High textures?

[kane-wwe]

Core i3 4130

GTX 750 1GB

4GB DDR 3 1333 mhz

1 TB 7200 rpm HDD

 

The game runs great for me usually at 50-60 fps with most settings on normal and grass and water at high.(running 350.12 patch). My only problem is that whenever I run the game with textures on high the game stutters like crazy. But normal textures are a f*ucking joke,even the ps3 looks better. Is there anyway I can run textures on high? I know it is a problem with the lack of vram but is there and mod or anything with which I can run high textures?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Wybo76]

try to remove grass, that is the most fps killing feature of all.

 

even on my 290x (4k) i have it on normal because it is realy anoying to see the stuttering of it.

[kane-wwe]

try to remove grass, that is the most fps killing feature of all.

 

even on my 290x (4k) i have it on normal because it is realy anoying to see the stuttering of it.

It is not the fps which is the problem but the stuttering. And grass don't help much in my case. Even while grass and water are set to normal high textures stutters.

[Wybo76]

I knoiw, that stutters and fpsdrops are different things. I had them both either. But for me was playing with settings helping to fix them both. I used this http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/grand-theft-auto-v-pc-graphics-and-performance-guideto help me find best settings. At a certain point fps was good for me (60 fps with only drops to 52+), but i still had stutters. I just keeping lower settings, and that helped for me.

[oCrapaCreeper]

How far above your card's vram are you going? The game is pretty harsh even to even 3 GB cards, more so on one with only 1 GB. Unfortunately the jump in VRAM from normal to high textures is large.

 

Going above VRAM is going to cause stutter regardless of what you do. If you want to adequately run the game on high or very higher textures your either going to have to free up some VRAM by lowering other settings or getting a better card. Getting more RAM for the game to use when you run out of VRAM can help I suppose but the stutter won't go away completely when the game needs to swap between the two types of memory.

Edited August 31, 2015 by oCrapaCreeper

[DianaPetran]

Core i3 4130

GTX 750 1GB

4GB DDR 3 1333 mhz

1 TB 7200 rpm HDD

 

The game runs great for me usually at 50-60 fps with most settings on normal and grass and water at high.(running 350.12 patch). My only problem is that whenever I run the game with textures on high the game stutters like crazy. But normal textures are a f*ucking joke,even the ps3 looks better. Is there anyway I can run textures on high? I know it is a problem with the lack of vram but is there and mod or anything with which I can run high textures?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

You need 8GB RAM for high textures,for example,i can run gta v on highest settings,including textures too,without problem with Page File off ,because that it cause stutters in most cases,and with this disabled i can play gta v without problem.

Edited August 30, 2015 by Marius.Petran

[kane-wwe]

So there is a chance of not getting stutters if I upgrade my ram?

I get stutters even when every setting is at its lowest and resolution is 800*600 only textures on high vram usage at lowest is 1073/1024.

[Modojo]

It doesn't stutter on the GTX 750 ti GPU. 8 gb is recommended to run at high texture settings.

[kane-wwe]

Will 8 GB be enough or will 16 gb be better and will it give a major improvement to performance?

[Wybo76]

I have 12 GB, but never use more then 7.5 for GTA.

[Wheatley]

Someone explained the reason that "Normal" textures look like garbage compared to the Last Gen versions. The problem is that "Normal" textures look fine up to 720p resolution, anything higher than that and the game will smudge the textures to accommodate the higher resolution of your monitor.

[DianaPetran]

Will 8 GB be enough or will 16 gb be better and will it give a major improvement to performance?

 

For optimal result,and smoth gameplay i recomend to you to upgrade your RAM,GPU and OS.

 

if you only wanted to upgrade your RAM to 8 GB,then you have to disable page file in order to reduce your stutters cause by cache betwen VRam-RAM-HDD Virtual Memory.

[Nick930930]

I know it is a problem with the lack of vram but is there and mod or anything with which I can run high textures?

 

 

 

Do these new PC gamers nowadays just think mods are magical?

 

If your PC can't handle it.. your PC can't handle it. Lower some of your other settings if you want to boost your texture resolution. I suggest lowering grass and disable any form of AA. Make sure all the settings under Advanced graphics are disabled because a 1gb VRAM card isn't going to be able to handle any of that.

 

In addition to that, you might want to consider a RAM increase. 8 gb or more is pretty much required for smooth gaming nowadays.

Edited August 31, 2015 by Nick930930

[Spider-Vice]

It's impossible to use High textures without stuttering on 1 GB VRAM even with everything else on low (excepting resolution). Even with RAM swapping, RAM is way slower than VRAM, which causes stuttering. Especially in GTA Online where it becomes almost unplayable compared to SP for some reason.

[Seemly]

You need atleast 3-4 GB VRAM to run high textures fine, ram may help you but VRAM is more important.

[Spider-Vice]

You need atleast 3-4 GB VRAM to run high textures fine, ram may help you but VRAM is more important.

3-4 GB VRAM for higher settings and Very High textures. High textures only add around 600-800MB, so 2 GB VRAM is enough if your GPU memory is fast enough as well. A GTX 960 would run High/very high just fine even if it surpassed the 2 GB a bit.

[Sliderv2]

I have laptop with I3-3110M, AMD Radeon HD8670M 1gb and 8gb RAM and my game running fine with textures set on HIGH even on Very High, if I want to render video in Rockstar Editor.

Edited August 31, 2015 by Sliderv2

[Teletesselator]

Core i3 4130

GTX 750 1GB

4GB DDR 3 1333 mhz

1 TB 7200 rpm HDD

 

The game runs great for me usually at 50-60 fps with most settings on normal and grass and water at high.(running 350.12 patch). My only problem is that whenever I run the game with textures on high the game stutters like crazy. But normal textures are a f*ucking joke,even the ps3 looks better. Is there anyway I can run textures on high? I know it is a problem with the lack of vram but is there and mod or anything with which I can run high textures?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Your RAM and VRAM amounts are too low.

 

 

 

You need 8GB RAM for high textures....

True, however...

 

 

So there is a chance of not getting stutters if I upgrade my ram?

I get stutters even when every setting is at its lowest and resolution is 800*600 only textures on high vram usage at lowest is 1073/1024.

Yes, and, yes.

 

 

Will 8 GB be enough or will 16 gb be better and will it give a major improvement to performance?

8GB will be OK for "High" in most cases but for Very High you will need more than 8GB (12GB or 16GB is recommended!) But you ALSO need more than 1GB of VRAM - no two ways about it.

 

 

 

You need at least 3-4 GB VRAM to run high textures fine, ram may help you but VRAM is more important.

Also correct - kinda...

 

 

If running with High only then a 3 or 4GB GPU and 8GB of system memory are enough. However if you want to increase a few of the other beauty settings and/or run with Textures set to Very High then you will need more than a 5GB GPU and more than 8GB of system RAM. I have tested this game on very very many different systems and various different system configurations - on 12 different GPUs, 6 different CPUs, with varying amounts of system RAM installed, with a vast number of game settings on each.

 

I almost feel as if I have spent more time testing this game than playing it - and my stats state I have played it for 56 days (56x24hrs) and some number of hours.

 

The system spec I finally settled on was: 12GB RAM and an 8GB 280x AMD GPU running on an older system based on the Core-i7 870 3Ghz - running Win7 Ultimate. An i5 or maybe even an i3 from the same period would also be antiquate BTW.

 

The 8GB AMD was selected because this particular card was selling for less than most 3GB GPUs and 6GB is actually needed. The card is this one which was selling for $400 or so.

 

I'm currently running these settings which only shutter when Rockstar's server's game synchronization chokes (which is about once every 30min or so - and can last between 1 and 10 seconds).

 

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2015 by Teletesselator

[Luchingador]

Textures are alocated on the VRAM, not the RAM, and indeed 1Gb is too little.

[Spider-Vice]

Textures are alocated on the VRAM, not the RAM, and indeed 1Gb is too little.

And when that runs out, it's swapped out to RAM. This is why AMD even has something called "Dynamic Memory Size" in hardware monitor programs. NVidia does the same ofc, but I don't think there's a counter.

Edited August 31, 2015 by Spider-Vice

[Seemly]

 

You need atleast 3-4 GB VRAM to run high textures fine, ram may help you but VRAM is more important.

3-4 GB VRAM for higher settings and Very High textures. High textures only add around 600-800MB, so 2 GB VRAM is enough if your GPU memory is fast enough as well. A GTX 960 would run High/very high just fine even if it surpassed the 2 GB a bit.

 

I know, I would say still 3-4 GB of vram is still recommended. you can run textures on high on 960 2GB, but you will have to lower some settings.

[CookinSmokeey]

1GB vRam isn't enough for High or Very High textures. You have to play with Normal Quality textures.