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Hey guys i dont know what to do my non existant wife told me to get a morbillion likes and rewards and to lie that she would give me a zillion dollars rtx 6090 ryzen 42000 for it even tho she wouldn't give me ♥♥♥♥ cuz she doesn't exist and im not married.

Imagine shutting down projects because they can do better games than you. Gaming isnt about fun anymore, its about money. It sucks. Back to walking simulator 2023.

Great Job making CoD even worse by having every CoD use this one as a platform.

This game is great or fun but it lacks something that doesnt get players to stay. I don't know what that something is but I guess it lacks enough dynamic updates and events that make people play this game over others.

Ever since they removed and readded this to steam although they slightly improved performance there still are a lot of issues as you can easily see in the reviews.

The game itself is one of the best (if not the best) grand theft auto ever. The story is realistic, immersive, dark, and gives a huge message at the end.

The graphics may not be the best considering some games from 2008 looked better, but the ambience is what makes this game up. This game has a dark brownish atmosphere that perfectly fits with the dark theme of the story and the game itself. And if still not enough for whatever reason then just add mods assuming your machine can run them. The physics are great and realistic but slightly exaggerated at times. Really appreciate the huge attention to detail, the things to do around the map, and the life of the game.

Also this is a repost from a steam user in a review but people need to see how to improve performance:

Originally posted by JayWard:

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.

Alright, rant over. I genuinely hope this helps you as it helped me because everyone deserves to experience this gem of a game free of issues.

UPDATE:
FYI for G-SYNC and/or FREESYNC users - according to other users, dxvk does NOT WORK with any monitors with said tech as they have been known to cause issues since early development, issues that apparently have little hope of being fixed given the base code and state. This according to Laurel's comment below. Thanks to him for pointing this out.

How weird, better performance on steam version than on origin version.

It's just terrible. Terrible gameplay. Graphics look copy pasted from a random mobile game. Pay to win. Boring missions. Not recommended at all

I recommend it for a new player but its getting boring

meh its okay, dont expect to have fun like in the youtube videos you used to watch about this game in 2017