GTA IV on an i9 14900K and RTX 4080 Super - It's Smooth Now, Right?!

Can't believe it that them days on the 360 playing all the classics really was "back in the day" now. Still feels like it was just yesterday sometimes. Golden years.

Its funny to me that this game has less stutters on my Steam Deck than it does on my high end Windows PC because it runs better through Proton

So roughly 15 years later and about 9 generations of hardware and we finally get GTA4 at playable framerates. This is cause for celebration

DXVK and Fusion Fix truely makes this game much more stable and enjoyable

Just leaving it here incase people don't know about it: DXVK helps a lot but there is a version that is better than the standard DXVK. That being DXVK GPL-async. Much less stuttering with it if any at all.

I remember when you put GTA4 through a (then) top spec PC a couple of years ago and it ran like a donkey through honey then......but through this beast its a bit better and I would like to think that some software patches might have helped but its STILL not perfect ! Which is a shame cos the game is amazing. Thanks for the video, Steve 🙂

This game had very satisfying driving Edit: things got heated up on comments lol 😆

My older brother built his first PC specifically to play this game, back in 2009. It was an Athlon II X2 240 2.8Ghz, 4GBs DDR2 800Mhz, GeForce 9600 GT 1GB. Ran O.K. at 1360x768 at around 20~30 FPS low to medium. I bought that PC from him around 3 years later, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get the game to run myself. Only around the last bit of life of that PC that I finally gave GTA IV one last go and almost finished it. Than I got a better PC (Xeon E5 2640 v3 3.4Ghz turbo, 16GBs DDR4 1866Mhz, GTX 960 4GB), it ran at around 50~80 FPS at 1080p medium-high, but I still never finished it. Now I have a GTX 1660 Super and a 1440p monitor with that same PC, and GTA IV can run at 1440p very high around that same FPS, which is more than enough. Maybe it's time to finally beat it XD.

back in the day I was playing on a Pentium D, 7300GT and 3 GB of RAM. 10 year old playing GTA IV, game of my life to be frank. Completed it 100% on Xbox Series X back in 2021

Fantastic video and thank you for the shout out!

Love this. I was in QA for iV and it's indelible in my memory.. looking at this video, it still appears so classic and impressive, standing the test of time.

what a timing! i just bought the game on steam (i pirated it before) and was watching your last video! wow

Recently I retired my old AMD FX 8320, in its place came the I3 12100F and the first game I installed to test was GTA 4, I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing, the game is running at 60FPS without choking, it's beautiful.

You should do a send-off video for the RX 580. It's now starting to struggle with games that just released

I decided to replay GTAIV with both expansions in December last year. As soon as I installed it on my Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX3070 it turned out it was unplayable. My character was invisible, the mini-map was missing textures as well and the fps drops were insane. After installing DXVK it's become smooth and fixed most of the problems. Then still, some of the ladders in main missions were broken and I had 2 unfixable problems where the game was crashing each time in the same places during main missions - surprisingly it turned out that the game is very much "hardware sensitive" and copying it over to ROG Ally worked both times (once inthe main game and once in TBoGT).

U can mod the game to run smoothly. Its no problem anymore.

Yes, GTA IV runs very well on my 2014 amd four core laptop, on patch 4 with modded lowest settings at 800 x 600 anamorphic widescreen to run at an average of 30-25, 1% low being 20-15 and the 0.1% low achieving a marvellous 5 fps.

You can mostly play at unlocked framerates and be fine but keep in mind there are certain game logic tied to framerate which will not work as intended. Example, the garage door for Brucie's car boosting side missions, located at Broker, has it's opening and closing logic tied to framerate and will softlock you if Niko does not exit the garage in time before it closes during a cutscene, effectively forcing you to restart the game to lock the framerate back to 60 if you want to complete it.

I confirm the game has issues if you do not lock the fps at 60. The only example off the top of my head is a mission where you have to tap the space bar quickly to lift yourself up in a helicopter. If your fps is above 60 you can tap as fast as you want, you are not getting up and are soft-locked from progress. After hours of googling the only easy workaround I found was enabling v-sync and using an old 60hz monitor - this caps the framerate at the monitor's refresh rate.

actually vanilla max settings only does so much and fusionfix can help the game get closer to a remaster graphics wise