GTA IV 4k Remaster (ENB iCEnhancer 3 + RTX3070) - Exploring Algonquin

Описание: Algonquin is the greatest and busiest of all boroughs in Liberty City. From the red brick projects and gentrified clothing stores & clubs in North Holland over idyllic middle park flanked by expensive hotels; from the promenades on the east side, to expressways on the west side; from big bridges connecting the island to other boroughs, to Chinatown and Star Junction with all their neon billboards in the south, this is why you bought the game in the first place. Even 15 years later, what other game lets you drive around Big Apple? Neither The Division nor Spiderman 2018 or Miles Morales allow you to drive cars in New York City.

When GTA IV came out, the game did not support anti-aliasing and you could only force it by playing at resolutions even higher than 1080p Full HD, which nobody could back in 2008, as even the best GPU from january 2009, the GTX295, barely kept above 30 fps at 1080p max settings. So a lot of people remember their GTA IV experience from back in the day as "that jaggy mess" leaving little reason to stop and admire the scenery.

Come back to the game years later on modern hardware that can easily achieve 60FPS or more at 2k, or even 4k, and you can eliminate the jaggies and enjoy a smooth graphics experience.

But you are still left with one thing: the horrid brown and yellow filter, which combined with a desaturation of colors made most of Liberty City look rather boring, encouraging you to play just like you did back in the day: racing your car from one part of the city to another at high speeds to start the next mission, and keep doing this until you beat the main story.

But that is not how to fully experience everything this game has to offer. I installed a graphics reshade mod, an ENB called iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural, (there are also other “timecyc” mods that change the color palette like one called Realitv IV or another called “simple ENB” and yet another called “cryENB” which however only work on 1.0.4.0 while iCEnhancer 3.0 Natural works on 1.0.8.0 as well which is the version I am playing) and the difference was night and day. When you remove that brown and yellow filter, Liberty City suddenly becomes a city like New York. Full of storefronts you want to read as you pass them in your car. Skyscrapers and dockyards to admire. You also really begin to see how much detail was put into making various boroughs of the city have a unique flair of their own. Little details in a 15 year old game that we only notice and appreciate YEARS later on modern hardware.

System specs:
OS: Windows 11 64-Bit Pro
GTA IV version: Retail CD version updated to 1.0.8.0 using GTA_IV_EFIGS_PATCH_8 and xliveless-0.999b7
ENB: icENhancer 3.0 Natural V1.8 for GTA4
RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL16
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600x
GPU: Palit Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070
Game is installed on an HDD

Recorded with GeForce Experience on a 16/10 monitor at 3820x2400, which is higher than 4k, hence for some reason the recording is only at 29.97 fps even though the ingame fps was more than 60.

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