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GTA4 + iCEnhancer mod. Holy mother of god.
- Thread starter Darklord
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This might sound silly and lazy, but does someone mind making a quick tutorial kinda thing. That would include other mods that are good to have and that have been tested by yourselves to work well together. Like real cars, better handling, e.t.c. Specifically now that the Icehancer 1.25 version has come out, so it would work on Steam. Thank you !
UrbanRats said:
It worked but it wasn't compatible because it wasn't designed for the patch whatsoever. Meaning you could see performance loss, weird effects etc. 1.2.5 has been made with 1.0.7.0 in mind so you get a more rounded experience with no hiccups but it still isn't the full package.
to me it seems like this mod essentially makes games look as if they are being shot off screen.
example of off-screen capture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1yxWUO9nc
example of off-screen capture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p1yxWUO9nc
HooYaH said:
Probably because it wasn't optimized for the lights featured in cutscenes.
Enco said:
Yes and it always will be.
EDIT: His new DoF / Blur looks like complete and utter ass. This game just doesn't do DoF very well because every time you turn / move the camera, it goes sharp for a second and then back to the blurred distant backgrounds - Really is annoying.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm running at 30 - 60fps most of the timeRedSwirl said:
So, he toned down the special effects with the shafts and flares and saturated the game a bit more as the washed out effect could be a bit in-your-face so that's good. His new default DoF / Motion Blur is crap and I've seen a few light scenarios where there's white, thin stringy lines added which looks horrible.
Performance went down as well in the benchmark, from 46+ to 41+
He said he'd work on the trees but still has the whiff of cartoon trees about them.
Think I might go back to the old iceshader.fx, my tree setting and see what else he whipped up.
Not impressed so far.
Performance went down as well in the benchmark, from 46+ to 41+
He said he'd work on the trees but still has the whiff of cartoon trees about them.
Think I might go back to the old iceshader.fx, my tree setting and see what else he whipped up.
Not impressed so far.
Sleepy Buddha
Member
Worked without xliveless for me on 1.0.7.0, but ran into a different problem.
I have an nvidia optimus laptop and for some reason it keeps choosing the sandy bridge integrated gpu instead of the nvidia gpu. Even forcing the nvidia driver to run it on the nv gpu doesn't work.
It worked fine before so I guess I'll revert back to the default gta experience.
I have an nvidia optimus laptop and for some reason it keeps choosing the sandy bridge integrated gpu instead of the nvidia gpu. Even forcing the nvidia driver to run it on the nv gpu doesn't work.
It worked fine before so I guess I'll revert back to the default gta experience.
I just installed this on the steam version of the game and it doesn't look that great. There doesn't seem to be any AA and only the lighting seems to be improved (and brighter). Am I doing something wrong, or do I really need to downgrade to 1.0.4 to get anything "Wow" out of this mod?
Okay, going back to the old iceshader.fx from 1.2 helped. It's all crisp again and it even netted me back the 5 FPS missing, back up to 46+ avg. FPS and by closer inspection, the trees are much better. I just managed to catch a couple of overly green cartoon trees in a certain light setting but his new ones are much better.
Everything else looks good, kinda glad to get rid of the extreme washed out look and insane flare effects at times and the brightness seems much improved now.
Everything else looks good, kinda glad to get rid of the extreme washed out look and insane flare effects at times and the brightness seems much improved now.
indigo-cyclops
Member
So question, can I use Better City Textures with the current steam version or are they not compatible? If it's just replacing textures...
ss_lemonade
Member
Man, I was hoping he would tone down the blur or find a way to make it look better. Oh well, will still try it out when I get home from work.Sethos said:
StoppedInTracks
Member
wwm0nkey said:
This looks like a screen-cap from some night scene from a movie. Absolutely amazing work by the modders.
Dreams-Visions
Member
yes, 1.0.7.0 damn near doubles AMD card performance. I'd assume that anything running on mods will be okay for AMD users so long as it's running on top of 1.0.7.0.evlcookie said:
wait, is that for 1.0.7.0? the update is out? I'm on it like white on Tiger Woods.RedSwirl said:
Saren is Bad
Member
Downloading Ultimate Textures now. Installed ICE for 1.0.7.0, and didn't touch the configs. The nighttime sky is red and the cutscene graphics inside are completely fucked. Was running at 60fps with 2600k, 580 (SLI but I guess they dont work). Waiting for someone to inevitably school everyone on how to tweak this properly.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Ugh all road textures looks extremely white and washed out for me now, not sure if it fucked up or if this update just makes it uglier.
Before :
Now :
Before :
Now :
IMACOMPUTA
Member
Mine is all washed out too, like BATMANBATMANBATMAN
(both of his shots are washed out IMO)
How do we fix this???
(both of his shots are washed out IMO)
How do we fix this???
Mr Nightman
Banned
Man this is making me want to replace my faulty dvd drive and try out. Last attempt ended up in freezing up windows explorer :-(. Anyways, how well can I expect this config and texture pack to run on my system at 1080p?
Phenom 2 X4 945 at 3Ghz
4GB DDR3 1333
gtx 460 768MB
Win 7 Pro 32 Bit
Phenom 2 X4 945 at 3Ghz
4GB DDR3 1333
gtx 460 768MB
Win 7 Pro 32 Bit
I just done get what i am doing wrong. With 1070 if i install ICE mod with out Xlivle.dll game runs once works great but crushes every time just before game lunches after that. If i install xlive.dll it crushes when game tries to load up for first time.
Once steam version downgraded to 1040, auto update disable and Rockstar Social installed, it crushes regardless if i use xlive.dll or not.
Am i missing here something?
Copy paste ICEnhancer 1.2.5 in to GTAIV directory, copy paste xlive.dll, lunch the game?
Anything alse needed to be done for 1070, hell 1040 for that meter too?
Once steam version downgraded to 1040, auto update disable and Rockstar Social installed, it crushes regardless if i use xlive.dll or not.
Am i missing here something?
Copy paste ICEnhancer 1.2.5 in to GTAIV directory, copy paste xlive.dll, lunch the game?
Anything alse needed to be done for 1070, hell 1040 for that meter too?