GTA V PC Performance Thread

Having problem not getting drops to 50-55fps while driving on my 970. Only FXAA, softer shadows, high res shadows off. I don't see an obvious setting for getting rid of that kind of world streaming-framedrop.

Any tips?
 
Anyone playing with a ATI 5850 xtreme 1GB or similar and can tell me about the performance? Got this card and only 4GB of ram but a stock i5 2500k so I'm not sure if I should by it.
 
CloakedPuppet said:
Sorry if this has been asked but does playing in borderless windowed mode improve performance - also how do you activate it? I'm using windows 8.1.

Thanks in advance for any information.
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Haven't played much yet but fullscreen was a good 5-10fps faster for me than borderless when checking my framerate at the same spots, toggling between the 2.
 
kris. said:
I'm terrified of doing it/don't know how to. Last night was the first time I ever tried OCing my video card and it made me nervous as fuck.
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Overclocking a videocard is about as safe as it gets. You literally can't break your card, as there's software limitations in place that essentially disallows you from doing so. The worst that can happen is your PC freezes up and you have to reboot.

Overclocking a CPU can admittedly be a little more daunting and a little more dangerous, but as long as you're relatively careful, you'll be fine.
 
You guys weren't kidding, MFAA paired with 2xMSAA already looks amazing. I am going for it, got Gsync for a reason.

dawid said:
Having problem not getting drops to 50-55fps while driving on my 970. Only FXAA, softer shadows, high res shadows off. I don't see an obvious setting for getting rid of that kind of world streaming-framedrop.

Any tips?
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Check my post on the last page.
 
underwhelmed at first since assets arent improved much over PS4

but wow plays so much smoother at 60 fps 1080p once you race down the busy streets, Maxed at 1080p with a Titan X i7 4790K safe-temps-speed :) 32 GB RAM

Really interested in the 3D vision mode, need to get the IR emitter to try it out (monitor is ready apart from that)
 
RyudBoy said:
How/where do I do this? I have an nvidia card.
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Im not at the computer, but i think you need to open nvidia control panel, then:

display -> adjust desktop size and position

then open the scaling tab.

There should be an option for 1:1 scaling. Poke around with settings in there. Itll create a tiny black border since you're excluding pixels, but it won't stretch so you'll still have 1:1 pixel mapping.
 
IMACOMPUTA said:
Im not at the computer, but i think you need to open nvidia control panel, then:

display -> adjust desktop size and position

then open the scaling tab.

There should be an option for 1:1 scaling. Poke around with settings in there. Itll create a tiny black border since you're excluding pixels, but it won't stretch so you'll still have 1:1 pixel mapping.
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Thank you.
 
Smokey said:
Weird. You're on a HDD? If so that's all I can think of that is different besides our processors. I have the game running off of a SSD.

Turn everything down to low and see what happens. Change resolution to be lower and see what happens.
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Yup, SSD made no difference other than loading.

Tried 1080 and it ran fine. Which would suggest it's my GPUs but they don't run anywhere close to 100% usage, so I'm really not sure now. Could be my monitor I guess, but I dunno what it could be doing.
 
Intheflorsh said:
I'm getting excellent performance on my 660ti/2500K. Everything is set around very high, except shadows (which look terrible).
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I have the same setup, though I'm experiencing stuttering which drops my framerate from 60 to 45 then back up again. Any ideas what could be the issue.
 
adamantypants said:
Man lots of people in here running K processors without an OC. What's wrong with you all
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When I built it (i5 3570k), it was always my intention to overclock it over time. I was just not confident that I would be able to do it without blowing up the computer :(. I am happy keeping it at the default speed - at least the life of the machine shouldn't decrease.
 
whats the verdict on the AMD beta drivers? gonna be heading home soon to install the 7 discs (LOL). i think ill do a before and after driver comparison.
 
PhantomZone said:
When I built it (i5 3570k), it was always my intention to overclock it over time. I was just not confident that I would be able to do it without blowing up the computer :(. I am happy keeping it at the default speed - at least the life of the machine shouldn't decrease.
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You won't likely notice any life decrease. You can keep it at temps you're comfortable with and everything will be just fine. You should really give it a shot. Its incredibly easy and depending on your luck you could REALLY benefit.

I have the same CPU as you and I just cranked the multiplier and was able to get to 4.3 without any other tweaks. I raised the voltage just slightly to get to 4.5, but even at 4.3 I'd have been much better off than stock with very minimal effort.
 
Philtastic said:
EDIT: Changed some shadow settings. It turns out that High Resolution Shadows don't actually turn on unless your Shadow Quality is already on Very High. I bumped up Soft Shadows to Softer to mask some of the pixelation of the shadows on High. This still results in a locked 1080p60 in the benchmark.
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Skimmed through the thread and didn't see this mentioned but the benchmark tool works fine IF YOU BEAT THE PROLOGUE and then be sure to have story mode loaded before loading the benchmark tool. The problem seems to be that story mode loads automatically from the start screen where you are probably going through the graphic options such that it ends up loading the benchmark with story mode running behind it (thus the interesting "failed mission" during the bench since the prologue is running).

Having now extensively used the benchmark tool to reach a constant, unwavering 1080p60 fps, here are my specs and settings.

Specs:
Intel Core i5-4690K @ 3.5 GHz (stock)
Radeon R9 280X 3 GB, 15.4 Beta drivers
8 GB DDR3-1600

Settings:
DirectX 11
Fullscreen
2048x1152
60 Hz

FXAA on
MSAA off
Vsync on
Pause Game On Focus Loss On

Population Density max
Population Variety max
Distance Scaling max

Texture Quality very high
Shader Quality very high
Shadow Quality high
Reflection Quality very high
Reflection MSAA off
Water Quality very high
Particles Quality very high
Grass Quality very high
Soft Shadows softer

Post FX very high
Motion Blur Strength min
In-Game Depth of Field Effects on
Anisotropic Filtering x16
Ambient Occlusion high
Tesselation very high

Long shadows off
High Resolution Shadows off
High Detail Streaming While Flying on
Extended Distance Scaling min
Extended Shadows Distance min

VRAM Predicted Usage 2389 MB
RAM Usage 5-5.5 GB


I have bolded what I found to absolutely crush framerate at times (as in 60 fps suddenly dropping to ~30), most of which are related to shadows. The extended distance scaling also has a huge impact on framerate. I think that these settings were CPU-limited since Afterburner would often, at those fluctuating times, have my GPU usage at only 60-70% but CPU at 90%+. Shadow details, specifically resolution, killing framerate while not maxing GPU usage might be a GPU bandwidth limitation.

With the above settings, the game is running locked at 60 fps while looking amazing.
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I followed this configuration to the letter and without a doubt it has given me amazing performance. Like you say, it's locked, rock solid, to 60fps. I was having trouble with vehicle stuttering (all vehicles, not just the one I was driving) and this just completely eliminated it, looking gorgeous all the while. I can honestly say it's the best I've ever seen GTA V run in the flesh!

You've probably saved me an awful lot of time that would have otherwise been spent with my nose buried in the settings, so thank you very much!

My specs:
Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.4 GHz (stock)
Nvidia GTX 970 4 GB, 350.12 drivers
8 GB RAM
 
Has anyone managed to get the RSSC version working within Steam? I added it as a non Steam game but it starts up and immediately exits if I launch it that way.
 
Any good deals on 4GB cards? I don't know if I'm ready to drop 300+ to double up on VRAM, but I feel the temptation strongly lol. Seems possible that when the AMD cards come out in June, that maybe Nvidia's stuff will drop.
 
I'm having issues with textures just not loading in at all. Anyone else see this?

Video
https://youtu.be/7K46ytvyZb8?t=23s

I have:

Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.40GHz
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (EVGA)

I'm up to date on drivers and MSAA is off.
 
NZNova said:
Has anyone managed to get the RSSC version working within Steam? I added it as a non Steam game but it starts up and immediately exits if I launch it that way.
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Only way I could get it to work is to force the target executable to run in admin.

Unfortunately, it looks like running stuff in admin won't work if you have a Shield and want to stream. Anyone else with a Shield or Shield Portable have any luck streaming?
 
XBP said:
Yes. Enable MFAA and MSAAx2 will give you the IQ of MSAAx4 with the performance hit of x2.
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Alright thanks, will try that. AA options always confuse the crap out of me, every game seems to have a different set of abbreviations and numbers that don't mean anything at face value.
 
know this is OT but i have to Rockstar social version and i want to be able to use steam overlay. when i try to open the exe that i add to steam it shows the splash screen then nothing. in task manager i see WSAFault.exe for a second then disappears :(

anyone know of a way to get steam overlay to work with the non steam version of the game?
 
blly155 said:
i cant for the life of me get a stable 1080p 60fps without dropping settings to normal and x2 aliasing.

the game doesn't feel optimised at all. even tried capping it at 30fps but it still dips to 15-20fps. updating to the catalyst beta drivers helped but still not great. i've been playing about with settings for the last 8 hours or so. need to take a break. will go back to it tomorrow.

specs are i5-4590/8GB/290. seriously considering getting a refund (if i can). so disappointed as i built my pc for this game.
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I also have the R290, admittedly I've only got an AMD 8350 for a CPU but I'm seeing shockingly similar performance to you.
 
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz
16 gigs ram
GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2 Gb

Will I be able to play this at medium specs decently at least? I know my Videocard sucks.
 
Oh yeah. Playing full screen with vsync on makes the menu silky smooth as opposed to the jerky mess in windowed borderless. That's a pretty big oversight in an otherwise great port :(

edit: Looks like it's safe to say stay away from borderless windowed mode this time around.
 
I also can't use borderless windowed, which is my go-to selection for any PC game. It usually just works better. In this case, I get stuttering when I use it and it's fine when I use vsync/fullscreen. It's often the opposite. This makes more sense to me! I can't always use the built in V-Sync in a game and have a good time. I'm not noticing any tearing.
 
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