Grand Theft Auto 4 is notorious for its awful performance on PC. Even on this day, the game performs horribly in its default/vanilla version. However, there is currently a way via which you can get smooth 60fps in GTA 4 without any annoying stuttering.
Now the reason I’m sharing this is because a lot of people may want to replay this game, now that Grand Theft Auto 6 is on the horizon. So, if you are one of them and want a smooth gaming experience, you should run GTA IV with DXVK.
YouTube’s ‘TJGM’ has shared the following comparison video between the game’s default DX9 Mode and DXVK. And, as you will see, DXVK is able to run GTA 4 smoothly at 60fps and without any stuttering.
This can be easily observed during the NoClip Test. In this particularly demanding scenario, the DX9 performance is all over the place. Seriously, the game is unplayable. By switching to DXVK, though, PC gamers can actually get a fully playable, enjoyable, and stutter-free experience.
To be honest, I’m a bit shocked by these results. Numerous people have claimed that DXVK can fix traversal stutters and shader compilation stutters. However, in some of the recent games that I’ve tried DXVK, I didn’t see any meaningful differences.
From the looks of it, DXVK can be transformative in really old DX9 games. And, since Grand Theft Auto 4 came out in a pretty awful state on PC, it greatly benefits from it.
You can download DXVK from here.
Speaking of GTA 4, here are some other cool mods for it. This mod restores the game’s multiplayer experience and it’s a must-have. Moreover, there is also a cool mod that adds to the game vehicles from 1950-1993 and a New York City Name-Conversion Mod. GTA IV Ultimately Beautiful Edition is a 7.8GB mod pack, aiming to overhaul the game’s graphics. And lastly, this mod overhauls the main playable protagonists.
Enjoy!
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DXVK also worked great for me in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
This is old news. Fixing gta 4 with dxvk has been the only solution so far for quite some time.
That’s some rather dated hardware. Wonder if similar gains can be had with a more modern system. Just reinstalled this myself but have yet to play it again.
The multiplayer restoration mod sounds promising though I’ve struggled getting mods to nit crash this game in the past and always ended up sticking with the vanilla experience.
might want to remove the bit about GTA IV Ultimately Beautiful Edition – the download for that has been removed for years.
DXVK is a must for radeon GPU to play dx11 games. especially ubisoft games, i dunno whats deals ubisost and nvidia had backdoor but dx11 enhanched ubisoft games perform worst on amd gpu. i use gtx 1060 6gb since it released, and i managed to play AC odyssey on medium-high with constan 60 fps on 1080p. last year i upgrade to AMD RX 6600xt. its gave me double fps comparing to 1060 with same setting on games like PUBG, overwatch, MHW, etc. but when im playing AC odyssey i got WORSE performance. i’ve verify the games on steam even reinstall the game and my windows but stil got stutter and low gpu utilization. use dxvk and now i got more than 100fps even with highest setting. same scenario happened when im playing immortal fenix and ghost recon wildlands. sadly eac refuse to work with custom dll so i had to disable it and cant play wildlands with my buddy
Thanks, but like many said this is really old news! I’ve been using DXVK with GTA4 for at least a year now.
Also don’t play GTA4 with > 60fps, it breaks animations/physics, and AI…game was not meant to be played with > 60fps.
I played at 72 FPS (half of my screen 144 Hz maximum sync and its totally fine as far as my experience
This has been known for a long time afaik, DXVK Async also much more reccommended to reduce early stutter before shader fully compiled
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Woah!
I’ll download this shït pronto!
Thanks for the heads up, John, I was looking for some cool “old games” to play and this one will do.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b98cb7731fc1b07bcaec09c3c56fb884ddaf80c250283d024f6689c5df1b46e.jpg
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Github page doesn’t explain usage in Windows and is tailored to Linux / Wine.
Thankfully this post in reddit is of help
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/mlfcsc/a_guide_to_dxvk_on_windows/
Seems to mainly be, just copy dll’s to game folder