Cant run GTA IV at max settings

Douglas Harris

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First of all,
Here's my system.


Motherboard
MSI Computer Corp. Motherboard ATX DDR3 1333 LGA 1150 Motherboards H87-G43


Processor
Intel Core i7-4770K: 3.5 GHz Base Clock Rate, 3.9 GHz Maximum Turbo Boost, 8 MB Shared L3 Cache


Heat Sink

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with 120 mm PWM Fan



Memory
8 GB Corsair Vengeance LP (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-1866 Model CML8GX3M2A1866C9B

Graphics
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked w/ACX Cooler 3GB GDDR5

System Drive

Samsung 840 EVO MZ-7TE120BW 2.5" 128 GB SATA 6Gb/s SSD


Storage Drive

Western Digital Black WD5003AZEX 1TB 7200 RPM, 64 MB Cache, SATA 6Gb/s



Power
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 650 W 80 PLUS Bronze PSU

So I haven't been able to max out the game at all ever since I've gotten it. I understand it's a bad port and all, but I saw screenshots from here http://i.picpar.com/jOW.png of a guy that was able to max out. So, another factor to point out was that I put in -nomemrestrict and -availablevidmem 10.0 in the commandline and launch options. Plus, I've ran the benchmark and I see it lists my video adapter as NVidia 9600 gt which is incorrect because I have a 780 ti. Next, with all settings maxed out except view distance which is at 49, the benchmark shows I get 54 fps average, 39 % cpu usage, 42% system memory usage, and 98% video memory usage.

Finally, I also get really bad screen tearing in-game even with v-sync and adaptive v-sync enabled.
 
Solution
Make sure all of your drivers are up to date. If you arent too far into the game, delete all files and do a clean re install. Try lowering everything to medium and your view distance down by 20 or so to see if that helps. Some people say Icehencer (a mod for GTA IV) increases the performance while others say it decreases. For the game not recognizing the correct GPU, i dont know how to fix that one.

Sometimes the weakest gaming computers with an integrated chip can run it like magic while really strong expensive ones just cannot run it. Rockstar took 0 time or effort into making the game playable.

Douglas Harris

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I don't know how to delete this post, so I went to gaming then made another post but it seems like it's in the same section unfortunately. I don't know. I'm kind of new to the whole asking forums for advice thing.
 

JLat53

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Make sure all of your drivers are up to date. If you arent too far into the game, delete all files and do a clean re install. Try lowering everything to medium and your view distance down by 20 or so to see if that helps. Some people say Icehencer (a mod for GTA IV) increases the performance while others say it decreases. For the game not recognizing the correct GPU, i dont know how to fix that one.

Sometimes the weakest gaming computers with an integrated chip can run it like magic while really strong expensive ones just cannot run it. Rockstar took 0 time or effort into making the game playable.
 
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