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I am loving GTA V right now, though i have a few inquiries regarding setup. I currently have an HP Envy M6-n113dx (Touchsmart) and am looking for ideas as to how to make GTA V smoother on it. My current specs are:

 

HP Envy M6-n113dx, Windows 8.1 64-bit

AMD FX7500 APU

Quad core CPU clocking @ 2.1GHz with turbo boost technology of up to 3.3GHz

AMD Radeon R7 Discrete-class graphics 1gb dedicated DDR3 VRAM; GPU Clock @ 554MHz, Memory Clock @ 800GHz

AMD Catalyst Beta 5.4 (GTA V Ready driver)

8gb Ram (6.97gb usable, 4.92gb available)

 

Help from anyone with similar specs would be much appreciated.

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Please forgive me, i do not know whether to put this here or in support.

I am loving GTA V right now, though i have a few inquiries regarding setup. I currently have an HP Envy M6-n113dx (Touchsmart) and am looking for ideas as to how to make GTA V smoother on it. My current specs are:

 

HP Envy M6-n113dx, Windows 8.1 64-bit

AMD FX7500 APU

Quad core CPU clocking @ 2.1GHz with turbo boost technology of up to 3.3GHz

AMD Radeon R7 Discrete-class graphics 1gb dedicated DDR3 VRAM; GPU Clock @ 554MHz, Memory Clock @ 800GHz

AMD Catalyst Beta 5.4 (GTA V Ready driver)

8gb Ram (6.97gb usable, 4.92gb available)

 

Help from anyone with similar specs would be much appreciated.

MODS feel free to move or delete this if it is in the wrong place.

I can help you with optimization. I know my fair share when it comes to hardware and whatnot. I'll tell you what settings to use, but feel free to adjust them yourself. The settings I'm going to advise should get a framerate between 30 FPS and 60 FPS, which is pretty smooth.

 

Your Hardware

Ok, so some immediate concerns. You're video card is your biggest problem. GTA 5 uses the video card more than any other piece of hardware in a PC. That's a pretty big issue, especially since you only have 1 gig of VRAM. Normally when someone doesn't have enough VRAM, I tell them to convert system RAM into VRAM. But in your case, you might have just enough RAM to load the things that GTA 5 needs to load. With no leftover system RAM, you shouldn't convert system RAM to VRAM. So while your system RAM can get the job done, your video card is going to be a major holdback. All your other hardware looks fine, your processor should get the job done well.

 

Advanced Graphic Settings

This is quick and easy. Turn everything off and lower all the settings in there to their lowest. I can pretty much guarantee that you don't need a thing in the advanced graphic settings.

 

Graphic Settings

Most of the settings here are video card based, and as I already said, yours isn't the best. That means that some settings will have to be lowered for better frame rate. I have planned out some settings for you. Everything in parenthesis are explaining why I chose that for you

 

Ignore Suggested Limits: On (GTA 5 has some bugs with this feature, plus it isn't always right. I generally never trust a game to set my settings, but that's just me)

DirectX Version: 11 (Use the most recent. DirectX handles how the game works, and should be up to date at all times)

Screen Type: Fullscreen (GTA 5 is best player in fullscreen mode. Any other mode causes some weird bugs and can cause delay in controls)

Resolution: 1280 X 720 (The naked human eye can barely differentiate 720p and 1080p. 720p is still HD, and looks fine. Anything more is a waste of VRAM)

Aspect Ratio: Auto (Pretty simple, let the game make sure you can see everything. Barely affects your video card at all)

Refresh Rate: 60 Hz (This barely matters for visuals, and doesn't take up much of your video card)

Output Monitors: 1 (You have 1 video card, so only have 1 output. Several outputs require special technology in your video card, which you don't have)

FXAA: On (FXAA doesn't use a lot of your video card, so there's no harm in having it on)

MSAA: Off (MSAA uses up VRAM, which you don't have much of. Best to keep it off)

TXAA: Off (TXAA is a technology only used by NVIDIA, and your AMD video card cannot use it. Note: You may not see this option, if you don't then forget that it exists)

VSync: Off (VSync is a waste of video card effort for you, don't even bother with it)

Pause Game On Focus Loss: On (This won't effect your video card, I don't even know why it's in the graphics part of the settings)

Population Density: Fill the bar halfway (This mostly effect system RAM, and you should have enough)

Population Variety: Fill the bar halfway (You have enough hardware for some good variety, but not enough for a full bar)

Distance Scaling: Fill in the bar completely (GTA 5 has some really bad pop ins, so turn this setting up all the way. Even with this setting maxed out, litter on the ground will pop in, but there's no controlling that)

Texture Quality: Normal (Texture quality takes more VRAM than any other setting, so you might want to keep this pretty low. The game looks nice anyways, it doesn't really need to be maxed out)

Shader Quality: Normal (Shaders also hog VRAM, so keep it low)

Shadow Quality: Normal (Shadows are dynamic, and are hard on GPU's. Yours is not ready for high quality shadows)

Reflection Quality: Normal (Like shadows, this takes a lot of your GPU. Yours is not good enough, so try to keep it low)

Reflection MSAA: Off (MSAA uses quite a lot of VRAM, so don't give it any. You don't have much VRAM to give. No offense)

Water Quality: Normal (Water can take a lot of your resources, especially if you're surrounded by water. It takes even more when you're underwater, so try to keep the water texture to a minimum)

Particles Quality: High (Particles don't take much out of your GPU, so this one can be high. It doesn't really make the game look better, but there isn't much reason to leave the quality any lower)

Grass Quality: High (Grass quality uses up your CPU, so I advise some alight overclocking. The normal texture looks pretty bad, so I suggest using high)

Soft Shadows: Soft (This keeps the shadows from looking terrible and doesn't use too much of your GPU. Soft is a good setting for you)

Post FX: Normal (No need for it to be high, it is sort of a waste of hardware to me. However, you can adjust this to your liking)

Anisotropic Filtering: X4 (X4 looks good, and doesn't use a lot of your GPU)

Ambient Occlusion: Normal (No need for this to be high, simple as that)

Tessellation: Normal (Just like ambient occlusion, there's really no need for this to be set to high)

 

Summary

Sadly, your GPU holds you back from a really good looking game. Everything else is fine, but your video card is your biggest problem. Your video card barely meets the requirements to actually run the game. Low frame rate is inevitable with that video card. Tell me if these settings work for you, I tried my best to balance quality and performance. Hopefully it works :D