kt88seamp

I tested a 4850 (my current card) in crossfire. I also on a separate occasion tested a 4870 x2 with the same ugly results. And as i said before GTA4 runs fine with my current card with the settings lower than max. I am looking at the single 4870 with 2GB of ram so I can up all the settings.

A single is not the same as a double. I tried both a crossfire and a double card, same sort of thing. I even one time had the card in my system (a middle of the road 4850) right now in a crossfire and GTA 4 did not like it! GTA 4 does not like doubles, which is a problem Rockstar must fix!

I am shopping for a new graphics card. I am looking to turn all the detail settings up as high as they will go, at a resolution of 1680 x 1050, in GTA 4. I have tried both an ATI X2 card and an ATI crossfire configuration. They both made the game perform horribly. I have learned that you need at least 1.5GB of video ram to turn the draw distance all the way up to 100. This Newegg link contains a card I am looking at. I looks promising, but I want to run it by you guys before I dig out the MasterCard. The specs of my system are: - 800 watt Antec PSU - Gigabyte X48-DS5 motherboard (brand new) - Intel Quad Core 2.66 GhZ - 3GB DDR2 1200 RAM - 80GB hard drive (space is not important for me, I use removable drives for storage) - LG DVD/RW drive - Sound Blaster X-FI PCI sound card - Linksys wireless G PCI card At present I am running this graphics card (newegg link) in my system. It plays GTA 4 well with most of the settings well above medium, but still not near the max.