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A Look At GTA V PC Performance and Image Quality At 4K
MojoKid writes: Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series has been wildly successful for many years now, offering some of the edgiest story lines, game play tactics and objectives the gaming industry has ever seen. With psychopathic main characters, you are left in the depraved communities of Los Santos and Blaine County, to walk a path few would dare choose in real life. And it's rather entertaining of course, that you're tasked with leaving a virtual world worse off than you found it, consequences be damned. But what does it take to run GTA V at 4K (3840X2160) resolution? This article takes a look at that, as well as how it scales over multiple NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPUs, along with some screen shots that look at image quality at Ultra HD resolution. It's safe to say one strong, high-end GPU will get the job done, but two in SLI or CrossFire are better of course, if you want to max out all IQ settings.
Wake me up when they do a review on 16k
Crysis? What Crysis?
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For software development? How did you do it? I'd love to get a setup.
Thanks much
That was a pretty not in-depth performance review
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Hello,
If one looks at MojoKid's submissions to Slashdot, one notes they exist exclusively of links to articles at HotHardware.Com, which according to the whois data, is registered to a Dave Altavilla of Mendon, MA.
Never to ActiveWin, Ars Technica, HardOCP, Neowin, TechReport, WinBeta or the scores of other web sites which discuss, review or "engage in coordinate PR disclosure" of technology news, but always to HotHardware, never anywhere else.
Are MojoKid and Mr. Altavilla the same person? And why is he (are they?) only posting links to Slashdot to HotHardware,a site which, coincidentally, seems to rely on links to partner.googleadservices.com, www.google-analytics.com/, cdn.taboola.com, tru.am and other advertising and privacy-invasive sites in order to monetize its page views. All these hostnames should be blocked in your hosts file before visiting any links to hothardware.com to ensure you are not being advertised to or tracked (which seem to be very similar, these days).
If MojoKid/Altavilla are going to use Slashdot to generate revenue for themselves, they should at least let Slashdot's management know and note in their submissions that they are sending Slashdotters to a site which they generate revenue from; to not do so is unethical and abusive of Slashdot.
And in case anyone wants to throw a stone at my glass house, I've submitted a grand total of one articles to Slashdot, and it mentioned a free service being offered through the auspices of the IEEE which not just my employer but dozens of our competitors were involved in. Not a single banner ad or privacy-invasive script to be had there at all.
Regards.
Aryeh Goretsky
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is most important for games. Probably see better performance out of a 4790K which is still king for i7s AFAIK.
I don't even care. This is an actual genuine nerdgasm story. I'm tired of the sex and politics. We need more of these.
I won't even consider it until DisplayPort 1.3 is the prevalent standard on all monitors. Don't give me that g-sync/free-sync crap either. :)
Seriously? The majority of stories submitted to Slashdot are from people that are associated with the publications they're sourcing, and I think Slashdot's management is astute enough to know. Finally, virtually all of the sites you named also rely on the same "privacy-invasive" ad services you mentioned. Thanks for the pointless observation.
Thanks. It's something fun and light with over-the-top hardware and a quick view of a couple of high-end configs.
it still drops frames. Not that it matters to an old codger like myself. I can't tell the diff between 1080p & 4k :P
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I think Slashdot's management is astute enough to know.
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I too don`t care. I block the hell of it anyway. Makes no real difference no matter what MojoKid intentions are.
Best character ever in a game you love to hate, hands down. Love the tattoo around his neck that says 'cut here'.
Oh, article is about 4k? Sorry, I game on a PS3. Gaming on a PC is better, except that during a couple lean years I got really addicted to gaming in my La-Z-Boy with my cat in my lap, on my big-ass TV.
Granted my 290X is a factory overclocked Sapphire Vapor-X but I see no need to turn down the resolution to stay well above 30 hz at 4k in GTA V. Maybe a higher refresh rate would matter if this game were a pure multiplayer shooter but for single player and the limited, non-hardcore multiplayer stuff I do it has plenty of headroom at 4K. Hell, GTA V doesn't spin up the fan nearly as much as Far Cry 4.
Single-thread performance is irrelevant when discussing any game written first for a modern console. The last GTA game for the PC, based on the 360 edition, wanted four cores.
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What sites does Slashdot send people to that aren't there to make money? I don't get this witchhunt.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Apparently, a morally correct submission to slashdot involves the spreading of information without any profit motive at all.
Personally, I don't see what is wrong with wanting to make money. I think that all the tracking is an underhanded way of doing it (since the people tracked don't want to be tracked), but I recognize that a boycott of that sort of thing is fruitless and deleterious to those participating. Of all the things I don't like about the world, this one is actually pretty low on my list.
Sometimes, going against the flow just produces a lot of friction.
" The majority of stories submitted to Slashdot are from people that are associated with the publications they're sourcing"
And this is a good thing? Unethical behaviour should be tolerated because it is common? And you dare criticise him for questioning this situation? When did you give up on ethics?
What was that? Something about a lack of disclosure and ethics in game journalism?
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It runs on some people's laptops (not even gaming laptops) at reasonable quality settings and resolutions like 1080p. That makes it easier than most to run at high resolutions on a desktop gaming PC. It's caused by two things. Firstly it's obviously well optimized, and secondly, sometimes it looks like crap for a 2015 game. Which is because the base game is from... 2013? And for consoles. The best example of it is during the tutorial, when you get in a car that looks like things haven't moved on at all since GTA: San Andreas. Overall, the game is a mixed bag of great high poly models, average models, and terrible eyesore models.
On my PC it's the easiest game of late to run at 4K. It runs smoothly on GTX 980 SLI without sweating the GPUs. But it has some very strange framedropping happening occasionally which I can't pinpoint but would assume is the content streaming tech working (badly). In terms of system resources it might be VRAM running out and having to be repopulated, since the GTX980 is light on VRAM (only 4 gigs). The other hardware should be fine (i7 5930k at 4,2 GHz, 32 gigs of DDR4, 1TB SSD with more than a third of it empty).
The 4K experience in GTA V isn't as incredible as all the hype makes it out to be. It's nice for detail in certain scenarios (cutscenes with closeups of people, flying, offroading, looking out in the distance). Otherwise 4K works much better in open world environments with lush foliage and high details, like the latest Dragon Age, Skyrim, Tomb Raider and so on. 1080p just can't resolve the details of foliage and that makes the 4K experience so amazing. GTA on the other hand is mostly cityscapes, desert and ocean and while it's nice at 4K, it's not mindblowing, because it's old hat by 2015.
I have a couple of screenshots on my onedrive if you want to have a look. It's at 4K almost maxed settings - yes, even the Ultra settings which some people have missed. IIRC one of the advanced sliders didn't go all the way up because the VRAM-meter very helpfully prevented it. Anyway, compare the graphical fidelity to Inquisition for example, and judge for yourself.
What sites does Slashdot send people to that aren't there to make money? I don't get this witchhunt.
Some people have this belief that in order to be ethical, you don't shill. That there are no financial ties, that the people involved have disclosure if there are any related issues. I realize that this is a difficult subject for some people to understand, but if you want to know why, you only need to look at the mess ABC news is in.
This is an extension of the clickbait culture that exists with sites like gawker, kotaku, polygon, vox and so on.
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This is not Wikipedia, on Slashdot you are allowed to make submissions about yourself. This is not your website, and you do not make the rules. If you want to make a website where that is not allowed, you are free to do it.
Given that it's a fairly interesting story, who cares anyway?
Aside from that, I don't get why you would speculate on the exact person doing this, writing out his full name in a public forum. You could be right, but for all we know it could be a completely different person.
I never really considered /. to be real journalism. More like a lightly commented link aggregator.
Unless things have changed the editors used to mash together submissions. If there were a range of submissions on one topic (GTA V in 4k), then the submission text would get rewritten to include links to most of the sites that you list. If it was a more esoteric story then the submission from one person would be used raw.
Performance figures for one resolution in one game is a bit lightweight and sketchy. Combination of nobody else cared and a slow news day? Never attribute malice to the actions of slashdot editors that can be explained by simple incompetence.
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It's not a very good game.
It's just one giant front end for gta online. Which is itself just a giant front end for their online cash shop.
HUGE glaring bugs in the single player game STILL haven't been fixed. And gta v came out on the consoles 2 years ago.
What have they been doing all this time? Oh right. online cash shop. Thats why online is the only place getting real patches and fixes to anything.
So many mistakes and fuckups and just plain bad game design in 5. And i doubt they'll ever be fixed unless modders fix them.
And that's getting unlikely since rockstar is now actively hostile to the modders since its an online game too.
Damm shame the last GREAT gta game was gta san andreas.
Oh they'll keep pumping them out. But it's going to be about the online and 'app store'.
Damm shame.
Explain how this is unethical.
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some of the edgiest story lines, game play tactics and objectives the gaming industry has ever seen.
This has got to be a joke, right?
Do you pay for a subscription to slashdot?
I'm just curious as to if you expect people to spend their own time and money providing a website you use but they don't get any avenue to make a return on their investment and time.
If you pay, great. Good for you.
If not, then shut the fuck up you worthless leach, no one gives a shit what you say. :)
I'm better you don't pay for a subscription ... Do you?
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Because it's shilling.
I *do* care. This place is loosing its soul every day a bit more.. :\
This appears to be your answer
An entire legion of your best non sequiturs.
Not the point, but you knew that already.
I don't get the willfully obtuse act, unless you're a sockpuppet account.
How is it not unethical? Ever hear of disclosure when someone has a financial interest in something they're pushing?
It is the point. The conflict-of-interest here is manufactured.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Fuck, I really hate those irritating websites that decide to divide the article into X number of small pages instead of putting the whole thing in one page - or giving us the option to do so.
I lost interest after the 1st page. Takes forever to load these pages again especially on a mobile phone.
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Stop it.