GTA IV - Optimizing and Improving Complete Edition (1.2.0.43)

Do you want to optimise the game, but still want to keep 1.2.0.43 and the Social Club? This guide is for you!

Includes:

• Significant performance improvements and stutter fixes
  
• Fixes for common issues
  
• Graphics improvements and console visuals ports
  
• Accelerated game load times
  
• Fixes and gameplay improvements

Preface

Motivation

This guide was originally inspired by catsmackaroo's work, and the initial version of the guide was a semi-translation of their youtube or steam guides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvIv5Q-8zU
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2438808634

What can you expect to get from this guide?

• Significantly improved performance (sometimes up to 2-3x) and fixed stuttering using DXVK and other fixes
  
• Fixes for common issues (inability to climb helicopter, definition blur, etc.)
  
• ColAccel can speed up game loading times up to several times
  
• Graphics improvements and fixes thanks to FusionFix, Shader Fixes and Console Visuals
  
• Various fixes and improvements to the gameplay

The guide has moved!

This guide has become quite uncomfortable for me to use - so it is now on a separate site. Welcome to the new, versatile and maximally user-friendly site:

Go to the site[gillian-guide.github.io]

Also, please, avoid using Steam comments for support - visit my Discord server[discord.gg] instead

Lastly

Thank you for using exactly MY guide to improve GTA 4.

Support and Credits

Credits and donation links[gillian-guide.github.io]

If you want to support someone's work, I suggest you support the developers rather than me, they deserve it more.

[.sync]

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. This detailed guide is really helpful and well organized.
Being able to have an "upgraded" experience on Linux is something I would never have ever dreamed of.

[GillianMC]

why wouldn't they be

[Alexey Nikolaevich]

achievements will not be supported with this?

[preuzmemot]

Thank you for the great work.

[GillianMC]

motivated means just that, motivated. overlapping sections is just a leftover from my very very old version of the guide, i should remove that since its not the case anymore, i was merely motivated. most of the guide was written by me over the span of 2 years(over 70 hours on the website ALONE), if you think you can do better - go on, i'm not stopping you. i don't ask for any money, i'd rather people donate to modders. also, i did make the modpack and the setup utility, but sure. right into my block list you go.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

did YOU make any of the mods or programs being used in this "guide", which you admit to be " motivated by catsmackaroo's work, and some early sections may overlap with their youtube or steam guides" i.e. plagiarized their shit? cause if not youre just typing up some shit that you took from other peoples guides and are begging for money you have no right to.

[GillianMC]

Also, hell's wrong with asking for support for something I passively spent time into for 2 years and still spending time? I believe doing helpful things for free is worthy of a little financial support, especially when I'm not living in a first world country and two dollars can make one bus trip to the college free for me.

[GillianMC]

3. to this date the only revenue i got from this guide is 3 dollars from two ukrainian people who sent support to me on their own.

[GillianMC]

1. those youtube videos have no ads, or at least, no ads i personally pushed for - i never got a penny of ad revenue and neither of my channels are eligible for it
2. it *was* on steam before, but updating 4 guides at once with steam's awful markdown and limitations gets really annoying and exhausting. for consistency and convenience, it was moved to a website, and if you actually used it, you'd notice how much more comfortable it is

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

reported for being bullshit. post your guide HERE, not a ton of external links and youtube videos to try getting paid for a fucking guide.