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Gta Iv

Has anyone seen any difference between the DOX 180.84 rev 1.0 and 1.1 versions? I personally haven't notice much difference, yet on ver. 1.0 I only tried the recommended ALTERNATE setting and on ver. 1.1 I only tried the recommended BALANCED setting.
 
MB and GTA 4

Will GTA 4 run on my new Macbook 2.4 ghz, 2 GB ram and nVidia 9400 m (256 mb) on low or medium settings ? ? 🙄😀🙂:apple:
 
Ovideatza said:
Will GTA 4 run on my new Macbook 2.4 ghz, 2 GB ram and nVidia 9400 m (256 mb) on low or medium settings ? ? 🙄😀🙂:apple:
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I have the same setup you have, except 3 gb RAM; I'm running GTA IV on mine with low settings; it's borderline playable, pretty low frame rate.

Even with the low framerate though, it's pretty fun game, well worth installing. I'll let you know if I find any good tweaks.

Rob

Macbook unibody 2.4 / 3 gb / 9400M
.Net Framework 3.5
DOX Optimised NVidia drivers 180.84 (Balanced; Performance mode was unusable)
XP 32 bit SP3
In 800x600 with everything turned down to bare minimum (Low/Low/1/1), benchmarks at 17.46 fps 85% CPU 52% Mem 59% Video Mem

Again, playable, but barely. Worth it though!
 
gta 4 specs for 360 & ps3

i got these off of the gamespot forums. it's apparently the specs that were in
the console release for xbox 360 & ps3. even the consoles couldn't handle gta IV that well.

Texture Quality: Medium (actually, slightly lower than this but not quite Low)
Render Quality: Low

View Distance: 22
Detail Distance: 10
Vehicle Density: 33
Shadow Density: 0 (Not available on consoles)

Post-Processing Enabled (Press "P" on PC ver while ingame. Gives the illusion of anti-aliasing and covers framerate drops with motion blur.)

360: 1280x720 w/0xAA (Some say it's 2xAA on the 360 but I don't think so). Averages about 29-30FPS
PS3: 1120x640 w/0xAA. Averages about 29FPS


Sources (there's more but I can't remember 'em all):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_IV
http://how-2-do.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-set-up-gta-4-in-your-computer.html
http://pc.ign.com/articles/936/936304p1.html


i'd be interested to see how it plays with these settings especially on the unibody macbook pro since i was going to pick one up in the next two months. i'd try it now but i don't think the 20" imac could handle it.
 
I am considering paying the extra $499 for the higher-end MBPro and have been thinking about trying to run GTAIV in BootCamp. Thanks for all of the info.
 
raggedjimmi said:
Sandbox games generally need very high spec gaming systems to run well, pretty much everything that can be is used up. Ram for storing mission info, all the models positions and AI, the CPU for running every human and vehicle AI within a radius and the GPU to render it all and make it look lovelyful. All I can suggest is turning the settings and resolution down and make sure you have a lot of Ram.
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For whatever it's worth-

3D games are generally not big consumers of application memory, half of that total usually for textures/etc offloaded to the graphics card itself. Games, in contrast to something like a web browser, are mostly computationally intensive. Consider how little memory that the PS3 and X360 have (basically 512MB in total on both, with the X360 having access to a little bit more generically) ...

Some platform like a PC for example might end up putting a lot of memory tied to a process into a cache but don't confuse that with real memory needed for runtime.

Generally on PC gaming my observation has been that most people simply do not have a good enough video card, or enough host CPU to drive the game. It usually comes down to one of those two things.
 
Ovideatza said:
Will GTA 4 run on my new Macbook 2.4 ghz, 2 GB ram and nVidia 9400 m (256 mb) on low or medium settings ? ? 🙄😀🙂:apple:
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I run it at, 1280x800, Low/Low/1/1/1, 20-25 FPS average, 30 fps if I just stare a blank wall.

MacBook settings in sig.
 
JaredStrauss said:
honestly if your only reason for spending the extra $499 is to run GTAIV get a ps3
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Heh... no. It isn't. Of course, a) I'd rather play it on an XBox because I prefer the controls (having played it on both), b) I'd rather have an XBox because of Lost and Damned and c) while for $500 I could get the game and system, I couldn't also get the necessary addition of a TV. 🙄

Just one more reason to spend the extra, is all. Was curious about the performance. The differences between the systems are more than worth the $500 (twice the VRAM, twice the RAM, additional 120GBs of storage and slight increase in processor speed).
 
After playing it for 3 days. The game is pretty decent, but the performance is terrible. I've turned everything down and it's still a bit laggy. It also uses over 3GBs of RAM so after playing I have to restart the computer. That's just crazy. Yesterday, I received a out-of-VRAM error.
 
GTA 4 on Vista 32 bit, iMac 3.06 ?

Hi,

How does it run under Vista 32 bit, fully updated with latest Nvidia drivers (from laptopvideo2go), on iMac 3.06, 4GB ram ??

Cheers,
 
Testing

Does anyone know where I could find a working crack without the "drunk camera"?
I'd like to test it on my mac, if it works I will buy it, but I see no point of paying for it when I have no idea if it will work...

Thanks in advance 🙂
 
I bought a 2.26GHz MacBook Pro yesterday (baseline model), and I'm about to install Windows 7 64-bit on it now.

I'm going to try out GTA IV on this within a couple of days, I'm hoping to get about 25FPS at 800x600 on all low details - I'll see how it goes!

I'll upload a video to YouTube if I can manage to get it running.

Edit:

And I got the performance I expected! It's certainly playable, I'm amazed it runs.
 
I got a MacBook Pro 2,66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 500 GB 7200 rpm and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT with 256MB.
Is it possible to play GTA IV? If it is, how?

And on my iMac 2,93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 640 GB Serial ATA Drive and ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB? Cause you said that an ATI video card won't work?

I don't have Windows either. Is that a problem?
 
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