GTA IV: How to increase your FPS

[Matthias]

Hi,

If you run everything on low and you still get a shitty FPS, you can use this "tool" I found. I increased mine from 20-25 to 40-45 using it. It allows you to play on a lower resolution than the ingame minimum (800x600) and uses more video memory.

1) Go to your main GTA IV directory

Standard for Steam users: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV

2) Make a file called commandline.txt in that folder.

Paste this into it:

Code:

-width 512
-height 384
-refreshrate 60
-availablevidmem 5.00
-nomemrestrict
-novblank
-fullscreen

3) Go ingame

4) Go to your graphics options -> turn Definition on (otherwise it'll look REALLY shitty).

5) Enjoy!

It looks like this:



Of course it doesn't look great, but the game is more enjoyable like this for me.

[Weezy]

Nice

[Tuism]

would that work with 512MB ram and Pentium4 ?

[Rien]

would that work with 512MB ram and Pentium4 ?

If you can walk on water, then it could work.

[Hitman]

Playing in 512x384?

I play with 10.54-times the pixels )

[LilBoy]

Thnk you Matt going to try this!

[Agent]

w00t how is it possible to play with 512x384?  ..im playing on 1680 X 1050 tried to play on 800 X 600 but thats just fuck the game up .

[tBKwtWS]

I also have a commandline.txt.[code=commandline.txt]-norestrictions -availablevidmem 1.0 -nomemrestrict -percentvidmem 100[/code]Without this line and with an active event logger my game used to lag horribly.
But with this line I can play the game smoothly on the maximum resolution.

[taylors]

Hi,

If you run everything on low and you still get a shitty FPS, you can use this "tool" I found. I increased mine from 20-25 to 40-45 using it. It allows you to play on a lower resolution than the ingame minimum (800x600) and uses more video memory.

1) Go to your main GTA IV directory

Standard for Steam users: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\grand theft auto iv\GTAIV

2) Make a file called commandline.txt in that folder.

Paste this into it:

Code:

-width 512
-height 384
-refreshrate 60
-availablevidmem 5.00
-nomemrestrict
-novblank
-fullscreen

3) Go ingame

4) Go to your graphics options -> turn Definition on (otherwise it'll look REALLY shitty).

5) Enjoy!

It looks like this:



Of course it doesn't look great, but the game is more enjoyable like this for me.

Nice thanks! What are your graphics settings in the game?

[DeLiC]

1980x1080 win