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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City

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Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
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Developers
Rockstar North
Publishers
Rockstar Games
Engines
RAGE
Release dates
Windows April 13, 2010
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on Wikipedia

Warnings

For Games for Windows - LIVE on Windows 8 or later, install the latest Games for Windows - LIVE software.
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General information

Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums for game series
GTA Modding - a wiki hosting mod information for the GTA series.

Availability

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All versions require Games for Windows - LIVE, SecuROM, and Rockstar Games Social Club (For multiplayer only).

Essential improvements

Patches (non-Steam)

Latest: 1.1.2.0

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12220/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/12220/pfx/[Note 1]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\XLive must also be backed up as the save data is bound to the Games for Windows - LIVE profile.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Video settings menu.

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Input settings

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Audio settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
French
German
Spanish

Network

Social Club website stat tracking and leaderboards will stop working on June 30, 2014 due to GameSpy services being shut down. All other online features are unaffected.[1]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Issues fixed

Crashing

When starting the game, you may be notified that the file WMVCore.dll is missing. If you're running the game via Steam, this notification may not appear and the game will simply crash after prompting for Social Club login information. This may be due to missing codecs. If you are running Windows 7, this can be solved by installing the Media Feature Pack for Windows 7 N and Windows 7 KN (KB968211) (this will require you to validate your copy of Windows 7).

ATI Radeon Water Fix

There is a problem where the water loses its features and details after a while. To fix this issue do this:

  • Download the fixed shader: http://www.mediafire.com/?e0d69i8af8gz5l9
  • Open your GTA folder (Usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto IV\GTA IV)
  • Navigate to common\shaders\win32_30_atidx10\ and rename waterTex.fxc to waterTex.fxc.org
  • Place your downloaded waterTex.fxc in the same folder.
  • Navigate to common\shaders\win32_30_low_ati\ and rename waterTex.fxc to waterTex.fxc.org
  • Place your downloaded waterTex.fxc in the same folder.
  • Play your game!

Note: A lot of the fixes for Grand Theft Auto IV also work for Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, But not all of them. So check first.

Cant Change the Graphic's Settings

[From Rockstar's Support page]

There are reports that certain video cards with more than 2 GB of video memory may be causing GTA IV to believe the system is under specification even though the computer is powerful enough to run the game with higher settings.

Possible workaround:

Create a text file named ‘commandline.txt’ in the main GTAIV folder and put the following statement inside it:

-availablevidmem 2.0

If that doesn't work, try increasing the number to one of the following.

-availablevidmem 3.0

-availablevidmem 4.0

-availablevidmem 5.0

-availablevidmem 6.0

If you are using Steam, try:

Properties of game>Launch Options>Add: -nomemrestrict -norestrictions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP SP3, Vista SP1, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia 7900
ATI X1900
256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/12220/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (12220) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References