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GTA 4 looked great with iCEnhancer1.3? Guess again cause these screenshots will leave you speechless

DSOGaming writes: "By now, most of you will probably know iCEnhancer, the graphical mod that transformed GTA4 to one of the best looking games ever. What you might not know however, is that iCEnhancer is based on the ENB series for GTA4 and to prove how much better a tweaked version of ENB can be, “gionight” went ahead and captured some breathtaking screenshots of his tweaked ENB Series version 0.82. And let us tell you that you haven’t seen anything like this. We were pretty amazed with some previous GTA4 modded screenshots but these latest ones will certainly make you upgrade your system. Yeap, they are THAT good."

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swishersweets200314617d ago

a turd is still a turd even if you put a bow on it.

rabidpancakeburglar4617d ago

Yes but then it's a pretty turd, bows make everything better. Ugly girlfriend, slap a bow on it. Handing divorce papers to your husband/wife, slap a bow on it. Giving a christmas present someone didn't want, slap a bow on it. Bows solve all of life's problems.

Chug4617d ago

In other words...a pretty turd is better than an ugly turd.

saladthieves4617d ago

I just compared this to my PS3 copy and...it (the PS3 copy) seems to be so many miles behind.

Makes me wonder why I even have the copy.

pixelsword4617d ago

is this in-game actual gameplay, or the usual screenshots from still activity because actual movement in-game will blow-up the computer type of deal?

reddeadite4617d ago

Got an ugly looking bow? Put a bow on it... BAM!
B O W C E P T I O N

Pl4sm44616d ago

got cancer ? ... slap a bow on it ...got run over by a car ? ...slap a bow on it ....u are falling from 10,000 feet to ur death ? .... slap a bow on it ..... ur right rabidpancake..ect ... woah .. big username

dazzalfc4616d ago

Beyonce, next time, don't put a ring on it, SLAP A BOW ON IT!

*Does funky Beyonce ass shaking*

Danteh4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

I honestly think the other mod looks much better.

I had a really hard time trying to differenciate between real life and in-game with iCEnchancer 1.3, but in this ENB mod the only really photorealistic pic is the first one.

nveenio4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

I put ENB on my copy the other day, and it looks awful in motion. The lighting is soooo uneven. These mods make pretty screenshots, but the in-game experience suffers for it. I wound up removing ENB, and I like the game much better now.

But I'll give this one a shot and see how it goes.

DragonKnight4616d ago

This again? Geez, who cares? GTA4 is old. You want to impress people? Use these mods on NEWER and BETTER games. People have too much time on their hands and they waste it on trying to make mediocre games look better. This is the state of gaming folks. Where a game is judged on its looks instead of its substance. Kinda sounds familiar doesn't it?

snipes1014616d ago

Thank you DragonKnight. This is exactly my sentiment. The game is boring and yet now it's getting a ton of unwarranted and undeserved attention because it looks pretty.

Geeze, the things that the next generation has done to the gaming community. Why can't we talk about how the damn things play anymore?

specialguest4616d ago

rabidpancakeburglar may have just invented a new internet meme phrase:

Slap a bow on it - to solve all of life's problems with a bow.

example:
1. Ugly girlfriend, slap a bow on it.

2. Giving a christmas present someone didn't want, slap a bow on it.

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Dovahkiin4617d ago

I don't see this turd you speak of, how ignorant some folk are.

YogiBear4616d ago

Some people have a hard time with the fact that the franchise grew up a little bit.

bozebo4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

Yeah, GTA4 is a great game.

But it severely lacks in content and gameplay where San Andreas excelled. The best change is the shooting.

Even the missions in GTA4 had considerably reduced gameplay mechanics compared to San Andreas or Vice City.

I blame it on the DVD limitation (and some idiot is going to say San Andreas was also on a DVD - yes, but with vastly reduced space requirements for textures and other assets).

GTA4 did grow up, and mostly for the better - but it's a game; it should have fun stuff to do.

ChrisW4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

If GTAIV is a turd... then I like playing with fecal matter.

Quagmire4617d ago

Is that what happened to you?

Goddamn those pics look amazing, I thought the first pic was Real Life!

Hozi894617d ago

Dude I swear the same thing happened to me when I first looked at it. I was like "Oh wtf, they messin with my head and puut real life people walking around" then I looked at the pic with Niko in the car and was like "No Effing Way"...Rockstar has got their asses cooked now. If they can't compete with this for GTA5 then "Boooo!!!"

ilovepsvita4616d ago

There pics are indeed stellar.

JsonHenry4616d ago

The site is a spammers/phishers heaven..

Perjoss4616d ago

Regardless of what a few internet trolls say, GTAIV has a metascore of 98 and is enjoyed was enjoyed by millions.

vortis4616d ago

Agreed.

It's the most intense and evolved game this entire generation. There's never a dull moment to be had and Rockstar ensured that gamers make use of EVERY inch of their sprawling city.

I still haven't even completed everything there's so much to do. That's not to mention with the icEnhancer GTA IV is literally the most immersive game I've played this generation. It feels so authentic and like you're really part of a living, breathing city.

the_best_player4616d ago

He means GTA4 sucks and yes the gameplay did not top GTA San Andreas. So having nice graphics means the game still sucks for fun but looks nice.

vortis4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

I would ask you how the gameplay doesn't top GTA SA but you only have one bubble.

If you mean airplanes? Then yes, GTA IV doesn't have airplanes but there's not really enough room to make use of them like in GTA SA.

If you mean interactivity then you're waaaaay off the mark. The fighting, the shooting, the chase sequences, the social interactivity, the verticality, Euphoria, the physics-based destruction, etc., run circles around GTA SA.

If you enjoyed mindless, stupid fun then yes, there was more of that in GTA SA just like in Saints Row. If you're looking for a next-gen immersive experience then GTA IV delivers in spades.

Only a 12 year old would say GTA SA is better and that's probably because of Hot Coffee.

Kaos_Vll4616d ago

@vortis

GTA:SA had what GTA4 lacked, fun.

Dislike GTA:SA and Saints row all you want, but only a pompous jackass would disregard the very reason people play VIDEO GAMES, to have mindless, stupid fun...

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NukaCola4617d ago

That is photorealism at it's finest. I would really like to see this running in real time. Can't wait to see it in action.

--Onilink--4617d ago

its perfectly possible to run in real time, my PC could run IceEnhancer above 30FPS always, the only problem is that the mod is not really designed to work with the newest NVIDIA cards so they tend to overheat a lot, so i decided to uninstall it.

My PC is definitely not average though. Core i7 3GHZ, 6GB ram 1666Mhz, 2 x GTX570 SC in Sli

FlameBaitGod4617d ago

gimme ur gaming rig plz :)

ATi_Elite4616d ago

I'm running Icenhancer over 60FPS on 560ti GTX SLi and my cards have no problem with this mod! But i set my fan speed manually to 65%. I never use auto fan cause it allows cards to get too hot!

single card set-ups that barely can run this mod do have a tendency to get hot but then again they are borderline for running this intense mod and that's why most You-tube videos have horrible car physics cause the cards memory is maxed out!

This mod is best run on a HD6970 580GTX or higer or a SL or CF set-up!! GTAIV was not optimized very well from the get go as it was a poorly done port and then you add so many textures on top of that and the Icenhancer mod will make your GPU work hard and break a sweat!!

y0haN4616d ago

ATi_Elite, you can make your own fan profile with MSI Afterburner. You can use it on Nvidia/ATI and any subvendor as far as I know. That way you can control the fanspeed at whatever temperature intervals you want. Recommended.

AKS4616d ago

Hmm, I have a 2600K and 2 6950s in Crossfire. 8GB of RAM @ 1866. I may try it out.

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Flavor4616d ago

It's stuff like this and the crysis 2 dx11 nonsense that makes PC gaming averse to most gamers. Even if rigs cost far less, and must be updated less frequently, this technobabble and e-peen measuring just scares off potential users.
The only thing that can kill pc gaming? pc gamers.

Hufandpuf4617d ago

It's settled, I need a gaming PC. This is THE BEST looking game ever now. Disagree, I dare you.

Cablephish4617d ago

What now?!

I kid, I kid, I agree'd, the graphics are amazing, but I'd like to see it in action.

rabidpancakeburglar4617d ago

I'm not one to back down from a dare.

rabidpancakeburglar4617d ago

And I'll agree with that to restore the balance

pixelsword4617d ago

I dare you to give me $10,000

C'mon, I double dog dares ya!

*whistles*

teedogg804617d ago

You're right about that. These are the best looking graphics I've ever laid eyes on.

dark-hollow4617d ago

I dont know why you have a lot of disagrees!

Disagrees and agrees on n4g are very unpredictable!
In any other site that has them, any good comment gets thumped up and bad comments and trolling gets slammed.
Here, it's like a fight between the disagree and the agrees!
One moment a guy gets 10 agree 2 disagree,
The other moment it becomes 13 agrees 30 disagree!

just_looken4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

Its nice but i disagree beacuse gtaiv draw distance and fps are beyond bad with these mods(heck the original was a disaster). If you stand stil or move slowly yes very nice but fight/car drive or get the cops over and sloooowdowns or a simple ctd.

HERE LOOK AT THE BAD DRAW DISTANCE AND STRETCHED IMAGE WHEN SCROLLING
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

@below c2 is dx9 native patched for 11 this is a dx9 game so it may come close but c1 can.

--Onilink--4617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

Probably the disagrees are from PS3 fanboys who think Uncharted looks better and 360 fanboys who thinks Gears looks better...

Overall i think right now the only think that can possibly compete with this graphics is Crysis 2 PC with DX 11 and Ultra Textures pack, that shit looks insane, and the amount of lightning/reflection/shadows effects are amazing

Blaine4617d ago

@dark:

Yes, the agree/disagree system on this site is retarded. I feel like they should get rid of the disagree button altogether. It just promotes a negative environment.

Also, the mods are extremely negative. I see so many users with great comments, but it's extremely rare to see anyone with more than 5 bubbles. Most people have less than 5 though.

kikizoo4616d ago

Poor onilink, dreaming of that kind of graphics...in real time : can't happend without slowdowns and others glitchs, go play your screenshots with your new supercard who cost more than a console, we have the best games ;)

bozebo4616d ago (Edited 4616d ago )

@just_looken

That is running on a BAD graphics card.

And the "stretched image" is caused by the video codec, there may be some deliberate motion blur shader in the game but when put into a low quality video format it looks quite bad.

Also, that is not "scrolling".

Go be a troll somewhere else, or learn what you are trying to talk about.

@Blaine
True, I once lost a bubble for saying OnLive would be laggy (and it really is, even if you have a ping of 30ms to the servers - people who think it isn't laggy are obviously used to input lag already from other factors like bad performance on their console/pc while gaming) and then somehow regained my bubble and have 5 again now :P

@kikizoo
The graphics cards cost more than a console because they are 30 to 50 times more powerful than a console, anybody who has ever bought a high-end graphics card will be extremely satisfied with their purchase. Go on and keep playing your 30fps input lagged games, they may be good games but until they can actually be played that doesn't count. And no, I am not a graphics whore - I run most of my PC games on low settings for a smooth frame rate and they still look as good as the console versions and sometimes better, but with all the other advantages of the PC platform being available to me.

If console games would allow you to reduce graphics settings to get a good frame rate I wouldn't have built a gaming PC.

Console gamers are the true graphics whores because they want 'good' graphics and don't care if that makes the game unplayable and kills the content (textures take up a LOT of disk space which would otherwise be used for more stuff to do in the game).

If the developers could make console games look like they should and run at good frame rates, that would be great - but they can't because the game won't sell well to the shallow consumer base who will complain it looks bad. Indie and small developer games sell extremely well on PC because it is a lot easier to program a good looking PC game.

Last generation was the best because it was also DVD bottlenecked but more space was left for actual gameplay content (compare Oblivion to Morrowind or GTA4 to San Andreas).

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Tanir4616d ago

um, yes the enviorments look amazing but the characters still look like crap lol. very life like though with cars and buildings, but the people look WAY out of place

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john24617d ago (Edited 4617d ago )

Well, you can also find a download link for this mod in the story (for those interested in trying it)

Narutone664617d ago

Here's the link:
www.gta4-mods.com/misc/gionig htss-best-enb-final-f9889

Try it and let us know the outcome and the game play. Frankly I haven't played any GTA games and I'm very interested in this. I might try my hand at PC gaming again and upgrade my PC or buy a high-end PC.

Motorola4617d ago

Downgrading GTA is a pain in the ass. I lose 20 FPS just by doing so.

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Mainline Grand Theft Auto trailers ranked from best to worst

As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.

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purple101134d ago

We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now

Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.

This site supposed to be for news.

roadkillers134d ago

These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.

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Grand Theft Auto 4 Anniversary: The Beginning of the Age of RAGE

Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.

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franwex351d ago

Wasn’t the Table Tennis game the first to use RAGE?

isarai351d ago

Was about to say the same, but they do say first "in the franchise" so 🤷

cammers1995351d ago

The fact it hasnt been remastered is insane.

Abear21351d ago

Rage engine made driving on the sidewalk in cinematic slow motion camera a blast

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Fifteen Years On, 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Is Still the Series’ Best

There’s never a bad time to relive its magic, and with rumours of a potential Grand Theft Auto IV remaster making the rounds, why wouldn’t you?

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Machina354d ago

The series' most overhyped and overrated (especially by critics) more like.

Number1TailzFan353d ago

Not sure tbh.. I'd say 3 was the most overrated. It's pretty rough to go back to, it was quite rough even trying it just after Vice City. Lack of humour and vehicles that had the weight of polystyrene with top speeds to match.

VC & the stories games (even LCS) were all fun. I remember there being a lot of praise for GTA 3 on TV and in game mags, saying it was a Dreamcast killer of a game or words to that effect, and honestly after playing it on PC I didn't think it was that special and kind of dull, had the odd moment of fun but hardly anything. I heard they cut online multiplayer at the last moment for PC, shame because it could've made all the difference.

Would've loved to have seen what kind of cartoony GTA style game they could've done on Dreamcast as a competitor, I bet something along the lines of Simpsons Hit & Run would've worked well.

BlackTar187353d ago

@numberz How can the game that defined a generation and was copied by everyone be overrated? Was a asinine comment

seanpitt23353d ago

For me 4 was better than 5 was more realistic and the physics was on another level! 5 was a major let down in that department!

Number1TailzFan353d ago

@blacktar you have your opinion i have mine. I found the game dull, and it is for the most part. It set the foundation for the much superior SA and VC however.

KwietStorm_BLM352d ago

You say GTA III is overrated because it's rough to go back to and rough to play after Vice City. Your entire opinion is in hindsight. Of course it's rough going back to it today. It came out over 20 years ago. That doesn't take away from the fact that it pioneered a lot and was a paradigm shift for a lot of trends in game development today. Vice City in a lot of ways is just a more refined version of III. It was San Andreas that took the big leap forward from a design perspective. If III doesn't release, who knows if the open world genre would be what it is now. How can that be overrated?

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1nsomniac353d ago (Edited 353d ago )

Not at all. My most played game of all time. Truly stunning accomplishment in gaming and with PC graphics mods it just took it to levels beyond anything that came before and possibly even after.

People who moan about it generally tend to be people who played it on under powered consoles and couldn’t handle the more realistic car physics. It was the slightly more realistic approach that made it stand out more. Absolutely love it. In fact I always said Vice city was my favourite of all time. But after going back to the remaster I realised 4 was actually the best.

Profchaos353d ago (Edited 353d ago )

I'm no critic and I consider it the best games in the franchise after recently replaying every entry it's story when paired in conjunction with it's DLC was and still is amazing.

shinoff2183352d ago

Lol. Fun fact. That dlc cost a certain green colored console 50 million for exclusiveness. Un heard of back then. Just to point out the hypocrisy of the 3rd party exclusive agenda going on.

Anyway how the dlc better then the base game by a mile. Lol imo

DigitallyAfflicted352d ago

I've enjoyed gta4 the most from all the others too.

DarXyde352d ago

San Andreas holds a special place in my heart. Honestly, I couldn't get into IV at all. Didn't even finish it. I had some pride in playing it at first because I'm originally a New Yorker, but it just didn't do it for me.

To each their own.

shinoff2183352d ago (Edited 352d ago )

Gta sa for sure. To this day my favorite. My least fav is gta 4 easily. Gta 4 made me feel like the dude in next friday trying to take the cd back talking about i cant get jiggy wit this.

Maybe looking back it would be 3 but 3 did so damn much for gaming in general. . My first gta was of course the top downs so the series has came a long way.

notachance352d ago

Yeah I remembered falling asleep playing the last mission in GTA4.. the most boring protagonist (out of all the voiced protag), and the town is too small.

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-Foxtrot353d ago

Not really

Overrated

Boring

Liberty City despite being a reimagined version for the HD era lacked any variety

Lacked the GTA fun charm overall

Niko was bland compared to past protagonists like Tommy, CJ or Victor

blackblades353d ago (Edited 353d ago )

GTA 2 was the best, lol my only owned GTA game. Vice city was alright when I rented it back then. I cant really say which is the best cause those the only 2 games i played but GTA 2 was fun on PC back in the day. Closes game to it that I enjoyed was SR3 and I dont care what people say. That none serious tone was fun enjoyable.

banger88353d ago

Like hell it is. San Andreas was far better, much more fun and a better game overall.

isarai353d ago

Nah, it's a masterpiece in attention to detail and the amount of immersive systems at play. But it really isn't very fun, ESPECIALLY when compared to the previous games in the series. Like tons of things are just wonky and actively kneecap lots of experimentation, or is just lame. Like why do I take huge damage when falling into water, why can I only stand in very specific large trucks when they are moving but not smaller trucks and vehicles, why is the melee combat such a massive down grade from GTA SA and GTA IV, why is the euphoria nowhere near as reactive, why is being drunk using a rasterized animation of staggering rather than the far more entertaining euphoria GTAIV and RDR used when you were drunk, why do npc vehicles barely react to you popping there tires even at high speed, etc etc.

I've always loved playing around in GTA games world. Like the campaigns are great but the majority of my time was always spent just playing in the open world. Yet GTAV is the only game in the series I never really returned to after beating it, it just lacks that fun factor the others have, I spent more time in GTA SA remastered than GTAV

chicken_in_the_corn353d ago

It's one of my least favourite GTA games. It's clunky, the ai is exploitable, it's far too long and the writing is absolutely awful.

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