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[Dox]

Some users are reporting missing textures in GTA IV.
Heres a fix for Nvidia users:

You dont need to uninstall your current drivers.
Download Rivatuner 2.20 and the option to resest graphic driver settings to default.
If you are not sure how to do this read the Rivatuner documentation.
Restart the system when prompted.

Now load the game and textures should be back to normal!!
I recommend you use drivers 180.70 or 180.48.
I tested this on my own drivers and this workaround works

Do not change 3D settings within Rivatuner after this point
Only change them within the nvidia control panel or by way of regedit.

Hope this works for you.


thanks zed for the pic!

[Galdere]

I posted about this on Weds\Thurs. :-)

Also see how to get the command line options to work if you are having problems, in my second post:

http://forums.laptop...art=#entry98136

[Dox]

thanks mate will post news now

[amirulrudy12]

mate u still have missing texture because u have only 128mb of vram
Minimum

* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4Ghz
* Memory: 1.5GB
* Free Hard Drive Space: 16GB
* Video Card: 256MB NVidia 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900
* DirectX 9 compatible Stereo Sound Card
* Keyboard
* Mouse

Edited by amirulrudy12, 05 December 2008 - 09:01 PM.

[Mushu]

Some guy played it on 8400m GS w/128mb and it works.
http://www.gtaforums...howtopic=379667

Edited by Shaythong, 05 December 2008 - 10:45 PM.

[box13]

Some users are reporting missing textures in GTA IV.
Heres a fix for Nvidia users:

You dont need to uninstall your current drivers.
Download Rivatuner 2.20 and the option to resest graphic driver settings to default.
If you are not sure how to do this read the Rivatuner documentation.
Restart the system when prompted.

Now load the game and textures should be back to normal!!
I recommend you use drivers 180.70 or 180.48.
I tested this on my own drivers and this workaround works

Do not change 3D settings within Rivatuner after this point
Only change them within the nvidia control panel or by way of regedit.

Hope this works for you.

how can i do that i have read the rivatuner documentation but i can't find how to do that please answer me

[SizZLeR]

First of all resetting the vdrv settings cant be called a real fix and never the less why it works for some ppl might be because their settings simply arent compatible with the game, not because theyre experiencing real driver issues.

Also it seems like someone here cant see the screendumps of rivatuner where it shows how to reset the gfx drv to default settings:
"On the 'Main'-tab under 'Driver Settings' click where it says 'Customize', then select the 5th option/icon (to the far right) in the menu and thats it."

In addition u dont need rivatuner to reset your drivers settings, its easily done from within the nForce driver from nVidia (how odd it might seem nVidia actually thought of putting such a feature in their driver software). LOL


Finally it says in the readme for theg ame that this issue shd be related to GF79 series, however im using 2xGF88 and have a bad situation of missing textures, also i believe the driver for the 7- series are the same as for the 8-series, so no wonder it doesnt work.

I did try the rivatuner reset thing, not that i believed it would make any difference apart from making sure my settings werent incompatible with the game, but u cant tell if a probable solution doesnt work until u try it, but yet it didnt work ofcourse.

So i downloaded the 180.84 drv from nZone that is said to fix the issue temporarily and that didnt work either and no its not due to sli config as i have disabled sli also.

Besides the problem with the textures not working i get a crash with fatal error when i try to set the resolution in game, but i dont see a lot of ppl on the net reporting that, but they report all other sorts of errors though.

Its disappointing how poorly this game works, as far as i can see tons of ppl cant get it to work at all or at least its messed up in several ways..... *sighs*

[mapster]

Sizzler

its for sure not a 100% fix just a quick startup/goaround until they release the real patch and fix/driver, im using 2x 7900GT and have still some issues after gettings this masterpiece :-) of work to run with this new beta driver. I got around 30 FPS but cant see the text in the menu screen and my radar dissapears after a while...cheers

[Corrosive]

Sizzler

its for sure not a 100% fix just a quick startup/goaround until they release the real patch and fix/driver, im using 2x 7900GT and have still some issues after gettings this masterpiece :-) of work to run with this new beta driver. I got around 30 FPS but cant see the text in the menu screen and my radar dissapears after a while...cheers

dox' trick worked.

Gaggin for the modded inf to make its way here, i'm hearing good things from the people who've managed to install the original version.

used GPU-Z to find device ID and have modded the inf with that line further up, will restart and give the game another go

EDIT2: New driver works like a charm, vast improvement.

Edited by Corrosive, 06 December 2008 - 11:13 PM.

[Franzuu]

dox' trick worked.

Gaggin for the modded inf to make its way here, i'm hearing good things from the people who've managed to install the original version.

used GPU-Z to find device ID and have modded the inf with that line further up, will restart and give the game another go

EDIT2: New driver works like a charm, vast improvement.

can't wait for dox to release his version

[LaMe]

I have one problem..... I Have put means game I play minutes 5 and start brakes(FPS 3-5) of seconds on 30 and so every time, both the weakest and on the strongest Config. (from MP throws out)... .
P.S. Game does not produce to me more than 20-23 FPS
My Config
Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T9400 @ 2.53GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
4GB RAM
Nvidia Driver 180.84 .(i change Inf File)
Vista sp1 32&64bit
Sory for my bad english.

Edited by LaMe, 07 December 2008 - 07:18 PM.

[axis09]

this fix deosnt work for me, damn nothing works for me

[idro]

If I do this what will happen? Ill loose overclock and what more?

[Andrew55]

As far as most drivers go your 7 series card is no longer supported by the manufacturer's inf and therefore, lv2go's inf is what you need for these drivers to work. Try the modded inf and see .you can find it in the driver page.