GTA 4 1.060 patch...IT REALLY WORKS!

phatboy · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:10

Dare i say it....good work (at last) Rockstar! GTA IV is now playable for dual core owners!

hugely suprised by this!, just installed the latest patch and its made a world of difference, not to mention that it kindly mentions "GTA no longer needs rockstar social club to play, would you like to remove?" when you update

Link as requested

- http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch...IV-Patch.shtml

i was having to play on 1024x768 low/mid settings and scraping 25FPS before hand.....now see the results i just got

Statistics
Average FPS: 31.30
Duration: 37.25 sec
CPU Usage: 95%
System memory usage: 67%
Video memory usage: 98%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 19
Detail Distance: 10

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 4770
Video Driver version: 8.14.1.6099
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2160 @ 1.80GHz

HAz · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:12

so i can play this now?

Engram · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:16

Hmmm, sounds interesting! I will try that out!

phatboy · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:21

HAz said:
so i can play this now?

have a go mate, will keep my fingers crossed it works out as well for everyone else

Especially with the game being £3.95 atm too

snowdog · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:21

Remember traffic density is most demanding, turn it down to 10 or less ( I used to play with it at 1 or 2 out of 100 with my E6420 ages ago)...

With a quad I haven't noticed much difference with v1.06 ( 3.2 ghz quad and gtx260)

phatboy · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:23

even with everything set to "utter cack" settings before this it ran like a bag of spanners so it must have done something

Ice Rich · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:25

phatboy said:
hugely suprised by this!, just installed the latest patch and its made a world of difference, not to mention that it kindly mentions "GTA no longer needs rockstar social club to play, would you like to remove?" when you update

Been waiting for that.
Can you confirm if I installed game I can play directly and no need to sign up to social club or windows for games rubbish?

snowdog · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:25

phatboy said:
even with everything set to "utter cack" settings before this it ran like a bag of spanners so it must have done something

I have tried this a couple of days ago, at 800x600, everything at minimum, it runs at a solid 70-80 fps for me

, but cpu usage was still 75-85 % at all times ( quad).

Can you confirm if I installed game I can play directly and no need to sign up to social club

Yes.

or windows for games rubbish?

No need to sign up, never has been, you can play using an offline GFWL account... GFWL itself is a part of the game and you won't get rid of that.

andy_mk3 · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:32

Downloading now, will post results soon, although I never really had any problems.

BaDBoY_uK · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:45

To the OP - it's helpful if you quote a linky mate. I expect to come in and have a link

Like this? http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-Patch.shtml

But thanks for posting this. Useful

andy_mk3 · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:55

Statistics
Average FPS: 39.19
Duration: 37.18 sec
CPU Usage: 96%
System memory usage: 63%
Video memory usage: 86%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1280 x 1024 (75 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Shadow Quality: Medium
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 100
Detail Distance: 13

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Video Driver version: 196.21
Audio Adapter: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz

Doesn't seem a lot different to me!

jmc007 · 21 Apr 2010 at 16:57

To the OP I agree.
I would add it now looks great, no more the washed out look that left me disapointed when I first played it.
This game deserves a much higher standing.

phatboy · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:11

BaDBoY_uK said:
To the OP - it's helpful if you quote a linky mate. I expect to come in and have a link

Like this? http://games.softpedia.com/get/Patch/Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-Patch.shtml

But thanks for posting this. Useful

Noted and sorted

JC · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:13

Can you install this patch with the steam version? or does steam auto update to this new release?

phatboy · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:16

steam should auto update mate, think its only 190mb too

Drizmod · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:20

so from 25 fps to 31.30 fps? Still unplayable if you ask me

HangTime · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:22

Would be useful to see people posting before and after results using the same settings (i.e. if you read this and are going to grab the patch, run of a benchmark first, cheers).

I've got an i5 now but I played this on an E4300 @ 3.15ghz, it totally maxed that cpu on the patch 1.02 or whatever it was.

HangTime · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:23

Drizmod said:
so from 25 fps to 31.30 fps? Still unplayable if you ask me

Yeah but his cpu is pretty weak, it's still a 30% increase in performance. If the same can be said for people running say E8x00 cpus @ 4ghz, then it could be playable.

Inazuma · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:37

Game always worked fine for me

May be something to do with my Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz and 8800GTX

I'm not sure about the FPS difference with the new patch, but shadows are definitely much nicer.

Raumarik · 21 Apr 2010 at 17:45

Best patch they could give is removing GFWL.