**HOW MAKE GTA4 RUN BUTTER SMOOTH! EASILY!**

[RandalMcdaniel]

At first it was running horrible like a slideshow on my gtx1080.. literally unplayable.

Now look how smooth it is (garbage video quality be warned) its running at buttery 60fps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggz4_PiIGkE&feature=youtu.be

i used DXVK to convert dx9 to vulkan using this guide
http://ant-sh.blogspot.com/2020/07/gta-4-stutter-choppiness-fix.html#_Toc45820767

Since the guide kinda sucks i just put all the files required into a single folder that you can download from my googledrive for your convenience. All you need to do is unzip the file, copy the 4 files inside, then paste them in your gta4 installation directory (in the same place where the gtaiv.exe file is located)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zdaIiuwSnzdwn00_MHGBCDzZxkMymc5a/view?usp=sharing

Its going to stutter for the first minute or so while vulkan loads the shaders, but trust me it becomes flawless after about a minute or so (you can reduce this stuttering by going to steam settings - shader settings - allow vulkan shaders to process in the background while playing)

[Leet.exe Aimware.net]

Yujah님이 먼저 게시:

Leet Aimware.net님이 먼저 게시:

The vulkan thing sure works, but it creates a lot of other problems for the game.

I'll assume said other problems amount to the issues this game has with high FPS; the game basically needs 30 FPS (up to 60 mostly works but will still have some issues). You can cap framerate either globally or specifically for GTA4 with the Nvidia control panel, or AMD Chill, or...

Ye this is also one fo the issues, over 30fps the game creates a fair amount of issues, button pressing, physics and what not.

This is one of the main reasons why i still play GTA IV on my ps3, because even with vulkan at 60fps, i notice a lot of inconsistency on the game, and some stuttering too over a long playing session.

Sure vulkan works fine if you just care about 60fps, but the game isn't really working properly, if you play for a couple of hours, you'll have some sound issues too. This game needs a proper remaster, until then i'll stick to my ps3 version, sure its 640p and 20-30fps, but it works flawlessly.

[RandalMcdaniel]

well i uploaded it to google drive so that makes me the developer

[Yujah]

Leet Aimware.net님이 먼저 게시:

This is one of the main reasons why i still play GTA IV on my ps3, because even with vulkan at 60fps, i notice a lot of inconsistency on the game, and some stuttering too over a long playing session.

Well, supposedly you can even with DXVK use framerate limiting to have things behave in that respect. And/or through something called FusionFix as I've read on here, but no personal experience, as really all I can say from experience is that the game runs fine OOTB on a Core i7-860 with 8G / GTX 970 with 4G.

Admittedly I do also have large tolerance for e.g. a few stutters, but at least I did not notice anything above and beyond a previous playthrough a few years back on that same system but with a in modern terms pathetic AMD HD5770 with 1G. A matter of the famously crappy PC port I assume, which however certainly did not keep me from enjoying the game, neither then nor now.

And I'd in any case quite advise any prospective GTA4 players to stop it already with the dumb FPS fetish. This is a game originally designed for systems, consoles, with a hard 30 FPS maximum; there is no point to more than that, or at the very least, not nearly enough point to justify the issues it brings. Just cap to 30 and be happy...

RandalMcdaniel님이 먼저 게시:

well i uploaded it to google drive so that makes me the developer

We shall assume that to be one of those jokes you said you were keen on making.

[Leet.exe Aimware.net]

Yujah님이 먼저 게시:

And I'd in any case quite advise any prospective GTA4 players to stop it already with the dumb FPS fetish. This is a game originally designed for systems, consoles, with a hard 30 FPS maximum; there is no point to more than that, or at the very least, not nearly enough point to justify the issues it brings. Just cap to 30 and be happy...

This 100%. Most GTA games (except GTA V) were made to be run on 30fps or lower, that's just how their physics work.

Heck, to make matters worst, i remember SilentPL (creater of literally the mods that allow us to even play classic GTA games on pc) saying that you should clearly lock this games to 30fps, but still, people start the aplication, "OMG 100fps YEEES", then they post it here or Reddit but never touch the game again.

[Excelsior]

Does this method still works? I can't find the x32 folder from which I need to get d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll. Maybe the folder is with different name ? I'm trying with DXVK 1.7.3 from github. Some help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tharon]

It's always better to download from the official source @ https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

You need a tar extractor, 7zip works really well if you don't have another extractor (and is free).

https://www.7-zip.org

Inside the archive you will find another tar archive and then two folders : x64 and x32. Go in x32 and extract both d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll inside the game folder ( \Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV )

[RandalMcdaniel]

stop with the unsafe file nonsense i will have you know i am a man of integrity

[Yujah]

You are not a man of integrity, even if only due to not being a man: on this here internet thingy you are the random string of glyphs "RandalMcdaniel", something which may or may not have some relation to a man named, supposedly, Randal McDaniel.

I mean just imagine said string to in fact refer to a person called Evil McHacker. Wouldn't we feel silly then. General or best-practice advise on the internet will as such always need to be to not trust random strings of glyphs; to refer people to sources they can themselves (more easily) verify as trustworthy.

Oh. And welcome to the internet :-)

[Excelsior]

Tharon님이 먼저 게시:

It's always better to download from the official source @ https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

You need a tar extractor, 7zip works really well if you don't have another extractor (and is free).

https://www.7-zip.org

Inside the archive you will find another tar archive and then two folders : x64 and x32. Go in x32 and extract both d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll inside the game folder ( \Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV )

Thank you for the explanation. Previously I was downloading the source code.zip instead of the .tar file.

[RandalMcdaniel]

if you download it from the ever pure "source" your gonna have to do a few hours worth of work to get it running smoothly. For me it took all morning. Thats why i took the time to do everything for you. But im the bad guy right?

If i wanted to give people a virus wouldnt i go on reddit or something where i could get thousands of clicks? Why would i come to a thread of a game nobody plays anymore. you guys are cringe honestly

If you dont just download mine the joke is on you really. Good luck creating text files and inputting commands all morning

[Yujah]

RandalMcdaniel님이 먼저 게시:

Good luck creating text files and inputting commands

Thanks :-)

[RandalMcdaniel]

and you should be thanking me for spreading awareness of your product

you couldnt excite a jumping bean if it were on fire. you have the personality of wet cardboard. You need people like me

[Yujah]

Hey! I did just now thank you...

... even though I expect you are again conflating me with ant_sh. Shall in any case leave this thread be now.

[RandalMcdaniel]

Yujah님이 먼저 게시:

Hey! I did just now thank you...

... even though I expect you are again conflating me with ant_sh. Shall in any case leave this thread be now.

oh you two look similar

[❤ barkbarks]

RandalMcdaniel님이 먼저 게시:

well i uploaded it to google drive so that makes me the developer

hahaha.. no