GTA IV Thread

Stildawn said:
I just did the can you run it website thing for GTA4 and I failed reckomended??? Is it really utilizing more than 2 cores? Or will I be fine, I was hoping to run it on max?
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Yeah, it'll use 4 cores if you've got 'em. There's a thread over at OCN full of people with E8400's crying because they should have bought a Quad.

They did benchmarks and a Quad at 3Ghz will produce 10FPS more than a Dual at 3Ghz. A Quad at 3.4Ghz would produce 10FPS more than a Dual at 3.4Ghz and so on...

To all those people that said Quads were a waste of money, Ha! :P
 
yay me! i got a quad. was worried that it would be of no use after readin so many posts saying that C2D was a better choice
 
Kornowski said:
Yeah, it'll use 4 cores if you've got 'em. There's a thread over at OCN full of people with E8400's crying because they should have bought a Quad.
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Ahhhhh been waiting for this day....and it is glorious...few more quad-core titles and I will mock EVERY E8xxx user that told me I was a fool for getting a Q6600 over E8400.
 
Hey guys, anyone playing with Dual core like me?

My game runs like arse.

I ain't checked my FPS yet but it get playable I need to put every setting to Minimum, (this is at 1680 x 1050)

The more lighting ECT the more lag. Both my cores are running at 100% in this game and I notice that when theres a big bit of action coming up like you knock out a few lampposts at once I get a FPS freeze.

My CPU also lags out in GRID & FarCry2.


Should I go quad?

EDIT: I like that post 2 counts up. lol! I think its time for me to dump DC.
 
Bootup05 said:
Hey guys, anyone playing with Dual core like me?

My game runs like arse.

I ain't checked my FPS yet but it get playable I need to put every setting to Minimum, (this is at 1680 x 1050)

The more lighting ECT the more lag. Both my cores are running at 100% in this game and I notice that when theres a big bit of action coming up like you knock out a few lampposts at once I get a FPS freeze.

My CPU also lags out in GRID & FarCry2.


Should I go quad?

EDIT: I like that post 2 counts up. lol! I think its time for me to dump DC.
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Most games still only use 2 cores, GTA4 uses 4 and thats just about it. GRID is fine for me at 2.8GHz as I think it only uses 1 core and brute force is what's needed. (I'm getting a dual core because Source games are CPU intensive and single core)
 
Hmm its weird, I clearly get CPU bottlenecking with GRID & FC2. The higher I increase my CPU clocks, the more my FPS rise.

GRID @ 1680 x 1050 Full Settings all standard scenes are around 100FPS. As soon as I go to the USA Tracks with all the bloom My CPU spikes & my FPS plummet to 25FPS

Pretty much the games that I start lagging in my cpu is maxxing out at 100%
 
Strange, GRID runs at 60+FPS constant for me, though I think it's bad form to run a game at max settins, (CS:S at 800x600 on a 20" widescreen!) instead I set them lower because most modern games scale rather well.
 
Does it work with Crossfire? If so, I will get Crossfire Radeon HD4850, it brings my 2900XT to its knees, dropping to 12fps at at times.
 
All the people who told me to get an E8500 also :P Pure Ownage, us quad users knew what was going to happen =P
 
Kornowski said:
"By the time games use all 4 cores, the current Quads will be out of date!"

Looks like they were right... :rolleyes:
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yup and i said that too danny,i didnt expect any games this year to use 4 cores but THANK you danny for advising me to get the Q6600 instead im loving it.

btw downloaded and installed those drivers you posted,ive noticed alot of improvement in how distant buildings and stuff just look bette where before they looked a bit dull far away.

didnt realy see any frame rate improvements though.
 
Hmmmm. So with my 6000+ should I bother to get the game or will it be crap lol. Will it still run on max with reasonable FPS? I can run crysis and farcry2 etc on max easy as... surely this cant be much different or better (it certainly doesnt look better)
 
Kornowski said:
"By the time games use all 4 cores, the current Quads will be out of date!"

Looks like they were right... :rolleyes:
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TRWTF is you need a quad to even run GTA4 well, how bad is the optimisation on this code to make it run badly on a highly clocked dual core!? Coupled with all the other issues this has put me off Rockstar. It's sad really.

I'll stick with the Duo's for a while longer until the i7's are more common and cheaper...
 
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