Vista - GTA IV and SLI

**luckystar** · 02-11-2009

Hi,

Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI.

Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0.

And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true.

Thanks for the heads up.

**Majkel** · 02-11-2009

AFAIK GTA 4 doesn't support SLI... yet. So basically this is why you had no luck with it. Right now it doesn't matter which driver version you use, although the 180.84 seems to work best with new GTA.

**MrNeeds** · 02-12-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by luckystar

Hi,

Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI.

Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0.

And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true.

Thanks for the heads up.

the 181.22 drivers work perfectly with GTAIV, me and everlong were fiddling with the settings a while back and got some quite surprising results, The SLI though, just set one of your cards as a physx card and that should at least take some of the load off one card and you should see some performance increase.
thread here GTA 4 Minimum Requirements
look at page 9.

Reshadinho · 02-15-2009

Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me?

**MrNeeds** · 02-15-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Reshadinho

Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me?

by disabling some of your graphics cards features, and reducing options in game, eg/ detail distance and texture quality, your game will run smoother. The resource usage counter gives a representation of how much resources are being used with the current settings.
see attachment.

02-11-2009	#1 (permalink)
luckystar Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Build 6001 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RC Build 7100 33 posts	GTA IV and SLI Hi, Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI. Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0. And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true. Thanks for the heads up.
My System Specs

02-11-2009	#2 (permalink)
Majkel Windows 7 Ultimate x64 118 posts	Re: GTA IV and SLI AFAIK GTA 4 doesn't support SLI... yet. So basically this is why you had no luck with it. Right now it doesn't matter which driver version you use, although the 180.84 seems to work best with new GTA.
My System Specs

02-12-2009	#3 (permalink)
MrNeeds Vista Home Premium x64 1,179 posts	Re: GTA IV and SLI Quote: Originally Posted by luckystar Hi, Problem is, I installed the latest drivers for my 8800 Ultra 768mb, and i have installed the latest patch (1.0.02 or what ever its called, the latest one basicly) and but have no luck with SLI. Do i need to roll back to the driver Nvidia 180.84, bare in mind i have had hardly any probs with the game since installing the latest drivers form Nvidia(part form some lag and chopines - but will be overclocking my quad form 2.5 to 3.0. And on the same lines, i think i heard a rumor that you can edit the registry or something and it will work - does anyone know if this is true. Thanks for the heads up. the 181.22 drivers work perfectly with GTAIV, me and everlong were fiddling with the settings a while back and got some quite surprising results, The SLI though, just set one of your cards as a physx card and that should at least take some of the load off one card and you should see some performance increase. thread here GTA 4 Minimum Requirements look at page 9. Last edited by MrNeeds; 02-12-2009 at 01:11 AM..
My System Specs

02-15-2009	#4 (permalink)
Reshadinho x64 1 posts	Re: GTA IV and SLI Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me?
My System Specs

02-15-2009	#5 (permalink)
MrNeeds Vista Home Premium x64 1,179 posts	Re: GTA IV and SLI Quote: Originally Posted by Reshadinho Hello friends, alltough having a Toshiba satellite a200-28s with 2gb ram, Ati radeon 2600- 512mb, core 2duo 2.00ghs, I play GTA4 in low perfomance if I increase the perfomance in the Grapichs (Options) The game will go on smoothly. can anyone explain it to me? by disabling some of your graphics cards features, and reducing options in game, eg/ detail distance and texture quality, your game will run smoother. The resource usage counter gives a representation of how much resources are being used with the current settings. see attachment. Attached Thumbnails
My System Specs