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I legit forgot how fun GTA 4 could be until I setup my own dedicated GTA 4 server for PC and was just driving around fucking about. I remember hating the driving once I played GTA 5, but it's actually fun. If anyone wants to play it online on PC again I highly recommend GTA Connected. It works with 3, Vice City, San Andreas, and 4.

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man I'm glad I rarely bother going back to GTA online

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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

MOTHERFUCK now I have to get a ps 35 or whatever it is so I can play it. Cuz I just realized - that whole map is modeleed after southern Florida.

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I've been playing GTA4 on PC. It's hard to believe it still runs so poorly 14 years later. All it would take is a little patch to fix it.

Anyhoo, I've got it running pretty well using DXVK and turning off pre-caching. You have to drive around for a bit to let it cache everything but after that, no more stuttering.

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Dr. Zoidberg wrote: Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:14 pm I've been playing GTA4 on PC. It's hard to believe it still runs so poorly 14 years later. All it would take is a little patch to fix it.

Anyhoo, I've got it running pretty well using DXVK and turning off pre-caching. You have to drive around for a bit to let it cache everything but after that, no more stuttering.
Weird, I was playing it recently and thought it held up pretty well, wasn't having any issues like that but I think I did play with a couple in game settings first.

I also setup my own dedicated GTA4 server now that you can't play it online anymore. It was surprisingly easy to do, I just had no one to test with. Just some rando guy who joined and I chased him in my helicopter for a bit :olol:

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:olol:

I played it years ago on my laptop and it ran fine. Maybe it's just certain hardware combos it doesn't like.

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And it's been over 9 years since they released a new GTA game.

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GTA V Update 1.004 Patch Notes

- Addition of ray-traced reflections for PS5 and Xbox Series
- Los Santos Drug Wars update
- Various bug fixes








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oh boy, I aint been back into GTA online for ages, even more reason to avoid now is it drops out of passive

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well it aint free but it is cheap

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