GTA V PC version

[MissChief]

Didn't see a thread yet so thought I would start one.

Preload now complete after buying from Green Man gaming for less than £30 so if I get 30 hours out of it I will be happy! Not played it on any console so quite looking forward to it. Anyone else got it ordered or plan to pick it up?

60 fps PC trailer:

http://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/5241...

[MissChief]

Feel free to add on Rockstar Social club, Tess-Lacoil

[MissChief]

I'd always recommend buying the best single card you can afford come upgrade time. Then when you're looking at the next card you can consider SLI/XFire for a cheap upgrade or getting a whole new card. I tend to leapfrog my upgrades (or rather I used to) when one year I'd go CPU/mobo/RAM and carry over the graphics card then the next year upgrade the card. I still have my Core i5 2500k for nearly four years now, upgraded to 8gb from 4 and overclocked it to 4.2GHz. At the time of upgrade I had a GTX460 which got upgraded to a 670 and now a 780 and I've noticed a performance increase every time so see no need to upgrade. I have a mini windfall co,JNG next year so that'll be my DDR4/X99 upgrade.

[MissChief]

Download taking an age. And somehow 'mislaid' 200MB of patch it had already downloaded.

[MissChief]

kowalski655 said:

N00b question,but does this need to be on Steam? Or can it be installed separately (as my Steam drive is getting full) if I d/l it from somewhere like Amazon or Green Man Gaming?
Any idea of cheapest price too?

Unless you buy directly from Steam then any code or version you buy will be a Rockstar Social Club download that can be installed anywhere you wish.

[MissChief]

Mr_Yogi said:

S13_Alan said:

If it's just a disk space thing and you've got others (as I'd assume from what you've said) then Steam can have multiple folders these days, you don't need to do anything strange to install all your games across different drives.

However the Steam download does (or at least did) need an extra 100GB of free space in addition to the 60GB game download to unpack and install the game. The Rockstar download you get from everywhere else doesn't. So if space is an issue it may be a consideration.

I only have a pair of 256GB SSD's and neither had 160GB free, so if I'd bought it from Steam I'd have been screwed.

I believe the need for double the space was only for the preload. If you buy now it unpacks as it is downloaded.

[MissChief]

Made a wee video just showing the graphics settings I'm using.

http://youtu.be/JIgziqI_Z1M

[MissChief]

Plenty of spare memory, it's a 6GB card. If I crank the settings any further I start to lose FPS.

[MissChief]

I wish! It's a 780 6gb.

[MissChief]

The game sees each card individually and adds the VRAM.

[MissChief]

not sure about this 59Hz thing, mine shows 60?

[MissChief]

I've had my Windows updates set to 'notify me but do fk all else until I decide when to' for years now!

[MissChief]

I do occasionally, yes. Add me on R*SC, Tess-lacoil.