Posts Tagged ‘hardware’
Grand Theft Auto performance issues
If, like me, you experienced issues with rockstar’s latest release of their game Grand Theft Auto IV (if, you haven’t you can get it here from amazon, £24.99), you may have noticed that it probably doesn’t run all that hot on your machine (if it’s not at least dual core). First thing I would normally have done is tweak with the settings a little bit, but you might find that if you can play games like crisis, you would have thought that you’d be able to play GTAIV at a reasonable level of detail. It turns out that perhaps the settings levels allow for just too much detail to be rendered on-screen, making the game perform poorly on less powerful systems. In this case, I would suggest move the sliders all the way to the left (down to 1) and then try the game again. Read more »