You can crank up extended draw distance by a few notches and still maintain a stable 60fps. Downsampling from 1440p will do a good job with cleaning up jaggies, while also having less of a performance impact, and also avoiding the transparent grass bug. MSAA is most of a performance killer than very high grass. I bet if I had a stronger processor (i7) it might help, but i have an i5 3750k so it's not really worth the upgrade just to get 10 more fps All the moving leaves and shadows can kill your performance. Note: FPS will still get pretty low when in the woods by paleto.

The game actually runs fairly respectably at 1440p, but obviously with larger, more frequent performance drops.Īlso, my VRAM usage is higher than normal because I've increased ped/vehicle variety via the settings config file beyond their normal limits. Advanced settings are still hugely intensive, but you can afford to increase stuff like shadow distance without major drops.

Compared to when I was using the 770, I can now enable DOF without frequent drops, as well as crank up normal settings to very high. With mods like VisualV and GTA Realism (the latter of which adds larger amounts of traffic and peds), I still get mostly 60fps, but with more drops when there's tons of sh*t going on. More and more games are requiring larger amounts of VRAM, so 2GB isn't going to cut it anymore unless you want to use low textures in the latest games.Īs for settings, here are mine (using a 970 G1 and i7 4770K CPU overclocked to 4GHz). The upgrade in VRAM alone is worth it (even with the whole 3.5GB debacle).

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