How do you like GTA V ?

Yeah, people get obsessed with "max settings" without stopping to realize that this doesn't always mean the same thing in every game. If a game -lets- you crank it higher than any modern system can do, then it gets criticized for being poorly optimized. Sometimes that's true (like in Dead Rising 3 where literally no computer today can run it under even decent settings at 1440p) but GTA 4 got an unfair rap.

-Byshop

So yeah, finally got the game installed and the patch downloaded. Performance is good, but I must say that the game overall looks blurry. Even when disabling depth of field. It is like there is some built in FXAA and blur. I confirmed the use of chromatic aberration like I mentioned earlier. It is most noticeable towards the edges of the screen. The game by no means looks bad, but the graphic fidelity is lacking.

Some games, like Crysis, had settings nobody at the time could run. The difference is that those settings made the game look amazing and far better than any game before.

GTA4 maxed out never looked impressive - hence people calling it badly optimised.

Not only that, but the game ran poorly, regardless of settings.

@BassMan: Do you know if can download it separate from their launcher platform and just patch it in myself?

@ribstaylor1: I don't believe so. Most games these days are tied to a DRM platform and make you download patches through their servers.

@BassMan: And they wonder why people pirate. It's more conveinent and has far less barriers to play the game then paying customers. Never again will I be doing a physical copy like this, from rock-star. I literally can't play this game due to it's DRM system, and the mandatory day one patch. Literally can't play it it's a fucking paper weight.

I found this for anyone needing the patches actually. Though I have yet to download them but others seem to have it working if your can wade through the bullshit.

http://ddl.idfl-torrent.info/Grand%20Theft%20Auto%20V/update/x64/dlcpacks/

This next link is a forum post where I found it, and explanation on what to do with files is in there and here on this reditt page.

http://gtaforums.com/topic/784070-5gb-patch-required-for-physical-copy-is-it-real/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/32k3af/5gb_patch_in_full_transfer/cqc1j9h

Like wtf. The fact an EXe file isn't out to patch this shit and is forced through their broken shit launcher, or through third parties is pathetic. This is a 100% failure on their part. They fucked the launch and literally any chance I have of playing this fucking game for months. I might just try to return the fucking thing. Get my money back because at this rate I'll never play this fucking game, as I will no longer have net as of an hour from now, back home I go to no network land where apparently anyone with a physical copy is fucked! because well **** you says rockstar.

What was the patch for? I had Steam set to auto-patch. I downloaded the 59.1 GB game, did the 6 minute first-time setup, made a Social Club account, and then started playing. What is supposed to be the latest build? I have Build 323.

Too add heists stuff as it's not on disk, and to patch the game files considerably. 2 whole extra years in development and the game wasn't even in a finished state when they shipped the physical copies. Most likely too piss of pirates, but it had the opposite effect of fucking everyone who purchased a physical copy thinking they'd not be stuck with a massive unnecessary file day one, and anyone who is downloading as most don't even get more then 30kbs.

Should have known better and just waited for the fucking steam sale.... I keep telling myself don't buy day one. Don't do it. Then an impulse buy like this happens and I'm forced to remind myself why I made the rule only buy a game a year after launch. And at a discounted price of $15 to $10 dollars. It isn't worth more then that with it's DRM launcher.

You have the latest build. The retail copy shipped with an older build and had 2 mandatory patches. One of them was 5 GB and took me hours to download even though I have a 60 Mb connection. Fuckin Rockstar and their shit servers. It really pissed me off because last night was the only time I had to play it until Monday. I wasted it installing and swapping 7 discs and waiting for hours to download stupid patches that should have been downloaded quickly. If the game was actually finished before going gold, we wouldn't even have this problem. Modern day gaming is getting worse and worse when it comes to accessibility and user experience. It seems like the industry has forgotten everything we have learned. Pretty soon we will be back to setting IRQ and DMA channels.

I was going to do the same thing as you (buy a physical copy). But, I couldn't wait until tomorrow (daytime today). So, I opted for Steam DD instead. Thanks for the heads up though. I might have been in the same situation as you.

Your Internet connection is slightly quicker than mine. I know it's too late. But, you were probably better off with DD. Mine took a few minutes shy of 3 hours from the start of download to play (Prologue) screen.

I only bought the physical copy because I got a good pre-order deal and got it for $35-40 (can't remember). I buy most AAA games as physical copies because of the pre-order discounts during E3. Otherwise, I would have been all over that Steam pre-load and would have been playing right away.

In the settings it says I'm using 3GB of video ram but my gtx 680 is only 2GB and it still runs great lol.

Tried to play gta5 today on my laptop via steam streaming so was using my desktop to th the game.

It was to running like arse then I noticed it was not using crossfire.

Went to the desktop restarted the game and played fine

Is this a gta5 issue or something that homestreaming with steam does

Completed all the heist... lvl 39. Wish there were more. Love the Humane Lab heist.

Best thing to do is get your strength up at the beach punching people after starting a Gerald mission. Can max it out in about an hour if you do it right. Strength with make you take less damage. Once you get the Heist with heavy armor you can wear that on other heist... Makes hard heist easy as pie.

I asked this in another thread but didn't get a solid reply,

Are you guys turning on FXAA, MSAA and TXAA or are you choosing one option?

Running a gtx 980 and 1440p, everything is maxed except MSAA X4 and I left all the advanced settings off, getting betweekn 40 to 55 FPS.

Great game, really enjoying it but omg the UI is dreadful and the load times are ridiculous even on an SSD. Also having to sign in story mode just to get to the online mode menu and start a closed friends session is stupid.

Make sure you do not set grass to Ultra if you want to keep a good framerate. As soon you get to the hills/grassy area, your framerate will die. I just leave grass on very high and it still looks and runs good.

I like GTA V. But, now that I have both it and Watch Dogs, I'm kinda liking Watch Dogs a bit better for SP.

pretty good.

im playing on a laptop with a 780M, 16GB of ram and a core i7 4700mq. im playing at most fo the highest settings at 1080P and get between 24 and 60FPS in the benchmark. the game itself is very playable.

game seems good too...takes itself less seriously than GTA4 so far. the mission chasing the stolen boat down the road was brilliant. :P.