GTA 5 to look way better on PC.

[cmdrdredd]

I'm running everything at the highest setting except no MSAA but I use 2x on reflections and grass which is turned down to very high instead of ultra. That was the killer.

Also I had to turn on vsync which I usually don't. Reason being I was seeing 120fps at times but when it dipped to 80 which it did often, it would hitch. Turned on vsync and it's locked to 60fps nearly everywhere. Good enough for me.

Stole fighter jet, was told to land but didn't. Got hit by a missile and sank to the bottom of the ocean and the ocean bottom was HD and very detailed... 10/10

To keep it there's a trick. Fly straight up immediately after takeoff at full afterburner. Don't look behind you just fly up. the jets following you will despawn and you'll be above tank range. Fly wherever you want from there.

Later on you can buy a hanger and store one there so you can always have it available.

 

[Coffinmaker]

how do I show the FPS?

 

[Coffinmaker]

update, after playing for an hour, with my specs and playing 1680x1050, I'm getting flawless results. I can't beleive the life that this world has. It really feels like an actual city.

 

[finbarqs]

what can you do in the world besides the missions?

 

[JeffMD]

http://www.ign.com/wikis/gta-5/Strangers_and_Freaks

http://gta.wikia.com/Category:Side_Missions

http://www.ign.com/wikis/gta-5/Collectibles

 

[chubbyfatazn]

what can you do in the world besides the missions?

As Nebor so aptly said before:

I'll let you guys know how many prostitutes I murder.

 

[escrow4]

Engine doesn't see that stable. Performance sure but general stability still away's to go. Around 7hrs of gameplay, 3 generic D3D crashes. The game just dumps and errors out. One seemed to be not following a scripted ish path, another going online, then offline a bit later locked it up, and a third just random. This is after 400MB of patches yesterday. More screens:











Honestly I prefer a single character like IV. Unlocked 2 so far, Franklin seems like a knock off Carl, Michael is a knock off Soprano. And the gunplay audio really needs an asap fix.

 

[Grooveriding]

 

[PrincessFrosty]

So since 50GB+ games are becoming the norm now, when the hell are we going to see data caps increase? As it stands a 60GB download is just a tad less than half of my data cap of 125GB.

How is this digital distribution model sustainable if ISP's don't increase caps or get rid of them, I'm paying way to much for internet as is and its complete bullshit.

They'll change as the technology increases in telecommunications, laying down infrastructure is expensive and slow so speed increases and data cap increases tend to come in jumps, at least they do in the UK. I was just bumped to 152Mbit last month.

It's the same as any other resource though, bandwidth is not really any different from gas or electricity, there's a per unit cost associated, if you want more data then just buy more expensive packages, I pay nearly £50 a month for my internet connection alone but then I also downloaded GTAV in about an hour and a half moments before the game launch.

 

[Whitestar127]

Found a odd issue,i got 8gb of ram in my system and no pagefile usually as i simply game.This game crashes the second i hit a hairline over 4gb of ram as if i got only 4gb of ram?I get a windows error about low system memory and the game crashes.

Enable a pagefile and my memory usage overall peaks a bit over 5gb?All 8gb of ram is accounted for.Vram usage is hitting nearly 2900mb before the crash on my 970.

I had this issue, somewhere a few pages ago. 16GB ram here and same thing. I enabled pagefile and issues went away, but I also scaled from 3x1080p down to 1x1080p. Not sure which solved it but something did.

Had the same issue. It's the pagefile. I had mine set to 200MB, but I found several threads on the Rockstar forums where people reported changing pagefile to "Managed by system" or just increasing it would solve the problem. And it did solve the problem for me.

That's exactly what I'm going to do when I get home from work. I don't have a briefcase though, so I'll have to buy one, and then throw it out the window.

 

[DeathReborn]

Are you sure you waited long enough? It took the first disc forever to install on my system. I was beginning to think it was stuck myself. Total install time of just the disc was around the 2 hr mark

I figured 30 minutes was enough time. The discs just spin and then stop with no recognition at all.

I left it downloading overnight and have just 22GB left to go... @336KB/s.

They'll change as the technology increases in telecommunications, laying down infrastructure is expensive and slow so speed increases and data cap increases tend to come in jumps, at least they do in the UK. I was just bumped to 152Mbit last month.

It's the same as any other resource though, bandwidth is not really any different from gas or electricity, there's a per unit cost associated, if you want more data then just buy more expensive packages, I pay nearly £50 a month for my internet connection alone but then I also downloaded GTAV in about an hour and a half moments before the game launch.

Expect that 152Mbit to be 300Mbit in the next 18 months (50>100, 100>200 & 152>300 coming soon). Actually bandwidth expansion is taking a back seat to speed increases. Where I did some contract work (Newnet ISP) there was an average speed increase of 278% and in the 2 years prior and since just a 20% boost in available bandwidth.

 

[renz20003]

To keep it there's a trick. Fly straight up immediately after takeoff at full afterburner. Don't look behind you just fly up. the jets following you will despawn and you'll be above tank range. Fly wherever you want from there. Later on you can buy a hanger and store one there so you can always have it available.

Thanks for the tip :thumbsup:

 

[skipsneeky2]

Had the same issue. It's the pagefile. I had mine set to 200MB, but I found several threads on the Rockstar forums where people reported changing pagefile to "Managed by system" or just increasing it would solve the problem. And it did solve the problem for me.

That honestly is the only issue i have ran into,the game itself is a absolute masterpiece and expecting a day one bug free game would have been a bit unrealistic considering the mess GTA4 was.Looks amazing,performance is miles better then GTA4 and its a blast.Played all day yesterday without missing a beat as well.

Saw others mention the benchmark being broken,works perfectly fine here but where does this file save too?I wouldn't mind sharing my results perhaps in a benchmark thread of sorts or here.

 

[DeadFred]

Saw others mention the benchmark being broken,works perfectly fine here but where does this file save too?I wouldn't mind sharing my results perhaps in a benchmark thread of sorts or here.

Does your benchmark give overall results at the end, like GTA4 did? Mine doesn't.

 

[DeadFred]

My only complaint about the missions so far is the over the top foul language. I curse like a sailor IRL myself, but Franklin and Lamar's conversations are effing ridiculous. They make Scarface look like an alter boy!

 

[Oyeve]

My only complaint about the missions so far is the over the top foul language. I curse like a sailor IRL myself, but Franklin and Lamar's conversations are effing ridiculous. They make Scarface look like an alter boy!

I take it you've never been to south LA. The depiction is pretty accurate.

 

[sam_816]

My only complaint about the missions so far is the over the top foul language. I curse like a sailor IRL myself, but Franklin and Lamar's conversations are effing ridiculous. They make Scarface look like an alter boy!

This is one of biggest reasons that turned me off. Everybody in this city from pedestrians, police, major NPCs and other drivers use wayyy too abusive language.

Rockstar should have named the city to 'where everybody knows your mother..'

 

[destrekor]

I take it you've never been to south LA. The depiction is pretty accurate.

My only complaint about the missions so far is the over the top foul language. I curse like a sailor IRL myself, but Franklin and Lamar's conversations are effing ridiculous. They make Scarface look like an alter boy!

Doesn't even need to be any particular part of LA. Just find the right people (i.e. people like them), and they'll sound authentic. I've known plenty who fit that bill.

 

[destrekor]

This is one of biggest reasons that turned me off. Everybody in this city from pedestrians, police, major NPCs and other drivers use wayyy too abusive language.

Rockstar should have named the city to 'where everybody knows your mother..'

Where are you guys from that find this out of the norm?

Here I am, feeling like I fit right in. :biggrin:

 

[sam_816]

Where are you guys from that find this out of the norm?





Here I am, feeling like I fit right in. :biggrin:

Well I don't know where you live but I have never lived in a place like that. I have lived in 3 countries. every city has a part/neighbourhood like los Santos but not the whole city.

 

[destrekor]

I haven't been looking at system resource usage. Have you seen errors that actually point to memory issue, or are you guessing that based on what you are seeing?

I've been getting crashes galore, at first I wondered if it was some specific bug to 3x1080p and Crossfire, but I've done a few different things and it still happens.

2x290X in CF, 3x1080p, and I just get the standard "stopped responding" or whatever it says.

Just an update: this is resolved, it appears.

I, unfortunately, did not use proper troubleshooting methods, but I couldn't bring myself to give a rat's ass about that.

I previously installed the latest 15.4 Catalyst beta on top of the current driver I had (the 15.3 beta). I at first wanted to test if that would be a fine way to do it, because frankly, I hate reconfiguring Eyefinity and recreating my hotkeys to enable and disable said Eyefinity. However, during installation, the installer pointed out the driver version was the same, but a few other components, namely CCC, were different. I'm not sure where the Xfire profiles and whatnot are actually stored (likely CCC?), but I found this curious.

So I uninstalled, used DDU in safemode, and then proceeded to reinstall fresh.

Later, prior to getting into a game session, I realized there might be something I had forgot to do earlier. I've recently settled on turning HPET completely off, both in Windows and in BIOS, but I am also dual-booting OS X and am currently trying to figure out how to make that work without HPET. So I have to turn on HPET in BIOS in order to boot, and I had forgot to disable it once I went to boot back into Windows.

After both of those steps, I no longer have crashing. Between these events, there have been no additional patches to the game or Windows.

Note: I always had the pagefile enabled; regardless of how much RAM you have, it seems bad form to not have a pagefile. It goes beyond simply beyond an overflow, and is utilized even if all of your physical RAM is not actually filled. I thought about it recently when I finally upgraded from 8GB to 16GB, but decided against disabling it.


I am curious about something regarding Xfire, perhaps to include SLI:
in this game, I see the VRAM usage slider showing up to 8GB available VRAM, and shows the game is set to use around 7GB based on my settings.

Does this game make use of SFR and is able to pool all of the VRAM? Or is that just a weird result of multi-GPU?

 

[Whitestar127]

I am curious about something regarding Xfire, perhaps to include SLI:
in this game, I see the VRAM usage slider showing up to 8GB available VRAM, and shows the game is set to use around 7GB based on my settings.

Does this game make use of SFR and is able to pool all of the VRAM? Or is that just a weird result of multi-GPU?

I was going to ask the same question. Couldn't understand why it says total 8GB VRAM. Might be a SLI/CF bug, not sure.

 

[Majcric]

Does anybody know if this game got some kind of patch overnight? I mean it was very optimized before, but now it seems unbelievable good. I was running at 1080p with almost max settings. Now I'm playing at 1440p with almost max settings and everything seems really smooth.


The only thing I did different was OC my video card but there is no way I'm seeing these kind of gains from that.

 

[futurefields]

yeah extended distance scaling was the perf killer for me

enabling hd shadows is a must imo

 

[dougp]

Question, I've seen a few people here mention "Ultra" as an option for graphic effects, yet all I see is Very High as the max. I have a 980, and this pertains to a friend who is running SLI 980s - so, are people just using the wrong terms or am I missing something? Because GeForce Experience also "maxes" all my settings and none are at Ultra.