GTA IV Lags badly, is my setup sufficient?

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bjiddle

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So I built a gaming computer but its more of a "gaming" computer because alot of games it has trouble with.

GTA IV even on low textures, lowest anti-aliasing and basically low everything, lags really badly. The frames always cut back suddenly when im walking or driving and its a real bitch.

My setup:
AMD FX-6350 @ 4.6ghz
8GB (2x 4gb) ddr3 G.Skill Ares 1600mhz
M5A99fx r.20 Motherboard
AMD Sapphire HD 7850 2gb DDR5
CX750m Power supply

Whats the matter here? I managed to play Crysis on my old machine with AMD Phenom II X4 970 and HD 5570 2gb and it was pretty smooth. Crysis is choppy on my FX-6350 machine and GTA IV is almost unplayable!

Is there a bottleneck? My GPU should be sufficient, what the LJFoisj is the matter?!
 
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barto
No. Your computer is more than adequate to play GTA 4. It should eat the game alive. Try not playing on low. Put the game on High at 1050 or 1080 and see what happens.
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GTA4 sucks on my high-end PC as well. It's the ONLY game I've never got working properly.

For some odd reason it synch to odd refresh rates and I can never get it running at a solid 60FPS even on the absolute lowest quality settings. It tends to synch to 52FPS or 44FPS depending on my settings and resolution and get sluggish at times on the high end.

I talked to lots of people, and I'm very knowledgeable on PC's. There's simply something broken in the game. If you want the game to not lag as much you'll have to TURN DOWN THE QUALITY until it works well enough for you but my advice is skip this and get GTA5 when it comes out. GTA5 will look and run much better on your PC though you'll still need to play around with the quality settings.

My specs:
GTX680 @1200MHz
i7-3770K @4.2GHz
16GB DDR3 2133MHz

I had no luck on my LAST PC either (HD5870, i7-860, 8GB DDR3 2133MHz).
 
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bjiddle

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I turned things up and performance improved! I mean a drastic improvement in playability and FPS! I read some other posts, and it turns out GTA IV is just very poorly optimized for the PC, bummer.
 
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