GTA 5 renders badly

[nick60]

Hi there,
I recently bought GTA 5 for my PC and have clocked many hours into it already, however I've noticed an issue with the rendering recently.whenever i drive around at high speeds cars and bushes and trees materialize out of thin air and it bugs me a lot.

SPECS: RX 470 4 gb
I5 6400
crucial 2 x 4 g b ddr4 2133 ram
B 150 m PRO VD-H
resolution: 1680 x 1050

 

[Eximo]

You need more system memory and likely you need an SSD. Just not enough time to get the right textures into the graphics card.

 

[nick60]

1: will 12gb of ram be enough
2: is there any way to play the game with the specs i have now without bad rendering?

 

[HamBown81]

1: will 12gb of ram be enough
2: is there any way to play the game with the specs i have now without bad rendering?

GTA is a resource hog so the more RAM you can give it the better. Below are my RAM and Pagefile with 16GB on-board after about 30min of play switching between characters.

Reducing your draw distance could help you out too probably. What are your settings?

 

[HamBown81]

2: is there any way to play the game with the specs i have now without bad rendering?

These are the settings I dialed-in on my brother's computer for 1080p with:

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  ■ Phenom II X4 965 @ 3.8GHz
  ■ EVGA Classified GTX 560Ti 448 core
  ■ 2x4 GB DDR3-1600 CAS8

The bracketed stuff is more CPU heavy. It runs smoothly at 40-60 FPS

 

[nick60]

i have FXAA on and MSAA on X4
distance scaling is on max and population variety and population density are on half.
everything is on high except grass,shadows,and post FX.
reflection MSAA is X2.I get 60- 70 frames while running and driving but underwater drops to 45.
And anisotropic filtering is on X4

 

[HamBown81]

i have FXAA on and MSAA on X4
Draw distance is on max and population variety and population density are on half.
everything is on high except grass,shadows,and post FX.
reflection MSAA is X2.I get 60- 70 frames while running and driving but underwater drops to 45.

Turn the MSAA off, that alone will make a huge difference likely. It is the worst single setting for FPS drops IMO

If your CPU is getting maxed out you should back off on the red bracketed settings OR start with the settings I posted and then turn up one thing at a time.

All of the Advanced Graphics should be on default for your PC as well.

 

[HamBown81]

Your FPS doesn't seem too bad. But I don't see hardcore texture pop like that on my bro's system and it is much weaker than yours.

What is your CPU and GPU usage like. Do you monitor / log data with MSI Afterburner or something else?

 

[nick60]

yeah advanced settings are all on default, and my cpu is only at 89-94% usage. I've tinkered with the distance settings today and still can't figure out the rendering issue,however based on your suggestions i'm gonna assume its the ram.

 

[nick60]

I use CPUID HW monitor but i can't seem to remember my gpu usage.

 

[HamBown81]

yeah advanced settings are all on default, and my cpu is only at 89-94% usage. I've tinkered with the distance settings today and still can't figure out the rendering issue,however based on your suggestions i'm gonna assume its the ram.

I isn't just that but it may be that and a combination of your otherwise higher settings. It will definitely utilize more.

 

[nick60]

yeah advanced settings are all on default, and my cpu is only at 89-94% usage. I've tinkered with the distance settings today and still can't figure out the rendering issue,however based on your suggestions i'm gonna assume its the ram.

I isn't just that but it may be that and a combination of your otherwise higher settings. It will definitely utilize more.

I just tested it out and it uses 89% cpu and 87 to 100% gpu. is that good or bad?

 

[HamBown81]

yeah advanced settings are all on default, and my cpu is only at 89-94% usage. I've tinkered with the distance settings today and still can't figure out the rendering issue,however based on your suggestions i'm gonna assume its the ram.

I isn't just that but it may be that and a combination of your otherwise higher settings. It will definitely utilize more.

I just tested it out and it uses 89% cpu and 87 to 100% gpu. is that good or bad?

If your CPU is not ever hitting 100% then it isn't holding your GPU back in that respect. If you were at 100% CPU and less than 100% GPU it would be more of a concern.

 

[nick60]

yeah advanced settings are all on default, and my cpu is only at 89-94% usage. I've tinkered with the distance settings today and still can't figure out the rendering issue,however based on your suggestions i'm gonna assume its the ram.

I isn't just that but it may be that and a combination of your otherwise higher settings. It will definitely utilize more.

I just tested it out and it uses 89% cpu and 87 to 100% gpu. is that good or bad?

If your CPU is not ever hitting 100% then it isn't holding your GPU back in that respect. If you were at 100% CPU and less than 100% GPU it would be more of a concern.

so is it alright if gpu is at 100% usage?

 

[HamBown81]

We are all over the world so sometimes people are gone. It doesn't hurt it to be at 100% as long as you aren't running out of VRAM. Although, my GPU usage in GTA is not normally that high.

Best thing you can do is mess with the settings and see if it makes a difference.

I use RivaTuner, which is packaged with MSI Afterburner, to display FPS and GPU + CPU usage on-screen while I am playing. Then it is easy to see the immediate impact of changing something.

 

[nick60]

We are all over the world so sometimes people are gone. It doesn't hurt it to be at 100% as long as you aren't running out of VRAM. Although, my GPU usage in GTA is not normally that high.

Best thing you can do is mess with the settings and see if it makes a difference.

I use RivaTuner, which is packaged with MSI Afterburner, to display FPS and GPU + CPU usage on-screen while I am playing. Then it is easy to see the immediate impact of changing something.

ok thank you so much for the help.