GTA 5 to look way better on PC.

[sxr7171]

After getting an SLI upgrade, I think this game looks great with 4x MSAA + Transparency SSAA + TXAA. Still has some annoying aliasing on shaders and post processing, but nothing I do seems to fix those. Even 4k DSR doesn't completely fix those issues, and 4k DSR in general looks worse than 4x MSAA + TRSSAA + TXAA and performs worse.

FXAA does nothing in this game from what I can see.

Too bad the Witcher 3 driver release broke SLI in gta5 for me, I had to roll back to the GTA5 driver. So much for nvidia having good drivers.

Yeah even 4k DSR won't fix it. But I'm pretty happy with 2560x1440 DSR (on a 1080p TV) plus 2x MSAA + MFAA + TXAA + transparency 4x MSAA + control panel FXAA which I think MFAA also acts on to double. Did you set the Transparency SSAA in control panel or nVinspector?

For me throwing some DSR into the mix felt essential it took care some aliasing that none of the in game settings could sort out. I have so much AA enabled that honestly I think it looks blurry, and for me FXAA does get rid of some annoying temporal aliasing. There isn't currently any way in this game to get rid all the annoying aliasing and get a sharp looking image. But I'll personally take a little blurry over lines crawling and shaking and just annoying me.

This game will never look fully clean unless maybe 8k. Also the shadows alias like crazy and you have to play with the settings (change a major setting and then change back) or alt-tab so that goes away. Also you have to set the process priority to high in task manager or there will be pop-in all over the place.

Previously I had said I thought Watch Dogs had overall better graphics, but I think with my settings I can say GTA looks better finally. Watch Dogs looks very sharp and stable and that game with TXAA is very clean. However I couldn't help but think the lighting in that game is somewhat primitive. Overall the nicer lighting and effects in GTA makes it look better even though the detail in Watch Dogs is another level. Just stand in front of a storefront in both games.

 

[CZroe]

If you really want to see the pet store owner lose his mind, just turn the snakes out. Buh-bye, hamsters! LOL

Didn't have an old enough save so I looked it up on YouTube. Wow! Dude should just burn the place down and collect the insurance before he has a heart attack! It's not like he wasn't going to have to feed them anyway.

 

[futurefields]

I'll help out with your heists. Add me "W0rkshed"

ill be on in a few

Already in a crew.

 

[Firsttime]

any n00bs want to start a crew? I'm about to start my first heist.

You can add me if you want. I've been playing most nights lately. ~Rank 41 right now.

R* ID: Skulfuker

 

[futurefields]

just encountered a hacker

he kiled me a bunch of times and also gave me $500k

not sure if i should report it or not, kinda wanna just buy a car real quick with the money

 

[Chocu1a]

Do we have a List of Anandtech online players?
My R* name is Chocu1a.

 

[DeadFred]

just encountered a hacker

he kiled me a bunch of times and also gave me $500k

not sure if i should report it or not, kinda wanna just buy a car real quick with the money

Quite a moral conundrum you have there.

 

[DeadFred]

Do we have a List of Anandtech online players?
My R* name is Chocu1a.

Mine is Brain-Buster. Maybe one of these days Ill get through the story mode and get online. LOL

 

[Firsttime]

Anyone else having way too much fun just messing around in the garage online? I did a bunch of heists last night to get money, promptly blew all that money on cars and upgrades. Between the heists and my preorder cash I've gone through a few $$$ haha. I think these are my favorite cars I've done so far though. I think I made and then spent ~600k last night.

 

[Crow550]

just encountered a hacker

he kiled me a bunch of times and also gave me $500k

not sure if i should report it or not, kinda wanna just buy a car real quick with the money

Well now you can put some Strippers through College.

 

[TechBoyJK]

im ninjatek19

crew is DAPP

 

[Phanuel]

Helicopter mechanics and "physics" in this game are killing me. But apparently it's been this awful since release 2 years ago so that'll never change. Trying to counter the sway just makes things worse. Nearly impossible to keep on target, the guns are worthless on the Buzzard. And I enjoy minigunning people to death in BF4 via the Little Bird.

 

[justoh]

just encountered a hacker

he kiled me a bunch of times and also gave me $500k

not sure if i should report it or not, kinda wanna just buy a car real quick with the money

Just happened to me. Was some guy playing as a monkey, invincible, shooting people with like a hand-held, lazeresque cannon. He spawned a bunch of money bags on top of my car. Picked up like 300k. Hope i don't get banned.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Sounds like people using mods in game.

GTA V online just sounds awful...

 

[DeadFred]

Sounds like the mayhem of joining a CoD MW2 lobby, you never knew what kind of shenanigans would be going on. You may get a nuke called in on ya after being frozen in place while one guy runs around stabbing everyone in the back, or perhaps be bouncing around the map with low gravity. You might enter a game at rank 4 and end the round at rank 50 2nd prestige with everything unlocked, or vice versa. LOL @ the haxors!

 

[justoh]

lol. It's not a big deal. CoD is competitive and single purposed. Who cares if a monkey kills you a couple times in free roam gta. As soon as i noticed he was invincible (and a monkey) I just turned on passive mode, avoided *cough* the money bags he spawned, watched him for a little bit, and then switched lobbys. Barely ever encounter them anyway. Was first time in a month.

 

[futurefields]

Sounds like the mayhem of joining a CoD MW2 lobby, you never knew what kind of shenanigans would be going on. You may get a nuke called in on ya after being frozen in place while one guy runs around stabbing everyone in the back, or perhaps be bouncing around the map with low gravity. You might enter a game at rank 4 and end the round at rank 50 2nd prestige with everything unlocked, or vice versa. LOL @ the haxors!

it's jacked up though so you cant unlock the attachments when that happens

atleast thats what happened to me

i have to reset my character with an old save file and disable steam backup for that game

 

[futurefields]

ended up in another hacked lobby just now

damn, rip legit online gaming?

 

[justoh]

Pretty sure they get banned quite quickly. I reported the guy. In hindsight I wish I hadn't, since I, err, inadvertently ran into some money bags. I've heard reports of people being banned for receiving any kind of windfall from hackers, however innocent. If that happens then f this game. Otherwise, I'm fine with the occasional monkey (but will report them).

We should probably resist the urge to pick up free money though, in future, fields.

 

[futurefields]

i didnt even pick any money up, he like spawned it right on top of my character, not like I had much choice in the matter

oh well, im not going to say anything to Rockstar but im also not gonna spend the money until a few days goes by i think. ill just be like "oh didnt even notice" ive been doing a bunch of heists anyways so ive earned quite a bit of money

 

[Artorias]

I don't have the game but couldn't you just blow the money on some item then loose it permanently so you get a zero net gain, or gamble it?

 

[justoh]

I don't think it matters whether you spend it or not. They could just take away what you bought, surely. All transactions are logged. They pay a lot of attention to money since they sell it.

 

[DeadFred]

Pretty sure they get banned quite quickly. I reported the guy. In hindsight I wish I hadn't, since I, err, inadvertently ran into some money bags. I've heard reports of people being banned for receiving any kind of windfall from hackers, however innocent. If that happens then f this game. Otherwise, I'm fine with the occasional monkey (but will report them).

We should probably resist the urge to pick up free money though, in future, fields.

Banning an non hacker for picking up something lying around in a game is insane. If they are really doing that then people need rise up, grab their pitchforks and torches, and pay a visit to R* headquarters. I hear riots are all the rage these days.

 

[justoh]

Yeah. Not exactly confirmed but many claim to have been banned for simply receiving cash. https://m.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/34kwyp/gta_online_ban_megathread/

Surely at least some are true. Don't see much motivation to lie about it on reddit (r* forums sure)

Being banned for using fov mod seems stupid as well. Guess they insist on us driving with like 20% of the front window visible.

I'm no programmer but why is so much stuff client based? Why are people able to spawn money?

 

[Oyeve]

So, after making billions on the stock market I decided to buy all properties and start souping up my cars in single game mode. Got my Duke-o-death car personally customized the way I want it, took maybe 45 mins, put it in my garage at a safe house. Go to garage and BAM, car is gone! I say, well, I have billions, let me do it again and put it in my other garage that I bought earlier in the game. Customize it again, put in garage, save the game, load the game and this time the car IS in the garage but all my mods are gone. WTF!?!? This happened on my 360 version but I thought the PC would fix this!