PHOENIXZERO
Member
From some of the responses in this topic it looks like after almost two years I can finally say "told you so" to those expecting it to run like shit because of GTA IV.
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GTA V PC Performance Thread
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Windom Earle
Member
Actually I think I have to take that back. EXTENDED DISTANCE SCALING is the one setting that just seems to break performance and cause random dips. Scaling that back did wonders and now I am indeed getting a locked 60. Nice.
Either running shadows high or shadows very high and low extended shadows does the trick, like 10fps loss otherwise.
Cool. I have sli 670's(2GB) and I'm hopeful I can run it with similar settings, but at 1440p.
Distresssss
Member
Some people reported this as working to get the game running if it crashes upon startup. I'm redownloading currently (only at 12GB downloaded FML) so I can't try it.
Same. It was pretty heinous. Crashing into something would ruin my framerate and cause some issues with sound. That's completely gone now after having restarted the game.
Took a blimp out to the countryside. Pretty high up. Can basically see the other side of the island clear as day. Then I jumped out of said blimp and hurtled to the ground and died. Not a single dropped frame. You're good to go.
Have you set the refresh rate to 60?
I am playing in a laptop with
4800MQ,
8970M 4GB (equivalent to underclocked r9 270),
running from SSD and on
2560×1600 resolution. Edit: Windowed Borderless /Edit
Everything on medium or off, pedestian density and variety at about 25% and draw distance at 100%. Game is running about 40-65 FPS mostly hovering in 55 and mostly 'capping' in 60fps. Run for straight 3h without any performance issues, as in no sudden drops on missing textures or models, noticeable texture pop-in and some model pop-in. latest AMD 15.4. drivers. Memory consumption creeping up to 4GB on RAM and about 3GB on Vram, even as the ingame bar only says 1.4GB Vram.
Having also weird audio cutouts.
Any way to disable chromatic aberration, am I missing some setting?
4800MQ,
8970M 4GB (equivalent to underclocked r9 270),
running from SSD and on
2560×1600 resolution. Edit: Windowed Borderless /Edit
Everything on medium or off, pedestian density and variety at about 25% and draw distance at 100%. Game is running about 40-65 FPS mostly hovering in 55 and mostly 'capping' in 60fps. Run for straight 3h without any performance issues, as in no sudden drops on missing textures or models, noticeable texture pop-in and some model pop-in. latest AMD 15.4. drivers. Memory consumption creeping up to 4GB on RAM and about 3GB on Vram, even as the ingame bar only says 1.4GB Vram.
Having also weird audio cutouts.
Any way to disable chromatic aberration, am I missing some setting?
Felix Lighter
Member
Yes I would imagine that is the most intense setting in the game. It increases the quality of the level of detail at further distances.
The is no option for 60, only 50 and 59.
My monitor's refresh rate is set at 60hz. Any other game I play runs at 60.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I tried all 3 launchers and nothing played nice.
That's weird I get options for 23/24/50/59/60 on my TV.
TheSpoiler
Member
AMD dropped some drivers. Anyone tested them out?
I don't know what the problem is. The only thing I can think of is the new driver I downloaded and installed today. Gonna reinstall for the hell of it and see if it works.
DirtyManos
Member
Ugh i'm confused. Running a evga 980 SC.
Basically near max setting across (only x4 MSAA), and using the benchmark tool in the game is the complication -
Getting average around 100fps according the Precision, but rockstar's benchmark fps counter is giving me like on average 40 frames lower. The game seems silky smooth to me during the benchmark and ingame however, so I can't see it being correct on rockstar's end.
Is precision known for being inaccurate or is rockstar's fps counter not correct?
Edit: 1080 btw
Basically near max setting across (only x4 MSAA), and using the benchmark tool in the game is the complication -
Getting average around 100fps according the Precision, but rockstar's benchmark fps counter is giving me like on average 40 frames lower. The game seems silky smooth to me during the benchmark and ingame however, so I can't see it being correct on rockstar's end.
Is precision known for being inaccurate or is rockstar's fps counter not correct?
Edit: 1080 btw
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Game is installed on my 850 Evo.
5930k 4.4ghz
OC'd G1 970's
16GB 3000mhz DDR4
Playing at 1440p. I get an average of around 65-70fps with every setting maxed EXCEPT no FXAA and 2xMSAA since it hits the VRAM hard so in order to turn up all the advanced GFX settings I had to tone it down to 2XMSAA. Running with TXAA as well. The lowest fps I've had was around 52 briefly. Great running in my opinion.
1440p screenshots, I'm not downsampling since I get great 60fps+ performance 99% of the time.
I'm uploading a fairly high quality video of my performance when using the 1-button optimization through GeForce Experience.
Video will be up here when it finishes uploading: http://youtu.be/XaquAHgaanE
There are some brief drops that seem to occur when you're loading in new assets for the first time, tends to drop to 50-55 FPS for me when this is happening. It's very brief (though in the video the drops were a little longer since I was recording as well). Once the assets are loaded in that area it returned to 60 FPS each time. I show a couple examples of it when I stop the car while it is in the ~55 FPS region, and it'll return to 60 FPS after a second or so once it catches up.
Honestly it runs and looks awesome, I have no issues with the performance so far. With how much it needs to stream I'm not surprised it chokes a little if you're driving quickly through the city, but even those drops aren't that serious for me. You can judge for yourself I guess. Even those drops could probably be eliminated if you were willing to drop a couple settings (my guess is it'd be lowering shadows off PCSS and pulling in the view distance mostly).
Specs:
i7-4790k @ stock
GTX 970
850 EVO SSD
16GB RAM
Video will be up here when it finishes uploading: http://youtu.be/XaquAHgaanE
There are some brief drops that seem to occur when you're loading in new assets for the first time, tends to drop to 50-55 FPS for me when this is happening. It's very brief (though in the video the drops were a little longer since I was recording as well). Once the assets are loaded in that area it returned to 60 FPS each time. I show a couple examples of it when I stop the car while it is in the ~55 FPS region, and it'll return to 60 FPS after a second or so once it catches up.
Honestly it runs and looks awesome, I have no issues with the performance so far. With how much it needs to stream I'm not surprised it chokes a little if you're driving quickly through the city, but even those drops aren't that serious for me. You can judge for yourself I guess. Even those drops could probably be eliminated if you were willing to drop a couple settings (my guess is it'd be lowering shadows off PCSS and pulling in the view distance mostly).
Specs:
i7-4790k @ stock
GTX 970
850 EVO SSD
16GB RAM
I've tried the same settings and got similar results.
But during sunset, my fps dips to around 30fps.
Runs pretty well on the 7970.
1080p
FXAA on
MSAA off
Everything else maxed out except for distance scaling and shadow scaling and I get 40-60 fps during the day and pretty much locked 60 at night. Definitely considering adding a second 7970 now so I can bump up AA. Gonna mess around with some stuff to see what will get me a near-locked 60 fps.
As a side note, shadows set to very high produces some very cool looking shadows at night from your headlights.
I'm eating tons of crow on this one. I didn't think Rockstar would optimize this so well. Amazing.
1080p
FXAA on
MSAA off
Everything else maxed out except for distance scaling and shadow scaling and I get 40-60 fps during the day and pretty much locked 60 at night. Definitely considering adding a second 7970 now so I can bump up AA. Gonna mess around with some stuff to see what will get me a near-locked 60 fps.
As a side note, shadows set to very high produces some very cool looking shadows at night from your headlights.
I'm eating tons of crow on this one. I didn't think Rockstar would optimize this so well. Amazing.
For those of you who are always crashing:
If any of you were experiencing slow download speeds (Social Club) and decided to delete any "temporary" files from the gta5 folder to speed up the download, you may have chunks of your files missing.
Thread on reddit showing checksum values on files:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/328ljj/found_a_fix_for_the_social_club_download_reset/
If any of you were experiencing slow download speeds (Social Club) and decided to delete any "temporary" files from the gta5 folder to speed up the download, you may have chunks of your files missing.
Thread on reddit showing checksum values on files:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/328ljj/found_a_fix_for_the_social_club_download_reset/
It'll run great for you. It runs great for me on a lesser rig at 1440p. Might not be able to max the more taxing settings (grass at VH is very taxing) and some of advanced tab items but should be able to max most settings and put a bit of AA on.
Revengineer
Unconfirmed Member
It's not a shit port. You'll be fine with that rig. Might need to set up a pagefile though.
Interesting... tempted to do that but damn using up half the capacity of my SSD for one game? idk
How do I do that or are you referring to Windows page file?
Same here. Did a reinstall and still can't get past code 9 error. Almost fed up with this shit altogether.
Enjoying the amazingly well-optimized gameplay too much to care about screenshotting atm. Waited almost two years to play this.
This game has yet to drop below 60fps for me through the first driving mission with everything maxed except shadows on Softer and FXAA on with MSAA off--including sliders. Crazy.
TheSpoiler
Member
I'm about to pop it in again after the AMD drivers, but maybe people with issues could mess with the ini files? I don't know if that exists or contains more options.
Hmm. So I'm getting around 40-60 fps maxed at 1080p with this rig
2500k @ 4.5
Gtx980
8GB RAM.
Not using PCSS. AA at MSAA 2x. Very high grass. High shadows. According to other people's benchmarks I should be getting better frames. In the city its usually 50-59. Not a smooth experience at all for me.
2500k @ 4.5
Gtx980
8GB RAM.
Not using PCSS. AA at MSAA 2x. Very high grass. High shadows. According to other people's benchmarks I should be getting better frames. In the city its usually 50-59. Not a smooth experience at all for me.
jim2point0
Banned
I wait until I have proper camera tools to take screenshots. And right now I just want to play it anyways.
I'd knock grass down, it seems to be one of the most demanding settings. Are any of the Advanced Graphics options on?
Candescence
Member
So, tried to join a friend's game, and the LODs don't load properly. And then the game crashes soon after. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun.
Single player still seems to work fine, though.
Edit: Yeah, now it's happening even when I just connect normally. Holy crap, online is practically broken for me.
Single player still seems to work fine, though.
Edit: Yeah, now it's happening even when I just connect normally. Holy crap, online is practically broken for me.
Pop On Arrival
Banned
i5 3570
msi gtx 970
8gb ram
getting 40-50fps while driving around and running around certain parts of the city. Tried fiddling with the settins a bit, but it remains unchanged. I just set everything to high and I think it barely made a different with the performance. Still getting the same fps with everything "max" at 1080p.
Do i have to drop stuff down to medium to get some better performance? It's also kinda annoying that it asks you to restart the game when you change some settings.
msi gtx 970
8gb ram
getting 40-50fps while driving around and running around certain parts of the city. Tried fiddling with the settins a bit, but it remains unchanged. I just set everything to high and I think it barely made a different with the performance. Still getting the same fps with everything "max" at 1080p.
Do i have to drop stuff down to medium to get some better performance? It's also kinda annoying that it asks you to restart the game when you change some settings.
Since when did we require camera tools.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
4 more 1440p shots, I'm not downsampling even though I can. It runs pretty much flawlessly. Specs posted in my last post.
IcyRhythms
Member
What kind of setup is it going to take to run this game @1080 60FPS with 4xmsaa?
All of them on or at max.
Some people reported this as working to get the game running if it crashes upon startup. I'm redownloading currently (only at 12GB downloaded FML) so I can't try it.
I'm at 32GB. Dl'ing at 6.5MB
hurry pls
Windom Earle
Member
Upon further testing the 4 settings that make or break performance for me are:
- MSAA (who would have thought)
- Ultra grass quality (very high does wonders)
- High res shadows in advanced graphics
- Extended distance scaling in advanced graphics
edit: You can also add "reflection quality". Ultra is quite demanding.
Tweaking this and maxing out the rest gives me 60 locked it seems. But I haven't entered a plane or a heli yet, so that might change things up....
I'd take down the advanced distance slider a bit and try how it runs. That's also a really demanding one.
Jin
Member
980 Sli @1440p and the country side tanks my performance at max setting. Standing on the bridge near the docks and looking at the city does the same. Turning off all feature under the Advance Graphics tab shoots it back up to 60. I suggest not tweaking that setting and work the normal graphics tab until you get stable 60. Then go back and mess around.
For me personally this runs like a dream. I've played online mostly, and it is optimized as hell from what I can tell. My 2500k at 4.6GHz, 680 2GB, 16GB RAM just eats this game up. There are very, very few drops from 60fps in GTA O, and the game is mostly maxed out. Some settings are off, such as AA (FXAA is enabled) and all the Advanced Graphics ones, and few are turned down, but it's mostly a maxed out experience. And it is so beautiful, I am at a loss of words. The 60fps improves GTA O far beyond what I believed it to.