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I'm looking for this exact Dodge Challenger from EVI... I searched my tail off, but no dice. I have EVI's other two versions, however not this one. If you have this exact particular model with side-view emergency lighting, please send me the file. Thanks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmq3j1wJPr0

A couple people have asked me; what can I do to improve my GTA 4 PC performance without breaking my bank account. I truly believe the key ingredients at a budget price ($500 or less) are a Solid State Drive (Sata 3 or PCI-E capable), 6GB minimum of system memory and a decent quad-core 3GHz+ processor. Notice I didn't mention anything about a GPU (graphic card). A good SSD (Solid State Drive) will run you about $150, depending on the manufacture and drive size. You can find a 120GB SSD around that price, and improve the performance of cache/swap/load of textures and data, within GTA 4 immensely. Even coming from a 15k rpm SAS Cheetah drive, it couldn't hold a candle against my current SSD setup. Texture pop-up is barely nonexistent and you can net 7-10fps more over a standard hard drive. I say at minimum you should have 6GB of system memory when running GTA 4, OS background functions and whatever else is going on with your system. Depending on your OS (Windows 7 64-Bit Ultimate in my case) will automatically take/reserve 1-2GB of system memory for certain OS operations. The more memory the better... plus system memory is fairly cheap these days, so invest $100 or so into it... assuming you have 4GB already installed. A good quad-core CPU *cough* Intel *cough* would vastly improve your GTA 4 performance, amongst other things. I would admit GTA 4 is poorly coded for the PC, using mostly its console brethren code... however it's not unplayable compared to other shoehorned game console ports. Anyhow, GTA 4 is very CPU dependent/bound, so having a dual-core processor at 2GHz or even 3GHz is barely passing IMHO. So, invest in a good 3GHz quad-proc, with a good chunk of cache (pun not intended). $100-300 Theses suggestions are reflective of people with modern/current hardware that can support these upgrades at the suggested budget price. These should be your first priorities before investing in a GPU, which is why I did not mention or feel was important at this particular quick budget upgrade. Anyhow, just my two cents....

Getting ready for tomorrow's grind...

Which ENB mod?

Actually in the process of doing that soon... need to reinstall CS6 before anything. But yes, Wednesday I should have something up.

Sunset...

Thank you, however I take no credit for other people works... I just did some retooling and combining of already popular mods. Example, I found that the shaders from iCEnhancer 2.0n looks great (awesome) with the Photorealistic 8 mod... but that's a small sample of how I configured things to my liking. I should have the package ready within 4hrs.

Haven't benchmarked it yet... doing that in the coming days once I complete my EVGA SR-2 build. Loan? :dry:

There is a 08-10 Police Camaro over at GPM... needs a little love though (updating).

LOL... I have side adventures outside of DPD... :)

Sure, give me until Sunday night to package it up... and those wanting it, can pm me on it.

Clarity...

Roughly $10-15 more than a pair of 680's...

Not at all... even with my 590 I rarely had that issue. Thank you all!

So, I recently upgraded my main gaming rig video card from a EVGA Classified 590 GTX to an Asus 690 GTX. Using my newly modified ENB mod at super-sample resolutions at the 5k levels, with virtually everything fine tuned on the high-end, here are some of my results. FYI: The pictures has lost some quality during the uploading - going from 5MB in size to 500-800k in resampled size. More pics: http://photobucket.com/Asus_GTX_690_GTA4

Just some friendly advise and GOD be with you.

Whenever I exit a cruiser brandishing a firearm during a stop; it seems to increase the chances for flight (fleeing).

Looks predated and underwhelming...

I was just messing... I would be in the same boat too, however I do IT service and video rendering work on the side - so it's needed.

WHAT??? You have styrofoam cup to styrofoam cup speeds. :dry:

@Jay NO. YES! America is so behind...

^^ Nice on the downstream Sniper. I'm thinking about upgrading to 100Mb/s downstream...