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Grand Theft Auto IV save game location

Oct26
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Stuart Clark

In order to backup your save games for Grand Theft Auto IV on the PC you will need to backup two different folders, this is due to the game using the Games for Windows Live system.

Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Rockstar Games

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\MicrosoftXLive

Windows Vista/7

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\MicrosoftXLive

NB: These are the default folder locations, if you have a different location it can be found by typing %LOCALAPPDATA% into Windows Explorer.

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Grand Theft Auto IV

Oct24
2009 Leave a Comment Written by Stuart Clark
Grand Theft Auto IV is the latest instalment in the long running Grand Theft Auto series, and uses a brand new game engine to transport you to Liberty City the Grand Theft Auto universe’s version of New York complete with an Statue of Liberty knockoff.

You play as Niko Bellic, a war veteran from a Eastern European country who is trying to track down the person responsible for crossing him during the war. As with most Grand Theft Auto games the story is good but is mainly an excuse to hang a series of missions from. I found the missions to be a lot simpler then when compared to previous entries in the series but it took just as long to complete.

The PC version is a very demanding game on your machine, since release a series of patches have helped solve some of the problems, but you will still need a beast of a PC to see it at its best, especially when running under Vista where 3GB plus of RAM is recommended.
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Grand Theft Auto IV command line options

Jan17
2009 1 Comment Written by Stuart Clark

Below is a list of various command line options that can be used with Grand Theft Auto IV (4) (external link) on the PC:

Tools

-benchmark Runs the benchmark tool and exits the game
-help Displays a list of command line options

Graphics

-renderquality

(0-4)

-shadowdensity (0-16)
-texturequality (0-2)
-viewdistance (0-99)
-detailquality

(0-99)

-novblank Disable vsync
-norestrictions Do not limit graphic settings within the game
-width  
-height  
-safemode Runs the graphics in the lowest setting possible
-frameLimit

Limits frames to a multiple of the refresh rate

i.e. if your refresh rate is 60Hz then setting this to 1 would locks the frame limit at 60

-refreshrate  
-fullscreen  
-windowed  
-availablevidmem Set amount of available physical video memory
-percentvidmem Percentage of video memory available to the game

Audio

-fullspecaudio Force high-end CPU audio
-minspecaudio Force low-end CPU audio

System

-noprecache Disable the precaching of resources
-nomemrestrict Disable memory restrictions

You can these commands easily by creating a commandline.txt file within your default GTA IV install folder (the default is C:Program FilesRockstar GamesGrand Theft Auto IV), put each command on its own line to run multiple commands at once.

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