More CPU benches. >2 cores or bust.
[PC] Grand Theft Auto IV
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Thankfully thats only at maximum details (aside from view distance). With lesser settings you can get the game playable on a dual core going off some of the benchmarks that have been posted by users.
The big question is, how many of the detail settings are CPU and how many GPU heavy
View distance, detail distance atleast.
This would be all sliders maxed.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/Sahlee/GTAIV2008-12-0310-20-00-57.jpg
Well, it depends a bit, I mean, it is sort of logical if the resolution of those effects scales with the screen res, though of course having control over them manually would be better
Seems to me they mean the shadowmap resolution, cubemap res etc is upped.
Sounds like the shadowmap res is upped by having higher resolution as the settings for shadowmap res is tied to the resolution settings tab. Etc.
I mean a 512*512 shadowmap doesnt look better at higher res as if it would have increased to 768*768/1024*1024 with each main resolution increase etc.
List of command-line switches for the game:
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==== [AUDIO] ====
-fullspecaudio: Force High-end CPU audio footprint
-minspecaudio: Force low-end CPU audio footprint
==== [GLOBAL] ====
-benchmark: Determines if we run the benchmark immediately
-safemode: Sets the graphics setting to lowest setting
==== [GRAPHICS] ====
-forcer2vb: force r2vb
-frameLimit: number of frames to limit game to
-framelockinwindow: Force framelock to work even in a window (works best with 60Hz monitor refresh)
-fullscreen: Force fullscreen mode
-height: Set height of main render window (default is 600)
-renderquality: Set the render quality of the game. (0-4)
-shadowdensity: Set the shadow density of the game. (0-16)
-texturequality: Set the texture quality of the game. (0-2)
-viewdistance: Set the view distance of the game (0-99)
-detailquality: Set the detail quality of the game. (0-99)
-novblank: Disable wait for vblank (No Vsync)
-norestrictions: Do not limit graphics settings
-width: Set width of main render window (default is 800)
-safemode: Run the graphics in the lowest setting possible
-frameLimit: Limit frame to interval of refresh rate
(ex If refreshrate is 60HZ –frameLimit 1 = Locks down to 60HZ)
-refreshrate: Set the refresh rate of main render window
– Warning - Monitor must support (ex. –refreshrate 60)
-fullscreen: Force fullscreen mode
-windowed: Force windowed mode
-availablevidmem: Set amount of physical Video Memory(ex. –availablevidmem 0.9)
-percentvidmem: Percentage of video memory to make available to GTA
==== [SYSTEM] ====
-noprecache: Disable precache of resources
-nomemrestrict: Disable memory restrictionsI tested these, but only once because I can't find an option for the benchmark to loop n times from the command line.
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LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 4 -shadowdensity 4 -texturequality 1 -viewdistance 25 -detailquality 25 -novblank -norestrictions -width 1920 -height 1200 -frameLimit 0 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -fullspecaudio
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LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 4 -shadowdensity 4 -texturequality 1 -viewdistance 25 -detailquality 25 -novblank -norestrictions -width 1920 -height 1200 -frameLimit 0 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -minspecaudioCheck out the difference in GPU memory usage. That's weird. Memory leak?
Gonna test the framelimit 30 now with minspecaudio and fullspecaudio.
Framelimit 30 and fullspecaudio, rest is identical to previous command line arguments:
framelimit 30 and minspecaudio
I have to rerun these minspecaudio tests because I had fullspecaudio in the commandline.txt and it may have overridden.
Update: No, identical results when I removed the commandline.txt file.
I think my CPU is clearly outmatched by this game.
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Performance review with 13 CPU's
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,669595/Reviews/GTA_4_PC_CPU_benchmark_review_with_13_processors/
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,669595/Reviews/GTA_4_PC_CPU_benchmark_review_with_13_processors/
Okay, now we're into the Twilight Zone:
LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 0 -shadowdensity 0 -texturequality 0 -viewdistance 0 -detailquality 0 -novblank -norestrictions -width 800 -height 600 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -minspecaudio
Edit: AH, results! An 18.78% increase in FPS by enabling fullspecaudio.
LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 0 -shadowdensity 0 -texturequality 0 -viewdistance 0 -detailquality 0 -novblank -norestrictions -width 800 -height 600 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -fullspecaudio
I'm gonna email this info to Rockstar support.
LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 0 -shadowdensity 0 -texturequality 0 -viewdistance 0 -detailquality 0 -novblank -norestrictions -width 800 -height 600 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -minspecaudio
Okay, awesome.
Edit: AH, results! An 18.78% increase in FPS by enabling fullspecaudio.
LaunchGTAIV.exe -benchmark -renderquality 0 -shadowdensity 0 -texturequality 0 -viewdistance 0 -detailquality 0 -novblank -norestrictions -width 800 -height 600 -refreshrate 60 -fullscreen -fullspecaudio
I'm gonna email this info to Rockstar support.
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