How to fix the graphics on GTA IV

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When I bought GTA IV from steam, the graphics were automaticly on the lowest. I of course, wanted to turn them up. It wouldn't work. It just said; "Your graphics settings are near, or exceeded the suggested resource limits for your system…. etc"
I have a decent gaming desktop computer, so graphics shouldn't be a problem. Please help D:enter image description here

Best Answer

Since GTA IV was made a while ago, it gets confused when it has more than 2GB of VRAM available to it.
You have to open up the properties either in steam, or in the shortcut of the game and set launch options to -nomemrestrict -norestrictions in order to be able to change the graphics settings.