About time...updating now. See how it is

The patch promised by Rockstar for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has now been released. Start up GTA IV and connect to LIVE to initiate the download. The patch is 32.6MB and will take a few minutes to install. It should fix the following issues:

• A fix to the crash after legal screen that some German customers were reporting.
  
• Numerous improvements to the video editor: Smarter naming of videos, improved rendering quality, better fx during replays.
  
• Fix to bowling while using certain sensitive mice.
  
• Fix for ATI 1900 shadows.
  
• Overall savings to memory.
  
• Graphic improvements to particle systems and mirrors.
  
• Multiplayer character settings are preserved.
  
• Support for DirectInput controllers.
  

Let us know if it's helped improve things for you in our forums.

Thanks to gamerzworld for the heads up.

Did it bollocks fix anything it only made my game worse i have no ammo signs no ingame sound wot so eva etc etc.. its even worse, i saw the same thing at steam forums

well at first it made my game crash because of the mods i had on it then when i reinstalled, not much changed from before.. maybe like 3fps increase, but that's about it. nothing negative nothing positive on my end.

Probably just me but I'm not seeing any difference. Maybe but still too minor.

Iv just recently bought the game but havent installed it. When i install it i wont have to get the patch will i? iv got real bad net and cant get the patch if its more than 35MB's in size.

You'll still have to download the patch, they just released it today so I don't think they will include it in the game.

specs:

nvidia 9800 gtx

amd athlon 64 6400+ 3.4 ghz dual core

4gigs corsair dominator 1066 mhz

windows vista x64

this setup will dominate most games without question except GTA IV

before the patch i got 15-25 fps usually around 20, playable but not ideal, what i would give to have the FPS i get when i'm in the tunnel over to the last island (45-60), it's so silky smooth i go out of my way to take the tunnel rather then the bridge.

now i've just gotten the patch and guess what, i'm still getting the same fps but now i gave a couple bugs to work around to get it to look like it did before.

here are my graphics settings:

1920*1200 (doesn't make much of a difference if it's lower)

textures mid (setting to high causes textures to load very slowly as i drive around)

view distance about 30 (before patch this made little difference visually, now unless you have it pretty fine tuned it seems cause problems with LOD)

shodow slider makes no difference visually or on my FPS so i leave it at 1

i will also mention that i'm using a PlayStation to USB adapter as my game pad. works perfect for any other game but this one. i dont know why R* decided to leave out custom mapping for gamepads but i think it is simply lame and lazy.

the game also likes to shoot my view to looking straight up unless i unplug my controller when i start the game and plug it back in after the game is loaded so i can use a 3rd party program called "xpadder" to map joystick controls to

keyboard and mouse input.

also, i run the game with the current command line input just to make sure it's using my computers full potential:

-norestrictions -nomemrestrict -novblank –availablevidmem 1 -percentvidmem 100 -dx9

looks like we get to wait for yet another patch

I mean "have to get" as in do i have to get it even though i will probably do it later on.

I mean "have to get" as in do i have to get it even though i will probably do it later on.

you should be able to skip it as long as you make an offline live account in game.

How do i make an offline account? wouldnt it need to confirm it or something?

How do i make an offline account? wouldnt it need to confirm it or something?

when you go to make your live account just click offline account, it will also make saves local rather then on the live servers. the activation and confirmation is different

Did you ever played TrackMania? It's like that.

I was up late last night and when I signed in it told me to update to the patch, I dled but I thought, leme check a board first, sure enough gamers at GTAF were also having problems, glitches, something about a spacenavigator or something ....

Its sounding abit more to me like possibly some additional "securom" or something since ppl w/ mods are having problems which sux.. I've been enjoying tinkering w/ mods, I did one las night where the cops were apparently showing up as peds ?? And when I rammed a cop car, there was a female ped in it, so I'm still tinkering w/ stuff like that..

When did they allow this offline account saving ? I remember reading in their texts something like "..single player progess is always tracked.." or something to that extent so I never knew any other way...hmm

after the patch the fraps overlay no longer shows

they did not add extra anti theft protection. i play a cracked version on my retail game cause i don't like securom practices. i was able to use the same crack before and after.

Is there anyway to avoid downloading the patch?. Its sucks that fraps wont work on it, i was really looking forward to using some pic's for new sig's.

They need to realease a Low graphics GTAIV for PS2 and PC, because not everyone has a PS3 or a fast PC. My PC was very very fast for its time 3 years ago, Toshiba Satelite, 1 GB ram, Windows XP SP2 (Upgraded to SP3 via update), lots of expensive programs, graphics drivers here and there.......

Now its just "Too old" and "Too slow" for modern next gen pile of fancy s**t.

Curse you Rockstar, Curse you Playstation, Curse you people who update everything before we pay for the existing tech!!!!! F**K!!!

Lol anyway..

I actually have more than whats required but i only have 1.0GB RAM but its because it pretty full of stuff. How can i boost up my RAM? i know it can go to 2GB.

What OS are you using? If Vista, you can plug in a pen drive and use WindowsBooster. (or w/e)

ive noticed a very slight framerate increase, every little helps

Will this patch fix the missing textures bug? iv got it real bad. The interior of my apartment is ok but when i go out side... ITS BLUE SKY HELL! all i see is street poles and cars and people and a few buildings but that it, no roads. Anyone know how to fix this?

This is gettin really annoying. The patch for Live(pc) wont even finish. It downloads and sits at the end with nothing happening. tried this multiple times and still nothing. Any ideas?

Download the manual install version from our database, linked in the first post.

The patch fixed all my missing texture problems. But my fps is nothing to party over, 5-8 fps outside and 7-12 inside . Hope the next patch if they make one will help. I DO have the new drivers but they didnt make much of a difference.