GTA V | OPTIMIZATION GUIDE | Every Setting Tested | Best Settings

[@benchmarking4386]

Frame Scaling is also a viable option to achieve good image quality with almost identical performance compared to MSAA+TXAA.

[@stupidbodoh597]

What's the recommended frame scaling percentage for best performance to quality ratio?

[@carljohnson6183]

I want to thank you for the video and other videos very very helpful.

[@psyph3rscollection288]

Excellent newer video, my good sir!😁 Edit: Just wanted to add that I was messing with my gfx settings yesterday and couldn't get rid of stutter. Thanks to your guide, It's now 99% negated!

[@adeptalakay]

@@stupidbodoh597good question lol im just gonna test it bc i redownloaded this game to play cluckin bell

[@adeptalakay]

just tested it, msaa 2x with txaa off looks better than 1.250x res scaling and im at 1080p. and in my opinion the fps gain from res scaling is not high enough to deter you from using msaa 2x. just stick in on msaa 2x and call it a day

[@iwanturcrust]

Still the best graphics optimization guide channel on YT.

[@YourFavouriteDraugr]

Unfortunately it completely skips over shadow cascades during any of the shadow setting options. Only examples in the video were regarding very close shadows without any camera movement. GTA V has an atrocious problem with severely outdated and unoptimized shadow rendering, and it's nowhere near as simple as the video would suggest. As well as, Extended Shadow Distance is still to this day broken at the recommended 10/10 setting because it fails to properly rendered shadows within the nearest shadow cascade, as well as affecting all the different shadow settings differently. Also Advanced Distance Scaling has to be set at a minimum of 1 because at 0, as recommended in the video, it completely disables the LODs' minimal distance, keeping absolutely everything loaded as LODs at all times, and in certain structures' cases loading the LODs over actual textures, which also breaks shadows for those objects more than all the shadow settings already do. ALSO also not mentioned in the video is how anti-aliasing settings negatively affect foliage fidelity. There are a lot of things glossed over and no context provided for combinations of settings that are imperative for both graphical and gameplay considerations.

[@HerZeL3iDza]

Finally a youtuber who knows what he's talking about. Too many people out there not understanding game settings recommending nonsense like limiting AF to 8x while leaving more demanding stuff on higher settings that has little impact on visuals. This channel is a gem.

[@BobbyBaudoin]

Genuinely amazing optimization guide. Too many just say "put everything at low" which is a given if you need every single frames... but sometimes I want to actually hit a sweet spot between visual quality AND framerate. This really helped me achieve that, thank you!

[@davylucas6244]

Me for example I don't feel so bad running at 30 fps like old times on PS3 and Xbox 360, even gives me the nostalgia vibes, but remastered since I put the graphics in very high. Some reason my GTA don't reach 60 fps even on low, so if can't get smootheness I get beauty anyway.

[@stiven355]

Turning everything to low doesn't impact my fps at all for some reason it stays the same

[@PROYECTO60]

@@stiven355 the performance impact from normal to very high is more noticeable in older hardware

[@bananaboy482]

This channel is SOOO good. This kind of content is very hard to find, let alone super high quality ones. Man, I love the internet

[@virenrana6459]

Dude I literally wanted this like yesterday and all videos were old and now I got this. Awesome.

[@LoLuzable]

Same lol

[@mjbabyface]

Plain and simple, quick yet slow enough to keep up. Everything I wanted to know with perfect examples side by side and performance comparisons. Dude you absolutely killed this

[@SRYTGames]

Thank you

[@sibil_tala]

These FPS boosts are insane nothing is different but the FPS is Very high I've seen your RDR2 optimized settings video too It helped a lot Thanks

[@brzimtrco6142]

I think it is worth mentioning that MSAA has a larger perf hit on AMD cards.

[@marinocovic9202]

Does it affect it positively or negatively?

[@themaker4216]

@@marinocovic9202if they’re saying hit it’s probably a bad dip downwards

[@KenzogVR]

also it makes grass look transparent, not sure if its just an issue on certain cards but many people have reported this

[@SometimeYuno]

i have an amd gpu doesnt affect me on 8x (edit: its most likely a better cpu tbh. i had an i7-10700k and changed to Ryzen 7 5700x from 45-64fps to 80-92fps)

[@xtunux]

Whats hr gpu​@@SometimeYuno

[@TheCynicalAutist]

This is very important as the amount of stuff added to Online has made it near impossible to play on the PS4, and even a good spec PC can struggle (especially with the Cayo Perico vegetation), so this is really appreciated.

[@nathan47293]

I can vouch, I have a 4090 and the game is 60 fps on top of that damned communications tower 😭

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

@@nathan47293 4090 is a mid range gpu. You should try an actual high end GPU like the 5080 or 5090 that's coming out this year.

[@rque9]

@@angrysocialjusticewarrior dumbest comment ive seen in a while

[@angrysocialjusticewarrior]

@@rque9 That's simply copium as a result of struggling to accept that times have moved on. You probably still think that even a 2080Ti is "high end".

[@Damarious25]

Great timing. Just started replaying this. Your guide got me to a solid 80fps @ 4k. Thank you!

[@terminator7137]

ugh, I cant understand you people. After playing 120-144fps from 60, i cant play any game below 100fps. 4k as if it was a movie?? The graphics will never be as glorious as real life. Perhaps 1440p is enough for some details, but it cant get any better than that. High settings at 120fps is 10000xx better

[@pepopepino]

​@@terminator7137if you don't have 60hz + monitor, there no sense of can't playing below 100fps, obviously high frames make the game smoother even in 60hz, but can't playing is crazy

[@stefannita3439]

@@terminator7137 I have almost 5k hours in CS and am extremely sensitive to display refresh rate. I can instantly tell when something is at 30 or 60 Hz even if I'm not the one interacting with the display. I am willing to bet my left nut you can't reliably tell the difference between 90 and 120, maybe not even between 80 and 100. 80-90 is a massive improvement over 60 and "feels" like high refresh rate. I can't stand 60 with a mouse, but 60 with a controller on TV with a good vsync/freesync implementation is fine for single player games.

[@mauromerconchini]

Hey, this was a great analysis. If you're opening the possibility of making performance guides on older PC titles that were very demanding for their time, I would recommend you take a look at Watch_Dogs 2, that game is still tricky to dial in the settings even today. I'm sure many people would appreciate an optimization guide.

[@FutureExitsMedia]

Word, took me a hell of a time to get that one wrestled to a nice visuals vs performance sweet spot.

[@takemeseriouslyplx2124]

All Ubisoft games are on another level of bad optimizing, all the lower settings looks so bad with minimal performance boost

[@agentl3r]

Would love to see a guide for WD2! That game is so terribly optimised.

[@grumpinomnom3621]

Gotta say, Watch Dogs 2 is a really good game when it comes to its story and gameplay. The only letdown is Ubisoft's lazy optimization for the franchises. I haven't faced any similar problems with their other franchises like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry.

[@HawkofLight007]

You have by far the best optimization videos out there, and every time I look for a guide I always search for your channel first, I literally just bought gta 5 yesterday so this is amazing you just uploaded one 2 days ago lol.

[@3zizkwt]

Thank you man! My PC specs are: i5 11th 4060 and I was running 20-30 fps, was struggling a bit with stuttering, after your optimization guide im running 50-60 fps with a smooth gameplay and great clarity to the game. You deserve a sub and a like :)

[@Aloud066]

50 fps with rtx 4060? you must have missing or outdated drivers or you turned on anti aliasing, if so turn it off or lower it eats fps i saw in benchmarks rtx 4060 60-70+ stable fps on ultra with toned down anti alias

[@methmaranaveera3273]

​@Aloud066 bro I'm getting 60fps on a gtx 970 There must be an issue somewhere

[@fraaaan69]

This is like the most detailed and explanatory guide about optimization of GTA V, truly one of the bests, keep it up!

[@dieterpaulenz22]

I can't imagine the amount of work you put into this. Astonishing.

[@WWSNK]

Dude, did you read my mind? Today I was looking for this. Thank you very much.

[@Endeavour30]

Same ;D

[@REZZILIENCE]

Dang this is sick. The difference between optimised and Max is minimal visually but dang the performance impact. Cant wait to try this out.

[@AndyTurcu]

You won a subscriber with this clip about optimizing GTA V. I didn't have a last generation PC to run the game, so now it's time to play it. Good luck!

[@colddarkness1798]

Even playing on low normal settings this game looks beautiful and of course on higher settings. GTA 5 game ahead of it's time.

[@DivyanshBalchandani]

Nice! I recently reinstalled the game to go through SP again. Thanks!

[@Tommy2x93]

Massively deserve recognition for the work put into this one. Super helpful. The going into detail and comparison is something a lot of people don't bother with but it really makes a difference. Thank you

[@jameshardy6277]

What a coincidence! I've just started a full play through of this classic Rockstar game.

[@leeli4692]

The grass is bugged when using MSAA. So I recommend going to advanced graphics options and set your resolution scaling to 1.250 - 1.500

[@xDavidz]

In 1080p or 1440p?

[@cronos1675]

​@@xDavidz1080p

[@soyiago]

Note that setting is very demanding unless you're on a 70+ tier card (like the GTX 1070, RTX 2070, RX 6700, etc... but excluding legacy RX 500 and 400 series), you're literally rendering the game at 125%-150% your screen resolution, but is BY FAR the best technique for antialising.

[@Moehasn]

Best game optimizing channel on YT‼️ every game u do is very detailed and explained ty sir🙏

[@tommydeux703]

I love your content. You've helped me out more than once with these optimization guide settings. This is by far the best channel. No BS. Straight to the point. Keep it up friend

[@HazewinDog]

Finally I've found a good optimization guide on KZbin. Keep it up. My only complaints were that you didn't point out VRAM differences for most settings where this is relevant, and that you didn't show all shadow settings again with high detail shadows enabled.

[@euklesio]

Thanks for the detailed stats of each config, helps a lot knowing what will impact more or less the game performance and what downside comes from lowering the settings

[@li_B4shar_il]

just in time, i was thinking on replaying this game before the arrival of GTA VI, i usually play on console but im about to play on PC this time so this is perfect timing!

[@ProblematicExistence]

On my rig, it's always been the shadow quality that has the highest impact on my FPS. I'm on an RTX 3090 with 16 GB's Vram and 4.5 GHz of power. I absolutely can not set shadows over "High" without seeing a very noticeable drop (anywhere from 8 to 20) in frames.

[@iamakash_]

Very well explained! also loved the channel name👌

[@tonimontana3485]

The only video i like so far on KZbin about Gta V optimization not the usual copy paste garbage (Do i think imo shadow on soft has less blur and i prefer that for me)

[@GameOver-nm2us]

wow man, that's insane, this doubled my fps and it looks the same if not even better, good job man now I can actually utilise my 144hz display

[@slay3rgamingyt]

perfect, can't believe I was searching for this 2 hours ago but didn't see my notifs lol

[@porkulio]

Thank you very much bro!! I enjoy your videos a lot!! It's a lot of fun to see how you explain each setting. Some settings are just a waste of computer resources, and it's easier to view in your videos. You can double fps with the same visual experience. Thank you very much bro. The image quality of optimized vs max settings is not noticeable at all!!

[@copymalty]

underrated channel...i sub u 🎠

[@8ien_x10]

I was waiting for this video forever ❤❤❤

[@Valentinius82]

Thanx bro! With an rtx 3060 and and an old i5 8400 your setup is excellent 😊🙏

[@gunslinger571]

Man you had the same thought as me. I'm firing up GTA V and am PUMPED to see you made a guide for this. Best optimization guide channel out there. Thank you for doing what you do!

[@HorribleNimbo]

Fellas, there's an extra Anti-Ailiasing option for GTA V but it's only hidden in Nvidia Control Panel, it works even better than MSAA or TXAA. It's called MFAA. It gives the same image quality as MSAA with way lower performance cost. Please try it as it's way superior to both MSAA & TXAA.

[@xDavidz]

Eu devo ativar o MFAA no painel de controle da NVIDIA e desativar o MSAA + TxAA no jogo?

[@ghost_sniper0022]

@@xDavidz Actually MFAA doesn't do anything if MSAA is disabled in the game. The way it works is if you have MSAA 2x activated + MFAA in the control panel, the image will look equivalent to 4x MSAA with little to no performance cost. Ou seja, tu teria que ligar o MFAA no painel de controle e colocar pelo menos 2x MSAA no jogo, isso seria quase a mesma coisa que ter o 4x MSAA ligado no jogo sem o custo de performance de 4x MSAA

[@FutureExitsMedia]

@@ghost_sniper0022 thanks for the info mate, that's awesome :)

[@andypineyro6789]

And that option "MFAA" fixes the jagged edges from GTA V bad anti-aliasing.

[@irulannaba6970]

It doesn't seem to be compatible with reshade or enb

[@zidanealbustami3024]

I love your content bro! keep going and your explanation is easy to understand ~greetings from indonesia🔥

[@johnhakim7037]

love the content!! hope you can do more optimization guides for older games!

[@Nixohc]

Honestly one of the best optimized settings KZbinrs

[@limared_ua]

Thank you, now my game works perfectly. The best guide on KZbin.

[@jmax112ender-gamer-pacmanv9]

very good video, everything well explained, I went from 80fps to 100-120fps with this configuration and it looks very good now I know exactly each configuration, thank you very much.

[@albertopicaso]

I recently found your channel and I haven't stopped watching your optimization videos, the style you give them, showing the difference in quality in each of the settings in the games is super useful. Could you release Call of Duty, Avatar and Finals optimization videos? Thank you so much for these videos, you have a new subscriber.

[@TazAlonzo]

I recommend for any avid flyers to turn "high detail streaming while flying" off. Big performance boost and you're flying past things at high speeds anyways.

[@poezar85]

Thank You. This is the most accurate and best detail settings ever. Well done mate.👏

[@alanturing3256]

I have no intentions of ever playing GTA V, but I still watched the video lol

[@mikesmeets5930]

i watched the whole video and i'm glad i invested my time in this video. it helped me alot with my performance / quality! big love

[@immortalOnee]

Love your voice bro it's very relaxing

[@MendozaZaurio]

This is the best video of setting for gta V, You are absolutely The King of Benchmarks, you deserve more recognition, explaing all this settings clear deserve a lot of support of your work, many people says that GTA v dont take advantage of modern gpus coz is a old game but your setting show other contrast,in all video that i watched of your channel i give my humble like, and share with my friends, I hope you make a video of death stranding settigns ❤

[@Vuck0]

very cool to see a moroccan benchmarking yt channel, better than the others....

[@TheGamingWastelander]

Top notch your red dead 2 one saved me too I went from 40 to 80 fps on red dead 2 with your settings and gta 5 went from 30 to 50 with max to 70 to 80 thanks!!

[@utchihamadara1672]

what is your pc specs

[@TheGamingWastelander]

@@utchihamadara1672 3060 12gb 2x 8 gig ram sticks and a ryzen 5 3600

[@TheGamingWastelander]

@@utchihamadara1672 why its a 2 month old comment lol

[@_UnKnOwN_2.0]

Thanks a lot brother..❤️❤️ I adjusted all my games graphics (RDR2, FH5, GTA5) watching ur videos

[@Omnomnom-vy8jh]

FXAA + Resolution Scale 1.5 or higher is much better than MSAA and has similar or lower impact on performance

[@HAXT0S]

i was checking if u did that opti before and you did it now, great timing ! thx for the video very helpful

[@gtx1650max-q]

I remember when I had gt 730, I had to play with normal shader setting and it looked terrible with distance road textures all blurry. But when I set 16x AF through Nvidia Control Panel, it worked and I didn't lose FPS

[@TheCynicalAutist]

@@asr1el942 I remember reading an official guide from nVidia that specifically said to enable this through the control panel alongside having it at 16x in-game.

[@MKR3238]

@@asr1el942 AF has nothing to do with "input lag"

[@MKR3238]

@@asr1el942 oh you mean lower performance in genereal, yea sure AF has a cost associated with it. i was thinking more of the likes of input lag like vsync adds for example

[@jasonmxx]

this is so helpful and so many other games tested as well in this channel. subbed!

[@DymeTV]

optimized my game with this guide, rtx2060 and gta V running on 120-140 fps with insane quality

[@Tommy-jf6fr]

Damn! Best explanations I ever see. The Goat!

[@lAstarothGameplaysl]

Just downloaded GTA V again yesterday. THANK YOU!!

[@breakdown7553]

Great Video. Thanks for making that, my friend!

[@MegitsuneSwe]

This is perfect, exactly what I've been looking for a while now, good video and serious kudos to you for taking the time to test and record all this, must've taken some time. I do want to mention for anyone wanting to play Online, beware that your CPU will be more stressed, thus potentially leading to lower FPS like in my case (online is enough to start bottlenecking)

[@anasfamfum3644]

"And if not, leave a dislike!" Never heard that, I respect you dude!

[@anasfamfum3644]

Thanks for the video too btw lol

[@jhtwf]

i love you so much, you’ve made my new to pc life so much easier

[@brendanrees2596]

Complete and well explained guide. Of course this will be affected by the authors access to various video cards, but still well done. Too bad that AMD doesnt have a comperable AA method to TXAA in this game. (I have different levels of both "red" and "green" cards, and GTA V def seems to favor NVIDIA flavors). The summary of all suggested settings on one view was a very nice touch. As always with PC builds, individual results will vary, but its a great way to start and then adjust as one tests. I have one machine with an i3 8100 + gtx 1050 ti, and with most of these settings it plays this game like butter. Probably the best looking game on an 8 y/o box running a 10 year old game. A bit surprised that the authors RTX 3060 slowed down so much with ultra settings. One extra discussion that would have been nice would be a discussion of monitor refresh rate, vsync and frame limiting. (thats my biggest challenge with making games "smooth") Waiting for gta 6 with baited breath ;)

[@maggetboy]

Wow i had zero clue how much of an impact extended distance scaling is, had that at the max and would get around 100 fps in the city, turned it off and im hitting the max frame limit. right now i got it at 4 and its a perfect 160 fps thank you so much !

[@BOS_PML74_GAMING]

It's a major fps impact

[@anvorguesogames]

Thank you very much sir! This is exactly what I needed for my mid-range PC rig. I'm pretty sure you've done one for RDR2 already. I'll look into it, thanks in advance! i7-9700K 32GB RAM DDR4 at 3200mhz RTX 4060

[@Zer033_]

Thank you so much for making this. Literally was wishing you would do a video for GTA 5 just last week lol

[@soyiago]

You may use these video settings for a RX 580 2048SP or RX 470/570 with a 2000MHz memory clock for 900p60 using FSR1 upscaling. For 1080p90 I do: - DX11 (use this always unless you're on a +10 year old GPU) - No AA or use FXAA - Pop density, Pop variety and distance scalling at 7/10 - Textures: High - Shader: High - Shadows: Normal (too much perfomance hit at High, at the end of the day, they're cool but you only need then to exist, you can even completely disable them on the settings.xml for a nice perfomance bump on really low end hardware but you will break game visuals). - Reflection: Very High - Reflection MSAA: Disabled (useless during gameplay I think) - Water: Very High - Particles: Very High - Grass: Normal (the performance penalty is considerable at High) - Shadows: AMD CHS (0 performance hit for me) - PostFX: Normal (or High if you really like hit) - Anisotropy: X16 (always max out here in every single game, lower values are only meant for really low end hardware, this graphic technique was revolutionary but during the PS2 era lol, nowdays is very cheap resource-wise) - Ambient Oclussion: High - Tessellation: Very High - All advanced graphics disabled (enable High Detail Streaming while flying if you like it as it is more immersive). Anyway, really nice video, it helped me out: 10/10 quality content. PD: I'm 100% GPU bound, I have this RX paired with a 11th gen Core i7 CPU, may this settings work poorly if you use something in the lines of a AMD FX CPU,

[@kajuexdee]

This really helped my 1650. Thanks a lot!

[@hassainemoussa1186]

The best KZbinr pc in the world 🔥🔥🔥

[@jordannunez1480]

Thanks friend, I was hoping you would upload GTA V. Greetings from Chile

[@prejtej_kapr4636]

best video ever my game was trash i watched this video and it looks amazing thanks soo much

[@ItsPansy]

small tip: you can force anisotropic filtering with the Nvidia panel and it will fix the issue with the "shader quality" set to normal :)

[@PilinhaXauu]

Thanks brother, i was at around 50 fPS now Im at 70-80-90

[@zberg7166]

Thank you for doing this, super helpful for somebody still learning lots about PC gaming.

[@25xy30]

Не ну мужчина по факту все разложил, спасибо братишка.

[@maki1532]

Finally, AN OPTIMIZATION GUIDE FOR GTA V

[@Astabolito]

One of the best settings guides I’ve seen! Would you keep VSync on or off?

[@jasonxer]

i like to keep mine on Half, i heard the engine breaks if u haver over 180fps you will stutter like crazy

[@MatriCoul86]

ta7ya l meghrib hahaha, kansmeha f 7el9k asat rak nadi

[@benchmarking4386]

El3ez khouya👍

[@Parad0x_SL]

Great job man. Barely anyone on youtube does it like you do. Thanks alot for ur hard work.

[@SlidYT]

I really like your work, it helps a lot to achieve great graphics and optimization, I would like to ask you when possible to make the game: Need For Speed Heat, which is very difficult to play with everything at the highest setting

[@rasmusholgersen2416]

THANK YOU!!! so so much. 10/10 dude!

[@hikaslav]

best vid, tysm

[@etalm_]

wtf this came out just as I bought gta V.. LOVE YOU

[@canbar5010]

Great video, thanks for explaining and provide your point of view if its recommend or not. Thanks for taking your time

[@oneforthemoney8482]

man i was looking for your video of gtav and i couldn't find it . thanks just what i need

[@earles_0]

for population variarity you can see vram usage get higher

[@watcherzz1449]

Great video🙌, i wanna request more AAA games in upcoming video would be very helping

[@manofculture274]

ok now I can't live without your optimization settings 😂

[@mrkoddy]

Awesome thank you! Do you plan to make same guides for GTA 4 EFLC and Max Payne 3?

[@X_irtz]

One note about the water quality - during night time a higher water quality might cause FPS drops, this is just what i have noticed.

[@asterox3189]

I have noticed it too, very big fps drop in some specific places, from 80fps locked to 50 or even 40 when i had grass on ultra. I think it occurs only on AMD cards, because i have never experienced such a drops in graphicly demanding places on NVIDIA.

[@Bestgameplayer10]

It more so has to do with AMD Ryzen CPUs I think and not the GPUs. Or it could be both.@@asterox3189

[@SATANAMA]

Amazing Video! Thank you :) it was very helpful

[@x_yzk]

You are the best man, love UR videos hope UR doing great❤

[@Endeavour30]

This came in the right moment for me, thanks!

[@HiluxForEveryone]

The goat is back. More awesome than ever.

[@thungbung3539]

Something important to note is that Gta 5 isn’t meant to be played on pc above 120 fps. The game has bugs that occurs with certain missions at very high frames. Not a huge deal but if a player doesn’t understand why a missions messing up it can be annoying to find out. Speed runners use caps during different parts of the game to do certain strats and avoid bugs.

[@reese373]

Just started playing in pc and that early Simeon mission keeps failing as soon as I start it. How do I cap it to 120fps? Playing on 7900xtx and amd 7 3800x3d

[@jpxgs]

@@reese373 google it

[@fara_dika]

informative and very helpfull who still use old pc