Hi all, this is my first post so I hope this is in the right section.
I recently bought an Alienware M14x R2 and I am absolutely thrilled with it. However, I recently tried playing GTA4 on it and was staggered by how poorly it ran. Even on medium settings my FPS did not go above 25. I've heard that GTA4 is poorly coded for the PC and such, but is there any way I can increase performance?
Specs:
CPU: i7 3720qm @ 2.60 GHz (I am not sure on how to overclock this to 3.5ghz as advertised, perhaps someone could give me some pointers?
GPU: Nvidia 650m 2GB
RAM: 8GB.
With these specs I would have thought GTA 4 would be able to run pretty smoothly, especially seeing as Skyrim runs at Ultra with no hiccups whatsoever.
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From what i remember, gta iv is a pain to get running properly. there was a few threads around here about ways to get it working that i was apart of. try searching or if that doesnt work try searching my old posts.
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well i read somewhere it required whitelisting the game in nvidia control panel. try that /
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bigtonyman Desktop Powa!!!
yea GTA 4 is a really crappily coded game, and combined with optimus makes lots of problems. There is a few work arounds in a few threads somewhere, but you could start by using the guide in my sig to whitelist the GTA 4 .exe file and see if that helps at all.
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once you get it working though it runs rather nicely.
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Oh, one more thing I also like to mention is that, the GTA4 I had is a DVD version. -
Might seem obvious, but I had similar issues with GTAIV and they were fixed when I updated the game to the latest patch.
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it's not your computer and it's not that gta iv is badly coded game, it's just a port, meaning it came out on console and they wanted to make more money so they brought it out on pc without any modifications they just ported it over, there are some tweaks around it to make it run good but it's quiet hard
Grand Theft Auto 4 Running Poorly
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Jcpbe, May 21, 2012.