GTA 4 And iCEnhancer Maxed Out : Graphics Of The Future? At Least Impressively Close To Photorealism

iCEnhancer 1.3 for GTA 4 takes a lot of time to adjust properly. If you have the expertise and a proper rig, you'll see graphics described as in this article. Check it out!

[Ezio2048]

O_o

[Ares84]

o_O

Not because it's cool but because it isn't that cool and there have been so many articles about this.

The Germans just can't let GTA IV go.

[JhawkFootball06]

The only country I hate is Germany.

[ChrisW]

Because you speak Hebrew?

[Army_of_Darkness]

Uncharted 2 still looks better.

[Death]

How can you hate a country? I hate some of the things people have done in the past, but what country hasn't done things they regret? I'm not proud of what happened to Native Americans or to Africans that were brought here against their will and turned into slaves. America still sticks it to Native Americans and a hundred plus years later racism is stillalive and appearantly doing well.

If you want something to hate, hate the fact people still hate what they don't understand. We live in the information age and people are still stupid. That kind of sucks.

-Death

[ShamefulDispray]

Looks Nice sure. But how does it run? Like crap? Yup.
PC's - 0
Consoles - 1

[aman84r]

I tried it was fun for like 10 mins. watching the graphics and that was pretty much it.

[snipes101]

I certainly hope not. I'm one that likes my games to look like El Shaddai or Wind Waker. Y'know, with some cool cell shading and over saturated colors. Though this looks real, I just find it dull.

[CryofSilence]

Haha! I love it how a car runs over someone at 0:48 with the soft music in the background.

[Blaze929]

so what's the difference from this and the other 50 articles about this mod?

[Jack_DangerousIy]

The difference is that THIS one was posted today....

Duh.... ;P

lol

[Silverfang2340]

LOL. nothing

[saladthieves]

Oh yeah! Right on time! I couldn't wait to hear yet more news about YET another GTA IV mod from YET again a broken German website and how it looks just like reality!

/s

[net123456]

Yes another Article like the flood of Articles for Crysismods years ago from the same website.

I will explain here why those Articles come and will come from the same website.

This website has the biggest printmags for pc gaming in europe. The Germans have some hardware enthusiasts which buy the latest and best technology available and tune it to the max through overclocking. Sure other countries do that to but germany has despite beeing a bigger market then UK/France a smaller console market but they have a stronger PC market . And in this market are a small percentage (still tens of thousend) of people that spend thousends every year to have the highest graphical power there is. Those people buy the print magazines of this website. To get the latest charts and tests of Hardware. But the problem recently is that almost no game maxes out the available hardware. So those websites promote ressource hungry games/mods to show that your 2 grand rig can be maxed out to make more pc gamer buying expensive hardware and buy the print mags to inform yourself. The hunt for perfect graphics is a quest a lot of german pc enthusiasts have and they will hunt it as long as it takes. And those magazines live on that basis.

Its a totally logical marketing strategy. It might annoy people but then just ignore it. Those websites will switch soon to battlefield 3 mods (or the mod with the best graphic) and gta4 will be forgotten.

Also to DragonKnights comment why gta4:

Because GTA4 benefits extremly from better textures and also it has a city+cars to play with where you can make wonderful screenshots.

The thing I like the most on gta4 mods are the real cars. Would be amazing from rockstar to implement it in a GTA.

[jeenyus]

So tired of these german PC crapsites posting GTA IV and Crysis mods.

[DragonKnight]

Ok, I'm going to ask a series of serious questions and I really hope someone has the answers to them.

Why the hell is the focus on GTAIV? Why try to improve the graphics of such a horrible game? I mean really. Couldn't they pick ANY other game? Preferably a better game?

[kornbeaner]

I believe it comes down to scale, there are very few games that are as huge as GTA 4, the game's world is just massive, so I guess seeing the entire game world in a HD photo-realistic is something that shows their engines powers.

I mean if the engine can make GTA 4's world look great imagine what this engine can do if you applied it a smaller game.

Imagine Portal, Starcraft 2 or any other PC game that already looks great with these graphics, it would be amazing. Also I think maybe they asked Rockstar/Take-two for permission to use their game to advertise their work and were told yes.

It can be many factors other than what I listed but I don't think I'm too far off.

[Hayabusa 117]

@Kornbeaner

Actually San Andreas is bigger than GTA IV. AND it has more gameplay. AND more character. AND it's older. But they aren't going to mod that because that will take too much work. All they can do is tweak the lighting and make the cars super shiny to make an already brilliant looking game a little more realistic.

The mod does look amazing but I'm in agreement with most of the other people here. We've seen enough GTA IV graphic mods ok? Leave it alone now. If they really want to make an impressive mod build San Andreas out of the engine.

[Voxelman]

@ Hayabusa 117
Modders haven't forgotten about SA
http://www.dsogaming.com/ne...

[net123456]

@kornbeaner

modding a game doesnt require the permission of the developer aslong as you dont make money with it. Als iCEnhancer is a texture mod no engine. The engine is the GTA4 engine they only showed whats possible with this engine. Through their own car designs and textures.

[BigBacon87]

I would feel like quite the tard if I was bringing people over to my house to look at this on my computer just to feel validated after wasting way too much money on my(laughs to self) 'rig'. Thank god I primarily play on consoles. Telling people you are a PC gamer is like coming out of the closet to your parents.

[Fishy Fingers]

Bleeding this mod for all it's worth eh.

[Solid_Snake-]

someone doesnt have a PC.

awwwww bless.....stuck with 2006 hardware.

[TheXonySbox]

lol owned him good; snake.

[dragon82]

I have a very good PC but this still makes me yawn.

[ryhanon]

So... you upgrade your PC regularly with new hardware to play games released in 2008? Just trying to understand.

I don't see how updated graphics makes the game any more interesting to play through a second time.

[andibandit]

PS3 still has plenty of power to unlock, could problably run this better than you think.

[net123456]

I play mostly on my PS3 only some games on pc.

"PS3 still has plenty of power to unlock, could problably run this better than you think."

But this is just wrong. PCs are not in the same league then the consoles anymore. Those mods are extremly ressource hungry and need 2-4gb vram the Hardware of the PS3 couldnt handle this at all. Its simply impossible why not acknowledge this ? It doesnt take anything from the PS3 experience away if a PC can do stuff the PS3 cant.

[CaptainPunch]

How many of these articles do we need?

[Ninjamonkey82]

Looks impressive but i think we are in for much better than what this game old as it is now has to offer. The mods add a new coat of paint that make your eyes bleed yes ive applied it myself on my pc. But whats to come will leave this in the dark imo.

[theonlylolking]

BF3 still looks better graphically.

[Ezio2048]

which school?

[WitWolfy]

Its a bit unfair to compare BF3 to a fan made mod like this. just my 5c

[xX-StolenSoul-Xx]

Looks very good i'll give it that but not really photo realism. If you look at the Shrubs in the first picture you can clearly tell it's fake. In the Second picture it's even more noticeable with the NPC's standing their. Besides Lighting and Blur effects to distract you from the textures onscreen it's still not very good Compared to games like Crysis 2 and Bf3

[TrentKill]

I didnt think it looked so great. like you said a lot of it looks fake and. seems like the building textures and ground textures are the only thing that looks good and the rest just looks terribly make to me.

[Chrono]

GTA4 graphic mod again?

[DeadIIIRed]

It might just be me, but the pictures of these mods look amazing. Then I watch a video of them in action and its like, meh.

[Trenta27]

I love the GTA series as much as the next guy, but damn. Please stop with articles like this. We know it's pretty, we know hardly anybody can run it properly. Just give it a break.

[BlmThug]

Never photorealism. The amount of bloom is blinding

[Pl4sm4]

u know a saying that i say when the game/mod has lots of bloom .... ''the creator of the game/mod sees this in real life when he gets out of the building every few months''

[Giru017]

Another one of these? So what, is everyone who can run this mod properly gonna make an article on it?

[BigBacon87]

You nailed it. I mean it's not like PC gamers have any new games out to brag about so they mod old ones which were overhyped bore-fests to begin with.

[Slugg3r]

What barely anyone mentions is that GTA4 won't run smoothly with these kind of graphics mods, unless you have very powerfull computer. On my new rig, enGTX570 dc II, mildly clocked i5 2500k (4ghz) and 8 Gigs of memory, I can run this 30 FPS, but it drops to 20 in some areas. And I have to drop some settings from MAX. And don't even talk about using any other power requiring mods with ICEnchanser (Mainly high quality cars).

[dougr]

I have the exact same setup as you have but I haven't overclocked my cpu at all yet I'm able to run everything maxed out with this mod while consistently running 60 FPS with an occasional dip down to 45 FPS. I know GTA IV is poorly optimized for the computer so the difference in ability to run the game on same setups but different computer, doesn't surprise me at all.

[Slugg3r]

Now I'm starting to worry that there is something wrong with my rig, couldn't even run Metro 2033 with very high, not even mentioning with tessalation or Depth of view.

[dougr]

I doubt there is anything wrong with your rig, GTA IV is just terrible on the computer. I had a previous computer that had a AMD Phenom x4 955 black edition with a AMD 5770 graphics card and I couldn't even get a consistent 20 FPS and that computer should have done a lot better than that. I haven't tried Metro out so I can't give you any ideas there, but I'm sure your computer is okay.

[Darkfocus]

run 3D mark and see how you compare to others with the same hardware...that'll tell you if somethings wrong

[Pikajew]

I rather run the game smoothly than have nice graphics

[Laika]

the bushes in the first pick look horrible. other than that, pretty awesome

[trenso1]

nice.

[andrewsqual]

Still looks like GTA IV. Why do people call this mind blowing and next gen?

[Garrison]

I have no idea

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Not gonna lie, this looks amazing but honestly theres way to many of these GTA4 realistic mods floating around.

[ForROME]

Blog IT or YouTube it, these are getting old weve seen enough I think we get it

[hano]

This mod is amazing.
Never seen anything like it. The people who do this should be hired

[StoneyYoshi]

i wish everybody acted like this with every other article that shows up 50 afferent times on here but see this article come up maybe 10 times and its getting old? i guess if it is about something benefiting the pc version, nobody cares. i bet if this mod was on consoles, that everybody would be all over it.

[BigBacon87]

I play on console and I think GTA4 sucks, no matter how pretty it may or may not be.

[StoneyYoshi]

alright and that is your opinion.

[Bounkass]

This looks ridiculously good! Why can't R* do this? Screw the deadline then...

[andibandit]

because they need to learn how to program for the PS3 first.

[thedarkvault]

look at all the pretty pictures... But really I hope these guys don't get paid to make game trailers. Yeah it looks nice but how about showing all that hard work you put in by, I don't know, show someone actually playing the game with the mod? Not just static shots of traffic and pedestrians going by. If you spent all your time modding to stare at traffic and buildings why don't you take 15 steps outside and you will see a much more photorealistic environment.

[bozebo]

this ^

[aliengmr]

this ^ .....makes no sense at all. The modders have all sorts of gameplay videos. Its called Google use it before making stupid comments.

[Mikey Mike]

I like GTA IV the way it is. The cell shade graphics happen to be part of the charm to the GTA world. The mods look cool, however I'll stick to what made the series awesome.

[Voxelman]

umm there is more to the GTA series than just Chinatown Wars

[Rahim92]

I'm sick of seeing these GTA IV mods. Bring on GTA V already!

[-Gespenst-]

It looks good I guess but it kind of just looks like pictures taken of a miniature model city or something. Like a set from thunderbirds or something haha.

[Kamikaze135]

This is why I love owning a gaming PC: We always get a taste of next gen graphics way ahead of consoles. Not because of developers, but because of a dedicated community that releases these sort of mods.

[josephayal]

PS4 Graphics

[jozzah]

I completely understand why people are getting annoyed by the constant posting of this mod but im still impressed by it every time.

[vikingland1]

I will get this game for xbox360 , I'm sure the PS3 version will be fine though.

[jozzah]

what.....

[FrigidDARKNESS]

I will be vey disapointed if nextgen consoles doesnt't approach this level of realism and graphics quality.

[MillerTime]

I wonder what type of rig he was using for all of this...

[Jord911]

I believe Euclideon's new polygon converter wld b the closest stepping stone to photorealism. http://whatculture.com/gami...

[Kluv]

This is probably the only video of GTA IV you could show a kids parents and they'd probably think it's a beautiful game. Then they bring it home and start shooting up hos.

[ArabianKnight01]

NEXT!

[Drekken]

Do we need a new one of these every week. Great to see mods making graphics so great. Now if these hobbyists can just teach developers how to do it. Until then, quit submitting and approving this crap.

[EdwardS087]

This goes for any fanboy article, which would mean N4G loosing 90% of it's articles and traffic. They approve these articles for people just like you: having the urge to comment and say how tired you are of reading these articles. That equals success/hits, that equals a busy website. Cheaply done, but hey--its N4G.

[Christopher]

*** They approve these articles for people just like you: having the urge to comment and say how tired you are of reading these articles.***

That would make sense, except it's the community that approves the stories here...

[EdwardS087]

Couple of points:

1. There are mechanics involved with this mod that would melt the PS3 and 360 combined. This game, you have to actually see it in front of you not in a video, achieves an eery photo-realistic effect at 60fps.

2. Yes this mods runs smoothly, but on a powerful computer--like mine.

3. Its impressive tech. Appreciate advances in engines and indy-developed mods. Its good for gaming. The hostility met against this mod from the very first article is laughable, relax--consoles are safe.

4. The Germany quip: Your an idiot. Have you ever considered what America has done? Slavery? Massacres? Pick up a history book schmuck. Country's are not represented by their past misdeeds. If they were, the US would be one of the most disliked countries in the world. Oh wait, it is. (Save your accusations of me being a foriegner--I am NA raised. )

5. Yes, there are way too many articles on this engine.

6. It should be posted in the pc section only, as it applies little to console gamers.

7. NO ONE is forcing you to click this link, read the article and make a remark. People fought for our freedom--use it. Tired of hearing/reading about this MOD? Hey! Guess what? You don't have to click the link! Nifty, eh?

Same goes for any article enraging your little fanboy minds: "Xbox better than PS3" or "PS3 pwns da noobs"--don't agree with it? Don't read the article. Your not changing people's lives by letting us know you don't think something is true; no one is an authority on any topic. Moving on.