Application Details:
| Version: | Title Update 7 |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.gta4.com/ |
| Votes: | 2 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 4.0.1-staging |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything in Single Player, relatively good performance
What does not
Installer did not work.
The minimap has a strange outline, but this does not affect gameplay except by being uncomfortable.
Workarounds
Tried running the installer it in another WINEPREFIX and using another wine version and then it did work and installed without any issue.
What was not tested
Multiplayer (1.0.7.0 patch with XLiveLess.dll)
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Hardware:
GTX 750TI
I5 4440
16GB RAM
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Current | 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 | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 18 2013 | 1.7.2 | Yes | Yes | Silver | Alexis Emanuel Cirmi |
| 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.
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
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