well just got GTA IV ... the thing the game works fine without lag but after like 3 mins in game .. stuff starts disappearing like the streets and buildings ... only cars and people are there so technically everything just disappears .. is that a requirment problem??????

Hmm, what are your specs? I've got GTA4 for a long time and has troubleshooted it a fair deal lol.

okay well ... i now got far more information than i had b4 ... lets start ... okay ...

note*1 : i have vista and only 2 gb of ram ?? could that be causing any problem ? cause i thought it need 4 gb ??

note*2 : if i put everything on low and all the shadow denisty vehichle denisty and all that stuff to 0 and 1 ... still this happens ..

note*3 : in case you still dont exactly gets whats wrong .. check the pictures

note*4 : i can run the game on high texture/render without lag at all ... but i always keep it on meduim cause on high the problem happens like 5 mins after gameplay lol

note*5 : when this happens if i minimized the game then maxmized it again (by task manager) then the game is fine but then again after a while it starts happening ...

note*6 : pc specs :
AMD ATHLON II X2 250 @ 3.00GHZ
2 GB RAM
ATI RAEDON 4730
WINDOWS VISTA ULTIMATE

pictures :
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/552...2215343702.png

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/5...2215344826.png

It sounds to me as if you do not have enough RAM. Or at least that's what the problem would strike me as.

I'll search a bit for a solution. It seems as if that your computer runs out of memory to constantly load new textures and such and everything just ends up blanking out. But, this is just from a look at your screenshots.

Edit: Silly me to forget this question, but have you updated your GTA to the latest version?

Edit2: Try this http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?a...ntry1058731149

well actauly after i updated to patch v1.02.0 everything was fine but when i reinstalled the game just to be sure if the problem was the patch and yeah cause the problem happened again .. but after the patch everything is fine i played about 2.5 hours without any problems

thanks for ur help man

No problem dude. I remember how horribly optimized GTA4 was for the PC prior to the patches but I was silly enough to forget to ask you that.

My lappie isn't powerful enough for GTA... But come this weekend I should have my new AMD Build and I should be able to run the game on full =D

that would be awesome