GTA 5 to look way better on PC.

[cmdrdredd]

Pretty sure online only.

 

[Oyeve]

All this is new to me since I don't play on any of the consoles. Am I right to assume the PC version is identical to the other versions other than graphics quality? It's a shame I had to wait 2 years to get it on my platform of choice, but thankfully they did a much better job this time around compared to GTA4.

I find there to be a lot of differences between 360 and pc. Cars handle differently (better on PC), cops arent on you as much and easier to get away from in PC version. Different/more NPCs in pc version, more variety of animalc in pc version, just loads of differences. Hell, I was playing GTAV up until a day before PC release. So its all still fresh in my head.

 

[mnewsham]

I find there to be a lot of differences between 360 and pc. Cars handle differently (better on PC), cops arent on you as much and easier to get away from in PC version. Different/more NPCs in pc version, more variety of animalc in pc version, just loads of differences. Hell, I was playing GTAV up until a day before PC release. So its all still fresh in my head.

The biggest difference I noticed is how much easier it is to shoot things on PC. Maybe it's just me, I have around 550 hours in counter strike in the past year so I have been playing a decent bit of FPS's on PC. On GTA V for PS3 (and later PS4), you HAD to rely on the auto aim or you just weren't getting quick shots off, especially not while driving. With the PC version though I am hitting shots I couldnt have even dreamed of hitting on console. Just 10x better.

 

[futurefields]

Does anybody know what the patch today updated?

 

[futurefields]

Patch notes

Players can no longer purchase more vehicles than their properties can store.
Players can now launch a video card benchmark test from the main menu.
Fixed an issue where facial features would not save correctly when transferring a character from Xbox 360 or PS3 and changing genders while editing the character's appearance.
Fixed an issue where players could become stuck in the clouds when voting to quick restart the Humane Labs Heist.
Fixed an issue where markers in the Rockstar Editor could not be deleted with the mouse.
Fixed various audio recording issues with Rockstar Editor clips.
Fixed an issue where the Yacht would not appear in some recorded Rockstar Editor clips.
Fixed a rare issue where some Rockstar Editor clips could not be opened for editing.
Fixed an issue where the GTAV Launcher would not display the correct amount of time remaining for file downloads.
The Steam overlay has been moved to prevent it from covering up Launcher buttons.
Fixed an issue where the game would not save your settings when restarting in some instances.
Fixed a rare issue where the Steam version of the game would crash right after launching.
Windows Media Player is no longer required to install GTAV. Instead, Windows Media Foundation will be required.
Fixed an issue where the game would show the pause menu without player input.
Fixed an issue where the max frame rate would be incorrectly low in rare cases.

 

[Nebor]

Anyone else find the combination of the cell phone, the map menu, and social club menu to be overwhelming? Trying to play a game with your friends is a terrible chore. Sometimes you finish a mission and you're in separate "sessions." You're not even in the same game world anymore.

Also, I've been having a ton of crashes with a fairly high end, problem free PC.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Anyone else find the combination of the cell phone, the map menu, and social club menu to be overwhelming? Trying to play a game with your friends is a terrible chore. Sometimes you finish a mission and you're in separate "sessions." You're not even in the same game world anymore.

Also, I've been having a ton of crashes with a fairly high end, problem free PC.

I haven't even tried the Online on PC, but I remember it being a very cumbersome and confusing interface on PS3; I'm a little surprised they haven't significantly overhauled it in that time, but it sounds like it's the same mess it always was.

As far as crashes, I haven't had any on my four-year old system. I guess I've been lucky.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Run benchmark from menu,game closes when finished which i guess is cool.Some may prefer to tab out,check results then play.Maybe it closing is a bug?

Beat the hell out of a car in storymode,get out then run a benchmark then it returns you to the same car but your in it and its fully restored.I don't recall this happening before but perhaps this is a glitch?I know i at least wasn't returning to the game with me in the car,that is for sure but cars fixing themselves is a awesome glitch.

Performance feels exactly the same.

 

[Red Storm]

Hmm, my game is now crashing any time I go to the airfield as Trevor. The textures right past the hangar are noticeably more blurry than the normal. Soon as I cross into the blurry textures the game freezes. And my jet is sitting parked in mid air.

 

[escrow4]

So 6hrs solid gaming today and not a single crash. That BIOS update did seem to cure them. This was before the patch today too. That or some Windows updates. Some choice Trevor screenshots + graphics quality - rain + reflections + night too below. And a bonus of Michael on drugs. After 6hrs RAM usage cracked 6GB overall, less Win 8.1 that is creeping close to 4.5GB just for GTA V. Nothing else is on this box or in the background.





















Settings are all Very High, less Grass at High, everything in Advanced Graphics disabled and only FXAA, no other AA. Vsync. Reflections are x2. Despite the GPU only hitting 60-70% usage its still solid 59FPS less foilage dips @ 1200p on this 780 Ti.

Click twice for full res.

I'd say GTA VI needs to evolve with a different template. More buildings need to be enterable, the world needs to be more interactive (not just adding yoga and golf and tennis + classic rampages) and organic when it comes to businesses but the core gameplay is still solid. GTA is its own genre really.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Made and uploaded a "PS4 Equivalent Settings" video to show how my R9 270 and i5-4690K setup really just goes so much further beyond the Vsync 30 FPS PS4 build of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9QR0VQWKfE

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Beat the hell out of a car in storymode,get out then run a benchmark then it returns you to the same car but your in it and its fully restored.I don't recall this happening before but perhaps this is a glitch?I know i at least wasn't returning to the game with me in the car,that is for sure but cars fixing themselves is a awesome glitch.

If you swap between players and back again in singleplayer, it also fixes your car. So if you're driving along as Franklin and your car gets beat up, swap to Michael then immediately back to Franklin and you'll be in the same spot in a magically restored vehicle. Swapping to Michael/Franklin is generally more reliable since Trevor is occasionally in the middle of a police chase when you switch to him and you can't immediately switch back.

 

[finbarqs]

all of a sudden, i get an email saying that my account has changed to some other email, and now i can't log in.. anybody else getting that?

 

[finbarqs]

wow i can't play gta 5 because of this BS.

 

[escrow4]

all of a sudden, i get an email saying that my account has changed to some other email, and now i can't log in.. anybody else getting that?

Probably been hacked:

http://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-social-club-hasnt-been-hacked-but-change-your-passwords-anyway/

 

[soccerballtux]

So 6hrs solid gaming today and not a single crash. That BIOS update did seem to cure them. This was before the patch today too. That or some Windows updates. Some choice Trevor screenshots + graphics quality - rain + reflections + night too below. And a bonus of Michael on drugs. After 6hrs RAM usage cracked 6GB overall, less Win 8.1 that is creeping close to 4.5GB just for GTA V. Nothing else is on this box or in the background.

I'd say GTA VI needs to evolve with a different template. More buildings need to be enterable, the world needs to be more interactive (not just adding yoga and golf and tennis + classic rampages) and organic when it comes to businesses but the core gameplay is still solid. GTA is its own genre really.

yeah honestly was really disappointed when I couldn't engage in stuff with random businesses with gta-4. what good is ordering a burger at a restaurant?

 

[skipsneeky2]

If you swap between players and back again in singleplayer, it also fixes your car. So if you're driving along as Franklin and your car gets beat up, swap to Michael then immediately back to Franklin and you'll be in the same spot in a magically restored vehicle. Swapping to Michael/Franklin is generally more reliable since Trevor is occasionally in the middle of a police chase when you switch to him and you can't immediately switch back.

How do you switch anyways?I just have been exploring but i got a popup about someone being unlocked.How i play them idk yet.Need to start playing missions .Haven't even been online yet.

 

[futurefields]

I am pleased to say I fixed my issue!

can you share how you fixed your stuttering?

 

[Miklebud]

I've put nearly 40 hours into this game in less than a week! I'm loving it! Although, since the latest patch, I've been experiencing looong load times between missions and periodic crashes, like one every 45 minutes or so. Aside from these two new issues, I've been having a blast!

 

[destrekor]

For some strange reason a BIOS update for my X99 board seems to have cured the crashes. Need to test further. Odd. Performance is still rock solid though. This game certainly wants CPU.

I'm curious if any BIOS settings were changed following the update and you had not set them as before.

I'm wondering if on some systems, having HPET enabled in the BIOS results in instability. I had disabled it in BIOS, and re-installed the beta AMD driver (clean install, following uninstall in safemode with DDU) after having installed over the previous driver version.

I was in a rush and didn't care about troubleshooting procedure/documentation of efforts, as I usually am with my own personal system, and turns out one of those changes resulting in resolving my game crashes.

 

[JeffMD]

Made and uploaded a "PS4 Equivalent Settings" video to show how my R9 270 and i5-4690K setup really just goes so much further beyond the Vsync 30 FPS PS4 build of the game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9QR0VQWKfE

Just a heads up, you do match the ps4 in most settings, heres a few things discovered through a PS4 comparison,

DX11 is used, obviously.

As you might expect, the majority of settings are set to high with a few exceptions that are higher.

Textures setting is Very High

FXAA is the only AA used.

4x anastropic

Grass = Very High (Xbox uses a modified setting which produces shadows but the foliage is less dense)

Shadow high, soft shadows but a smaller filtering frustum around player.

High tesselation (Does not change amount of tess used, just the distance which it is used).

Population bar >70
Distance bar %100
(Observed that consoles don't line up as many parked cars)

Trying to find budget systems to compare this too becomes difficult because of the video ram requirements. Some reviewers do still feel the 750gtx is a contender for PS4 or better graphic options. I think the video RAM issue will create such an unstable frame rate that you wouldn't WANT too. Sure sometimes youll get 50fps, but then a fire fight breaks out and it tanks to 20fps, thats no fun. I think we need to find the cheapest cards with 3-4gb, anything in ATI's corner?

 

[chubbyfatazn]

How do you switch anyways?I just have been exploring but i got a popup about someone being unlocked.How i play them idk yet.Need to start playing missions .Haven't even been online yet.

If you haven't changed the default key mapping and use kb+m, hold the left alt key and move your mouse left/right/up to select a character.

 

[Canbacon]

I think it is F4-5-6 to change characters if you don't want to do the Alt+Mouse Move way.

 

[Blitzvogel]

Just a heads up, you do match the ps4 in most settings, heres a few things discovered through a PS4 comparison,

DX11 is used, obviously.

As you might expect, the majority of settings are set to high with a few exceptions that are higher.

Textures setting is Very High

FXAA is the only AA used.

4x anastropic

Grass = Very High (Xbox uses a modified setting which produces shadows but the foliage is less dense)

Shadow high, soft shadows but a smaller filtering frustum around player.

High tesselation (Does not change amount of tess used, just the distance which it is used).

Population bar >70
Distance bar %100
(Observed that consoles don't line up as many parked cars)

Trying to find budget systems to compare this too becomes difficult because of the video ram requirements. Some reviewers do still feel the 750gtx is a contender for PS4 or better graphic options. I think the video RAM issue will create such an unstable frame rate that you wouldn't WANT too. Sure sometimes youll get 50fps, but then a fire fight breaks out and it tanks to 20fps, thats no fun. I think we need to find the cheapest cards with 3-4gb, anything in ATI's corner?

If you watched the video, most of what you mentioned is indeed listed in the settings that I showed at the beginning. I went via what Digital Foundry said they figured the PS4 version was equivalent to, to give myself an already established set of results to compare mine to.

 

[JeffMD]

Nusna, I just looked at the settings you stuck in the description, which were hopefully the same. Didn't even watch the video.