Is 35 FPS playable?

[Mati Blaster]

I have a birthday today. My brother promised me present on Wednesday. Im wondering about what it could be. I suspect laptop but I want PC for more FPS in GTA V. I havent this game but I want to buy it beacuse I want make squad with friends. I couldn't wait more and I bought GTA V for PS3 (i wanted buy it on PS4 but family havent money, i could buy it earlier. Why I was waiting) but still planning to buy on Steam. Console have 30 FPS and aliassed and it's playable and enjoyable. So why I can't play on 500$ or 625$ laptop? I have one question: Is PC version can be payable and enjoyable on GTA Online on 35-40 FPS on medium settings?

[Zένø™ 👌]

yep,i m playing at 30-40fps with a 450€ laptop. What are the specs of your laptop?

[beans]

It depends on your taste. When Far Cry 3 first came out, I played it with my old GTX 260 while I was scavenging funds to get a GTX 760, which was a pretty solid card at the time. I played at around 30 FPS with common dips to 25 or under. It was painful, but the game was playable, and I managed to play through the whole thing at that framerate. When I got my 760, sub-60 FPS wasn't acceptable for me anymore. I played Skyrim at slightly less than 60 frames, but that was it. Anything else makes me feel nauseous. If you've always played games at 30 frames, GTA V probably won't be much different. If you're used to 60, it definitely will be. Also, watching 60 FPS videos will make the transition from 60 to 30 a lot more jarring.

From what I understand, a 30hz monitor will be much more pleasant to play on if you're getting 30 FPS. 30 FPS on a 60hz monitor is far more unpleasant. I can't say whether 35-40 FPS is going to be enough for you, but it might be good enough. If you know you're not going to get that many frames, you might just want to swap over to a 30hz monitor if you have one.

If you want an optimization tip, don't enable MSAA. It's a very costly form of AA. FXAA just blurs the screen while substantially dropping the quality; you might want to use FXAA just to get rid of the jaggies and other visual artifacts caused by a lack of "real" AA, but you might be better off without it. FXAA has practically no performance impact, so whether you use it or not is entirely up to you. Everything else can probably be left on medium to low. The game has a very handy VRAM usage approximator in the options menu which will try to approximate how much VRAM the game is going to use with your current settings. Try to use as much of it as possible. The moment you go over your limit, the game will start to slow to a crawl. There are some settings that don't decrease performance by much, but cost a lot of VRAM (textures), and then there are other settings that cost performance, but don't take up a lot of VRAM (post processing effects). Pick and choose. sit and lose

EDIT: The 920M seems like a pretty bare card, but it might be able to work. This is the best comparison I could find.[www.game-debate.com] It has 2gb VRAM, but it looks like the performance is a lot worse than the card I used to play GTA V with. I'm on a 380x now (soon w/ sli), but my 760 could play the game on mostly medium to medium-high settings with 50-60 frames, so you should be able to manage a solid 30.

[Mati Blaster]

GeForce 920M and 8 GB of RAM.

[Mati Blaster]

Its the minimum

[MotherVicar]

seeing as the consoles use(d) 30 fps as a standard, yeah it will do, its not perfect obviously but it will work

[Mati Blaster]

Lot of PC games (CS:GO, Worms) have 60 FPS on the lowest on my current laptop Lenovo G505s but not all. But if I playing on PS3 40 FPS on 920M laptop can be enough. I could disable Ambient Occlusion and/or enable MSI Supported mode in registry to get more frames. Maybe brother will have money for 920M or R5 M430 laptop

[mcmaster]

Yes. I playing 30-40 FPS radeon HD6950. max setting.

[Pig Mac]

Looking at your previous names.. it seems there is a really poor household. (maybe since your last 10 computers seems to have died?)

But on the serious side..
I actually wouldn't recommend it on 30 FPS, not really anything below 60 v-synced and locked. then adapt GFX-quality until you can keep it as close to steady 60 all the time.
A little dip down in the 40's feel a LOT more then you can imagine. If you get steady 30 fps, and can live with it, maybe.

[Nox Tenebris]

Learn english. And get your own money "family could not afford it".

[Pig Mac]

Originally posted by Nox Tenebris:

Learn english. And get your own money "family could not afford it".

Why don't YOU learn Polish? No need to be that rude!
You understood what he meant at least!?

On the other hand, another <16 year old, is not really what the game need.
But as long as he plays with his mates only, I guess it don't matter.

[Zένø™ 👌]

Originally posted by Mati Blaster 16TH BIRTHDAY!!!:

GeForce 920M and 8 GB of RAM.

i have the 930m and i m playing in mostly high & medium settings without AA. The 920m is slightly weaker.

[Mati Blaster]

Brother will not have 500$. He said me. He could buy me. PES 2017 for PS3 or/and got me pocket money

[Mati Blaster]

Originally posted by Nox Tenebris:

get your own money "family could not afford it".

I cant go to normal work beacuse I have this disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_combined_immunodeficiency

I can only work on computer but i don't know programming and WWW websites (yet)

[Kevlar]

Well,Console players are used to it,so I suppose it´s endurable.

[umar48]

Yes, 35-40fps is just fine.