Application Details:
| Version: | Title Update 7 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.gta4.com/ |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 6.0.1 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Game works 100% with Wine 5.x up to 5.0.4, DLC included (Episodes from Liberty City).
The 6.x releases didn't work for me, the game crashes at launch.
What does not
The game opens with a blck screen with the 6.x releases.
However, the 5.x releases work 100%.
Workarounds
Using Wine 5.x releases.
What was not tested
Gamepads or joysticks, as I don't use any on PCs.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Performance can be improved by adding a commandline.txt file at the game's directory, with the following contents:
-memrestrict 230686720
This will diminish the periodical "stutter" that the game may exhibit (on Windows, too).
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 18 2020 | 6.0.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Garbage | Dennis Mayr | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux x86_64 | Jun 27 2019 | 4.0.1-staging | No, but has workaround | Yes | Yes | Silver | sbct | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 29 2014 | 1.7.22 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Luis Alvarado | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 27 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | Gold | an anonymous user | ||
| Show | Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" | Jan 11 2014 | 1.7.10 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Philipglo Joshua Opulencia |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 23532 | Provide offline implementation of Games For Windows Live (GFWL) 'xlive.dll' -> 'XLiveless' (Fallout 3, Batman, GTA IV) | REOPENED | View | |
| 29559 | GTA IV freeze in videos or scripted game events | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 31387 | Helicopter's tail prop is sometimes partly black in GTAIV | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 48401 | GTA IV - Framerate drop after 5 minutes of gameplay | UNCONFIRMED | View |
Games for Windows - LIVE does not work under Wine. GFWL components will crash any game that use the service. The only thing to do about it is to cut XLive out using XLiveLess Patch.
INSTRUCTIONS
1) Download the latest XLiveLess patch from here.
2) Unpack xlive.dll into the game folder.
XLive is out and the game launch is unobstructed. Please note that from now on the online play via GFWL is disabled so as to prevent cheating.
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by Dennis Mayr on Sunday January 31st 2021, 18:42
Previously, I renamed the 'movies' folder to 'movies_bak', so the game couldn't find the files and therefore there wasn't any playback.
A while ago, I thought that it could be a video codec issue, so I googled around, and found out that Rockstar used the Blink codec.
I installed it from the RAD Game Tools website: www.radgametools.com/down/Bink/RADTools.7z
Tried again with the Blink codec installed, and it worked!
imgur.com/a/IpI0kf7.png
by Bartosz Kosiorek on Monday February 1st 2021, 1:29
How did you installed Blink codec (what exact command)?
by Dennis Mayr on Monday February 1st 2021, 8:36
Just run the installer, and voilà :)
by Bartosz Kosiorek on Monday February 1st 2021, 9:21
by Dennis Mayr on Monday February 1st 2021, 10:56
RAD