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Ah yeah, lol, that would be a little under GTA's specs.

Curious to get some experience answers from those of you who have played GTA IV on an older box and then upgraded, as I'm finding GTA IV actually played notably smoother on my old system than it does this new box, curious if anyone else has found a similar after upgrading pretty heavily and finding the game runs kinda chunky, even on lower settings than the old box had. And since I'm sure some one will ask just how big of a difference in my case; Old box: WinXP 32-bit E8400 (Clocked normally at 3.6GHz most of the 4 years I had it) 4GB RAM 9800GTX+ 512MB (Originally), 460 GTX 1GB (For close to the past year) New box (Built roughly a few weeks ago): Win7 64-bit i5 2500K (Stock speed of 3.3GHz at load) 16GB RAM 460 GTX (Same from previous box) Now, you'd think the game would smoke pretty well even at near-max settings (factoring in the VRAM limiting the draw distance to around 75~ when everything is on 'High'), which it did pretty well even on my old E8400 box, yet on this one, I get pretty noticable drag oddly, though it really only seems to be this game, other (higher-end) games tested perform pretty incredibly. Anyone else ever run into an experience like this with GTA IV on a higher end design?

To be honest, it depends mostly on the age and type of the monitor, simplest thing I would suggest is call your local comp shops, give them the specs and model if they ask, and ask for a quote. In the case of LCD's, normally the price of replacing an LCD screen should be notably less than buying a completely new one if you've got something of a common model and size (and this is factoring in 'labor' usually too, at least where I live and have done for it)

How's it suck for gaming? o.O

It may be worth noting if you modded your game at all, (as in replaced any of the 'standard' libs/files), you'll need to either restore the originals or reinstall if you didn't save them. The patches do integrity checks on files, else it'll fail when installing.

I thought that was the save-game one? Where certain data will freak out the game. Try a previous save or a new game.

As far as I recall I used the dsound.dll ASI loader with the standard multiplayer before... pretty sure anyways, now the xliveless however will probably disable multiplayer entirely. For the most part most places 'suggest' dsound.dll's ASI loader, for me I kinda have to use xliveless as I have a GFWL crash I cannot figure out for the life of me, so, unless you NEED to use it, it's best to avoid xliveless I think.

No real reason to turn this into a "Hate PPM/PPM Sucks" topic, storm made his choice, let him leave it at that, opinions are something all are entitled to, even if they are a bit ignorant when posted like his :P

I gotta be honest, your 'Reasonable' Specs are pretty steep, lol. Any mid to high range Core 2-era CPU (the 45nm core models being the best) should be fine, as well as a higher end 9 series GeForce era card (higher end radeon R700/4xxx for you ATI guys) should really play the game on generally close to the max settings, minus general draw distance maxing at about 50~ if your GPU has around 512MB. This being noted from experience, as I played GTA IV plain and with this mod on an E8400 and 9800GTX+ for quite a time before recently getting a GTX 460. One thing to note if anything is, if you got a 32-bit system like XP still, and 4GB of RAM, you'll generally want to make sure your system has PAE on (which on the majority of XP installs, it will be by default), but also use the /3GB switch in your boot options, as GTA IV is LAA built, meaning rather than maxing out on 2GB of RAM on 32-bit systems like most apps do, it can use up to 3GB.

You really should probably 'play' the game at least once (as in start it up, do the first mission, save, exit), before installing any mods, just to make sure the game generates any necessary files as needed. Some games kinda have certain files that don't get created until first launch, not sure if GTA IV is one, but I'd suggest trying anyways.

So you're saying that there's really no way at all for criminals to get guns in/into the UK if they REALLY wanted one? Though you're not too far off on the fact that people might get 'shot' often in the US, but you're also talking a country of 313 million people across something like 3.8 million Sq miles, compared to the 62~ million and 94 thousand Sq miles of the UK :P Always gotta calculate the other statistics

Curious what you would call a 'mess' in the US really. The legality of gun laws has allowed many civilians with CCW's to save people in the US, compared to those who buy illegally (in which case chances are they'd still get guns anyways even if it was illegal to have one), not to mention people with household weapons that saved themselves from a home invasion, etc.

Cause people are silly of course. : P

Well even if it WAS/IS a similar concept, 90% of software in this age is based on concept similarity. That's why there are dozens of linux distributions, multiple SQL models, and so on, because some people like an idea, but think they can improve upon it, and many do (such as First response imo)

Methinks people really need a link to what 'Beta' means in software development anymore >.> Also last time I played PPM it was relatively not like FR at all, then again I'd say his claim of 'VRAM' issues (assuming he even really know what VRAM is o.O) is silly too.

Not even just G17's really, you look anywhere, the large majority of any freely-available apps, whether OSS or not will flat out either say "This is the only place you should download from" or give a list of places 'Authorized'. It's kinda disappointing that people have to react negatively to people looking out for user safety if anything :/ Edit: And if you truly don't wish to continue it then perhaps releasing it's source for others to continue on at least could be useful yes.

There should be a "Play (Offline)" option there as far as I've seen on mine, which should be there for you too. Otherwise, try contacting them again and/or check your firewall, make sure it's not blocking that application or such.

As far as I can tell the downloads are fine again, as it just worked for me.

I feel like chipping on this as well considering my software development history and the fact I've been amused, as well as disappointed in how people have reacted over that comment and GPM. I don't think most people realize there's an extremely good and legitimate reason companies/developers do as G17 is, in limiting who/where hosts their files. The reason for this is the fact that so long as the file is hosted here, and places they've "Authorized" is because it lets them keep an eye on the files, and in turn the safety of users, because if you download the mod from a site that they don't know about/didn't authorize (and therefore aren't monitoring), you could be downloading malware of some sort for all anyone knows. So I think people need to understand rather than think G17 is being silly/restrictive, if anything I think they're most likely looking out for the safety of users and their own reputation by avoiding anyone doing anything malicious with what is obviously a popular mod.

If you're trying to use 0.95 it may be worth reading This topic, as it's more for those familiar with previous versions, and isn't support 'qualified' currently so to say. Otherwise if you're on 0.91 you may wish to try the Diagnostics Tool and make sure everything is installed/supported properly.

It might be worth noting that you can't simply put "7", "8" and "9" specifically, at the bottom of the els.ini file should be a keyvalue chart for the numerical associations to different keys, also might be worth asking that you restarted the game after making the changes?

Might have been worth reading before posting; http://www.lcpdfr.com/cops/forum/index.php/topic/2130-download-problems/

Eh for what it's worth, I'm finding oddly since installing my 460GTX that GTA's handling high-poly a lot better, I'm starting to wonder if it's a GPU memory thing more than an engine thing, as I got four of his modded cars in now for testing, two ELS-H and two plain ELS and the car spawn balance is impressively near-normal, even after a mass police chase or such.