GTA 5 - Increase FPS by 278% | Performance Optimization Guide + Optimized Settings

Grand Theft Auto 5 PC Performance. Every GTA 5 PC graphics setting + optimized settings for improved performance while retaining the game's intended visual presentation.

OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
FXAA: ON
MSAA: OFF
TXAA: OFF
POPULATION DENSITY: 10/10
POPULATION VARIETY: 10/10
DISTANCE SCALING: 10/10
TEXTURE QUALITY: VERY HIGH (AS HIGH AS YOUR VRAM ALLOWS)
SHADER QUALITY: VERY HIGH
SHADOW QUALITY: VERY HIGH
REFLECTION QUALITY: VERY HIGH
REFLECTION MSAA: OFF
WATER QUALITY: VERY HIGH
PARTICLES QUALITY: HIGH
GRASS QUALITY: HIGH
SOFT SHADOWS: SOFTER
POST FX: VERY HIGH
MOTION BLUR STRENGTH: 10/10 (PERSONAL PREFERENCE)
IN-GAME DEPTH OF FIELD EFFECTS: ON
ANISOTROPIC FILTERING: BROKEN, FORCE 16X IN NVIDIA CONTROL PANEL
AMBIENT OCCLUSION: HIGH
TESSELLATION: HIGH
LONG SHADOWS: ON
HIGH RESOLUTION SHADOWS: OFF
HIGH DETAIL STREAMING WHILE FLYING: ON
EXTENDED DISTANCE SCALING: 0/10
EXTENDED SHADOWS DISTANCE: 10/10

PC SPECS:
GPU: RTX 3060 12GB
CPU: R5 3600X
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz
Motherboard: MSI B450-A PRO MAX
OS: Windows 10

Timestamps:
0:00 FXAA
0:07 MSAA
0:34 TXAA
0:54 POPULATION DENSITY
1:22 POPULATION VARIETY
1:50 DISTANCE SCALING
2:12 TEXTURE QUALITY
2:34 SHADER QUALITY
3:11 SHADOW QUALITY
3:55 REFLECTION QUALITY
5:02 REFLECTION MSAA
5:09 WATER QUALITY
5:46 PARTICLES QUALITY
6:13 GRASS QUALITY
6:41 SOFT SHADOWS
7:25 POST FX
8:09 MOTION BLUR STRENGTH
8:47 IN-GAME DEPTH OF FIELD EFFECTS
9:31 ANISOTROPIC FILTERING
10:00 AMBIENT OCCLUSION
10:22 TESSELLATION
10:49 LONG SHADOWS
11:06 HIGH RESOLUTION SHADOWS
11:26 HIGH DETAIL STREAMING WHILE FLYING
11:48 EXTENDED DISTANCE SCALING
12:26 EXTENDED SHADOWS DISTANCE
12:48 OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
13:03 MAX VS OPTIMIZED SETTINGS
13:46 BENCHMARK RESULTS

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[captain_grubby]

What a perfect sountrack to play for this video! Beautiful work and editing <3

[larsbaumgaertner]

This video is amazing, and the time it must have taken. Truly the perfect way to make your game look better without losing or even gaining fps by evaluating what settings to lower or increase. Thank you very much.

[Nealios]

It's mental how crazy magnificent GTA V looks, the charcter models are fine but the world is gorgeous

[pitch_blaccck]

I seriously cannot recommend this video enough. Only a small visual downgrade but the trade off for a crazy massive fps boost plus still looking pretty good is amazing

[Vmpyrebm]

Wow bro you saved me 2 months of trying to find the right settings

[erickgutierreszuniga]

The music makes the video so self explanatory you dont any voice you can just understand how it works by watching, great video

[ProNinjaHax]

Thank you for the time you put into this. Superb editing too

[Anriandor]

Pretty impressive Video! I was a bit sceptical at first but it actually worked and boosted my FPS from ~60 to ~90! Very good preparation for the upcoming GTA Online DLC 👍

[shreywixon]

X2, X4 & X8 it all makes sense now. Thanks mate for your beautiful representation 👍🏻

[holad-jlsegovia-]

Reflection MSAA only seems to work for cubemap reflections in the game, so just reflections outdoors that do not include bodies of water or mirrors, it's easier to spot how it affects reflections during night time and rainy weather

[mitchum]

Finally a video that just jumps straight to the point and shows you multiple settings at once W vid❤

[abdullahhashr]

This was so therapeutic, and helpful too, thanks mate

[sigitsamudrarizki]

You're awesome, my potato PC can now run above 80fps from like 50fps. Great work! ❤

[eedoamitay]

Came here to learn about what settings to use, left here thinking about my existence in this world. 10/10 would recommend.

[ntemalex]

OMG! Thank you! My FPS was 50-70 before, and now it's 80-110! Game looking pretty smooth on my new 100hz monitor, but personally, i added MSAA 2x but anyways, thanks for your work!

[wasimpatel]

the comparition vedio every gta5 player need and every video creater should follow this video too. excellent work, brilliant sound track watched whole .

[mementoa]

Thank you so much for this guide dude. I wanted to give GTA5 a proper playthrough in preparation for GTA6, but I was horrifically confused at how maxing out the game on PC could cause my FPS to dip into the 20s at 1440p. I'm running an Arc A770 16gb which doesn't play nice with older games, but I knew for sure its not that bad either.
Following the optimized settings in your guide, I was able to run the in-game benchmark and get dramatically higher framerates without much of a cut to quality. Outside of encountering a dip to the 50s as a .01% low, its been a pretty smooth 70s to 100+FPS!

[martinezmatias]

from 30 fps to 75 fps at 3k using a ryzen 3 3200g, 32 gb ram and a rx 570 4gb. You made my day, i also recomend trying directx 10.1, it can get you 10+ fps

[ZazaNugget_]

Optimized graphics:

DirectX11, 1920x1080
FXAA On
MSAA, TAA Off
Population Density 80%
Population Variety Unknown
Distance Scaling 90%
Texture Quality Very High (apparently the reason
PS4 and XB1 seem to have worse textures than this is because they only use 4x AF)
Shader Quality High
Shadow Quality High
Reflection Quality Very High
Reflection MSAA Off
Water Quality High
Particles Quality High
Grass Quality Very High (PS4) / High (XB1)
Soft Shadows Softer
Post FX Very High
Anisotropic 1-2 is or much nigher visual quality

Ambient Occlusion High
Tessellation High
Advanced Graphics all off

[Jakiyyyyy]

Wow amazing boost. This tells us that MSAA really not worth turning on. It does basically nothing in games and only hog your FPS. Thanks for the guide!