***Official GTAV PC Thread*** [Important warning updated in the OP]

[weyland yutani]

Its been a while since I played GTA4 but I remember the damage and crash physics been a lot more brutal than what I've seen so far in 5. Cars would crumple and fold up more. Now If I crash high speed into another car, my car takes some damage but the other cars are left with just a few dings and scratches.

 

[Blackhawk47]

anyone see what happens if you exceed the memory warning limit?
does it completely ruin things or just lower the frame rate a bit ?

cant seem to get my 6950 2gb to get high on textures without going over the 2gb vram limit

Lowered frames for me but I manage it will crash if you take the ****. I also have a 2gb card.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Its been a while since I played GTA4 but I remember the damage and crash physics been more brutal than what Ive seen so far in 5. Cars would crumple and fold up more. Now If I crash high speed into another car, my car takes some damage but the other cars are left with just a few dings and scratches.

GTA4 physics were ridiculous though - and not in a good way.

 

[weyland yutani]

Crash physics were great, its been toned down a notch I think

 

[Josh]

GTA4 physics were ridiculous though - and not in a good way.

I agree, the crash physics in 5 could do with a slitght buff, but I like the way the cars handle. I think that Motorbikes are hilarious, almost like the are on rails!

Think I'm going to take my new $10k Pro Bicycle for a "round los santos" trip this evening. All the way around the map sticking where possible to the coast. For me this is very appealing.

 

[Ashley Jordan]

I agree, the crash physics in 5 could do with a slitght buff, but I like the way the cars handle. I think that Motorbikes are hilarious, almost like the are on rails!

Think I'm going to take my new $10k Pro Bicycle for a "round los santos" trip this evening. All the way around the map sticking where possible to the coast. For me this is very appealing.

Haha if you do this often, would your stamina go through the roof? if so i guess this would be a easy way to farm Races on bikes as your stamina will be huge

 

[Winnter]

would my gpu cause stuttering in this game if my VRAM is nearly using all 3gb
i have turned off msaa,which was causing fps drops but i thought it was my VRAM usage at 2930mb what was causing the drops.

 

[Jasonst888]

For me the game plays lovely in both online and story mode. But the load times on multiplayer are just silly, takes a lot of the fun out of it in my opinion.

 

[Ayahuasca]

I think the load times will be improved upon as sometimes I seem to get into online fairly quick and other times it takes a while, just server load imo.

 

[anything I don't mind]

msaa caused the bottom right corner to show artefacts on my amd 7850.

I also turned vsync off because it seemed to look better with it off.

 

[weyland yutani]

GTA4 physics were ridiculous though - and not in a good way.

There's no such thing as too ridiculous in GTA - its GTA!

I stole a massive rock truck from a mine in the north, drove it the wrong way down the freeway and cars barely reacted apart from coming to a dead stop and bouncing a little. I drove over a few and they barely dented, just blew up after a short time trapped underneath my wheels. A bit lame really.

 

[uscool]

From what I've seen of benchmarks, the AMD cpu are miles off their Intel homies.

That's the cpu front.

On the GPU front the Nvidia GPU's are faster than their AMD homies.

So you've got a double whammy going on here. However the main culprit is your CPU.

Hi, actually the AMD graphics cards aint bad at all, yes the cpu is quite abit behind

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gta_v_pc_graphics_performance_review,5.html

 

[almoststew1990]

On the consoles the online world is different to the singleplayer world- less detail like peds and traffic etc on the online one. Is the same true on the PC version?

 

[wunkley]

Hopefully modders will be able to change the car handling and crash physics? I too think they are very poor in 5 compared to 4 which were very weighty and much more realistic but a bit too much unless you used a mod.

Far too 'stuck to the road' in 5 imo.

 

[Ayahuasca]

On the consoles the online world is different to the singleplayer world- less detail like peds and traffic etc on the online one. Is the same true on the PC version?

If it is it's nowhere near as bad, the world still feels alive online, on consoles it didn't.

 

[w00dy85]

Should this game be maxing out my 7990?

At the moment it has 60-90% usage

(I have the latest drivers 15.4)

I have to say my 7990 is cooping fine with the game, all settings set to max and really smooth. The 7990 sounds louder when playing other games like Evolve, I am also using the same drivers as you.

I'm using 3.2gb VRAM on my 290x with max settings except high shadows, high somthing else, no msaa, no shadow msaa, no DOF (cos I hate it)

So you might have to turn somthing down to stay in your 3gb VRAM buffer.

According to the game I am using 4.7Gb of vram, from a total of 6GB. This is with all the settings set to max at 1080.

To me xfire seems to be working very well.

 

[ValiantUK91]

Why does everyone seem to be KO'd after one hit? Get all the people saying stuff to you outside franklins house, hit them and they KO'd only time ive managed to have a fight was against some guy on the beach he was like the karate kid lol, also keep pressing RT when using my controller(playing on my TV) to run but I end up punching cars/people and even a cat lol

 

[GAM8LE]

No, there's two types of vsync I think, the usual one that does it in step of 60 to 30, which can be pretty annoying when you go into a dense area of detail (e.g. foliage) and your frames drop so it start to cap it at 30.

I think there's also a adaptive version which works a bit better, and another called "half" (?).

Aside from v sync there is a separate option for reducing the frame rate so make sure that is where it should be as it has options for 60fps/30fps/25fps....

My FPS limiter defaulted to 25fps last night for some unknown reason and I dropped a brick when the game loaded and looked like it was lagging considering the day before it was smooth as silk.

 

[GAM8LE]

Why does everyone seem to be KO'd after one hit? Get all the people saying stuff to you outside franklins house, hit them and they KO'd only time ive managed to have a fight was against some guy on the beach he was like the karate kid lol, also keep pressing RT when using my controller(playing on my TV) to run but I end up punching cars/people and even a cat lol

haha! I am used to dying light controls so for the first few hours I was trying to run...but kept crouching. Was really annoying me lol

 

[Ice Globe]

Had the following issue a few times when in multiplayer matches. It seems to load the map, but I get stuck on the below screen. I can bring up the menu, the weapon menu and I can see myself moving on the map and can hear me shooting and all other people moving and shooting. Just can only see my character stuck on this screen.

Spoiler

It doesn't happen all the time, about 4 times so far. But can be quite annoying as I'm stuck not being able to do anything that match. (I was able to run off a rooftop without being able to see, and then the screen was fixed)

I've had this issue during a heist before, couldn't find a way to resolve it.

I've also had similar issues to others whereby the freemap will completely empty on me. Must be a temporary loss of connection between the servers.