RTechT 5 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Whenever I play GTA V and am in like LS city Rockford Hills, the CPU usage skyrockets and my CPU fans roar. Population density, texture quality, nearly everything I know I've tried Specs: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Intel Core-i5 2400 8GB RAM Windows 10 Help would be appreciated Link to post Share on other sites
AirWolf359 4,153 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) GTA V loves to use CPU, what you are seeing is normal (maybe except for the fan noise, check for dust). Set extended distance scaling to minimum in Advanced Graphics, that helps. Settings related to render distance and amount of npcs will affect CPU load. Most other graphics settings (shadows, reflections, anti-aliasing) only affect GPU load. You can use high texture quality no problem, as long as you have enough video memory. Edited June 23, 2020 by AirWolf359 Link to post Share on other sites
RTechT 5 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 Well I use texture quality on very high it doesn't affect my PC. Distance scaling makes the game's distant objects look like crap ngl. But I'll set it to like 2, that fine? Plus, is there a method to do it without opening GTAV? It takes ages to restart on an HDD Link to post Share on other sites
RTechT 5 Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 Is there a value you can modify in settings.xml to change it? Link to post Share on other sites
AirWolf359 4,153 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) In settings.xml LodScale = distance scaling. I use 1.000000 (max) for this. MaxLodScale = extended distance scaling. I use 0.000000 (min) for this. Of these 2, extended distance scaling has the largest impact, that's why it is in advanced graphics. If you run game off HDD, I wouldn't use anything in advanced graphics, set all off. As for TextureQuality, 0=Normal, 1=High, 2=Very high If your textures still look bad, make sure AnisotropicFiltering is set to 16. In general I don't recommend editing settings.xml, you could input something outside of valid range and crash the game. Also, if you want your game to start faster, make sure you start it in story mode, not Online. It's in the settings menu, under Saving And Startup. (this one is not in settings.xml) Or if you just want to start your game to change settings and run benchmarks, set Landing Page on. Edited June 23, 2020 by AirWolf359 Link to post Share on other sites
RTechT 5 Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Alright thanks for the help! Link to post Share on other sites
