Check out this vid on CVG. Watching it really makes me hope they put GTA IV on sale in the Steam summer sale. Would love to play this game again with improved graphics.

Oh wow, I know what I will play again soon. :)

You can't use ENBSeries (which the main lighting part of that mod pack) on the Steam version of GTA IV because ENBS doesn't support the latest GTAIV patches and Steam only offers the latest version.

Sections of that video looked incredible. I especially liked the look of the lighting at night. I own GTA IV on Steam but I've barely touched it. Might give this a try.

@SeriouslyNow: Damn. There went my hopes.

I'll stick to Visual IV, which is not as good looking, but runs rather well (with the steam version).

Saw this.

It almost makes me want to built a spec-monster of a PC to run all that sexiness at 60FPS.

@SeriouslyNow: I just read about a newer version coming soon which will work with Steam (the version that exists works, but runs terrible with Steam). It will have a few less features though..

It looks so amazing, it's kind of sad that GTA 5 will not look that good, if it's released on this console generation.

omg

I wish I had a computer that could run that. The night driving was nuts.

Now what people need to do is take all of the cool mods like that, combine them and make GTAV.

I've kind of wanted to try one of the numerous graphics mods for this game, but there's always something about them that look weird or inconsistent. This looks great, though.

It looked good, but not that good. I'm sure GTA V will look way better. 

@SlasherMan: Yeah, but it takes time to make something like this. :)

That looks fucking sexy. 

Rockstar should hire this guy.  That first shot of night looked like a car commercial, it was amazing.

Liberty City, more like Lingshen Island City :o

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

Holy cow that looks amazing.

@BeachThunder said:

@MattyFTM said:

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

Honestly, I've never seen a good 3D tree (or any kind of foliage) in a game.

The GTA IV trees are sprites (aren't they?), I don't think there is anything they can do to make them look better. Putting new 3d models for trees in that game would be crazy, imho. :)

@MattyFTM said:

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

Honestly, I've never seen a good 3D tree (or any kind of foliage) in a game.

That looks pretty good, however I'm refraining from getting excited because I've never had great luck getting a good frame rate with GTA IV. Sexy slideshows just don't do it for me.

That looks fucking amazing. If dude gets it working with Steam, I'll give it a shot.

Thing this is what the next GTA needs to look like. I struggle to go back to GTA IV now because it looks so grimy

This looks soo cool, love seeing what the mod experts do with games, just wish that more game developers/publishers would embrace them.... very impressive

This mod video has me more wanting to play a new Midnight Club...
 
Granted I'm always in the mood for Midnight Club but still....

Damn, I've seen this mod before but I still can't believe how nice that game looks. I played GTA 4 on the xbox(blurry textures, lots of aliasing, ugly shadows) and it wasn't anything like this, wow!!!
So, if I already own the game on console is it ok to.. uhm... get it from "shady" sources just to try this mod? Anyways, my pc can barely handle Vice City with ENB series on so I'm not getting my hopes up.

This is the only kind of GTA mod I need.

Is there a mod that makes the game's controls tolerable?

Wasn't the PC port of GTA 4 terrible? As in, didn't it run like crap even on high end machines? I feel like giving a poorly ported engine even more to deal with would end poorly performance wise, or you would need an absolute beast of a computer to run this mod well.

@Icemael said:

Is there a mod that makes the game's controls tolerable?

Hm mouse and keyboard felt a little weird, but it plays fine with a gamepad.. I'm not sure what you mean.

Man this thread sux! I like this other thread though. It even has a actual video and not just a stupid link and there even is some cool photos.

Man this thread sux! I like this other thread though. It even has a actual video and not just a stupid link and there even is some cool photos.

@MattyFTM said:

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

Honestly, I've never seen a good 3D tree (or any kind of foliage) in a game.

@Icemael said:

@emem: I'm referring to how Niko controls like a tank ship riding a wheelchair.

What's a tankship?

@SeriouslyNow said:

@Icemael said:

@emem: I'm referring to how Niko controls like a tank ship riding a wheelchair.

What's a tankship?

Hm yeah, weird.. I don't agree. The driving felt a bit weird sometimes, because of the camera angle, but other than that.. felt alright.

Looks very nice. Unfortunately I can't even run the vanilla game on max.

that honestly looks incredible, at first i was a little distracted because it seemed like the car was floating but after seeing it moving it looks pretty well put together

That is pretty impressive. If he/they can make that mod without killing the framerate of the game im all in.

I reckon night stills would be almost photo perfect to the human eye. Reading the brief explanation, it also includes improved AI for NPCs, and I had a brief, wonderous dream about a Bethesda style RPG set in the GTA universe.

I'll just leave these here:-

Make sure to watch the vid on youtube in HD in fullscreen while you're wearing diapers.

All of the graphics mods for GTA IV I've seen have shitty trees. This one is no different. They're slightly better than the other ones I've seen, but they still look pretty bad compared to everything else & detract from the whole experience. Everything else seems to look spectacular, but when one thing looks average in a game where everything else looks amazing, it really looks out of place.

Damn, I've seen this mod before but I still can't believe how nice that game looks. I played GTA 4 on the xbox(blurry textures, lots of aliasing, ugly shadows) and it wasn't anything like this, wow!!! So, if I already own the game on console is it ok to.. uhm... get it from "shady" sources just to try this mod? Anyways, my pc can barely handle Vice City with ENB series on so I'm not getting my hopes up.

My problem with all of these videos is nothing is going on. There is really no action to tax the framerate in any of these videos. People driving slowly doesn't impress me when it comes to GTA.

I came in here ready to say "Hey man, video spam!" but that really looks incredible, thanks for posting it.

@Surkov said:

My problem with all of these videos is nothing is going on. There is really no action to tax the framerate in any of these videos. People driving slowly doesn't impress me when it comes to GTA.

Look at the last video I posted. I think you missed that one, framerate seems fine. ENBSeries (and the iCE Enhancer mod which uses) certainly taxes framerate, but not to unplayable levels. GTA IV isn't exactly a new game and this mod targets high end machines.