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| Thread ID: 111360 | 2010-07-23 22:09:00 | I NEED HELP!!! GRAPHICS CARD SETTING GTA IV!! | mark1978 (13845) | Press F1 |
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| 1121803 | 2010-07-23 22:09:00 | My card is a new MSI N8400GS with the latest drivers. When I play GTA IV its like really frame by frame, especially when am driving around town, also the mouths of the characters are really blurry, My PC is ASUS P5KPL-AMPS with 2 gig of RAM, can anyone recommend how I can set the graphics up?? Am not a real gamer so this is completely new for me... Pls help :-)) | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1121804 | 2010-07-23 22:15:00 | An 8400GS is NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, a gaming card. It is completely incapable of lower specced games, never mind GTA 4. GTA 4 wants as high end as you can get - even then performance was rubbish on PC. But that card is an utter waste of time for any gaming. Minimum I'd say for gaming (and it does depend what sort you want to play) is a 4850. Have a look here: www.tomshardware.com This gets updated 4 times a year - it's a good guide (and note guide only) for how good a graphics card is. The highest in the list, the better. What you also want to do is look at frame rates for a particular game. Graphics cards are the most important component in a gaming PC. Yes, CPU and RAM matters too otherwise you'll bottleneck it, but GPU before anything else. Take a look at Computer Lounge and PLaytech - their Gaming PCs - that gives you an idea of what you should be looking at. Doesn't mean you have to change the entire PC but you for sure have to change that card. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1121805 | 2010-07-23 22:17:00 | oh well worth a try :) am not really a gamer but its kinda fun playing that game, someone gave it to me to try out... lol | mark1978 (13845) | ||
| 1121806 | 2010-07-24 11:00:00 | Ditto what PCtek said And yes GTA4 has the worst optomisation ever, Even mine cant run max settings at 1680x1050 res The 8400 isnt that great but there is still plenty it can do, and my brother's computer had one and was fine with gta but at 1024x768 res |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1121807 | 2010-07-24 21:18:00 | The 8400 isnt that great but there is still plenty it can do, and my brother's computer had one and was fine with gta but at 1024x768 res Come on, GTA 1? It's NOT a gaming card..... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1121808 | 2010-07-25 10:47:00 | Have you ever used a 8400? Its ok at low res stuff. Im not recommending it or anything but as far as rubbish graphics cards go it does alright | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1121809 | 2010-07-25 21:28:00 | Have you ever used a 8400? Its ok at low res stuff. My brother had one. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1121810 | 2010-07-25 23:37:00 | GTA IV is a CPU hog more than a GPU hog. Either way, the 8400 isn't going to cut it on a modern game. I have a 9600GT running GTAIV and it can't handle very high resolutions. I'd suggest turning down every setting in the game that you can - vehicle density, shadows, graphic details etc |
autechre (266) | ||
| 1121811 | 2010-07-26 23:29:00 | An 8400GS is pretty slow, and GTA:IV is pretty demanding . I don't think you will ever get good performance out of it . You should be able to run GTA:III and GTA: Vice City fine though . Maybe even GTA: San Andreas (which I think is better) |
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