Ask a question » GTA IV lags

Issue

Well I'm wondering why's GTA IV is so slow for me. I'm running it on Windows Vista Ultimate, on a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3.0Ghz), with 3GB of Ram, and I have an Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT (512 Mb).

I know it is recommended to have a 8600GT, but still, it is a 512MB video card. It even lags when using 800x600 and eveything lowered to none or 0 in the configuration.

Solution

• Go to The nVidia Control Panel and go to Manage 3d settings
• Then turn Anisotrophic Filtering OFF
• and set Antialiasing Transparency to Multi Sampling
• Antialiasing Setting to 2x
• Texture Filtering Quality to High Performance
• Texture Filtering -Trilinear Optimisation to ON
• Texture Filtering -Negative LOD bias to ALLOW
• Threaded Optimisation ON
• Vertical Sync and Triple Buffering ON
• Change these Settings . The Performance Will definitely Improve. It Worked For Me .