GTAV performance thread.

[Burtoner]

well this run's fine on my pc so far, but my card is getting old my ATI 5870

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Look at the Video Memory 1079/1024MB

 

[BluD]

Im finally settled now with my settings, to the point I don't need to have anything open to monitor temps/FPS.

Yeah i dont monitor my temps anymore, i just turn all my fans up to full blast, open a few windows and cross my fingers

 

[savagesam117]

Yeah i dont monitor my temps anymore, i just turn all my fans up to full blast, open a few windows and cross my fingers

I don't even do that, just turn on and play. Fan does its own thing, hate my room being cold.. Poor PC is probably dying!

 

[implosiveturnip]

cpu: 3770k @4.5 16gb ram
gpu: gtx 780 @ 1215 core/3205 mem
Performance = great

Settings copied from the xml in C:\Users\yourusername\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\settings.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-<Settings>

<version value="27"/>

<configSource>SMC_AUTO</configSource>


-<graphics>

<Tessellation value="1"/>

<LodScale value="0.800000"/>

<PedLodBias value="0.200000"/>

<VehicleLodBias value="0.000000"/>

<ShadowQuality value="2"/>

<ReflectionQuality value="2"/>

<ReflectionMSAA value="2"/>

<SSAO value="1"/>

<AnisotropicFiltering value="16"/>

<MSAA value="2"/>

<MSAAFragments value="0"/>

<MSAAQuality value="0"/>

<TextureQuality value="2"/>

<ParticleQuality value="1"/>

<WaterQuality value="2"/>

<GrassQuality value="1"/>

<ShaderQuality value="2"/>

<Shadow_SoftShadows value="5"/>

<UltraShadows_Enabled value="false"/>

<Shadow_ParticleShadows value="true"/>

<Shadow_Distance value="1.000000"/>

<Shadow_LongShadows value="false"/>

<Shadow_SplitZStart value="0.930000"/>

<Shadow_SplitZEnd value="0.890000"/>

<Shadow_aircraftExpWeight value="0.990000"/>

<Shadow_DisableScreenSizeCheck value="false"/>

<Reflection_MipBlur value="true"/>

<FXAA_Enabled value="true"/>

<TXAA_Enabled value="true"/>

<Lighting_FogVolumes value="true"/>

<Shader_SSA value="true"/>

<DX_Version value="2"/>

<CityDensity value="0.900000"/>

<PedVarietyMultiplier value="0.800000"/>

<VehicleVarietyMultiplier value="0.800000"/>

<PostFX value="0"/>

<DoF value="false"/>

<HdStreamingInFlight value="true"/>

<MaxLodScale value="0.100000"/>

<MotionBlurStrength value="0.000000"/>

</graphics>


-<system>

<numBytesPerReplayBlock value="9000000"/>

<numReplayBlocks value="36"/>

<maxSizeOfStreamingReplay value="1024"/>

<maxFileStoreSize value="65536"/>

</system>


-<audio>

<Audio3d value="false"/>

</audio>


-<video>

<AdapterIndex value="0"/>

<OutputIndex value="0"/>

<ScreenWidth value="1920"/>

<ScreenHeight value="1080"/>

<RefreshRate value="119"/>

<Windowed value="0"/>

<VSync value="1"/>

<Stereo value="0"/>

<Convergence value="0.100000"/>

<Separation value="0.000000"/>

<PauseOnFocusLoss value="1"/>

<AspectRatio value="5"/>

</video>

<VideoCardDescription>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780</VideoCardDescription>

*EDIT*: @ 1080p, get around 80fps in day, 100ish at night. Never dips below 60 which was my aim. After playing it originally on the PS3, I wanted my PC experience to be butter smooth after that laggy, stuttering mess!

 

[ALXAndy]

OK so I benchmarked GTAV on my Pentium. 1080p absolute max settings with 2XMSAA. I'm using about 3gb of the 6gb VRAM. Titan Black, CPU clocked to 4.2, VSYNC on (it was a stuttery mess without it oddly)

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
5111, 90000, 33, 60, 56.789

And an exact count of the frames here in the spoiler.

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That's a 90 second run and was benched during the car race at the start (so through the city).

So basically I would say that a Pentium is more than good enough for GTAV, contrary to what some people may think. The min FPS also came as a bit of a stutter, but then please note I am only running 4gb of RAM in a 64 bit OS and GTAV recommends 8gb.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Time to test on the other halfs rig now Andy?

 

[broona]

Just installed my GTX980 as an upgrade from a HD7950, set the game up with Nvidia's Geforce Experience and dialled the grass down from very high to high, looks stunning and very few drops below 59FPS according to fraps, lovely!

 

[shankly1985]

Try very high not much a performance hit over high for me and grass looks much better.. Stay away from ultra though that is a real killer.

 

[broona]

Try very high not much a performance hit over high for me and grass looks much better.. Stay away from ultra though that is a real killer.

I ran the in game bench marks with it on very high and it was dropping to around 30fps on some of the country scenes, but it seems to be much better on high, never drops below 45fps.

I'll have a proper play with the settings later, like I say, I've just let Geforce set it all up for me and it seems to work quite well.

Any other recommendations for the following setup please :-

GTX980
i5 3570k stock
16gb DDR3

 

[Ayahuasca]

According to AMDMatt the benchmark doesn't reflect real gameplay at all.

 

[broona]

According to AMDMatt the benchmark doesn't reflect real gameplay at all.

Fair point, I just ran the benchmark, lowered the grass setting, ran it again to check, then played the game, and so far (albeit I've only been in the city for 10 minutes) fraps is reporting a constant 59fps.

 

[LtMatt]

According to AMDMatt the benchmark doesn't reflect real gameplay at all.

Not just me.

Fair point, I just ran the benchmark, lowered the grass setting, ran it again to check, then played the game, and so far (albeit I've only been in the city for 10 minutes) fraps is reporting a constant 59fps.

I don't think GTAV's benchmark is very reliable. On Totalbiscuits port report video he ran the bench with single and SLI 980's and the results were odd with SLI dropping below single card at some points. I just don't think you can trust the benchmark really.

Yea benchmark doesn't really come close to my actual gameplay either.

Who regularly sees minimum fps of single digits while playing GTA V?

 

[Ayahuasca]

I wasn't having a go, more agreeing with your point as you were the only one who posted proof as such.

 

[LtMatt]

I wasn't having a go, more agreeing with your point as you were the only one who posted proof as such.

Furry muff.

I ran the benchmark sequence and had minimums of 7 fps.

 

[ALXAndy]

Time to test on the other halfs rig now Andy?

I will at some point dude. It's just so much work to install with it being 7 DVDs and then a huge update Mind you at least her rig has a optical drive in it that should be faster than my external one.

 

[stooeh]

The in game benchmark is not that bad to be honest - the min and max can be a bit haywire but by comparison the GTA IV benchmark was complete junk.

 

[Guest2]

The in game benchmark is not that bad to be honest - the min and max can be a bit haywire but by comparison the GTA IV benchmark was complete junk.

I would say take the benchmark result average then half it to get your lowest fps in game

 

[BluD]

I havent even seen it going as low as half the average tbh, im getting 100 fps average on the benchmark, and i never see it below 59 fps even stoood in a grassy field blowing up cars on the highway.

Im guessing it must be a fraction of a second when theres stuff exploding when it drops down but its too fast to see it in real time.

 

[GAM8LE]

Yeah i dont monitor my temps anymore, i just turn all my fans up to full blast, open a few windows and cross my fingers

That has now changed for me, even though I was settled I played with the settings and managed to get better visuals pushed out of it.

Will try and fire together a gif showing the settings later plus some screens.

 

[kinger8938]

Got my 970 today! just popped it in and the difference is amazing compared to my crossfire 6950s i had! soo smooth!

but then i got a crash for the first time?

ERR_GFX_D3D_INIT Crash

any word on what this may be?