Rockstar working to resolve PC GTA 4 issues

By James Orry - 04/12/2008 - 1:09pm GMT

Is aware of a 'small number of fans' having problems.

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Posted at 20:54 on 04 January 2009
2blazed	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post often glitches in that i cant see anything but lights and cars and people.. no walls or buildings, floors, anything! patch it up rockstar!!!!!! Reply

Posted at 14:49 on 06 January 2009
TheAnoyed	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post MY GTA 4 was running succsesfully on my PC Now it does not work any longer, blank DOS Windows appears, it does not close by itself. Nothing happes. Im ****in pissed of paying 50 $ for a pieace of shit. Reply

Posted at 01:41 on 07 January 2009
Daniel	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Installed the game with up-to-date drivers, evga 8800gts. Running on a 64 bit vista with 4gb and on an i7 proc at 2.8ghz. When I start a new game all I hear is 'I'm back bitches' then the screen flickers. Vista says my videocard crashed. I've tried driversweeping everything and reinstalling new drivers but nothing works. Hopefully the new drivers will help with all these issues EVERY gamer is having with gta 4. Reply

Posted at 05:09 on 08 January 2009
hate rock star	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post they screwed up so badly GTA sucks Reply

Posted at 22:18 on 12 January 2009
Dave	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post Really Pi&ed off. I bought a better Graphics card to play this game, and it still don't work. The sound id F&ked, it just pulse's and majorly stutters, and even on the lowest level, the car and game moves like a big fat SNAIL..... HELP ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reply

Posted at 20:45 on 16 January 2009
roadblock02	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post I don't understand why in the world do I Have to log into not one site but 2 in order to play this game?....this is the worse GTA ever.......I don't mind having my CD in the drive while playing its reasonable but logging in to 2 useless site is just stupid...... Reply

Posted at 14:14 on 17 January 2009
JohnnyC	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post I'm a good portion of the way through the game now (about 70%). It is definitely playable (40-43 fps) on my Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4ghz machine with a pair of 8800 GTS Video cards. However, to get that kind of performance I did do some messing around with the settings and make sure to disable SLI when I do play. If I use the same settings as I currently have and enable SLI, the framerate will drop from 43 to 34 or so according to the built in benchmarking results at 1680x1050 resolution. I would prefer to be running my native resolution of 1920x1200 though... grumble To get those speeds I used the auto detect settings and then lowered the rendering quality to medium (the dithered/grainy edged shadow thing looks like crap no matter what rendering quality I set). I reduce the view distance to about 25 and reduce the shadow density down to zero since the dithered shadows look like crap regardless of the settings anyway. Also, if you disable the video capture thing (F2) in the game settings, it gives me yet another small boost to performance. In the end I get a game that looks decent but not as good as I would like and the disappointment that I am unable to put the full strength of my hardware up against it. First thing Rockstar needs to do is get the SLI support going... Many of us have SLI setups these days and it's ridiculous that if we have it enabled, the game runs SLOWER. Second thing they need to do is either change or fix those horrible looking shadows. I mean... WHY? WHAT WERE they THINKING?! It just looks bad. They couldn't do a smoother shadow? Really? Ugh... by now you can tell how much I hate the shadows... Third thing they need to do is enable advanced graphics controls in the settings. Give me the ability to adjust the anti-aliasing... DISABLE THE UGLY SHADOWS... tweak the settings until I can run 1920x1200 even if that means I need to turn something else down a bit to maintain higher fps rates. In the end... I'm glad I have a quad core with a fairly powerful video card (not as powerful as I would like for this game since I could use 1gb ram instead of 512mb ram on the video for this one). Last... but not as essential, they need to provide me a way to install this on Windows 7 beta for testing purposes and to use GTA 4 as a benchmarking tool to test speed differences. Otherwise the game runs fine for me and works well. I just hope someone from Rockstar stumbles across this and considers my suggestions. :) Reply

Posted at 13:48 on 18 January 2009
Harleys99	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post i can run the game but after about 15 to 20 min i get the to crash with this errors robleem met handtekening Naam van probleemgebeurtenis: APPCRASH Naam van de toepassing: GTAIV.exe Versie van toepassing: 1.0.1.0 Tijdstempel van toepassing: 493db559 Naam van foutmodule: GTAIV.exe Versie van foutmodule: 1.0.1.0 Tijdstempel van foutmodule: 493db559 Uitzonderingscode: c0000005 Uitzonderingsmarge: 00392e67 Versie van besturingssysteem: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Landinstelling-id: 2067 Aanvullende informatie 1: fd00 Aanvullende informatie 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160 Aanvullende informatie 3: fd00 Aanvullende informatie 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160 Extra informatie over het probleem Bucket-id: 1105492816 and this one Beschrijving Critical runtime problem Probleem met handtekening Naam van probleemgebeurtenis: APPLICATION CRASH System RAM: -1 Available RAM: -1 Number of CPUs: 4 Video Card Manufacturer: NVIDIA Video Card Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Video Card Driver Version: 7.15.0011.8120 Versie van besturingssysteem: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Landinstelling-id: 2067 Extra informatie over het probleem Bucket-id: 4 my pc is heavy enough these are my specs Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9950 Quad-Core Processor (4 CPUs), ~2.6GHz Memory: 8190MB RAM Hard Drive: 640 GB Total Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.longhorn_rtm.080118-1840) can you help me with this problem please Reply

Posted at 15:33 on 21 January 2009
Klapaucius	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post This is the strangest thing EVER! I've got no trouble installing or activating the game. Nor do I have any problems registering for Windows LIVE and the Rockstar Social Club (RSC), which are both unnecessary crap programs, if you ask me! Im 100% sure that ive got all of the requirements covered, with a machine thats brand new, and just ready to eat some competition from demanding games.. But the way GTA IV has challenged my system is just no fair: When I logon to RSC and press the big and promissing "play" button, the RSC window close, and..... NOTHING happen!.. no warnings, messages, or failures of ANY sort - nothing simply happens! The trust that I had come to invest in a thorough company as Rockstar has been totally ruined because of this!.. I dont go out to buy an expensive game, in the middle of an economical crisis to be fooled like this!.. Its plain wrong, and there should be rules against companys publicing and selling products to unknowing and loyal customers, just to fool them, without any chance of refund! FAIL! Reply

Posted at 23:34 on 22 January 2009
Erykah28	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post having a few problems setting up this game on my PC, keep getting this message come up, " setup could not find a file on the specified path or disk please check that the proper is inserted or specify a new path" does anybody know what this means Report Reply

Posted at 23:45 on 28 January 2009
FooKsTaR	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post I have a imac i bought 2 years ago. ta 4 comes out and im 3 generation video cards behind. what in the world would i buy a 400$ card that doesnt even determine graphics anybetter. i would just buy a friggin console....if i can run 2 operating system...create the f**kin game on my computer and even make a box office movie sellout on mu computer...why the hell would my graphics card not be ready??? Reply

Posted at 04:25 on 09 February 2009
fondz	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post should file a complaint with consumer protection, Rockstar wants to sell us crap. In the future i'm going to tor them a new one. Reply

Posted at 04:01 on 14 February 2009
NIKO :)	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post When I first installed the game I had to get a new video card. My video card is top notch and I tried it out. It worked fine. I had my computer formatted... twice...... virus infection :(. Then it starts working like shit. Steam is even offering refunds because people can't play this on PC and its even having problems on xbox360! The devellopers have really gone half-assed this time! Reply

Posted at 20:05 on 01 March 2009
Anonymous	0 0 In response to Article » Go to 's original post i get no error messages, but when i load gta 4 then it loads and then does nothing. ive tried new drivers re0installing the game and nothing seems to work Reply

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