Matthewcl375

I know this is old, but the only parts of RDE that impact performance directly are the scripts it comes with, particularly arrest warrant, which made my mid-range gaming PC start lagging in police chases, can be removed without breaking things. The scripts do things like spawn certain cars in places and other non-essential features. There is an indirect performance impact from rendering a lot of vehicles of course, but providing you have a decent GPU it should have the video memory to handle this without running into issues. When I used to play on a laptop I always had problems using RDE vehicles because of a lack of VRAM in my system (integrated AMD graphics). So yeah tl;dr the scripts it installs are the main thing that affect performance. Delete them and you should be good.

Okay, my final question was whether the brand of GTX 970 makes a difference. I know they all have slightly different clock speeds from 1.08GHz to 1.18GHz the one I was looking at was the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/JTwqqs/evga-video-card-04gp42974kr which is 1.17GHz

Looks like the GTX 1060 will take me £50 over budget. There's not a huge difference between the 970 and the 1060 anyway is there? The R9 380 is also an option

Alright, sounds good. I probably won't get a 6600k because from what I've heard the only advantage over the 6500/6600 is overclocking which I'm not interested in

So I've been on here before to ask for advice on a budget £600 build for GTA and LSPDFR, and it's come down to a decision between the GTX 960, GTX 970, the newer GTX 1060, or the Radeon R9 380. This will most likely be combined with an i5 6500 (or hopefully a 6600k if there is enough budget left) and an SSD. Which of these cards would the community recommend? The 1060 is a much newer card so it has that appeal, as there's no way I can afford a 1080 or even a 980 Thanks!

@Iggy Fresh Also would try and get an SSD instead of a HDD. Think I should have no problems playing with the mods I do on high settings 720p or 1080p with that combo

@Iggy Fresh Looks like a good build, I was thinking of the i5 6500 and the GTX 960 4GB (which seems to be a solid graphics card), might cost a tiny bit more though

@Iggy Fresh I'm just after the computer parts to build a PC myself for that price. @Mike Bik 15-25fps sounds horrible I couldn't live with that!

That's cool but I like to go off actual performance tests and based on them you can achieve 40-60fps consistently for $400 let alone $600.

Yeah I only play LSPDFR with ALPR, traffic policer, search warrant police radio and passive speed radar. I don't install ridiculously high poly cars I use in game cars and modify their liveries. Only mods I use are simple trainer skin changer Emergency Uniforms Pack and LSPDFR. From the looks of things I can get an i5 6500 and a Radeon R9 380 for $600ish. That sounds pretty decent to me