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GTA IV PC patch released


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The patch promised by Rockstar for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has now been released. Start up GTA IV and connect to LIVE to initiate the download. The patch is 32.6MB and will take a few minutes to install. It should fix the following issues:

  • A fix to the crash after legal screen that some German customers were reporting.
  • Numerous improvements to the video editor: Smarter naming of videos, improved rendering quality, better fx during replays.
  • Fix to bowling while using certain sensitive mice.
  • Fix for ATI 1900 shadows.
  • Overall savings to memory.
  • Graphic improvements to particle systems and mirrors.
  • Multiplayer character settings are preserved.
  • Support for DirectInput controllers.

Let us know if it's helped improve things for you in our forums.

Thanks to gamerzworld for the heads up.

NOTE: If for any reason you would like manually install the patch rather than update from LIVE, you can download the patch here.

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The patch promised by Rockstar for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has now been released. Start up GTA IV and connect to LIVE to initiate the download. The patch is 32.6MB and will take a few minutes to install. It should fix the following issues:

  • A fix to the crash after legal screen that some German customers were reporting.
  • Numerous improvements to the video editor: Smarter naming of videos, improved rendering quality, better fx during replays.
  • Fix to bowling while using certain sensitive mice.
  • Fix for ATI 1900 shadows.
  • Overall savings to memory.
  • Graphic improvements to particle systems and mirrors.
  • Multiplayer character settings are preserved.
  • Support for DirectInput controllers.

Let us know if it's helped improve things for you in our forums.

Thanks to gamerzworld for the heads up.

Did it bollocks fix anything it only made my game worse i have no ammo signs no ingame sound wot so eva etc etc.. its even worse, i saw the same thing at steam forums

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specs:

nvidia 9800 gtx

amd athlon 64 6400+ 3.4 ghz dual core

4gigs corsair dominator 1066 mhz

windows vista x64

this setup will dominate most games without question except GTA IV

before the patch i got 15-25 fps usually around 20, playable but not ideal, what i would give to have the FPS i get when i'm in the tunnel over to the last island (45-60), it's so silky smooth i go out of my way to take the tunnel rather then the bridge.

now i've just gotten the patch and guess what, i'm still getting the same fps but now i gave a couple bugs to work around to get it to look like it did before.

here are my graphics settings:

1920*1200 (doesn't make much of a difference if it's lower)

textures mid (setting to high causes textures to load very slowly as i drive around)

view distance about 30 (before patch this made little difference visually, now unless you have it pretty fine tuned it seems cause problems with LOD)

shodow slider makes no difference visually or on my FPS so i leave it at 1

i will also mention that i'm using a PlayStation to USB adapter as my game pad. works perfect for any other game but this one. i dont know why R* decided to leave out custom mapping for gamepads but i think it is simply lame and lazy.

the game also likes to shoot my view to looking straight up unless i unplug my controller when i start the game and plug it back in after the game is loaded so i can use a 3rd party program called "xpadder" to map joystick controls to

keyboard and mouse input.

also, i run the game with the current command line input just to make sure it's using my computers full potential:

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict -novblank –availablevidmem 1 -percentvidmem 100 -dx9

looks like we get to wait for yet another patch

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I was up late last night and when I signed in it told me to update to the patch, I dled but I thought, leme check a board first, sure enough gamers at GTAF were also having problems, glitches, something about a spacenavigator or something ....

Its sounding abit more to me like possibly some additional "securom" or something since ppl w/ mods are having problems which sux.. I've been enjoying tinkering w/ mods, I did one las night where the cops were apparently showing up as peds ?? And when I rammed a cop car, there was a female ped in it, so I'm still tinkering w/ stuff like that..

When did they allow this offline account saving ? I remember reading in their texts something like "..single player progess is always tracked.." or something to that extent so I never knew any other way...hmm

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They need to realease a Low graphics GTAIV for PS2 and PC, because not everyone has a PS3 or a fast PC. My PC was very very fast for its time 3 years ago, Toshiba Satelite, 1 GB ram, Windows XP SP2 (Upgraded to SP3 via update), lots of expensive programs, graphics drivers here and there.......

Now its just "Too old" and "Too slow" for modern next gen pile of fancy s**t.

Curse you Rockstar, Curse you Playstation, Curse you people who update everything before we pay for the existing tech!!!!! F**K!!!

Lol anyway..

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