GTA IV on Laptop.

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aguy14

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Alright guys, I bought gta 4 this weekend. I majorly underestimated the graphical demands of the game. I do allot of video editing and play some other games, so I thought it would be okay. I am getting the no ground/buildings issue. I've installed the patch, but my problem is the graphics card. Is there a way to increase my video memory by sectioning off some ram or something? I am going to build/buy a gaming rig at the end of this summer, but would like to play until then. Thanks!

Specs in sig. 54 mb video memory
 
Not gonna happen, but have you played the older GTA's? They might tide you over.
 
aguy14 said:
Alright guys, I bought gta 4 this weekend. I majorly underestimated the graphical demands of the game. I do allot of video editing and play some other games, so I thought it would be okay. I am getting the no ground/buildings issue. I've installed the patch, but my problem is the graphics card. Is there a way to increase my video memory by sectioning off some ram or something? I am going to build/buy a gaming rig at the end of this summer, but would like to play until then. Thanks!

Specs in sig. 54 mb video memory
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You're screwed. You can either buy a new laptop with a better GPU with more memory or you can't play GTA 4 at all on your current laptop.
 
Not a chance in hell. Play the old ones, like Vice City and San Andreas. They're cheap and should run without issue.
 
Buy GTA IV on 360 or ps3 if you have one for less than $10, because there is no way you will be able to play it on that laptop at any kind of enjoyable fps.
 
my 7900 go GS laptop (2006) with 256mb vram would play it at 25-30fps.

I don't think you could do something with 54mb of vram.
 
GTA4 for the PC is still a performance dog after all of these years. Even with my CPU at 5ghz and my GTX680 moderately OC'd it's still very inconsistent, especially with view distance and details turned up a bit. AA compounds that even more. That engine just wasn't optimized for the PC at all.
 
Domingo said:
GTA4 for the PC is still a performance dog after all of these years. Even with my CPU at 5ghz and my GTX680 moderately OC'd it's still very inconsistent, especially with view distance and details turned up a bit. AA compounds that even more. That engine just wasn't optimized for the PC at all.
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This guy is on a laptop and you want to compare a moded install?
I can easily max out everything on my rig, I know you can on yours. Noone is gonna run ENB on a laptop.
 
The game at launch was known to be incredibly demanding and barely optimized...Your quest will end in failure with that laptop lol
 
LeviathanZERO said:
This guy is on a laptop and you want to compare a moded install?
I can easily max out everything on my rig, I know you can on yours. Noone is gonna run ENB on a laptop.
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Just illustrating what a performance dog that game is. I can "max" it out, but the FPS drop into the 30's with a top of the line rig after all of these years. On a laptop I wouldn't even bother unless you turned everything down to the bare minimum, disabled vsync, and went with the lowest correct aspect ratio res his screen can display.
He'd probably get better performance out of Sleeping Dogs.
 
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