So for the last few days I've had this really annoying stutter in my game, and I've tried everything and can't figure it out. Posting it in this dead Help & Support place is my last ditch effort to try and fix this. It happens in both my EFLC and GTA IV. I've tried different commandlines, graphics card settings, messing with stream.ini, setting CPU priority, capping the framerate, f.cking around with different in-game settings and I've gotten no difference. Here is what I have in my commandline so far:-nomemrestrict-norestrictions-noprecache-availablevidmem 4.0And yep, doesn't do a damn thing.This is really starting to piss me off so if anyone here somehow solves this you would be my god. My PC specs and OS are in my profile if needed.
That's incredible: practically we have the same build (i5 4440 + GTX 970 + 16 GB RAM)!At what resolution do you play? I play in 1080p with all the option maxed out except the Night shadows (Off), View and Detail Distance (20%) and Vehicle Density (50%). Whit this config I can play GTA 4 and EFLC at 60 FPS in most areas.As @TWISTOFHATE said, it's useless to use the commandline if you're on the latest version of the game, it could help only on lower patches (like 1.0.4.0, 1.0.0.4, 1.0.3.0 etc.).In the near future I'll upgrade my i5 4440 to a brand new i5 8600K, I noticed that in CPU demanding games I have a lot of stuttering and sometimes my GPU is a bit bottlenecked. Wow, I actually got responses in here?
That's wild.Anyways, I should have added more detail. As I said, I already messed around with the graphics options, but I usually have my game with shadows on high and night shadows completely off, as well as vehicle, detail, and view density on 50. I also use and have always used the 1.0.7.0 version of the game and don't plan to change that since its always worked, and I notice zero performance difference with any other patch.
Also, to be more specific with the stutter, it usually drops like 5-8 frames every few seconds. I tested with RivaTuner and my framerate is at a constant 60 for 5 seconds max before something makes it spike down to 53 FPS and then come immediately back up. This makes things like aiming with a sniper and using the computer mouse basically impossible.What do you mean by 'don't use commandline'?
Like any commands specifically? Because if I just don't use commandline at all then I can't change the game settings from the absolute lowest settings unless if I use patch 8, but then I lose a lot of mod support. I need to at least use -nomemrestrict and -norestrictions.Speaking on bottlenecking, I would think that this was a hardware issue, except it runs fine with no stutter in any other game. This is so strange as this was running perfectly fine a few weeks ago. Maybe a Windows update f.cked up GTA IV in particular? I don't know. If I was at my PC right now I would do some more detective work on that.
Thanks for the help! Edited May 20, 2018 by zanesix. If you're using Windows 10, 8 or 8.1, the 1.0.7.0 version might be the problem. With that version you must use commandline because the game can't recognize the right amount of VRAM of your GPU, while in the latest version there isn't this problem. With the 1.0.8.0 patch they've also made the newest OSs fully compatible with the game:If you want to update GTA IV and you've the Steam version, just download from that link the update and install it manually, so you won't lose half of the soundtrack. And if you have a bit of free space on your HDD, backup the entire folder, so you can run some benchmarks or do tests: if you think there isn't so much difference between 1.0.7.0 and 1.0.8.0, you can roll back easilly!Another tip that I can give you is to decrease the% of view distance and detail distance down to 20%, if I set those options at that amount I experience a lot of stuttering, especially when I move the camera.
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For me these 2 options are the 'heaviest' ones, probably even more than 'Very high Shadows'!Of course the same could be told for EFLC (in the link you can download 1.1.3.0 patch too).