So the game launch but i have low fps, graphics looks like with some potato mod and sounds are lagging. If i launch without lutris sound is ok but the graphics look worse also have even less fps.
My specs are i3-4130 8GB ram, GTX 750 1GB
If needed i can also attach screens of settings in lutris, just tell which one needed.
Also if im asking i have the problem with hearthstone after few minutes of playing(completly random i can even play around hour) its start to lagging hard. Heroes of the storm is lagging also but already from begging(works perfect on win)
Which exact version of GTA IV?
Is this Steam or Wine?
First of all make sure that you have all requirements installed
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Wine i think i have all things installed also Disco elysium and dragon age origins works nice.
What you need to do is to create and put those files inside your GTA IV directory (where GTAIV.exe is):
commandline.txt
-norestrictions
-nomemrestrict
-forcehighqualitymirrors
-fullspecaudio
-reservedApp 0
dxvk.conf
dxgi.maxFrameLatency = 1
d3d9.maxFrameLatency = 1
Download xlivelessaddon
copy it’s files there also:
xlive.dll
plugins/XLivelessAddon.asi
plugins/XLivelessAddon.ini
I advice to set those settings at
plugins/XLivelessAddon.ini
[MAIN]
CustomSavePath = ""
CustomSettingsPath = ""
RemoveRegistryPathDependency = 1
SkipIntro = 0
SkipMenu = 0
DoNotPauseOnMinimize = 1
BorderlessWindowed = 1
SkipWebConnect = 1
VRAMFix = 1
; With SkipMenu = 1, you can hold SHIFT on startup to access main menu, if needed.
; Report issues in this topic:
; https://gtaforums.com/topic/388658-relgtaiv-xliveless/#comments
As long as you do all that (most of which fixes it’s faults despite what OS you use) GTA IV should work great, better than windoze in fact.
P.S. You haven’t answered what GTA IV version you use, that could be important.
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Very Helpfull!
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You’re welcome, GTA IV is probably my favorite game ever!
GTA IV complete edition now it does not launch XD is possible that i fucked up something XD? file commandline.txt was already created i just wrote additional
-forcehighqualitymirrors
-fullspecaudio
-reservedApp 0
Oh, that explains it.
Try downgrader, CE have too many problems and cut-out radio, i advice to downgrade to v1.0.7.0 or v1.0.4.0.
No idea since i don’t see what you did or not, but it’s likely 
You can try to just cut out those files and try one by one.
Also can you post your inxi -Faz please
But i think problem is CE, because it can’t load mods like xliveless which fixes game problems.
Well it looks like this, i should download missing dll and put them into windows folder in wineprefix?
Oh…not exactly. dammit, i hate those windoze installers, pretty sure it’s net framework requirement that should be installed via winetricks
P.S. don’t screenshot inxi -Faz, copy here as text
Sorry stupid me u cant see all in screen, thats all i copied that also checked now, ends same as this what i have under
System:
Kernel: 5.19.10-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux
root=UUID=140b929b-b5ef-468e-a6fc-dfefb6a8f1f5 rw rootflags=subvol=@
loglevel=3 nowatchdog nvme_load=YES
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.6 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm:
1: LightDM v: 1.32.0 note: stopped 2: SDDM Distro: EndeavourOS
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: All Series v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H81M-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0807 date: 05/15/2014
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i3-4130 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
gen: core 4 level: v3 built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1450 high: 3400 min/max: 800/3400 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 3400
4: 800 bogomips: 27208
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 515.65.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 515.xx+ status: current
(as of 2022-08) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm
built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2
speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1381 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1680x1050 s-dpi: 99 s-size: 431x272mm (16.97x10.71")
s-diag: 510mm (20.07")
Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 99
size: 433x271mm (17.05x10.67") diag: 511mm (20.11") modes: N/A
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA
515.65.01 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GM107 High Definition Audio [GeForce 940MX]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbc class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.19.10-arch1-1 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: no
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.58 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK H81M-C driver: r8168 v: 8.050.03-NAPI modules: r8169 pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 585 GiB used: 338.58 GiB (57.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 90WD
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Samsung model: MZ7LN128HAHQ-000L2
size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 4L0Q scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 119.14 GiB size: 119.14 GiB (100.00%) used: 90.19 GiB
(75.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 100 MiB size: 98.4 MiB (98.42%) used: 98.4 MiB
(100.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 119.14 GiB size: 119.14 GiB (100.00%) used: 90.19
GiB (75.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 248 Uptime: 3h 23m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 3.02 GiB
(39.2%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 1521 pm: pacman pkgs: 1517 libs: 479
tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 4 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16
running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.21
Wow it looks so much better now XD
No problem, it’s still not full output though 
also put it in forum’s code tag, by using
```
code here
```
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meanwhile i see requirements is:
Requirements
.NET Framework 4.7.2 (Should be installed on every Windows 10 machine)
so…install
dotnet48 with winetricks to the wineprefix where you have GTA IV installed, if not sure how see this little example script called tricks.sh change variables to your paths and TRICKS to desirable dotnet48
Basically you should just run that in terminal, but put your path instead those $VARIABLES:
env WINEPREFIX="$PREFIX" WINE="$LOADER" WINESERVER="$SERVER" winetricks "dotnet48"
Then try running downgrader again, hopefully it will help
Indeed, but it’s just CPU, i need full output of
inxi -Faz
P.S First F is caps for a reason 
Thx, i don’t see any obvious stoppers in your system / drivers, looks good to me.
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But be carefull, installing dotnet on a wineprefix often breaks other programms and games! Make a copy of the prefix!
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Yeah good point, well i assume that everyone have read my gaming guide and gone through reasoning of using separate portable wineprefixes instead of system one… 
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It works for @karnag again, he reinstalled the game again everything worked beside the audio.
I connected to him via RustDeskt and found out that he had a bunch of DLL overrides globaly set.
dsound dmusic etc. After removing this overrides everything worked again.
Thank you @keybreak your little guide helped a lot to get the game to run smoothly and correct!
Game Version: Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition V1.00
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Yes it works just like he said thanks again
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