About The Grand Crossing:
Guys, please do yourself a favor and download Dxvk plugin for this game. It’s a Vulkan translation layer that has the potential to double your framerate. Yes, a program meant for Linux-to-Vulkan api makes GTA IV, a non-Vulkan game, run better on Windows – that’s what a disaster this games coding is. You simply download dxvk, go into the x32 folder located in the zip file and then cut/copy d3d9.dll and dxgi.dll and put them into your GTA IV directory (where the games .exe is located) My game is now a stable 60fps 90% of the time with all high settings and I’m one of those scrubs on a decade old AMD 8350. I do adaptive V-sync via the Nvidia Control Panel, for what it’s worth. The only downside, if you even use it, is that it disables the Steam overlay, but the Rockstar one remains active: so you’ll still see your delicious achievements pop when you get them. Also, if your game is stuck at only recognizing 512mb of Vram – an old issue I thought was fixed but is apparently back thanks to Rockstars general incompetence and apathy – simply add a commandline via Steam in the launch options for the game with your Vram amount. For example, “-availablevidmem 8192” if you have 8GB of Vram on your GPU. It’s hard to recommend this game without these improvements but once you get it running smoothly, you won’t be disappointed. It’s a travesty that we – as the consumer – have to jump through hoops and essentially do Rockstars job to make this game work well but those clowns have become a straight parody of themselves ever since GTA V online started making them half a billion a year. They’ve literally become one of the companies they would satirize in a GTA game, requiring their own customers to effectively do their programming just to make their game run adequately. It’s frankly disgusting but welcome to the video game industry in 2021.
