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Best Video Drivers For GTAIV (Nvidia)

Posted on2010/01/25AuthorGame News

Forceware 196.21 Windows XP (32-bit WHQL) http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-196….nload-2457.html
Forceware 196.21 Windows 7 | Vista (32-bit WHQL) http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-196….nload-2458.html
Forceware 196.21 Windows 7 | Vista (64-bit WHQL) http://downloads.guru3d.com/Forceware-196….nload-2459.html

Despite the FPS listed in the results, I really felt a smoother game play, even with the settings set higher.
I did exit and run GPU-Z and found 52 degrees Celsius. a bit high. I mean all game play signs were smooth and even flowing
but after exiting, for the first time on this pc, it took longer than 2 seconds to open my start menu. So I think I may have been
running a bit hot. I will work on better cooling.

I also saw that the drivers defaulted my machine to run gtaiv in SLI mode. since SLI is not supported on this game, I just flashed red
Felt like a seizure. I had to go through a few settings to turn that off

For anyone With a budget card wanting to GTAIV. It is very much worth it to try these drivers.

BEFORE
Statistics
Average FPS: 23.33
Duration: 37.58 sec
CPU Usage: 96%
System memory usage: 82%
Video memory usage: 87%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 24
Detail Distance: 36

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Video Driver version: 195.62
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+

File ID: Benchmark.cli

AFTER
Statistics
Average FPS: 20.20
Duration: 37.28 sec
CPU Usage: 99%
System memory usage: 86%
Video memory usage: 79%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1440 x 900 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: Medium
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 56
Detail Distance: 56

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
Video Driver version: 196.21
Audio Adapter: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+

Finally Nvidia’s Drivers have caught up with Windows 7. These probably will not make it to the final release version. These are leaked and tweaked by the gur3d community. but if you are on a budget video card and just want to play the game on medium settings, do this, these are great drivers.

I do warn that I did not creat these drivers and am not in any accountable for the outcome or effect or results of what these drivers might do to your machine. So don’t thank me and don’t scream at me for what ever happens. Not all video card vendors are the same, not all video card vendors have the exact same configuration. Not all computer combonations are the same. For my machine, these are exactly what i need to play grand theft auto IV.

Here is my computer Configuration.

Next to bench Need For Speed Under Cover

New Grand Theft Auto Game In 2011 (Rumor Mill)

Posted on2010/01/07AuthorGame News5 Comments

(A New Post on this Topic)
GTAv and GTAVI Figured Out

There are many clues. Rockstar always leaves clues. If you have been playing GTA as long as I have, you would know this. Many of the clues are subtle, many are just flat out “See you in San Andreas” Billboards. Before the actual release date, anything can be a distraction. we all know that ownership of Grand Theft Auto has changed many times. The writers and coders and directors, have all changed, so it is hard to expect them to follow the same pattern, or to be as good or bad as the predecessors at tricking and riddling us with wild clues. This has and hopefully always will be part of the game. For the sake of this writing, let’s expect that no changes will occur in the pattern.

In GTAIV, there are many times that you will hear on the radio, mention of Los Santos, and other locations that are real locations. We can assume that Los Santos will be in the next game. but at one time Rockstar would actually mention real life locations and then make a mock up of that location but name it different. Through out GTAIV there is no mention of Vice city, until the coming of Ballad of Gay Tony. In BOGT there is a Vice City Radio, Radio station.

In past patterns

In the first Grand Theft Auto game, you start out in Liberty City then move to Vice City as you progress in the game. In the end you have to defeat the city of San Andreas. After a few addon games, we came to GTAIII. In GTAIII We are some un-named guy who is left for dead by his female partner in crime when she shot him at point blank with a shotgun, right after a bank robbery. This un-named guy gets arrested and is being transported from one jail to another with two other inmates. In transit between the jails, the “patty wagon” gets stopped guns are drawn, a bridge is blown up. All to aid in the release of one of the prisoners. The un-named guy that is played as your character, and third man with bandages on his hands are left as the only living people at the scene. So they flee and take it as a gift. Luckily hackers get into police records and prevent anyone from that “Little Road Trip” from ever being remembered in the database. So that explains how you are free. You eventually make it through the ranks to take over the gang that the third person on that “patty wagon” runs. The guy that helps you the whole time who has the bandages on his hands, is named “8-ball”. He is a bomb maker about the same age as you. That is a strange inconsistency. Due to the time line jumps of the next two games. but still back to gtaiii, as you get to the airport you see signs that say that you can travel to Vice City . But you can not.

Later you make it to Vice city (following the way the first GTA was done), There are no clues of San andreas you just play the roll of some poor dork from Liberty City who was dropped off after getting out of jail, and forced to do a drug trade. You get ambushed by a local gang. Now the people who have you kind of blackmailed into the drug trade, don’t have their money, and they don’t have their drugs. You are responsible to get one back to them. You fail at that. But you take over the whole city of Vice city and become the new Gang leader of the whole city. Again you are in a city that has an 8-ball’s bomb shop in it. Strange thing is the game is set almost 15 year prior to GTAIII in liberty city. This would have made 8ball quite a well organized shop owner, for someone who just got out of jail in gtaiii. I can only assume he blew his hands up prior to gtaiii and that is how he got busted.

Some more clues to San Andreas being next One thing that guy misses. His posterboard he posted. in the middle it says “Liberty City is over, on the top it shows GTAIV album Art in the bottom right, we see what is likely part of the album art for the next grand theft aut. Looks like trees, edge of a mountain and some sky. Much like San Andreas. To further match what he shows in his page. .

What we can be certain of

Grand Theft Auto 5 will not be out for atleast three more years. They will do the same with GTAiv as they did with GTA and GTAiii, Liberty City – Vice City – Sand Andreas will all be under the same number title. Each Chapter will have it’s own extra episode(s). Count on GTAV being the grounds for a whole new batch, Such as london and so on, or a visit to a whole new city, as they did with GTAII

If you want more detail, Here more on the same subject of the Next Grand Theft auto

The Ultimate Myspace Games Toolbar

Posted on2009/12/14AuthorGame News

Well I seem to have found “The Ultimate Myspace Games Toolbar” .

I found the toolbar that of all toolbars, it has links to help sites and tips sites with Myspace Mobsters Cheats, bots, glitches and tweaks. It has the same for Mafia wars and Street Racer, Vampires, Yoville, Sorority life and a couple more. . Man what used to be me with twenty windows open and mad clicking and typing is now just a series of 5-8 clicks and bam I am done.

The person that put this together seems to know exactly what is needed to make myspace gaming as easy as possible. It has what started to seem like work and labor (fixing all of my accounts, and updating everything) all rolled into one system of links and mods and glitches. I love this toolbar.

Tons of stuff I knew off but didnt have scattered all over my bookmarks/favorites, and some stuff i never knew of. I really recommend you try it out.

Tech and Video Game Help Forum Launched

Posted on2009/12/13AuthorGame News

Tech and Video Game Help Forum Launched

If you are in search of a community to help with a tech or video game question, head over to iworkwithtech.com

The first member to give 100 posts will be given administrator position. Second Member to give 100 Posts will be given Moderator Position. You must notify one of the administrators when you achieve 100 non spammy posts. All posts must be relevant to their section and helpful to other users.

The community is created to be helpful for people in search of answers, so if you are a geek like myself, feel free to join and creat a few posts answering the questions you are sick of answering, that way when you get the questions again, you can just send the link to that person, and be done with the redundancy of it.

As the owner of http://truxtertech.com I found many questions coming to pages from people who just have a bad problem they need fixed. I do not have all of the answers, So many of the questions had to go unanswered. I decided to create a place for those with questions to go and post their questions with the chance of someone answering them for them. Since I had the domain name iworkwithtech, just laying around looking dead, I made this place.

There is a page to help people locate the latest bots tips tricks and cheats for myspace and facebook games. Game like Mafia wars, Mobsters, street racer and the such. so it would be very helpful if you could post any links to anything you know of, because I get questions here about that stuff all the time. and well, I just do not know all of that yet. I will check all links for popups and spam and any malware that might be bundled in the downloads. So please use virscan to check all downloads first. I do not want to have to ban someone for being thoughtless.

I hope you join me in this quest to save the world from their hardware/software and stupid video game.. (lol)

Special Note for those interested.

First person to make 500 posts will get Administrator position and will be given space to post advertisements and receive 50% of the p0rofits of the traffic to the site

An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

Posted on2009/12/04AuthorGame News

Copied and pasted from facebook, Sorry I have no say on anything here except ‘What do you expect???”

It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected. Thanks to your help, more than 350 million people around the world are using Facebook to share their lives online.

To make this possible, we have focused on giving you the tools you need to share and control your information. Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.

Facebook’s current privacy model revolves around “networks” — communities for your school, your company or your region. This worked well when Facebook was mostly used by students, since it made sense that a student might want to share content with their fellow students.

Over time people also asked us to add networks for companies and regions as well. Today we even have networks for some entire countries, like India and China.

However, as Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy. Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, so this is an important issue for us. If we can build a better system, then more than 100 million people will have even more control of their information.

The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.

We’re adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we’ll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.

Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we’ll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You’ll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you’re finished, we’ll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you’re done you’ll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.

We’ve worked hard to build controls that we think will be better for you, but we also understand that everyone’s needs are different. We’ll suggest settings for you based on your current level of privacy, but the best way for you to find the right settings is to read through all your options and customize them for yourself. I encourage you to do this and consider who you’re sharing with online.

Thanks for being a part of making Facebook what it is today, and for helping to make the world more open and connected.

Mark Zuckerberg

Explorer.exe Is now windows Explorer

Posted on2009/11/29AuthorGame News

Noticed this at work the other day.

Now if you go to cmd and type in explorer.exe it pops open windows explorer. for ever that has been the trick to get your task bar back. now it does not. It just opens windows explorer. so if you get a crash and lose your taskbar, you must reboot. Or figgure out what in the heck the taskbar is now called.

I assume this is a follow up to removing the progman.exe functionality.

See my trick for ever was to change my start up and replace the registry line from startup/explorer.exe to startup/progman.exe.

This reduced teh amount of resources my machine used, back the day when windows ran like crap and computer parts where crap.

This is teh same on xp sp3 , windows vista, and windows 7

I have no idea when or how this all came about. but i noticed it at work while over a span of 4 days I had different co-workers come to me and say “hey I lost my taskbar” we had to reboot them all one by one to get the task bar back. because typing explorer.ese solved nothing. it’s like an auto update or a strange mass virus ? I feel like I am being tamed by m$

Patch 5 For GTAIV Is Success

Posted on2009/11/29AuthorGame News

Grand Theft Auto IV, has had a rocky run since the start. Many of us had a smooth install and smooth gameplay from the getgo. But many people had issue that almost seemed to be unresolved. The forums at gtaforums.com practically flipped upside down. Many posts had been sent by flamers and trolls but there where lots of real legitimate posts. So for the moderators such as CC (CharmingCharlie) there was a heavy steady task. Regular users such as myself spent hours trying to contribute, by helping the legit and reporting the blatant flamers. That is all important because There where actual Rockstar game programers that would frequent gta forums to get ideas and imput. As we actually found out at the release of patch one.

The first patch was clearly a quick fix to suppress the unruly scream-alots. I totally understand and was happy with the fact that someone was there to hear and tame the cries of the kids with bad installs. I don’t remember exactly what was shut off in the patches but I do remember like the hotdog stands disappearing, and then when they came back, deeper detailed controls for video settings had been enabled. Of course that was at a later patch. Third patch I believe.

The fourth patch well there really was not much to the fourth patch as far as we could see. In fact the guy from Rockstar Torronto informed us it was preparation for next few big moves. Some of us old schoolers suggested it was for Downloadable content for pc..We where slapped down by forum moderators that let us know there was nothing in the statement that suggested DLC, and they locked our posts. They don’t realize that half the game of GTA is speculating what is to come in next game and by reading to much into anything said by R*. That is the heaviest traffic to gtaforums. but what ever. We have since then proven this to be true with the release of the fifth patch we see tlad in the achievement area for pc gtaiv.

Cheats are now nearly impossible, the servers are now used like dedicated servers, meaning the game creator can now ban anyone on his/her server at any givin moment, we no longer have to wait for votes. I assume that someone will create a script that allows them to jump servers and bann people at random without being modderator or creator. until then I am super happy with what is available.

many many fixes with patch five.

Incase you have not found the link to the fifth patch, here you go.

patch 5 for gtaiv

List of Fixes

GENERAL:

Convert all region SKU’s into the same SKU.
Include support for all languages within single exe.

CONTROLS:

Allow controls to be double mapped on keyboard.
Added option in controls menu to disable mouse controls in helicopters.
Adjust keyboard control sensitivity in hood cam view in vehicles.

MULTIPLAYER:

Security Updates to deter cheating in multiplayer.
Hosts can now immediately Kick users from their games in Lobby and in game via Cell phone without having to rely on peer voting.
Fixed a bug in Cops ‘n Crooks mode where Host would drop out and prevent remaining players from leaving game.

Sad to say, they have it labeled as patch 4, even though it is the fifth patch.

Joost Gets Bought up

Posted on2009/11/25AuthorGame News

Well, I had so much hope for joost when it first came up.

Leo Laporte and Amber Macarther talked so much about it.

I had to run out and get me a beta test. The first branch of i.p. TV tree had sprouted. They had a program you had to install that seems a whole lot like what is now called Adobe Air. The program and the videos ran and played really smooth, looked pretty good also. One day a bunch of people started complaining about the install process (a whole 4 seconds to download, 12 seconds to install..) So the Joost team dropped the installer and started at going with online streaming video, much like Hulu. I really liked the program, it ran like a torrent program or good ol Kazzaa. On a peer program.

Sad to say though, Joost never had any really good videos, other than “The Lexx”.

Joost is sold to a company called “Adconion Media” . Really I never heard of them. I hope they make the best of it. I was actually hoping for nbc,cbs and or hbo/showtime/usa to merger on a deal to buy it. Oh well .

Good luck gang.

Tmobile and Sprint Merger Bad Karma?

Posted on2009/11/24AuthorGame News

Rumor hitting the net now about Tmobile and sprint merging.

From this Uk News Article

Hopefully this means teh end of sprints crappy CDMA signal and growth of Tmobiles more dominant gsm signal.

One of the greatest features of gsm is the ability to just yank your sim card out and plug it into another phone you have and make it work, until you can replace your broken phone. So if this happens, cross your fingers and hope for gsm. Some people like to travel, and many people like Tmobile.

Oh yeah, and a good signal.