You need to re-think your cooling there on your processor Mihail. lol.
I crash on joining the server. Compatibility mode has not helped.
I re-installed GTA IV and reformatted my hard drive aswell(Needed to be done anyway lol).
Even dough the temperature is still around 60 C when I play.. it doesn't lag at all because I switched to windowed mode and lowered resolution. Now the crashes are also quite rare ^^
I think it's not because of cooling because the moment I turn off GTA it lowers down to 45 C in matter of 30-40s D:
Mine can reach 90c in extreme situations thanks to the stock cooler -.-
loooool.. rendering HD raw videos? xD
I fixed the crashes by uninstalling the game and not re-installing it.
w00t xD