Finally, the wait is over. It is time for PC players to enjoy a version of GTA 5 that actually takes advantage of several modern technologies, loads faster, and runs smoothly. But if you are looking to get the most out of it, here are the best settings for GTA 5 Enhanced Edition.
What are the best settings for GTA 5 Enhanced edition?
Here are what we have found to be the best settings to get the most out of GTA 5 Enchaned edition on your PC.
| Option name | Recommended setting |
|---|---|
| Screen Type | Fullscreen (Borderless Full Screen also works if you alt-tab a lot with other applications) |
| Resolution | Choose the maximum one supported by your display (if 1080p then 1980×1020, 4K then 3840 × 2160 etc) |
| Refresh Rate | As above, push it to the maximum supported by your display (60hz, 90hz, etc) |
| Frame Limit | Generally keep it to OFF, unless you experience issues with the game going too fast. |
| V-Sync | Generally keep it to OFF, unless you are playing on a display that supports G-Sync |
| NVIDIA Reflex | Best to keep it OFF |
| Enable Ray Tracing | ON |
| Ray Traced Shadows | High |
| Ray Traced Global Illumination | High |
| Ray Traced Reflections | High |
| Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion | High |
| Ray Traced Scene BVH Quality | High |
| Frame Scaling | OFF |
| Shader Quality | Very High |
| Texture Quality | Very High |
| Anisotropic Filtering | x8 |
| Particles Quality | Ultra |
| Tessellation Quality | Very High |
| Water Quality | Ultra |
| Grass Quality | Ultra |
| Lightning Quality | High |
| Reflection Quality | Very High |
| Shadow Quality | Very High |
| Long Shadows | OFF |
| Post FX | Normal |
| In-game Depth of Field | OFF |
| Population Density | Max |
| Population Variety | Max |
| Distance Scaling | Max |
| High Detail Streaming While Flying | ON |
Naturally, if you find that your game is not running as smoothly as it should or you are having random slowdowns, you should definitely try to tweak a few of these settings. In particular, the Quality of Grass, Water, and Shadow do have quite a bit of impact on performance and, overall, do not make a lot of difference, visually. Try to switch them to “Normal” to see if that improves things.
Also, we recommend playing around with Frame Limit if you are having issues with stuttering. While that won’t really fix it, it can reduce some of the overall problems. Also, try to lower the refresh rate, if you have a 120hz monitor, try putting it at 60hz and capping the Frame at around 72 or a close enough value. That should reduce some of that stuttering, at least until Rockstar can go in and fix some of the performance problems.
Minimum and recommended requirements for GTA 5 Enhanced edition
Naturally, you should keep in mind the minimum and recommended PC requirements for GTA 5 before you go in and ask too much from your computer.
Here are the minimum PC requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 10 (Latest Service Pack)
- CPU: Intel Core i7-4770 or AMD FX -9590
- RAM: 8 GB RAM
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 (4GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon RX 6400 (4GB VRAM)
- Sound Card: DirectX 10 Compatible
- Storage: 105 GB of free space, SSD required to take advantage of faster loading times
If you want to take full advantage of the latest features of the Enhanced edition, here are the recommended PC Requirements:
- Operating System: Windows 11
- CPU: Intel Core i5-9600k or AMD Radeon Ryzen 3600
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (8GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 6600XT (8GB VRAM)
- Sound Card: Windows Spatial Sound-compatible audio system, plus a device with Dolby Atmos® compatibility to take advantage of the Dolby Atmos® experience
- Storage: 105GB of available space, SSD with DirectStorage-compatibility
Rockstar is hopefully working to fix some of the initial stuttering and performance issues that people have noticed, so in the future the game should be able to take advantage even of a less powerful PC.
Published: Mar 5, 2025 09:08 am