We should take a moment to recognize what an amazing PC port GTA V is. After the disaster that was and is GTA IV for the PC, Rockstar paid it forward--with interest. A 980 cannot run GTA IV properly. With GTA V for PC, you can run the game at 60 FPS on low hardware on low settings, and conversely can run the game on as high settings as your hardware allows. I do not believe there is much hardware out there capable of running the game at 60FPS at 4K on ultra settings. With the trainer that is out now, I can teleport to the other side of the map and everything loads perfectly in 2 seconds. In GTA IV, if you teleported to the other side of the map, textures would drop and pop in and out until you reloaded the game. It is ahead of its time and a beautiful PC port that paves the way for years of modding and enjoyment.

Props to Rockstar.

Edited April 26, 201510 yr by Senatov
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Meh. When they fix it so it doesn't crash on startup on computers with switchable graphics, and if/when they change things to deal with massive input lag on lower-end hardware, I'll give them more props.

It's still leaps and bounds a better port than GTA IV.

V definitely has some problems of it own, but Not as bad as IV was Didn't IV not work at all for its first week after launch.

It's still leaps and bounds a better port than GTA IV.

​Admittedly, I didn't play IV till patch 7, but IV didn't have massive input lag that made the game unplayable if I continuously played for too long and made a mission (the yoga one) completely impossible, even when input lag wasn't an issue in free roam immediately before. I'm assuming the switchable graphics thing will be fixed at some point with a patch, but I have trouble calling a game where I literally cannot get it to process the commands required to complete a story mission a good port.

I like V as a game, because the game itself is quite wonderful (albeit with some less-than-perfect things, but that's more a matter of opinion and it gives me something to try to mod to what I like better). But the port? It doesn't crash, but it has some serious issues.

Honestly IV ran better on my laptop, as to be expected, except by a good 30-40 FPS and I even was able to play with low shadow quality (reduced resolution as well, but not so much). I've experienced a few crashes in GTA V, but my biggest problem besides performance is that damn stuttering, which I guess does count as a performance flaw. I think they went a little overboard with effects that you can't turn off as well.

Tl;dr: low-end PCs don't have a good time with GTA V in comparison to IV.