| GTA IV on PC - Cannot run well on high texture detail | | Hi, when running GTA IV on high texture detail, most of the background textures do not load in straight away (or some appear very blurry) and may take up to 30 seconds to be shown. Textures include buildings, posts and roads as shown in the screenshots below:http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephanie.mirza/GTA%20IV%20Missing%20Textures%202.jpg
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stephanie.mirza/GTA%20IV%20Missing%20Textures%201.jpgAfter doing some commandline.txt tweaks as shown here:-fullscreen
–novblank
-norestrictions
-nomemrestrictThe game runs really smooth (35-50fps) with details on high (over 60 draw distance etc) and textures appear much faster than without the tweak, but objects and textures now pop up at you out of no where and many of the textures still take a while to load.When adding "-availablevidmem 1.95" (anything over 2.0 crashes my game when Niko leaves his appartment room) to the commandline.txt file, the textures load in fast and good but the frame rates are not smooth. Often it would go from 25 to 15fps and major stuttering appears. Lowering things like draw distance and draw detail from say 60 to 25 does not improve the fps much at all, with only... | |
| | Should I get an HDTV? | | I'm looking into getting an HDTV to replace my old TV.But
I'm not sure if I'm better off with an HDTV. I use basic
standard def cable and am hesitant to get the digital HD
package because I use a Home Theatre PC to watch cable.. I
use BeyondTV, and have a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 (dual tuner
card), and a PNY VCG62128APB GeForce 6200 video card which has a DVI output.So I would have standard def going through the computer and have it come out the DVI to the HDTV.I use the computer for watching TV, videos, and DVDs so if the card would up convert and look good on a HDTV I would be all set,but if the DVI output won't give a great picture then there's no real reason to get a HDTV.
I live in Lincoln, NE and there are some HD channels over the air so I would get an over the air tuner so I could watch those in HD. I did some googling on the video card and didn't see much talk about how the card outputs to a HDTV. | |
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