Best GTA V settings for GTX 1080

[2chainzz]

Hello good people of Toms Hardware. I recently picked up a new MSI Gaming X GTX 1080. I am kind of new to PC gaming and don't know a lot about graphics settings. All of the benchmarks I see have the GTX 1080 running GTA V at 1080p with 80-90FPS. I am running it at 55-60FPS which isn't bad I just want to get the most out of my 719.00$ graphics card. I will list my specs down below. But if somebody could give me the things I need to change to get 80-90FPS that would be amazing. Thanks everyone. Have a great rest of the day.

Specs list:

Processor: Intel i5 4690K

GPU: MSI Gaming X GTX 1080

MOBO: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

Ram: 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 1866Mz

SSD: Samsung Evo Pro 500GB

HDD: WD 1TB Black

PSU: EVGA G2 Supernova 850 watt

 

[mr91]

Hello good people of Toms Hardware. I recently picked up a new MSI Gaming X GTX 1080. I am kind of new to PC gaming and don't know a lot about graphics settings. All of the benchmarks I see have the GTX 1080 running GTA V at 1080p with 80-90FPS. I am running it at 55-60FPS which isn't bad I just want to get the most out of my 719.00$ graphics card. I will list my specs down below. But if somebody could give me the things I need to change to get 80-90FPS that would be amazing. Thanks everyone. Have a great rest of the day.

Specs list:

Processor: Intel i5 4690K


GPU: MSI Gaming X GTX 1080

MOBO: MSI Z97 Gaming 5

Ram: 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 1866Mz

SSD: Samsung Evo Pro 500GB

HDD: WD 1TB Black

PSU: EVGA G2 Supernova 850 watt

I suggest you get a 4790k and overclock because GTA is CPU intensive however you need to get a higher refresh rate monitor to take advantage of more than 60 fps...

 

[Master Chi]

Hello. I recommend these settings:

Graphics:

Ignore Suggested Limits: On
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Screen Type: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio: Auto
Refresh Rate: 60Hz (or higher)
Output Monitor: 1
FXAA: Off
MSAA 4x
NVIDIA TXAA: ON
VSync: Off
Pause Game On Focus Loss: On
Population Density, Variety, Distance Scaling: 100%
Texture Quality: Very High
Shader Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Quality: Ultra
Reflection MSAA: 8x
Water Quality: Very High
Particles Quality: Very High
Grass Quality: Ultra
Soft Shadows: NVIDIA PCSS
Post FX: Ultra
Motion Blur Strenght: Personal preference (no performance impact)
In-Game Depth Of Field Effects: On
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: High
Tessellation: Very High

Advanced Graphics:

Long Shadows: On
High Resolution Shadows: On
High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
Extended Distance Scaling: 100%
Extended Shadows Distance: 100%
Frame Scaling Mode: Off

If you still have low FPS you can try NVidia recommended settings: Windows Taskbar > Right Down Corner > Show hidden icons > Right-Click NVidia icon > Open NVIDIA GeForce Experience > Games Tab > Click on GTA V > On the right from Optimize button click on Custom settings > Choose your resolution and Display Mode > Apply > Launch game

If it doesnt help too, update your GPU Drivers (using GeForce Experience)

If still nothing....it might be CPU bottleneck...so you will have to overclock your CPU

Contact me and tell me about your results

Hope this helped, have a nice day! 😀

 

[Oliver_32]

I've thought about getting a whole new rig with gtx 1080 and a good intel n stuff, but when u say u run GTA V on 1080p with those setting and having 55-60 fps i'm actually worried if it would be worth the money like honestly wtf. Atm i'm on a GTX 660M (laptop) with Intel Core i7-3610QM running at like 104 degrees cuz it's so roasted, i'm having like 40-50fps with this, so a like 3000$ new build for barely 20 fps more? wtf. Honestly I didn't believe this was true, but you're the 1 saying it and now i'm just worried 2 go spend money on this shit lel.

 

[skywere]

Hello. I recommend these settings:

Graphics:

Ignore Suggested Limits: On
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Screen Type: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio: Auto
Refresh Rate: 60Hz (or higher)
Output Monitor: 1
FXAA: Off
MSAA 4x
NVIDIA TXAA: ON
VSync: Off
Pause Game On Focus Loss: On
Population Density, Variety, Distance Scaling: 100%
Texture Quality: Very High
Shader Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Quality: Ultra
Reflection MSAA: 8x
Water Quality: Very High
Particles Quality: Very High
Grass Quality: Ultra
Soft Shadows: NVIDIA PCSS
Post FX: Ultra
Motion Blur Strenght: Personal preference (no performance impact)
In-Game Depth Of Field Effects: On
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: High
Tessellation: Very High

Advanced Graphics:

Long Shadows: On
High Resolution Shadows: On
High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
Extended Distance Scaling: 100%
Extended Shadows Distance: 100%
Frame Scaling Mode: Off

If you still have low FPS you can try NVidia recommended settings: Windows Taskbar > Right Down Corner > Show hidden icons > Right-Click NVidia icon > Open NVIDIA GeForce Experience > Games Tab > Click on GTA V > On the right from Optimize button click on Custom settings > Choose your resolution and Display Mode > Apply > Launch game

If it doesnt help too, update your GPU Drivers (using GeForce Experience)

If still nothing....it might be CPU bottleneck...so you will have to overclock your CPU

Contact me and tell me about your results

Hope this helped, have a nice day! 😀

I'm still getting like 50 fps, i swear this game is so weird.
(no bad fps on any other game)

 

[rottaracing]

Hello. I recommend these settings:

Graphics:

Ignore Suggested Limits: On
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Screen Type: Fullscreen
Resolution: 1920x1080
Aspect Ratio: Auto
Refresh Rate: 60Hz (or higher)
Output Monitor: 1
FXAA: Off
MSAA 4x
NVIDIA TXAA: ON
VSync: Off
Pause Game On Focus Loss: On
Population Density, Variety, Distance Scaling: 100%
Texture Quality: Very High
Shader Quality: Very High
Shadow Quality: Very High
Reflection Quality: Ultra
Reflection MSAA: 8x
Water Quality: Very High
Particles Quality: Very High
Grass Quality: Ultra
Soft Shadows: NVIDIA PCSS
Post FX: Ultra
Motion Blur Strenght: Personal preference (no performance impact)
In-Game Depth Of Field Effects: On
Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: High
Tessellation: Very High

Advanced Graphics:

Long Shadows: On
High Resolution Shadows: On
High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
Extended Distance Scaling: 100%
Extended Shadows Distance: 100%
Frame Scaling Mode: Off

If you still have low FPS you can try NVidia recommended settings: Windows Taskbar > Right Down Corner > Show hidden icons > Right-Click NVidia icon > Open NVIDIA GeForce Experience > Games Tab > Click on GTA V > On the right from Optimize button click on Custom settings > Choose your resolution and Display Mode > Apply > Launch game

If it doesnt help too, update your GPU Drivers (using GeForce Experience)

If still nothing....it might be CPU bottleneck...so you will have to overclock your CPU

Contact me and tell me about your results

Hope this helped, have a nice day! 😀

Thanks I went from 50fps to 100fps. I think it was the Frame Scaling Mode