EFLC and XFX 6950 2GB = Terrible Performance

[7earitup]

I recently bought the complete edition of Episodes from Liberty City which includes the original GTA4, The Lost and the Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony. My old GTX 260 used to play the game with no problems, but my new card (and recently added Q9950) gets terrible performance

Has anyone else had these issues? How do you fix it? I am lucky to get 30 FPS on recommended settings. I see people with less powerful machines running max settings.

What is going on here?

 

[WraithETC]

Between some of the patches they changed how shadows were rendered making the game even harder to run. I would experiment with taking down all the shadow settings to low and going from there. Certainly turn off night shadows all together.

 

[7earitup]

Between some of the patches they changed how shadows were rendered making the game even harder to run. I would experiment with taking down all the shadow settings to low and going from there. Certainly turn off night shadows all together.

Doesn't make much of a difference. It still has FPS drops and stuttering when driving around. Multiplayer is pretty much unplayable. Something is wrong game/driver-wise.

 

[lsv]

I bought that cheap pack on Steam as well, I find that my 5750 can play GTA 4 on high @ 720p with no issues... but my sound card keeps crashing. I've tried it on 3 PCs 2 of which have high end production sound cards and 1 with onboard Realtek, all machines had sound crash/cut out/drops. It's really annoying =\

 

[Jules]

Got the same issue with my 6950

 

[7earitup]

Well I am in talks with Rockstar support. I will be sure to post my findings to this thread.

 

[terry107]

Strange, using the rig in my sig, I did not have any problems with GTA IV - even after installing the iCEnhancer.