismo 6 - Huge car and track list
Hitman HD Trilogy - 3 best Hitman games in 1 package
Grand Theft Auto IV - LCPDFR
THE CREW - It's TDU3
Call Of Duty World At War - It has less hackers than other COD's
Battlefield 3 - It's like COD but with no hackers and it has tanks, choppers and jets
Driver San Francisco - It's the best Driver game
Grand Theft Auto Vice City - GTA meets Miami Vice
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - The second best GTA behind GTAV
RACE 07 - One of the best racing simulators
GTR 2 - The best racing game of 2005
Euro Truck Simulator 2 - A nice relaxing game
XIII - Jason Bourne in comic book form
Grand Theft Auto III - The first 3D GTA game
Forza 4 - Best Racing Game on XBOX
Driver - The best game on PS1
Flat out 2 - One of the best arcade racers ever made
Burnout 3 - The best arcade racer ever made
Burnout Paradise - Best crashing physics in any game apart from BEAMNG DRIVE
Roller coaster Tycoon 3 - Make your own Theme Park Simulator 3!
LA NOIRE - The closest thing to a true CSI game
Midnight Club LA - The last Midnight Club
Midnight Club 3 DUB - The best Midnight Club
Infamous Second Son/First Light - A brilliant superhero/super-villain game on PS4
Red Dead Redemption - GTA in the Wild West
Mercenaries 2 World In Flames - Airstrike Simulator
The Saboteur - GTA with Nazi's
Street Legal Racing: Redline - Most detailed racing game ever made and had huge customization and huge modifiability 
Assassin's Creed II - Amazing in every way
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - ^
Assassin's Creed III - The best AC game IMO
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - Pirate Simulator 2014!
Prison Architect - Amazing prison builder
HARD TIME - Prison simulator
WORST
Airport Simulator 2013 - Crappy gameplay coupled with the longest wait times outside of F2P mobile games
Most F2P Mobile Games - Long load times, or pay money! 
Flatout 3 - A great name ruined
Assassin's Creed - Most repetitive game in human history
Farming Simulator 201_ - Boring gameplay and the worst driving physics of any game ever
Driving Simulator 2013 - The worst "driving" game ever made
Need For Speed World - Need For Speed Grind more like
APB Reloaded - Crappy controls and almost impossible to map to a controller
HITMAN Absolution - Those who played the old Hitman games properly will know where I'm coming from
Assassin's Creed Unity - The buggiest piece of crap I have ever had the displeasure of playing
Tow Truck simulator - It's so bad I can't even describe it
Goat Simulator - The worst joke ever

Indeed!
 
Source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

Microsoft will have official support for years to come, but third party developers will stop developing and optimizing for the Windows 7 platform, and move on to more modern software and hardware. 
 
In the end, it's the creators of programs who you should pay attention to, not Microsoft. 

Hi Guppy :D Microsoft will be supporting Windows 7 until January 14, 2020. So you have no worries what so ever

Insane, huh? GTA V will be released in March 24, but it's installation will take about one more month xD
 
Source: http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/52374/gtav-pc-new-release-date-first-screens-and-system-specs

"Tales from Liberty City"?
wtf.
 
Do you mean Episodes From Liberty City?
If so, the map don't differs so much at all.
There are three main places that has been edited:
The AoD Clubhouse
The TLMC Clubhouse
and
The maisonette 9 area.

I like simple ENBs and yours is great! For sure I'll try this soon... btw what are your PC specs?

Here is a video of how ELS looks in my ENB
 
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I think I can do a paintjob for you, but I'm bussy this days, if you can wait some days I can do it.

It's not a matter of which script is causing it (usually), but more of how many you have in total. The more scripts, the more unstable. the only way to figure out which one could be causing it is to install one at a time, and launch the game. It's pretty frustrating but when you have that many scripts you are nearly guaranteed to have stability problems.
- vdH Police Helper 1.2.1b + vdHTowService This causes problems with LCPDFR for me, the developer is no longer active and hasn't made an update in a while, I stay away from vdH, however the towtruck usually causes SMPA60 for me, so I don't know but try removing that first.
 
 
Thank R* for the port 

Not enough to run GTA IV since you haven't a dedicated videocard but an integrated one. Intel HD Graphics can't handle videogames as well (they sucks). Anyway this f**** game takes more from the CPU than the GPU... Your CPU is a dual-core and this game needs at least a quad-core processor and a good videocard (1GB VRAM) with least 6GB RAM to be played at 40/50 fps.
 
GTA IV is very bad optimized on pc, one of the worst ever...
 
I have played this game on a Core i3 with 3GB DDR3 and an integrated Intel HD Graphics and had a terrible performance. 

Yeah, stick it to the big corporations like Luxart! You are right, they will never release it, so there is no point of waiting and being patient! We will not download and it will show them! They r so like taking forever and they said that it only a couple lighting new patterns y take so long?!?!?!?!?!?