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mrr9
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Is it me or is GTA IV a moster of a game that uses a lot of hardware?
My computer specs are:
i7 oc to 3.2
6 MB DDR3 RAM
Ati 1GB 5870
and even with this computer I can not run the game any where near 100%
Mark
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saspro
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That should be enough to run it.
It used to run fine on a Q6600 IIRC
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mrr9
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I just changed to the 5870 from the 285 and not seen that much inprovment but I have gone from a 22" to a 26" well 25.5" screen as well
Mark
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saspro
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The 285 was a beast though. What's slowing down in the game?
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Linux_User
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mrr9
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thats a good question....
everything upto date but when I go into the options etc I can only move the sliders a little way before it says you going out side the limits of the graphic card
all other games etc run at max and full everthing
I would say with the draw distace set at 20-25% everything else is set on 50-80%
the CPU watercolled i7 920 running at 3.2
Mark
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saspro
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Get that thing running at the 4GHz it should do
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okenobi
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What res? I think a screen of that size could be the issue...
even @ "just" 3.2ghz - a 920 should be more than adequate.
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ProfessorF
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I'm amazed you're even loading Windows with that amount. 
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gavomatic57
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The GPU is pretty irrelevant - indoors it'll hit 60fps, but as soon as you get outside it loads all 4 cores almost to its limit. It is playable on my stock i7 920 though.
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| Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:21 pm |
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mrr9
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is it worth unloading it and reload
also is there any patches for it?
I can not remember put the patch on this computer if so how do I tell what version of patch I have
Mark
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gavomatic57
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It also uses that Rockstar social thing which will tell you what updates are available. I don't remember, but GFWL may auto-patch??? As for unloading and re-loading. No, not much point.
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mrr9
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Just uploaded the patch and got a better frame rate
I got detail on max with draw distance at 25 and the graphic card still in the green very close to changing colour
this is any good?
Mark
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