The Complete Guide

Comprehensive guide and walkthrough for Grand Theft Auto IV on PC, covering controls, missions, vehicles, glitches, and more. Updated June 13, 2020.

This is the PC version guide and walkthrough for Grand Theft Auto IV, updated on 06/13/2020 by glenster. It covers a wide range of topics including introduction, PC health, saving games, settings, controls, vehicles, people, ghost world, odds and ends, glitches, radio, TV, internet, phone numbers, video walkthroughs, and starting the main missions. It also details wanted ratings, weapons, health, armor, and a comprehensive mission walkthrough broken down into parts.

Walkthrough:

1. Introduction: New tech, features, thanks, personal info, tributes, PC health (disk cleaning, updates, closing apps, support, tweaks, volume, system requirements, budget hardware/software), saving games (convenience, starter package, advice, tools for finding collectibles and pickups, mods, 100% completion), settings, stats, single player and multiplayer achievements, console vs. PC differences, and controller adapters.
2. Controls: Foot controls, firing/fight move controls (standard third-person shooter camera with free aim, punching), vehicle controls (land vehicles, stunt information like wallrides and superjumps, helicopter controls).
3. Vehicles: Rundown of four-wheel vehicles, motorcycles, scooters, helicopters, jets, boats, skycar, and subway, with real-world names.
4. People: A rundown of some of the people who drive the vehicles.
5. Ghost World: How to get under the map, explore ghost world, get Niko underwater, and enter normally unavailable interiors.
6. Odds and Ends: Mentions of GTA clones/forerunners and game updates.
7. Glitches: Problem glitches (Taxi bug, Dwayne not available) and fun glitches (ATM infinite money, missions with low wanted rating risk, shooting yellow markers, increasing ammo, making weapons automatic, grenade throwing, making vehicles indestructible, increasing sports car speed, cloning vehicles, chroming the world without mods, getting more money from Brucie's Exotic Exports, swing glitch, Billboard of Death, surviving helicopter jumps, hanging from helicopters, street surfing, winning races uncontested, passenger knocking Niko from vehicle, player sticking to/above another vehicle, creating whirlpools, boxing heads/strippers/zombies, bypassing strip club propositions, propane tank explosions, flying across town with gas tank gadgets, ghost riding, spawning vehicles mid-air, dramatic entrances).
8. Radio, TV, Internet, Phone Numbers/Codes: Information on in-game media and communication.
9. Video Walkthroughs: Links to