Invisible streets and buildings!!

[noomit]

So I have GTA4 in Steam. I used to play it fine on my older PC, but now I have that annoying problem. I cannot see any streets or buildings. I can see my character, cars, trash cans, people and stuff, but all the other things are just grey.
Specs:
Laptop Acer E5 - G572G
Intel Core i7 - 4712MQ
Nvidia GeForce 840m (2GB dedicated VRAM)
8GB RAM

My launch options are: -novblank -nomemrestrict -norestrictions -availablevidmem 4.0 -percentvidmem 100 -noprecache.

I will appreciate your help. Thanks :)

[narkoz]

its the graphic settings

[narkoz]

you need to create a .txt file in game directory to fix it

[narkoz]

ok here is fix for the common texture glitch/bug.
1. Create a .txt file named 'commandline' in small letters without the quotes.
2. Inide the .txt file put down this info
-availablevidmem 2.0
-percentvidmem "100"
-novblank
-norestrictions
-noprecache
2. Save your game and play.

Note: You can change vidmem/videomemory to your computer settings if its not 2.0.

Didnt Work? Try This if you use nvidia graphics:
Go to NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL > Manage 3D settings > program settings > select GTA IV in the select a program option > select the option ''USE GLOBAL SETTING (HIGH PERFORMANCE NVIDIA PROCESSOR'' in the select the preferred graphics processor for this program.

Hope it WORKS!!!

[narkoz]

For The first one i meant inside not inide

[noomit]

So I fixed it. I turned up -availablevidmem to 80.0 and used the contig method. This fixed it for me. Thanks for the help any way :)

[narkoz]

no prob

[Caiman]

Help i cant sign into ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WINDOWS LIVE OR SOCIAL CLUB SO I CANT SAVE :(((((((

[TaticalM!2]

Originally posted by 76561198073863607:

ok here is fix for the common texture glitch/bug.
1. Create a .txt file named 'commandline' in small letters without the quotes.
2. Inide the .txt file put down this info
-availablevidmem 2.0
-percentvidmem "100"
-novblank
-norestrictions
-noprecache
2. Save your game and play.

Note: You can change vidmem/videomemory to your computer settings if its not 2.0.

Didnt Work? Try This if you use nvidia graphics:
Go to NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL > Manage 3D settings > program settings > select GTA IV in the select a program option > select the option ''USE GLOBAL SETTING (HIGH PERFORMANCE NVIDIA PROCESSOR'' in the select the preferred graphics processor for this program.

Hope it WORKS!!!

where i put this txt file??

[ALPHA]

2024 y estoy teniendo el mismo problema. no me darias una mano para solucionarlo bro ?

[SamuCymo]

2024 and nothing loads, just a bit of cars and windows or lights an nothing else, help?

[Echoz]

I can't help you but I find it funny that I had this exact issue trying to play the game back in 2008/2009 on my pentium 4 with 512M ram and some very low end nvidia gpu with 256M vram on windows xp

[wackjob]

currently having this exact same issue right now after trying several different commandline "fixes" to no avail, very weird and hopefully gets fixed soon

[SwordMasterLink]

Originally posted by noomit:

So I fixed it. I turned up -availablevidmem to 80.0 and used the contig method. This fixed it for me. Thanks for the help any way :)

Can you tell which config method