Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB Passive Review

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig     |     April 14, 2009

Grand Theft Auto IV


Due to the limitations the game puts on the graphics presets and how they can be adjusted, we decided to tweak our install. To do this we added a .txt file within the main game install folder with the command parameters –norestrictions and –nomemrestrict. In addition to this, we added a command line to effectively fool the game into thinking 512MB cards were in fact able to access 1GB of memory. Unfortunately, this means a 512MB card will in fact be accessing slower system memory to make up for the discrepancy but that is a necessary evil to get comparable results. Finally, view distance was limited to 65%.

In this test we used a typical didn’t use the built-in benchmark but rather used a 10 minute gameplay sequence of which approximately 6 minutes were spent on foot while the remainder was spent driving. All results were recorded with FRAPS.



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