Advanced Graphic Settings problem.

[Cowboy]

Hello, guys. Following the recent update, whenever I start the game, the setting EXTENDED SHADOW SCALING resets itself to the lowest level (off). Otherwise, the game runs fine with all settings pretty much maxed out, except for MSAA, which is set at 2X. It's not a huge problem, but I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the issue.

My setup has the latest drivers installed. Intel i5 6600K, EVGA SC GTX 1070, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD, AND Windows 7 64 bit.

Many thanks in advance, guys, and have a nice Christmas!

P.S. Just in case someone checks my profile, I downloaded the game directly from Rockstar.

[Cowboy]

Sorry, but bumpity bump bump.

[KLUCK]

arte you alt f4ing to leave the game, or does the game crash, get shut down by task maanager

[Cowboy]

Hi Shadowcreeper, thanks so much for responding. No , the game closes like it should without any problems. I mean, it's annoying more than anything, Then, when I run the game, all other graphics settings are as I left them. So strange. I could understand if my system was struggling to run the game at these setting, but it's not. Also, I am receiving a warning that my video memory has been exceeded, despite having 8GB VRAM.

[Tallyhoo]

Same problem here. Everytime i start game i have to set Extended shadow scaling because it is always off.

[Reddy]

Yes, this is and has been a bug with the Extended Shadow Distance setting for quite some time.

It seems that Rockstar North has tried to fix it, and ended up only making it worse. Previously, it would only go down to 20% from 30% and down to 50% from 60%.



This does not mean that this issue isn't partially your fault, however.

After you set it to 100% or whatever you like it being at, and restart the game...if you go to the Advanced Graphics options again and try to exit it, it'll ask you if you wish to apply/save the changes. Even if you didn't make any changes.

Applying/saving the changes is what actually *sets* the setting to 0%. If you cancel the "changes, exit the game, and go into your settings.xml...you'll find that the Extended Shadow Distance setting is exactly as you had left it originally.



EDIT - @OP As for your warning that your video memory is being exceeded...please post a screenshot of this warning. If it's what I think it is, simply turning on the setting "Ignore Suggested Limits" in the Graphics options will fix this.

[Cowboy]

Feyrom,

Thank you for the response.

Please note, however, when restarting the game, the user need not enter the advanced graphics settings for a problem to occur. Simply entering the settings menu will prompt the "do you wish to save your settings" or some such. Also, turning on "ignore graphics memory" does not solve the problem - not in my case, anyway. I can increase all AA to full and use well over 4GB of VRAM without issue, it is ONLY when I try to increase the extended shadow distance to anything above zero that causes the exceeded video memory message.

Hope this helps clarify.

Grant.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Zacky:

Feyrom,

Thank you for the response.

Please note, however, when restarting the game, the user need not enter the advanced graphics settings for a problem to occur. Simply entering the settings menu will prompt the "do you wish to save your settings" or some such. Also, turning on "ignore graphics memory" does not solve the problem - not in my case, anyway. I can increase all AA to full and use well over 4GB of VRAM without issue, it is ONLY when I try to increase the extended shadow distance to anything above zero that causes the exceeded video memory message.

Hope this helps clarify.

Grant.

Right, I thought that was a seperate issue relating to Post FX being turned down to High without turning Depth of Field effects Off first.


Again, could you proivde a screenshot of the issue with your video memory usage? Just so everyone can better understand what you're talking about and see it more or less first hand.

[Cowboy]

Feyrom,

forgive my ignorance, but could you tell me how to provide a screenshot? I have the game, not on Steam, but direct from Rockstar.

Grant.

P.S. I do not wish to be rude, but what is it you find unclear? If I increase the extended shadow distance scaling - and only this setting - it works but with a warning that graphics memory has been exceeeded. Respectfully.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Zacky:

Feyrom,

forgive my ignorance, but could you tell me how to provide a screenshot? I have the game, not on Steam, but direct from Rockstar.

Grant.

P.S. I do not wish to be rude, but what is it you find unclear? If I increase the extended shadow distance scaling - and only this setting - it works but with a warning that graphics memory has been exceeeded. Respectfully.

You can provide a screenshot by pressing PrintScreen, going into an image editing program such as MSPaint, pressing CTRL+V (Paste), saving the image, and uploading it to an image hosting site such as Imgur. From there, you can just copy and paste the link into a post here.

What's not clear is where this warning is appearing. As far as I'm aware, there's no actual warning for this in Grand Theft Auto V. The only indication that you have is the coloured bar representing video memory, at the top of the Graphics options. So this must be something new that was added with an update/patch.


Here's what the warning was like in GTA IV.

http://i.imgur.com/0SSUSv3.jpg

[JMTAotP]

The Shadow Distance does not reset unless you click apply when asked. As long as you say "No" when asked to apply settings after starting the game it is still full shadow distance even though the game says it is 0.

You can prove this by minimizing your GTA V and opening up settings.xml found at Documents/Rockstar/GTA V/settings.xml

You will notice it is still at full settings. You will also notice once you return to GTA V after opening this file (with GTA V running) the game will no longer ask you to "Apply" settings and you will see the Shadow Distance bar at full again instead of 0.

I literally just tested this. As far as I can tell the settings are still full distance, according to the .xml file, until you apply when asked to. Because the game moved the slider down to 0 itself when loading but never applied it, thus it is still what you had it at.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by JMTAotP:

The Shadow Distance does not reset unless you click apply when asked. As long as you say "No" when asked to apply settings after starting the game it is still full shadow distance even though the game says it is 0.

You can prove this by minimizing your GTA V and opening up settings.xml found at Documents/Rockstar/GTA V/settings.xml

You will notice it is still at full settings. You will also notice once you return to GTA V after opening this file (with GTA V running) the game will no longer ask you to "Apply" settings and you will see the Shadow Distance bar at full again instead of 0.

I literally just tested this. As far as I can tell the settings are still full distance, according to the .xml file, until you apply when asked to. Because the game moved the slider down to 0 itself when loading but never applied it, thus it is still what you had it at.

I've already mentioned this.

[JMTAotP]

Originally posted by Feyrom:

Originally posted by JMTAotP:

The Shadow Distance does not reset unless you click apply when asked. As long as you say "No" when asked to apply settings after starting the game it is still full shadow distance even though the game says it is 0.

You can prove this by minimizing your GTA V and opening up settings.xml found at Documents/Rockstar/GTA V/settings.xml

You will notice it is still at full settings. You will also notice once you return to GTA V after opening this file (with GTA V running) the game will no longer ask you to "Apply" settings and you will see the Shadow Distance bar at full again instead of 0.

I literally just tested this. As far as I can tell the settings are still full distance, according to the .xml file, until you apply when asked to. Because the game moved the slider down to 0 itself when loading but never applied it, thus it is still what you had it at.

I've already mentioned this.

You said to exit the game. I say to keep it open and also say how to get rid of the prompt asking you to "apply" settings. But yes, we are pretty much talking about the same thing. I am just piggy backing extra info.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by JMTAotP:

Originally posted by Feyrom:

I've already mentioned this.

You said to exit the game. I say to keep it open and also say how to get rid of the prompt asking you to "apply" settings.

That's a really small difference for little to no extra information. You did not say how to get rid of the prompt. It will still ask you every time you start your game up again.

[JMTAotP]

Originally posted by Feyrom:

Originally posted by JMTAotP:

You said to exit the game. I say to keep it open and also say how to get rid of the prompt asking you to "apply" settings.

That's a really small difference for little to no extra information. You did not say how to get rid of the prompt. It will still ask you every time you start your game up again.

You are right I forgot to add that part. When opening the setting.xml while the game is running this will prevent the prompt from appearing as long as you have the game running. Once you restart the game does it's own thing. Point is, even if I say "no" the prompt keeps appearing while game is running until I open the settings.xml with the game running. At that point the prompt to apply never appears again until I restart.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by JMTAotP:

Originally posted by Feyrom:

That's a really small difference for little to no extra information. You did not say how to get rid of the prompt. It will still ask you every time you start your game up again.

You are right I forgot to add that part. When opening the setting.xml while the game is running. This will prevent the prompt from appearing as long as you have the game running. Once you restart the game does it's own thing. Point is, even if I say "no" the prompt keeps appearing while game is running until I open the settings.xml with the game running. At that point the prompt to apply never appears again until I restart.

So if I open the settings.xml file before running the game, the game won't prompt me to change the settings?