Post by derbratmaxe on Dec 17, 2012 9:27:35 GMT 1
Hello Folks,
I just upgraded my Graphics Card from a Geforce 9500 w/ 512MB to an AMD Radeon HD 7850 /w 2 GB. My CPU is an Athlon 5050e (Dual-Core, 2,6GHz) and I got 8 GB Ram.
I made a fresh install of GTA 4, applied the 1.0.4.0 patch, then the no-cd magic and finally the Icenhancer (never used Icehancer before). It took me several reinstalls until it finally ran without a crash (usually would crash after the Rockstar Logos).
Unfortunatly the Game lags hard - the "default" settings were all at high @ 1920x1200 basically. I tuned it down a bit and set res to 1280x800 to test, but still lags..
On Top of that it looks ugly! In the "intro" scene on the boat everything is very bright, and then afterwards when you gotta drive ur buddy home its so damn dark. The car lights are not really illuminating correctly either it seems. When I drive backwards, the reverse-lights are barely seeable, so dark.
I watched some vids before I installed the icehancer and it looked so great, but why in hell does it look so ugly for me?
I have installed the xlive.dll and the xlive_d.dll as well.
For the no-cd magic I got the LaunchGTA.exe and the 1911.dll installed.
And I copied/overwrote all the files from the icehancer 2.1 zip to my GTA dir.
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Any idea what could cause this? I'm running win 7 64-Bit. Maybe I'm missing files or smth? Or do I need special settings for my computer hardware?
Both the lag and the image quality is unbearable, and I was so looking forward to play GTA 4 again with the new Videocard and the badass image quality I saw on all those icehancer videos. Sigh. (ADD: I can play Dirt 3, and other games at 1920x1200 with aa and all settings at highest or close to without lags, so the hardware should do it shouldnt it? The CPU sucks a bit though.. gettin old)
Any help is appreciated! Thanks
I just upgraded my Graphics Card from a Geforce 9500 w/ 512MB to an AMD Radeon HD 7850 /w 2 GB. My CPU is an Athlon 5050e (Dual-Core, 2,6GHz) and I got 8 GB Ram.
I made a fresh install of GTA 4, applied the 1.0.4.0 patch, then the no-cd magic and finally the Icenhancer (never used Icehancer before). It took me several reinstalls until it finally ran without a crash (usually would crash after the Rockstar Logos).
Unfortunatly the Game lags hard - the "default" settings were all at high @ 1920x1200 basically. I tuned it down a bit and set res to 1280x800 to test, but still lags..
On Top of that it looks ugly! In the "intro" scene on the boat everything is very bright, and then afterwards when you gotta drive ur buddy home its so damn dark. The car lights are not really illuminating correctly either it seems. When I drive backwards, the reverse-lights are barely seeable, so dark.
I watched some vids before I installed the icehancer and it looked so great, but why in hell does it look so ugly for me?
I have installed the xlive.dll and the xlive_d.dll as well.
For the no-cd magic I got the LaunchGTA.exe and the 1911.dll installed.
And I copied/overwrote all the files from the icehancer 2.1 zip to my GTA dir.
----
Any idea what could cause this? I'm running win 7 64-Bit. Maybe I'm missing files or smth? Or do I need special settings for my computer hardware?
Both the lag and the image quality is unbearable, and I was so looking forward to play GTA 4 again with the new Videocard and the badass image quality I saw on all those icehancer videos. Sigh. (ADD: I can play Dirt 3, and other games at 1920x1200 with aa and all settings at highest or close to without lags, so the hardware should do it shouldnt it? The CPU sucks a bit though.. gettin old)
Any help is appreciated! Thanks