GTA IV FPS BOOST

[otoliflands]

This is my tweak guid for people with bad pc's.
I used all this and increased over 20 fps on my crappy Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT
First Download This (dont worry its not a virus)
http://www.4shared.com/file/SMAQHrtx/Contig_GTA_IV.html

This is contig.exe it is a file that will defrag your GTA IV and gain for you 5-10 fps
Download that contig.exe file and place it in your GTA IV directory.
Then create a shortcut desktop and open the shortcut properties and put in the ''Target'' at the end -S so it would look like this
''LOCATION OF GTA IV FOLDER''\Grand Theft Auto IV\Contig.exe" -S
Then press Apply and double click the shortcut that you made now.
Then run it and wait till it close's because that means it's finished it can take anywhere from 5 to 20minutes to complete depending on your system.

Second is to turn down your view distance
(This use Magic.bat file,search it in google)
This tweak you have to open GrandTheftAutoIV\pc\data folder timecyc.dat (use notebad++)
Open it and try to find in each weather chart 1500 (which is the current distance)
It may also have a word over it as ''FarClip''
If you change it to smaller value like 500 you will see less and you will get bigger improvement
I gained 5 fps by setting it to 750 all of them

Third and the BEST !!!

Patch your GTA IV either to 1.0.3.0,1.0.4.0 or 1.0.0.4
The 1.0.4.0 works the BEST for me and i gained about 10 fps
LINK

1.0.3.0 : http://www.4shared.com/file/k0sZYoSQ/GTA_IV_-_Crack_Razor_1030.html
1.0.4.0 : http://www.mediafire.com/?jmmdzco343u
1.0.0.4 : http://www.4shared.com/file/rEyfYZf6/GTA_IV_PATCH_1004CRACK_RAZOR_1.html

Hope It Helped

 

[otoliflands]

Its all over the internet !
I just put in the ones that worked the best for me
The most common one is a commandlist.txt tweak which is also great but i dont use it that much...

 

[one_an_only88]

Will this not work for patch 1.0.7.0???

 

[otoliflands]

YES
It will work
Because the patches have the same files except the shaders are changed...
But the Contig.exe will have NO problem with 1.0.7.0
And the FarClip changing will work too...
Patch 1.0.7.0 has a lot better shadow system, BUT it takes away pretty much FPS and so does 1.0.6.0

 

[one_an_only88]

1.0.3.0 : http://www.4shared.com/file/k0sZYo [...] _1030.html
1.0.4.0 : http://www.mediafire.com/?jmmdzco343u
1.0.0.4 : http://www.4shared.com/file/rEyfYZ [...] ZOR_1.html


Which one do I use ??

 

[one_an_only88]

I am heading to bed now I will let this .exe file run and then when I get up I will check this out to see if you wrote me back.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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