Greetings and Salutations GTA Community!!!
I was hopeing that someone may know some tips or tweaks I may be able to use to optimize my GTA 4. I am currently experiencing a lot of lag when it rains, not to where its unplayable, but driveing is rather difficult and all aound lag, just that when it rains I tend to go and save the game to bypass the time that its raining.
Windows vista home premium 32 bit OS
Intel pentium D 3.00 Ghz
2.00 GB RAM
Nvidia 8500 GT 256 MB DDR2
Like I said the game is playable, I've tried a tweak that allows me to turn the bloom effects down, but after doing so I noticed no real framerate increase. I shutdown as many processes in Taskmanager as I could and set GTA IV to "High Priority"
I assume my problem lie with the video card haveing only 256 MB of RAM. I am hopeing someone out there might be able to help me with a tweak or two.
I got to a mission where I had to chase some bikers through the subway and whilst rideing the bike in there the game plays real smooth, I assume thats because there isn't much to rnder in the tunnel, but thats the only taste of smooth gameplay I have witnessed thus far while playing the game.
I don't have the funds to upgrade my system and probably wont for awhile, my MOBO only has two slots for RAM and it wont do any good to get double Gig sticks as it only supports 2 Gb total. So tweaks or tips are my only option.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
~Riv