Windows 7 & GTA IV

[Joey Black]

Hello!

I have a problem. I installed Windows 7 in January 2010, few days ago, I installed GTA IV too, but the problem is, I have only 2GB RAM so the game goes preety slow, here is my specs:

ATI Radeon HD 4850 512mb
2GB RAM
Intel Pentium Dual Core 2.8Ghz

Now, what is the better solution?
1) Downgrade to XP
2) Buy more RAM

P.S If I decide to buy more RAM, can I just buy 1GB more or 3GB all in package? On XP GTA IV was going great cuz XP doesn't need a lot of RAM.

Thank You for help!

[[___]Whitetiger]

if you close most of your background processes you probably won't need to do either one.. what do your GTA IV video settings look like? benchmark too

[m0niSx]

i think improving your ram is more better

[bajorn BICH!]

Also, your cpu is starting to get old.. or actually it is!
You should considering buying a new processor too.

[Joey Black]

if you close most of your background processes you probably won't need to do either one.. what do your GTA IV video settings look like? benchmark too

Thanx, I closed the programs I dont need in the task manager, and it left me 1.5GB RAM, which is ok for GTA IV..It runs better!

[Jason2724]

Install the downgrader patch if it is tooo slow...

BTW how much FPS do you have? what settings?

[Joey Black]

Install the downgrader patch if it is tooo slow...

BTW how much FPS do you have? what settings?

Here is the video, I recorded it with Xfire, it shows you everything..

http://www.xfire.com/video/233ebe/


P.S Can you give me a link to this ''Downgrader patch'' ?

[John[92]]

Now, what is the better solution?
1) Downgrade to XP
2) Buy more RAM

I would do both, lol

[D_Unknown]

Now, what is the better solution?
1) Downgrade to XP
2) Buy more RAM

I would do both, lol

I wouldn't do any, Windows 7 is the future, and its pretty nice, the problem of your computer is the CPU, as GTA 4 is CPU intensive more than GPU. Get a better one.

[Andrei]

Umm buy a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz (better quad) processor or install windows xp. I have got windows vista and 2 GB ram and i have 20-30 Fps almost all the time.

[Eco]

Now, what is the better solution?
1) Downgrade to XP
2) Buy more RAM

I would do both, lol

I wouldn't do any, Windows 7 is the future, and its pretty nice, the problem of your computer is the CPU, as GTA 4 is CPU intensive more than GPU. Get a better one.

Windows 7 is the future, agreed. But I think it sucks a lot. I mean, it is awesome, I love it. In my Notebook it runs great, but not for gaming. It takes a lot of memory, and I wont use a computer using the No-Aero theme