The GTA V PC Version Thread (KEEP IT HERE)

@GoldenElementXL: yes, just like the crap shadow, density and AA on the PS4, its not all high settings, its a PS4 match

Then call it a PS4 match and not "High" settings like the article says. That's like when Herms say they "Max" out games when they are turning down AA and not using high res textures.

PC gamers like to exaggerate a little and this article isn't helping.

Ouch even the 750Ti manages +80fps at console settings, lmao

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-grand-theft-auto-5-pc-performance

Does anyone here gets slowdowns when driving fast if the Population Variety slider is all the way to the right?

Getting worried there for a sec?

Once again the 750ti paired with an i3 3410 outperforms the PS4. That magic power of console optimisation though.

GTA V getting closer to full mod support

Lol i thought there were huge differences between the Xbone and the PS4 version. lol cows. And I am only seeing sharper textures from the PC version.

You need full textures for 'max' but AA is subjective based on monitor and resolution

And here we go.
Keep em coming.

Doesnt that PC bulid use twin 970s in SLI?

This is a whole different game in first person mode.

I hope Rockstar does this for every upcoming GTA installment. It's brilliant.

To get 4k at 60fps, even a more powerful PC wouldn't be surprising.

That is true. I'm actually enjoying the game in first-person view. I still like driving cars in third-person view though.

The Rockstar Editor is pretty badass, really powerful editing tools and it can publish straight to Youtube at 60fps.

Little test i did with it.

I'm honestly really enjoying GTA Online. I never played it on consoles because I wanted to experience it for the first time on PC. Was it much worse before than it is now? It seems really well thought-out and fun, so I'm having trouble figuring out where the hate comes from. The only complaint I have is how long it takes to join a session/lobby.

I really like it myself but when it first launched it had serious issues and then R* added more issues by removing the "Replay" button when you finished a mission so people couldn't farm missions efficiently (read: spend more real money on in-game currency) so it got a bad rep.

2 day and less than 70 posts later I think the "hysteria" claim might have been a bit overblown... :P

Wat?!? Not at all! Why do you think physicists have been working so hard to find a way to unify the two?

Quantum Mechanics works very well at describing the motions and interactions of the very small (atomic and below), but doesn't at all describe the universe at larger scales. The standard model - including the important contributions of General Relativity - still does an amazing job of describing the motion and interactions of the universe at larger than quantum scales, as it has now for a Century. (with certain exceptions. For example General relativity and the Standard model conflict mathematically about Black Hole event horizons. Also the SM - with GR in tow - have no solid answers about dark matter or dark energy, even though they manifest themselves at large scales)

The problem is that physicists would very much like to believe there is actually one set of universal laws that applies from the smallest quark to the largest galactic cluster. They call this elusive set of Laws generically "The Theory of Everything". Some examples are String Theory, Quantum Loop Theory, Supersymmetry, and M Theory. There are countless others. But even if we do someday discover A Theory of Everything, we would still use classical physics and general relativity as we do today. Because even though they can't explain everything, what they do describe they do very accurately.

If we were going to abandon classical physics (aka Standard Model) we wouldn't be wasting our time and money searching for the Higgs Boson for example, which is predicted by the SM and necessary for it to work.

@santoron: Okay, I swear I have a full fledged answer to this ready, but I have been traveling all day now, and will try to get some sleep :p

So I'll get into this tomorrow for sure.

The twist is PC users are normally playing this right now. The ones who blew em out of proportions were either fake boys or DC boys.

I'll wait for the summer sale or winter sale for the massive price discount. Most likely it will be on winter sale.

That true.........True that! ;-)

@EducatingU_PCMR: I have 750TI but my monitor does not allow 1080p.

Loving playing this at 60FPS. I only get FPS drops when the sun comes up and goes down for some reason. Also, I don't have access to Nvidia's TXAA for some reason.

Very impressed with the game so far. Rockstar certainly delivered. If this is what a delayed game ends up as, I'm so ready to forgive the delay. Better a delayed game that performs well rather than a game that's released on time but littered with bugs.

Unfortunately, nothing is perfect, and performance is oddly affected when using Self Radio, sometimes even freezing for a good ten seconds or so when a song switch occurs, forcing me to use the in-game radio stations for the first time in many years. But that's certainly nothing gamebreaking.

At first I was getting very low frame rates and gpu usage when doing the first driving mission with Franklin but after doing some Nvidia Inspector tweaks I am running the game smoothly.

I completely maxed out the settings aside from MSAA being off.

That includes enabling PCSS for shadows and maxing the sliders while also enabling all advanced settings and maxing the advanced sliders as well.

At 1440p it's a smooth 60fps even when driving through the city fast.

At 4k (3840x2160) res the frame rate stays around 45 when driving fast.

I was surprised at how much better it looks even compared to the PS4.

Small things like advanced high quality shadows being turned on makes quite a difference visually.

Put MSAA on x2 then TXAA can be enabled.

lol IGN gave it a 10 again. The outrage would've been even funnier if it got any less.

Finally, he shows up.

Airstrips.....Schweet.

I like all the gauges in my airplane in first person mode. Yeah, not all of it is accurate, but I like the small touches they made.

Showing whether my landing gear is up or down is enough, really.

@clyde46 said:

Dat shaggin wagon :P

Is GTA V 60 gb game?

Yup. 65 to be exact.

wow!

Anyone else find that the mini-map's not very smooth? I thought I was getting massive dips in frame-rate at first, turned on Fraps to realise that it was a solid 60 FPS driving or on foot, and it was just because the map was jerky. It can actually be a little off-putting.

Buy it indzy. Lets play heist together.

Haven't got cash for GTA V on me atm lol. Will buy it eventually but at a much cheaper price. You carry on, i'll join you wen i buy it :)

No. Oh wait. It is. No biggie. Heck. It's not even my fattest game. My X-Plane 9 install is 78 GB.

Played around with the editor for a while

This is maxed in 4k downsampled to 1080p

Runs like complete garbage on my SLI 970 I just got today. I had a single one and was happy then decided to get a second one to take it to the next level. A single one runs better than two...

@Juub1990: yeah I guess a lot of people here have some crazy rigs to be ale to run GTAV at "max out" settings at 100fps and over 1080p. I have an i7 4770k, a 980gtx with 16gb ram SSD etc and only able to run around 35-45 on average in the bench mark test. My settings are pretty high but it's not "maxed out" at 1080p. I thought I paid some pretty pennies ($2000+) to build a fairly high end rig but I guess it's not enough.

But seriously though, what kind of rigs you guys have for that buttery smooth fps at 1080p+ at "max out" settings? I'm curious.

Here are a few settings worth playing around with to gain FPS without a big drop in visual quality.

Grass.

Shading quality (not sure this is the exact name of this setting).

Shadows.

Also, unless you have a 980 or up, I'd leave most of the advanced graphics options off if you want 60fps.

Turn off MSAA, Reflection MSAA, and set Shadow Quality to high. Soft Shadows to softest, not the Nvidia PCSS setting. You can set reflection quality to high too for more frames. People have also recommended setting Grass Quality to Very High.

With a mix of those settings, at 1920x1200, I get 60-80 FPS everywhere. i7 3770k @4.2GHz, GTX 970.

Yeah I know I could afford to lower some settings. I just kind of expected my setups to run a little better based on what others have said about them running on "max settings" at higher resolutions with better framerates than what I'm running. That's all.

@tonyleo01 I know I could drop settings but I've had people saying they had everything maxed out at 1440p on a 780ti and getting over 60fps. With a 970 I should be getting around the same thing.

@Juub1990: yeah I know. It's absolutely mind boggling. I guess I'm just not sure what people refer to as "max settings" in GTAV. In Far Cry 4, I could crank everything up to max settings in 1080p and run absolutely perfect. And when I say max settings, I mean you can't really get any more "max" than this unless you mess with the console settings. I'm also running windows 8.1. Don't know if that makes any difference.

Cool. GTA V runs okay on my laptop (1366x768). At Normal with FXAA and 2XMSAA, framerates are comfortably in the 40's. Set it to High and the framerates drop into the 30's. Still playable.