Serious problems with GTA4 on PC. Please help !!!!!

Hi,

When I install GTA 4 on my PC and start a new game, all the graphics are messed up! You can't see anything of Liberty City because everything is transperant, apart from the lights of cars and the lighted windows in the skyscrapers. Something is really wrong but I don't know were to start to get it solved. Maybe it has something to do with my system. These are my specs:

Q6600 @ 2.88
Asus Striker Extreme 680i
GTX 280
22" monitor
2 GB Corsair DDR2 800
Corsair HX1000 PSU
Windows XP PRO SP3 (updated from SP2)

If anyone has encoutered the same problems or knows what to do about this, please don't hesitate to post. I've payed enough for this game and I like to play it asap.


Thanks

Ah the all so common texture bug... yes there are a lot of people out there that has the same problem.

The texture bug comes in two flavors, one it's there from the start which can be fixed by a couple of ways. Basically it can be something as simply as corrupt graphic drivers.. read more about the solutions here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/for [...] p?t=762080

Then you have the second variant which is textures disappearing after a while which most of us experiencing this, think is caused by:

1) memory leak
2) the vram/ram being flooded with texture data, so new textures cannot be saved to the memory as it's already filled with old ones, causing the textures to vanish more and more as time goes, regardless of graphical settings.

This later issue can be fixed with a program that constantly free up memory and the cache. But as this are third party applications they have proved to cause lag and uneven play experience. Hopefully Rockstar games will acknowledge this issue, and come up wiht a fix, opposed to what they are doing now with just hiding it under the rug saying there is no such issue... this issue has also been reported to affect XP 64 bit more than any other OS version.

Hey, when I looked in the add/remove programs application in control panel, I saw there were two versions of .NET Framework installed. It seems that if you install a newer version, the older one is still kept. Should I uninstall older versions first, before installing the newest one?

Nvidia and ATI have released new beta drivers, that are made to get GTA IV to work better and adress some known issues with a couple of cards. You find the link in the rockstar club thingy in news.

Check first that your card are in them.

I had the same problem but solved it.
I had 1 gb ram wile the problem was in progress
So i upgraged my ram to 2GB ram and the problem went away

my system
OS: windows XP Pro
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 2x 4400+(2.3ghz dule core)
RAM: 2 GB GeForce 8400gs 512mb

hope this works for you like it did for me

By the way I have a P4 q6600 2.4 Ghz Quad core processor
4gb ram
Geforce 8800gts with i think 256 mb.

If it's slow then reduce the settings to minimum i.e. all of them as low as they can go then increase it steadily until the game slows down then know them back a bit.

Don't expect a lot though, the game loves quad core CPU's and your is dual core and a slow dual core at that (perhaps you might want to overclock your CPU if that possible) and your video card is crap (sorry but I want to drill that home to you) and should consider upgrading it to something half decent like a 9600 GSO or HD 4670.

hey i did everything you told me..now it's a bit faster but not good to play and enjoy it. today i went to control panel/windows update ans i found 5 new . one of the is for my graphics card..now i'm istalling all of them..this update for my graphics card is it important for the game?? will the update make the game run faster??

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