Trees rendering is better on patch 5 (no 'horizontal line trees shadows bug'). Patch 8 has problems with draw distance and lod transition. ġ.0.0.4 version also has some shadows bugs, like no dynamic shadows from cars from 8 PM to 6 AM, but they can be called minor in comparison with patch 1.0.8.0. Worth to mention also - 1.0.8.0 version suffer from 'exclusive' shadows bugs, like 'horizontal line trees shadows bug', 'black line shadows bug'. Old style shadows IMHO better fits to IV atmosphere, and they look more like real life shadows generally I will quickly compare main features of both versions, which I tested and know for sure. So, this should be the indulgence for 1.0.8.0 version in performance test.Īnd final thoughts - pros and cons exclusive to patch 5 and patch 8. You can actually see this on screens that I posted above. The only difference was shadows quality level: VERY HIGH on 1.0.0.4 and HIGH on 1.0.8.0.īecause VERY HIGH shadows quality in 1.0.8.0 version cut FPS in half ! I used same save-game for both versions, which means that time and weather was the same in both cases. I will show it via screenshots of every shadows quality settings. Pros and cons exclusive to patch 5 and patch 8. So, the point is to show you, or should I say remind you about key differences between these GTA IV versions. In second case, I refer to patch 8, the last available version at the moment ( not anymore after steam update), which is very similar to patch 6 or 7.

It is international version of patch 4, with few small fixes/additions.

In first case, I refer to patch 4 ( 1.0.4.0 ).īut please note that I'm using patch 5 ( 1.0.0.4). So, I'm not creating this topic for deliver something really new, because most of you guys most probably already know general differences between so called 'best patch for performance' and 'best patch for graphics'. So, for anyone interested - I'm leaving the original topic almost untouched, but you can read the updated conclusion in the end of this article Thing is, it's been almost 2 years after I created the original topic, and during those 2 years I somewhat continued to digging into different GTA IV versions, and this lead to discovering another interesting aspects and features of IV patches The reason for update is this - my original opinion about best GTA IV version has changed

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