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Stifmeister May 8, 2017 @ 6:12am
Freezed Game Menu
Hello guys,

I need your help. Three days ago I wanna playGTA4 again. The month ago I played it completely without any problems. But this time it is not possible. There is no problem with running the game. But after launching, displaying the Rockstar and GTA4 logos, both the menu and the mouse will appear. But it's all frozen and nothing reacts. No keys, no mouse movement. I tried to uninstall the game and re-install it again, but it does not change. Can you please help me anyway? Thank you (I send the frozen menu screen in the attachment)

Screen: http://imgur.com/a/TnXzW
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SWATCICO May 8, 2017 @ 7:25am 
I have a same problem. I could not solve since three days ago. I tried everything re install windows10 and gta4 also i watched video for gta4 problem, tried them but nothing changed. I will get crazy right now.....
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Stifmeister May 8, 2017 @ 10:30am 
Originally posted by cicoberk:
I have a same problem. I could not solve since three days ago. I tried everything re install windows10 and gta4 also i watched video for gta4 problem, tried them but nothing changed. I will get crazy right now.....

Ríght... I'd like to play GTA4 again, but I can't. Can anybody help us?
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MentalMercy May 8, 2017 @ 3:26pm 
So... Same problem for me. But seems like I found a pretty complicated solution. I'll get back to you bcs by testing every possible way to fix this I started to reduce the steps it needs to be fixed. Now to get back to that step I need to reinstall the game. While I'm doing it you guys should do the same, reinstall and do not launch it. Make a "commandline" .txt file in the GTA4 folder that contains the following:
-noprecache -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank
I'll need to test it one more time to be really sure it fixes it.
Apparently it's important that you leave the small popup window from steam that shows the cd-key open. Do not close it. I was able to play the game, but I did close the window and the game froze immediatelly. I did check the box for "dont show this to me again" and i cant get it back. So...

But a sure method that lets you play (althou pretty laggy method) is to launch the game with your integrated graphics card. But it laggs like hell. I'm running Nvidia gtx960m as my default graphics card. I tried to install older drivers versions and it did not help.

I'll get back to you later.
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MentalMercy May 9, 2017 @ 1:08am 
Hello again!
So I did reinstall the gme for the 5-7th time. And all of a sudden the game runs smooth. That commandline was not even needed. You need it only to change graphics settings if the game does not recognize the correct VRAM ammount.
I'm really baffled. Do not know what fixed it. Sometimes thou it helps to minimize the game and open it again right at the moment the game freezes.
What you should try is right click on the game in steam, click Properties -> Local Files -> Verify Integrity Of Game Files

Hope some of this helps. I tried to fix it for quite some time and got no answere what was wrong at the first place. Just reinstalled it, and now it runs. :(
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Stifmeister May 9, 2017 @ 8:37am 
Originally posted by MentalMercy:
Hello again!
So I did reinstall the gme for the 5-7th time. And all of a sudden the game runs smooth. That commandline was not even needed. You need it only to change graphics settings if the game does not recognize the correct VRAM ammount.
I'm really baffled. Do not know what fixed it. Sometimes thou it helps to minimize the game and open it again right at the moment the game freezes.
What you should try is right click on the game in steam, click Properties -> Local Files -> Verify Integrity Of Game Files

Hope some of this helps. I tried to fix it for quite some time and got no answere what was wrong at the first place. Just reinstalled it, and now it runs. :(

I'd tried to reinstall it. I did it once. And nothing changed. Every time I tried "Verify integrity". Nothing changed. I don't know what to do. What did you mean with that VRAM ammount. Where did you change it? Please, I need some very detailed manual for this.. Please... I am lost!
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MentalMercy May 9, 2017 @ 9:30am 
I did as well reinstall the game. Nothing changed. But all of a sudden after the 5th or 6th reinstall it works. Dont know how or why.
1st try to run your game with ur integrated graphics card. Maybe urs is more powerfull than mine. It should run. Lower ur graphic settings. Right click on game launcher -> run with graphics processor -> Integrated graphics.

Did you read my 2nd post? Read it and do what i wrote there. Make a "commandline" .txt file in the GTA4 folder that contains the following:
-noprecache -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank
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Stifmeister May 9, 2017 @ 9:49am 
Originally posted by MentalMercy:
I did as well reinstall the game. Nothing changed. But all of a sudden after the 5th or 6th reinstall it works. Dont know how or why.
1st try to run your game with ur integrated graphics card. Maybe urs is more powerfull than mine. It should run. Lower ur graphic settings. Right click on game launcher -> run with graphics processor -> Integrated graphics.

Did you read my 2nd post? Read it and do what i wrote there. Make a "commandline" .txt file in the GTA4 folder that contains the following:
-noprecache -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank


Well.. I don't understand logic of my graphics card. 2 months ago I've played GTA4 on high details. And now, I cant. I tried integrated graphics - it works. I tried with NVidia GeForce Experience to Optimalize GTA4 (on low details) - it works. But, when I wanted to have higher details - it freezed again. I dont know what to do with that...
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MentalMercy May 9, 2017 @ 11:30am 
Thats where the commandline comes in to deal with it.

Create a *.txt file in GTA4 map with the name "commandline". Open it and write inside:
-noprecache -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank
Close it and press "save". Now you're good to go. I had it a bit more complicated than this. It did not work for me even on optimized settings. Dont know how...

Hope this helps.
See ya.
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Stifmeister May 9, 2017 @ 11:53am 
Originally posted by MentalMercy:
Thats where the commandline comes in to deal with it.

Create a *.txt file in GTA4 map with the name "commandline". Open it and write inside:
-noprecache -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -novblank
Close it and press "save". Now you're good to go. I had it a bit more complicated than this. It did not work for me even on optimized settings. Dont know how...

Hope this helps.
See ya.

Nope, same problem... I dont know what to do... I am lost, totally.. Can anybody help us/me, please? I'd like to solve this .... something.. Thank you
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jayblue141 May 9, 2017 @ 2:40pm 
Same issue here, none of the commandline options work (neither the version on this thread or the previous work around).

Quick question, is everyone else using Windows 10 and installed the recent update? Was working fine until then...
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SWATCICO May 9, 2017 @ 4:24pm 
Man i did something. Run with integrated graphic card. It will run but not smootly. I think NVDIA graphic card is not identified starting the game because after freezed when I ALT-TAB and back to GTA4 it is more okey.
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Stifmeister May 9, 2017 @ 9:59pm 
Originally posted by jcwood.141:
Same issue here, none of the commandline options work (neither the version on this thread or the previous work around).

Quick question, is everyone else using Windows 10 and installed the recent update? Was working fine until then...


Yeah, I am using Win10 and I installed the recent update... I think it is one of the problems..
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Stifmeister May 9, 2017 @ 10:00pm 
Originally posted by cicoberk:
Man i did something. Run with integrated graphic card. It will run but not smootly. I think NVDIA graphic card is not identified starting the game because after freezed when I ALT-TAB and back to GTA4 it is more okey.

So, did you solve that problem or not?
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..:: eeZee ::.. May 10, 2017 @ 5:25am 
Originally posted by jcwood.141:
Quick question, is everyone else using Windows 10 and installed the recent update? Was working fine until then...
I'm on Windows 10 and the latest update improved the game's performance noticeable, for me.

I did remove all the commandlines I used for modern graphic cards to work after the update, since they are not needed anymore after the update, and did that before I started the game. It has been working excellent ever since.
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Stifmeister May 10, 2017 @ 5:30am 
Originally posted by TAG ..:: eeZee ::..:
Originally posted by jcwood.141:
Quick question, is everyone else using Windows 10 and installed the recent update? Was working fine until then...
I'm on Windows 10 and the latest update improved the game's performance noticeable, for me.

I did remove all the commandlines I used for modern graphic cards to work after the update, since they are not needed anymore after the update, and did that before I started the game. It has been working excellent ever since.

So, please, what did you do exactly? Can you desctibe me that, please?

Thank you!
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