False system requirements

[Icing]

The Rockstar website lists the game's system requirements from 2013, although they were "updated" in 2024 ( https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/203428177/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PC-system-requirements ):
The "minimum" lists the "NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB" video card - my game with 2 GB loads the video memory by almost 100%, I have no idea how to play this with 1 GB.
The "recommended" lists "NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB", which is also not true, because my video card is slightly more powerful than this one, but even with minimum settings the video memory is loaded by almost 100% (it's strange that the load mainly goes to "VRAM", and not to "GPU", as in most games) and the game can simply lag and crash (you can't press alt-tab at all).

The same goes for RAM: "minimum" says 4 GB, which will be simply unplayable if 8 loads almost 100%.

I used to play GTA 5 and Online in 2017 on weaker hardware than now and the game ran much better and more stable than now. Where did the optimization go? Maybe thanks to your "perfect" anti-cheat, which kicks all honest players without cheats?

[Hangry Henrys]

"Over time downloadable content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game"
Did you missed this part?

[Icing]

Originally posted by Torque:

"Over time downloadable content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game"
Did you missed this part?

Ahh, a point with a check mark, a note below, how could I have missed that... Then WHY were these system requirements written if they have nothing to do with reality??

[Door stuck]

Originally posted by Icing:

Originally posted by Torque:

"Over time downloadable content and programming changes will change the system requirements for this game"
Did you missed this part?

Ahh, a point with a check mark, a note below, how could I have missed that... Then WHY were these system requirements written if they have nothing to do with reality??

It was reality 11 years ago when the game was released.

[Boombox]

vro, the reality is that its a triple A title that takes ~120 gigs of space with a decade of updates and added content, how the heck u expect it to run smoothly on a PC from 2012, they even cut off all the support for old gen consoles cus the hardware simply couldn't keep up and a fraction of players were online on those platforms

I just dont see the point of complaining when its you who refuses to upgrade the hardware that's completely irrelevant these days. BattleEye did nothing to affect the performance on mid-range rigs, but "mid-range" is 32 gigs of ddr4-ddr5 ram now... 2017 was 7 years ago my guy, go to the micro center asap

[kris3456]

Originally posted by Icing:

The Rockstar website lists the game's system requirements from 2013, although they were "updated" in 2024 ( https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/203428177/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PC-system-requirements ):
The "minimum" lists the "NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB" video card - my game with 2 GB loads the video memory by almost 100%, I have no idea how to play this with 1 GB.
The "recommended" lists "NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB", which is also not true,

Those minimal setting are rather true but when playing very laggy in story mode. I have ryzen 2600, 16 GB RAM + GTX 970 4 GB and in online FPS is dropping sometimes from 70-80 to 30-40 in some places (100% CPU but only on one core from 6), when there is a lot of people and there is a lot of going on. So even a processor a few years old is not enough becouse game poor optimalization for multi cores. btw. Battleye is using only very small fraction of CPU.

[Xan5131]

Ryzen 5 1400, 1050ti 4g, 16gig ddr4 at 2666.
Free roam with alot of people is about 28-32fps, solo session is 34-40fps. heists are like solo sessions for me. Any more then 8 people and i get the lags :D

[Wizzen One]

I was playing GTA5 on a 2005/2006 PC I built myself using top of the line everything. GTA online was barely playable the moment anyone else was driving or I was moving really fast.

I upgraded some components of that PC not long after starting GTA online, such as Sapphire video card to some other ATI card which forced a change to power core up to a 750, upgraded memory too, striped(raided) the drives.

Requirement Minimum does not need to be met sometimes, but it is a sure bet those systems have to run in the lowest settings, without the back ground garbage.

Just because you make the minimum does not mean you are not running background garbage.

Set PC for high performance, give higher priority to the game, use game settings for game video and not video card settings. Get CCleaner or some such and clean PC before running game, start game from R* launcher while steam is open, but do not have background programs running. Assuming Windows, close background programs that are not 100% required. If you are using outside antivirus, turn that off too. Windows Defender.

Remove programs from taskbar, remove the clutter on desktop. Use smaller vs of Windows. Get rid of desktop background and screen savers. Reduce Windows resolution.... you are in game mode, you do not need all the stupid background clutter passive in memory and so passive on cpu you cannot even see it is being used, but stack up all those little things and it is more than you think. Oh and minimize Steam too and also reduce the feeds. You do not need external feeds like Weather either, edge chromium and others run on the background, turn them off in start up menu so they do not do passive boot when you boot up PC.

Even WindowsLite can help. I ran Fallout 4 in windows millennium and did higher graphics settings as long as the number of actors around me did not exceed my GPU.

The problem is clutter, just like my post... just sooooo full of clutter.

[Door stuck]

Also, requirements are also probably running 720p at 30fps.

[El Scorpio]

Originally posted by kris3456:

Originally posted by Icing:

The Rockstar website lists the game's system requirements from 2013, although they were "updated" in 2024 ( https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/203428177/Grand-Theft-Auto-V-PC-system-requirements ):
The "minimum" lists the "NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB" video card - my game with 2 GB loads the video memory by almost 100%, I have no idea how to play this with 1 GB.
The "recommended" lists "NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB", which is also not true,

Those minimal setting are rather true but when playing very laggy in story mode. I have ryzen 2600, 16 GB RAM + GTX 970 4 GB and in online FPS is dropping sometimes from 70-80 to 30-40 in some places (100% CPU but only on one core from 6), when there is a lot of people and there is a lot of going on. So even a processor a few years old is not enough becouse game poor optimalization for multi cores. btw. Battleye is using only very small fraction of CPU.

yeap, I run a 4790 and same video card, online with a full server is horrible. I mainly play solo lobbies and manage to stay in the 60 frame mark with minor drops...problem is this game, at least for me, is really noteacible when you drop even 2 frames...I think the turning point was after the perico heist. That's when performance took a big hit. But yeah were running hella old cards...so can't complain really...single player runs super smooth for me though for obvious reasons