Low FPS on maximum and minimum settings. GTA4.

[AppyFizz]

I am trying to play GTA 4 on my laptop (I know it's the latest game on the planet but) and I get the same FPS (7-11) on literally maximum settings and even on the minimum possible settings. I have Acer 522G.
AMD A8 7410
Radeon R5 graphics 2gb
4gb RAM
1TB hard disk.
Please help me.

 

[balrogkiller12]

Hey,

Did a test with your current hardware running on GTA IV.

Recommended (High) Settings:

- CPU: Performing -36% than recommended
- GPU: Performing -23% than recommended

Minimum (Lowest) Settings:

- CPU: Performing +57% than recommended
- GPU: Performing +48% than recommended

As you can see, you will not be able to play GTA IV on recommended settings, hower you should be able to play GTA IV on the lowest settings.
Did you try to change to resolution to something lower? For example; 1152x864

 

[AppyFizz]

i ran the game with 800x600 resolution. That's what I am saying literally everything that can be reduced But no improvement. I even maxed out everything and still no decrease in fps.

 

[balrogkiller12]

i ran the game with 800x600 resolution. That's what I am saying literally everything that can be reduced But no improvement. I even maxed out everything and still no decrease in fps.

GTA lV is poorly optimitzed for low end systems. You can try to reinstall your graphic drivers. There are some ''fixes'' online, to boost your FPS since you are not the only person experiencing the FPS bottleneck. But I think it's just your hardware that is bottlenecking it.

 

[balrogkiller12]

i ran the game with 800x600 resolution. That's what I am saying literally everything that can be reduced But no improvement. I even maxed out everything and still no decrease in fps.

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Without lowering your graphics

Right-click on GTA 4 in Steam, and click on Properties.
Click on Set Launch Options... and a window with a TextBox will appear.

In that TextBox, paste these arguments:

-nomemrestrict -norestrictions
Screenshot http://i48.tinypic.com/28vydcm.jpg

and GTA 4 should run with a huge speedup.
On my rig

i7 3770K
32 GB RAM
GeForce GTX 680

GTA used to run on max settings at around 20-35 FPS.
With these arguments, it runs between 50 and 55 FPS and averages at ~52 FPS.

With lowering your graphics

Interestingly, GTA doesn't seem to care about GPU so much, as there is almost no difference between playing with a 1920x1080 or 800x600 resolution.
The only settings that seem to yield any significant increase in FPS is View Distance and Detail Distance, which should be lowered together. With both set to 1, my max FPS went from 55 to 140, although the average FPS only increased from 52 to 55. I wouldn't recommend setting them both to 1, as it can introduce some odd graphical glitches, such as signs seemingly floating in midair, until you get close enough for the sign's support to pop into view.
You might want to set the ingame option Definition: On, which will deactivate Motion Blur (yes, On == deactivate) and earn you an additional 5-20 FPS when driving fast enough for aforementioned Motion Blur to kick in.

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@http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/119513/gta-iv-lag-on-powerful-laptop

 

[AppyFizz]

i ran the game with 800x600 resolution. That's what I am saying literally everything that can be reduced But no improvement. I even maxed out everything and still no decrease in fps.

GTA lV is poorly optimitzed for low end systems. You can try to reinstall your graphic drivers. There are some ''fixes'' online, to boost your FPS since you are not the only person experiencing the FPS bottleneck. But I think it's just your hardware that is bottlenecking it.

I tried to reinstall my graphics card. And I don't think that the hardware is so bad that it gives 8 fps at 800x600 resolution.