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Nvidia offers videocard drivers specifically for Grand Theft Auto IV
You don't see this very often (but neither do you see a game that sells as well as Grand Theft Auto IV very often): Nvidia has posted beta drivers specifically for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV. I couldn't find these going through the beta drivers on their main download page, but it's prominently featured on nZone, their gaming section.
For what it's worth, I've been playing Grand Theft Auto IV on my PC with zero problems. Since the game's release, there's a fair amount of hue and cry about the installation process, the copy protection, graphics glitches, yadda yadda yadda. As is the case with Spore, I suspect a lot of this has to do with the popularity of the game. If a thousand people are playing a game, ten people who have a problem aren't going to make much noise. But if a million people are playing a game, ten thousand people who have a problem are going to raise an internet cacophony. In both cases, the game works for 99% of its users, which isn't a bad success rate by any metric.
So while I don't mean to discount what a pain it must be for those having problems, my experience has been that Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC works just fine, even before these special drivers were available.
By Mark | Retroblique at 8:54 PM ON 12/07/08
I tried this beta driver and it actually gave me a slower framerate. (E8400/2GB/9800GTX+/X-Fi/Vista32)
I guess the only thing to do is try it for yourself -- some people are getting an improvement, some people are getting poorer performance. There doesn't seem to be any common denominator within either group.
By BobJustBob at 9:10 PM ON 12/07/08
ATI should release a beta patch that replaces the game with Saints Row 2.
By Thrishmal at 11:47 PM ON 12/07/08
I wish I could even get into the game. I keep getting the stupid SecuLauncher 2000 error >.<
By thor79 at 2:34 AM ON 12/08/08
It was fine for some...not for all. My system runs the game fine...but was experiencing frequent crashes...making it basically unplayable. It would crash just often enough that most of the time I wouldn't be able to complete a mission fully...sometimes even more frequent than that. This made it extremely frustrating. That is until I found what seems to be command line parameters that have solved my crashing. I'm not exactly sure why but the crashes just haven't happened since I started using the parameters: "-norestrictions -nomemrestrict -novblank -percentvidmem 100 -DX9 /high" I get more pop-in and slower loading textures I think due to the use of high res textures...but it no longer crashes every 5 minutes. I'm holding off on these beta drivers as I like to be able to play other games and I want to hear the results on this for others before I take the jump.
I don't know what it is but the quality of games has gone down....more of them crash frequently on release it seems...happened with this, Fallout 3, and Left 4 Dead (which didn't crash with the demo). Some might point a finger at my system but it seems to be happening to more than just me...a lot of major releases are experiencing frequent crashes...perhaps it's just the quality of drivers that has gone down?
By roBurky at 5:29 AM ON 12/08/08
Most 3Dgames I've bought in the past year have had nvidia drivers released specifically for them. It seems quite common to me.
By william at 7:02 PM ON 04/06/09
hey ty
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