Best settings for FX 8350 and R9 290X users for 60+FPS!

[Aikor]

Excuse my english first of all,it might be bad because english is not my 1st language

So yea iv been playing with my brothers computer which has this setup

FX 8350 4.0GHZ

MSI R9 290X

8GB RAM

Win7 64bit

 

Now i had to really go through hard testing and changing settings for best quality and performance and finally i recieved 60FPS+ most of the times and 50-60FPS with this setting while driving at high speed..which im gonna tell now.50-60FPS is not really noticeable so its cool

 

Now i have seen some people complaining low FPS with the same CPU and card i have(or a little high or lower than my card) so i am gonna tell you how to reach 50-60FPS

Before we start

1.Make sure u have the latest AMD beta driver for GTA V installed

2.Make sure EVERY useless process and background tasks are closed including browser,skype,messenger or any media player as this can use some of the CPU juice

3.Sometimes UNPARKING the cores can really boost performance in some games,in this case this CPU my brother uses is unparked.So give this a try..u can also revert back if ur unhappy with the results..

 

Now u can launch the game..

 

This is my settings(NOT in order lol)

 

Anti Aliasing: Only FXAA(MSAA off)

Texture Quality: Very high

Shader Quality: High

Shadow Quality: Normal(For me changing shadows have a huge difference in performance)

Reflection Quality: High

Water Quality: High

Particles Quality: High

Grass Quality: Normal(This have a huge impact in performance too)

Soft Shadow options: Softer

Post FX: High

Anistropic filtering: 16x

Depth of field: Off(Didnt really test this)

Ambient occulsion: High

Advanced Graphics: All off

 

Now this is what affects the CPU the most..if u want the best performance..use this settings which worked for me atleast

 

Population Density: 45%

Population Variety: 50%

Distance Scaling: 50%

 

Advanced Graphics all off instead of streaming while flying

 

Give this settings a try and let me know if it works for u

Edited April 20, 2015 by Aikor

[r0llinlacs]

Uhh not sure why you can't max it out but I have the same setup except FX8320 @4.6ghz and I have mine completely maxed out ultra + advanced settings and get 30fps solid at 3840x2160. 1080p maxed is child's play for this setup so you must have a problem somewhere.

[Scalesdini]

Uhh not sure why you can't max it out but I have the same setup except FX8320 @4.6ghz and I have mine completely maxed out ultra + advanced settings and get 30fps solid at 3840x2160. 1080p maxed is child's play for this setup so you must have a problem somewhere.

 

Strange thing, but... I noticed my 290 (not x) runs the game better at 4k30fps than it does at 1080p60fps with the same settings otherwise.

[r0llinlacs]

I've noticed throughout time that newer and better graphics cards seem to have harder times running smaller resolutions than larger ones. Not sure why. Must be more optimized for large resolutions or something.

[JowDaRapper]

there's something strange going on. I have the same cpu, but a much weaker nvidia gtx 570. I have everything on high, fxaa, and also long shadows on. I get most of the time ~ 50 fps.

[Aikor]

I dont have a 4K monitor but yes Its more likely optimized for high resolution

I can max it out yes btw but at certain places with more grass the performance tend to drop to 45-50s so i set most of the settings to high

Other settings like ambient occlusion,i rly didnt see any difference between high and ultra so i put it to high to avoid even 1FPS loss