timppu: Here is the GTA IV benchmark results on my old ASUS G75VW gaming laptop (using the graphics options that the game suggested, and vsync off):
Statistics
Average FPS: 61.67
Duration: 36.82 sec
CPU Usage: 46%
System memory usage: 29%
Video memory usage: 13%

Graphics Settings
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 (60 Hz)
Texture Quality: High
Shadow Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: Very High
Texture Filter Quality: Anisotropic x4
Night Shadows: Off
View Distance: 25
Detail Distance: 31

Hardware
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Service Pack 1
Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
Video Driver version: 391.35
Audio Adapter: Speakers (VIA HD Audio)
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz

During the gameplay though, without vsync the framerate did seem to dip a little bit under 30 fps at some points. I'd say the game was running at around 24-75 fps depending what was on the screen. I didn't try to change the graphics options to see how much they'd affect it.

With vsync on, it would fluctuate between 60 and 30 fps.

However, it runs considerably better than what I was expecting, considering the age of my PC. For this type of game, I consider it quite playable, so I might actually start playing it now while I'm at it (I played until the First Date; I managed to kill my date (Michelle) in a freak "accidentally drive the car into a 4-feet deep pool in a park while trying to find a way out of the park"-accident, Michelle drowned. :(

In a fast online shooter like Team Fortress 2, constant 60 fps is much more important to me than this kind of "driving/walking simulator" with sluggish controls.

It is interesting though that from what you said, it appears the GTA IV will not run considerably better on more powerful hardware? Or what were your graphics settings, everything at max (draw distance etc.)? Maybe I will also try how GTA V runs on this same old PC.

jepsen1977: I recently tried GTA 4 on my 8-year old pc with a GTX 760 OC 2gb vram quad-core I5 processor and 8gb RAM and the game ran like shit with lots of stuttering and hitching and frame drops. A few years ago I played GTA 5 on the same PC and it ran much better than 4 so I would say 5 is much better optimized than 4.

timppu: Now they are trying to expand their userbase aggressively with free games. Apparently it is working if their web site went down today due to people rushing in to download their client, in order to get free GTA V.

How many of those new users turn into paying customers, that remains to be seen. Then again, they also already have all the Fortnite players, some of which even spend money on the game. Not sure what their angle will be to get people to buy games there instead of Steam, is it simply price competition or what.

I don't recall if I read it here before, was it so that they are somehow using the Unreal Engine too to entice publishers to the store, like "you can use the Unreal Engine for free if you release the game exclusively on Epic store" or something like that?

timppu: Here is the GTA IV benchmark results on my old ASUS G75VW gaming laptop

fronzelneekburm: None of the tests would ever go far above 60, so I honestly thought there was some framerate cap at work here. This suspicion turned out to be wrong when I was indoors and the framerate went up to 100something. Also, for some reason I was unable to force VSync on during these benchmark tests. I ran separate benchmark tests for Lost and the Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony and those had even worse results at 60.51 and 51.12 respectively. And like you said, in outdoor sections the framerate tanks into the 30-ish levels. What a mess.

wolfsite: Very tempted to make my first purchases the South Park games on Epic, the voucher would make them the cheapest they have been including the season pass.

TheMonkofDestiny: I don't think that's accurate. The gold edition of FBW has been under $10 previously and SOT has been under $5 without its 2 DLCs.

wolfsite: I'm in Canada so prices are different

tort1234: I am not sure how long Epic store can keep giving out free games.

Sooner or later they will go into a loss. Its not like a lot of people are making epic accounts to actually buy games there.

timppu: Does Epic client have a similar "show FPS" option as Steam does? Or do I have to use some 3rd party program to see the fps?

Just interested to see what kind of framerates I'm getting in GTA V on my old laptop. To my surprise, at least it seems playable at 1920x1080 resolution, but I am not sure what kind of framerates I am getting. I presume with vsync on it is generally around 30 fps, occasionally clearly dipping below that (mostly on those cinematic parts).

Also wanted to see if e.g. running the game in 1280x720 resolution instead helps with the framerates to stay more stable.

When I ran the game the first time, it warned me that my CPU doesn't fulfill the frequency requirements for the game. Not sure what those requirements are, I have a 4-core, 2.3GHz i7 CPU on this 8 years old laptop. Anyway, as said, the game still seemed fully playable.

Oh, a gameplay question for both GTA IV and V: is there an option to fix the camera behind the car while driving? I didn't recall this (been awhile when I played the earlier GTA games), but having to control both the car and the camera while driving is... driving me nuts. (*badam-tsihhh*)

Maybe I will get used to it in time and did that with earlier games in the series too, but I'd prefer if the camera stayed behind the car all the time... and automatically going in front if I'm on reverse, of course.

In GTA V you have the option to switch to the first-person view, but then you don't see the cars around you.