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That's actually parallax mapping in most cases in the game. Tesselation increases the polygon count of an object the closer you get, while parallax mapping makes flat textures look like they have depth. Tesselation makes the actual object (not the textures) more defined.

This is parallax mapping, only changes the textures of an object
This is tesselation, only changes the shape and complexity of the object model itself

> hey man, I'm just saying everyone complains about it. I wasn't even saying they're comparable, it's just the same concept.

Are you fucking with me or did you actually not read what I said?

>How do you expect to get good content without microtransactions, they need money too.

I don't know maybe the way the game industry made money BEFORE micro transactions? Maybe by releasing good DLC that is worth buying? Maybe make money off the initial sales? Are you actually this dense?

Check here. TL;DR - false positive. AVG is more of a virus at this point.

Goto: https://store.steampowered.com/account/store_transactions (login if needed)

Look for GTA and note your tier level.

>Tier 1: $1m Online, $500k Single player, free copy GTA San Andreas > >Tier 2: $1m Online, $500k Single player > >Tier 3: $850k Online, $500k Single player

The game is exactly the same regardless of tier level (it's just an indicator of where you bought it/what bonuses you get). Currently if you buy it it's tier 3 and I would assume at launch it'll be tier 4 (no bonuses)

I don't disagree with this theory completely (It definitely is a possibility) but I highly doubt that Rockstar is going to pass up the opportunity to sell on Steam. The late preorders for games coming from Rockstar have always been a thing for PC on steam (Max payne 3 preorder 2 weeks before launch, LA Noire just a week if I'm correct), and we keep seeing the packages getting updated for GTA in SteamDB. https://steamdb.info/app/271590/ There are even two devs on Steam as we speak possibly working on GTA, so I highly doubt that it's going to be neglected.

After testing extensively if you're getting this on launch: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=301oft0&s=8#.VS5rU_nF-gR

and have an AMD card - there is a GPU conflict issue - will require a fix from AMD/R*

I was wondering this also, I didn't see enough that would justify spending all that time when I could just level my online character.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/634490-grand-theft-auto-v/67528036

Your countdown clock is wrong its released at 12am BST on the 14th and yours is 11pm BST on the 13th.

corrected it for anyone that is interested. http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20150414T00&p0=136&msg=GTA+V+RELEASE+PC

It's on medium settings actually. This website is good for checking if an individual computer could run it well, you just have to be careful to check each requirement because sometimes it will give you an X even if you meet the requirement.

I had the same problem but I've managed to fix it now.

It turns out there is a problem with the download not being downloaded correctly and therefore becoming corrupted. To fix the problem download this and locate you GTAV file directory.

For each x64*.rpf, copy and paste each hash found below into the generated hash textbox.

x64a.rpf - 683610e269ba60c5fcc7a9f6d1a8bfd5

x64b.rpf - 70af24cd4fe2c8ee58edb902f018a558

x64c.rpf - 2a0f6f1c35ad567fe8e56b9c9cc4e4c6

x64d.rpf - c8757b052ab5079c7749bcce02538b2e

x64e.rpf - e5416c0b0000dad4014e0c5e9b878ff9

x64f.rpf - 5c6fc965d56ae6d422cd6cbe5a65a3a5

x64g.rpf - 1d8a64b337c3e07dffec0f53530cdb8e

x64h.rpf - fe657d9282df303b080c3a2f6771c9ea

x64i.rpf - bb271d313467465d62c75e208236487b

x64j.rpf - 143deee4c7699b9f07ef21d43ae0915b

x64k.rpf - da2c88b4ca69c99a86868a9433084a9d

x64l.rpf - f4307b005a3e90192f235959621781d1

x64m.rpf - a1304d84875747aa7405465d37d3c6fb

x64n.rpf - c48a14fe1c301360a16e8b0c5472fd1d

x64o.rpf - 6715a4eabbbc8868f15630bf917db49a

x64p.rpf - 6ad56befada1db7cccd9cea7834c825b

x64q.rpf - ff6d09527d7fdc005d3fa78435e09c8a

x64r.rpf - 1465c9da5cc17b68f14915b6c1d815bc

x64s.rpf - 2c6e61201eb4f60d5c3c1e9ae6d67a32

x64t.rpf - 4c15a54a4c9573d7a0bcfa4689d9d1ed

x64u.rpf - 2c9cff0cc5f99ad2218e4c4de39881b7

x64v.rpf - db647120263d0282b6f6c555f6112a1c

x64w.rpf - 46a4abe50bfc78c30c0173d888cf2c4a

Any file thats hash doesn't match needs to be deleted.

Then using the GTAV setup tool, select the "Repair" option.

Once thats complete load up GTAV and any files that were deleted will be redownloaded correctly.

What are your PC specs?  

Edit: Going off minimum specs for GTA V here and here my best guess is you don't meet the minimum requirements.

You won't be maxing out all the settings but you should be able to get smooth gameplay

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/grand-theft-auto-v/12455/?p=r

If you hit all the minimums there you will run the game smoothly provided you don't go wonky with high-end graphics settings.

I agree only with a few bits of your theory. Amazon already confirmed few times that their retail version will have Steam activation code as well as physical discs.

Bearing this in mind, I am still pretty sure that Social Club will be required. One of my friends spoke to Polish GTA distributor - Cenega, and they said that they will now provide Steam key. This leaves Polish people with no DRM or multiplayer tool at all. This is why Rockstar will probably require Social Club, but I am pretty sure they will give an option to link Steam account, so you won't need to login every time. Also, like Sal_Capone said in the other commentm Rockstar keeps updating packages and there are always people playing GTA V, probably devs. You can check that on your own - https://steamdb.info/app/271590/graphs/

I hope that Steam will be the only required software, but we will find this out very soon.

Your best bet might be to try to emulate a Microsoft game pad.

Might give this a whirl, never tried it myself but: http://www.x360ce.com/

And then try to turn it off and on again.

Asking which software to use tells me you never did this so start with something small and work your way up. Because to me you are sorted asking something that can't be explained with a short tutorial. I'm pretty sure most (if not all) the cars you see added to the game were made by people who spent years learning how to make 3D models and probably had to dish out money to pay for courses and it was probably not their 1st project.

My tip is to get Blender (it's free) and use the tutorials to start from there you will be able to go on your own and know the lingo which will make it easier to search for more tutorials.

Official site: https://www.blender.org/ Tutorials from their site: http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/

I didnt have your exact problem but I had trouble with the launcher as well. Might as well give it a shot.

I fixed it by putting this .dll file into steam's GTA5 folder.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/architecture-research/img1.png

For example ... section 4 is where you want to look.. Error opening file, cannot find. I had to download these files from the interweb and place them in the game directory

Ah, you do not have Python in your PATH variable.

If what I just said makes no sense, go to http://www.python.org and download the Python 2.7.9 installer.

Close that command prompt, then start a fresh one to try running the script after you install Python.

Note: Read this thread on how to navigate through command prompt a bit easier: http://www.reddit.com/r/GTAV/comments/32q76p/python_script_to_verify_pc_install_integrity/cqei5ro

holy shit dude, thanks for this.

I really rely on Astrill for my daily life and work here in China though. I'll write a ticket to their support.. .see what happens. I'm not hopeful.

EDIT I have tested with the portable version of the Astrill client, and that works flawlessly. No Chrome though, but I'll live.

EDIT 2 Astrill replied to my ticket (almost instantly, but I didn't notice) here is how they solved the issue and let me keep Astrill.

Hi Wilduu,

Hold Ctrl key and click on the "Help" menu and select "Hard Exclude Apps". Input the names for GTA executable files. It will prevent the crash.

Best regards, Astrill Technical Support

http://www.amazon.com/BenQ-5J-J7L05-001-Replacement-W1080ST-Projector/dp/B00B4G8ALK

Not much. Depends on the model of course.

I also would like to point out they last a pretty long time. I still haven't replaced mine and I've had my projector for over a year now.

I use an inexpensive little standalone mic, and it works great. GTA V recognized it immediately, and I've never had any complaints about my voice quality.

I'd strongly suggest enabling the Push-To-Talk option in the menu (so your mic isn't open all the time). It's the courteous thing to do!

If you haven't bought a mic yet, I can definitely recommend that GoMic. Phenomenal little microphone for the price. Plug-and-play, recognized by everything (like other VOIP programs), and the quality is great. I bought it to record myself practicing music, but I like it so much I use it for gaming as well.

In ps3, every character has its own garage for 3 cars, when you go inside garage you can request special car by pressing Right arrow. Every character got his garage in different places For example, Trevor got his garage in "Mors Mutual" spot ,here is location House looking thing in top left corner

I've been helping people get them, but I don't know when I'll be on again.

You have to get into a session with someone that already has one, and once one is there, more will spawn.

http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/looking-for-a-hearse-thread.453448267/

I used to play GTAIV on a Nook Color that I got from Barnes and Noble and hacked regular Android onto. They've had mobile versions of GTA for years and years now. Not sure if the IOS version just streams from your XBOX, but the Android version has been playable on its own for a good 10 years:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rockstargames.gtavc

This is not unusual on the PC version, u/2F2uPXGqp7Maywu. It's reasonably easy for people to use mods, because GTA's Freeroam Lobby System is an old-school peer-to-peer system (unlike most games, which use regional servers, and much better cheat detection).

There's a few things you can do to reduce the impact, though:

Always play via a VPN
This helps mask your location, and gives you a layer of protention from DDoS attacks. I use NordVPN; Express is another good one

Make use of Solo Lobbies
If you don't need to be in a public lobby (which you typically only need to use for Freeroam event, Business Sell missions, and some Heist Preps), use a solo lobby (Exit to story mode, then pause => GTA Online => Play GTA Online => Solo)

Switch Lobbies
If you have problems in a Freeroam Lobby, in most cases you can just switch servers; most griefers won't bother chasing you. Go to Pause => GTA Online => Find New Session

KZ ZSN Pro's

Please just buy some. You don't even have to buy these.

I'm just saying, I don't think anyone wants to hear you playing games

Unless you live alone. You're probably fine that way

I wonder when the game will unlock. Midnight 18th based on the international date line? Or some arbitrary PST time when R* feels like it.

Either way, I am buying physical disc, and this is when I will be able to get it

Would this work if I’m specifically using it to run fivem and GTAV RP and obviously to stream and capture

Mini PC i7 8809G Windows 10 Pro, Mini Desktop Computer Gaming 8 Gen 4 Cores,16GB RAM 256GB SSD,Gigabit Ethernet, 4K 60HZ, Dual HDMI, Type C, USB×8,2.4G/5.0G WiFi, Dual Fan Gaming Small Form Factor PCmini pc work?

Imagine a world, where people, actually read the fucking disclaimers.

Literally in a giant green fucking box at the top of the store page (where you HAD to go to purchase it):

<strong>NOTE:</strong>

The $1,000,000 bonus cash in GTA Online included with the Premium Edition as part of the Criminal Enterprise Starter Pack may take up to 7-10 days after the player’s first session in GTA Online to be reflected in their in-game User Account. This bonus cash is only available to first-time Starter Pack owners.

This should help you get a rough idea of how well your PC can run it. As people have already said in this post, your specs are too bad.

I am pretty sure your Notebook graphics adapter is not good enough for running the game, even though the number (8600M) seems its a higher-ended one, its still only partial a real one. also your i7 seems to be a nice one, but it only runs @ max 2.4Ghz which is also extremly low for gta 5.

i think your system might not be capable of running it at all.

you might try http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/requirements/grand-theft-auto-v/12455/?p=r
I have almost all of the recommended or better. The only thing that's different is the processor and online it says its runs slightly better than the recommended one when using all cores. Could there another reason its being so slow?

Could you maybe help me with an additional problem? I put in all the ID3 tags, but in-game only the songs from Guns N' Roses show up when I switch to the station.

Bunch of us at university have been testing and tinkering on a streaming solution to bridge some of the shortcomings in the currently available ones.

Aim is to have a remote desktop solution that supports GPU heavy programs and games, regardless of the GPU manufacturer. This is our current progress on the "proof of concept" solution.

Streaming PC running an AMD 7970 HD, and played in firefox, by transmitting the interactions via websockets.

Prototype is stitched together from 3 individual programs, one of them being a heavily modified OBS (with some help of it's inventor and main dev Jim, thanks!). So the timings and performance are nowhere near it's potential, but it proves the concept and it's feasibility.

Modding an Xbox can be fairly tricky but an alternative would be to use a separate device that does it all for you and just reduces it to a plug and play which this device does. Just scroll down and in the frequently bought together box will have the wheel and other things to do do it. this video shows how to use it and shows how it handles. There are other products that do similar but if you really want to mod that’s an entire other thing which is why you see ppl use third party devices to do it on Xbox since Xbox doesn’t really let you mess with game files like that which is the reason you don’t see many modders on Xbox. The simplest way is to just look for similar devices that handle it all for you instead of getting the necessary mods and trying to install them yourself

Probably insufficient memory. Pagefile is being used. 8GB total is not much at all.

Second guess would be thermal throttling, monitor system by downloading HWinfo64 .

I wasn't aware that another application can do this until you asked, and I went and looked. Before I had a card with ShadowPlay, I used Open Broadcaster with an Avermedia C985. It looks like OBS has a buffer feature. OBS does encoding as well, but I've never used the buffer feature so I'm not sure what the end result is: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-use-the-replay-buffer.103/

So, you're telling me that v-sync works. That's not any different. V-sync on the GPU or in-game, it's still v-sync. Screen tearing is caused by having a higher FPS than your monitor's refresh rate. Think about that logically. To fix it, you increase the refresh rate, or you decrease the FPS (Vsync).

The difference of 59hz to 60hz is not going to make any difference whatsoever.

Try borderless windowed mode, perhaps?

When you run the game in windowed mode, it naturally runs at a lower framerate (your CPU is also computing all of the desktop processes now in the foreground) which is probably fixing your screen tearing by reducing your framerate relative to your refresh rate.

The people upvoting my stuff are the ones who realize that I'm technically correct and that you're getting mad at me for telling you basically there are no other fixes (there aren't). I'm not sure how my reading & comprehension skills are so bad, when you can't understand the fact that there are no other options for fixing screen tearing. Seriously. Google it. You could have avoided posting this entire thread by using Google, yet I'm the one who knows nothing of technology.

EDIT: If you have Aero on, the reason why Windowed mode prevents tearing is possibly because of Desktop Window Manager. Read more here. You can try overclocking your monitor's refresh rate if that's something you want to mess with. I've overclocked 60hz to 75hz in the past and it was immensely beneficial.

Here is a step by step with pictures. 4 steps and you should be good. I will add this to the original and reword a bit for further clarity. My apologies, hope this helps.

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B402DD69697745FA!13457&amp;authkey=!ACXNyXotN6zwvfg&amp;ithint=folder%2c

If you are on windows 7 I imagine step one is done through your normal start menu as well.

Try getting something with specifications like this one, it's not the latest nor the best BUT you can game on it perfectly fine, and it doesn't cost too much given how expensive newer hardware is. Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-i5-10400F-Keyboard-TG01-1020/dp/B08CWLCNWV

https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/grand-theft-auto-v/

They sell legit Rockstar keys that register on rockstar's site and you can download it via rockstar's downloader

(Note: This is not through steam though, not sure if you want Steam too... if you want Steam GTA V you gotta buy it through steam.)

Log in here and the deal should show up. That's weird though that it shows up as $77. I don't know if you're in the U.S., but here full price it only shows up as $60.

I don't know if it's still alive, but back in the day I was quite fond of Armagetron Advanced.

Pretty sure it's an open source, 3d version of what you're looking for, although I don't know if it still has a community.

You might want to run some tests to see if your system is bottlenecked somewhere... I play with maxed out settings at 1080p/60fps with my Ryzen 5 1600 and 1060 6GB without any trouble at all - no dropped frames or tearing or anything. The recommended requirement (not minimum) from rockstar is a 660 2GB video card... You could use UserBenchmark’s tools to see if one or more of your component isn’t reaching its potential!

Download GPU-Z or something similiar and check for sure that it is GTX970.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

EDIT: Nevermind... You are definitely running the game with your CPUs onboard graphics chip. I did some googling and it has the maximum video memory of 1,7Gb.

Plug your video cable in to your graphics card, not to your motherboard. If that doesnt help, you have to manually disable the CPU graphics from BIOS.

It's entirely up to you what you like and don't like. For the record though, purple and yellow are complimentary colours. :) have a play with this

Might be able to grab it here too http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?dcomp

dcomp looks like its related to D3D9.dll ... Which is Directx. So if you havent you can try updating directx... I know i had a bunch of times.

--Generally adding DLLs like this, one by one isnt recommended but I just spent 4 hours playing GTA V because It worked for me

Try SG TCP Optimizer for connection issues. If that doesn't work, definitely switch cable companies. And if you want things to load quickly, buy a samsung 850 SSD and 16GB of RAM. There's a deal for GSKill ripjaws today 16GB for $70. If you happen to be playing GTAV on a laptop, this post would make a lot more sense.

What ridiculous logic is that. If they aren’t going to use more than 16gb ram there is absolutely 0 point in getting more than 16gb. It’s irrelevant whether they have a rtx3090 or a friggin gt1030. They don’t need it. Ram is easily upgradable in the future when (if) they ever need 32gb. Who are you to say they have no right to buy a 2k computer with only 16gb of ram? PCMR police? Just sound like an entitled asshat.

If had 2k to spend right now on a pc, for example, and 32gb of ram was gna blow his budget, are you saying he should buy a shittier graphics card just so he can get 32gb of ram?

Ram isn’t that cheap. On Amazon 2x8gb Corsair sticks are £80 and 2x16gb sticks are £200 and currently out of stock (yeh those prices make no sense to me either, but here is the link Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz C15 XMP 2.0 Enthusiast RGB LED Illuminated Memory Kit - Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D1XJWSJ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_1FE8GXH7RPKQWNDKFSCS?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1) that’s £100 extra (5% of his entire budget) being spent on something he isn’t going to use.

Your logic is idiotic at best.

Although it's a paid solution, if you buy access to Private Internet Access, it will give one of your machines a different public IP address and allow you to play together.

It's $6.99 a month, but they offer a 7 day money back garauntee if it didn't work for you. If it does work you could upgrade to the yearly price which is $39.95 ($3.33 a month).

The reason I think this will work for you it's because my friend was on mobile tether and couldn't join any jobs because of the ports his carrier was blocking. The VPN encrypts all data regardless of port and sends it to the pia servers and then it jumps out to the normal internet, si this solved his problem and we're now able to play together.

You get all sorts of other benefits like online anonymity, the ability to spoof your IP location to another country to unlock region specific services like accessing BBC iPlayer from America for example. You can also run it on up to 5 devices at the same time.

Speeds are good for me. Without the VPN I get 65mb down 18 up and typically with the VPN I get 60-62mb down and 16 up.

Sorry to bring up a old post but the VPN trick works great. I have Private Internet Access so I turned that on and the disconnects seem to have stopped. My download speeds are a bit slower but at least it's downloading now.

Thanks!

Where are you buying this? Isn't the great white card like$19.99 for 1.25M

Grand Theft Auto V: Great White Shark Cash Card - PS4 [Digital Code] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PYJSSWO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_8JDQybWX1MZSC

On a budget? Pick up a wd10ezex for $52

Sincerely, A guy running an i5 and GTX 570 out of a cardboard box

this looks like it's from loading content from a medium that's too slow. When I used to play on XB, the best thing I did was grab one of these and use the install feature to put the game assets on it.

Just to update my situation as it may hopefully find it's way to help someone else. I have a i5-3570k and a MSI mobo that out of the boxes looked to be overclocking to 4.2 GHz (from the standard 3.4GHz) (CPU-Z) told me this.

I noticed something occuring in my event logs right before my Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\nvwgf2umx.dll error, and that was a 'WHEA-Logger' Warning. After doing some research, it appeared as if my processor was potentially having some issues. After verifying my stock overclock, I followed a YouTube video for overclocking my CPU, and just reversed to process to decrease the MHz from 42 to 34 (3.4). I've only played an hour but this seems to have stabilized my game.

I haven't had much time to troubleshoot the issue, but I'm thinking my processor was overheating, or possibly just causing some funky issues from being OC'd. Either way, I have slightly less performance in game (just feels less smooth) but definitely still playable.

My MOBO: http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Computer-Corp-Motherboards-Z77A-G45/dp/B007QWI9TY My Processor: http://www.amazon.ca/Intel-3570K-3-4GHz-Processor-Cache/dp/B007SZ0E1K

You are asking the wrong guy. The only xbox controller I've ever held is the original. This is the one I ordered. I have smallish girly hands and the OG xbox controller was a little big for comfort. http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Pro-Wired-Controller-Xbox-360/dp/B00C694LNK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1429126831&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=xbox+mini+controller

You can grab a refurbished one on Amazon for $50. I run 4-5 consoles Wirelessly at the same time on different floors of the house. This is the Cheapest I go, obviously if money wasn't an issue I'd grab an AC1200 router.

I currently own an Asus Q550 laptop. The specs are as follows: Core i7-4500U dual core processor Nvidia GT 745M graphics dedicated graphics card w/2.0gb dedicated VRAM 8.00 GB of RAM

I know my GPU is capable of running GTA V, just not at max settings. My concern is with my CPU. It recommends a quad core CPU and i have a dual core CPU. The minimum recommended CPU is a q6600 however, which is a several years old CPU.

My question is can I run GTA V at a minimum of 30fps with my laptop?

Here is a link to the laptop, to see further specs. http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Q550LF-BBI7T07-4500U-8GB-1TB-TOUCH/dp/B00GDHUZYK

Sorry if this isn't the place for this, I didn't really know where else to go.

The Book In Reference

It does have his name as the author, too.