GTA V on PC

[PixResearch]

I can't remember any game where this wasn't the case.
Alpha testing/punch through, blending and the small geometry necessary for foliage has always been painful...

 

[homerdog]

The overdraw can probably get rather extreme in areas with lots of plants and stuff. DX12 would help a lot.

 

[psorcerer]

Does anyone else notice a huge difference in framerate between the urban areas and the rural ones?

I noticed, see post above.

 

[psorcerer]

The overdraw can probably get rather extreme in areas with lots of plants and stuff.

You drive on highway (no grass is visible in distance) and still get bad performance in "rural area".

 

[homerdog]

Maybe GPU memory bandwidth getting hammered by alpha blending? I dunno just throwing stuff out there.

 

[psorcerer]

Maybe GPU memory bandwidth getting hammered by alpha blending?

Hmm, looks like there is no problem if you disable AA. Which means that alpha-to-coverage probably is the culprit (as I suspected earlier).

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Yes, MSAA and Shadow MSAA seem to make a huge difference.
In the city I get full 60FPS almost all the time with 4x.
In the rural areas, I'm lucky to get a steady 30-40FPS with only 2x.

Is there a slider that specifically reduces foliage in the rural zones? Perhaps I don't need that much foliage in the desert...

 

[homerdog]

Hmm, looks like there is no problem if you disable AA. Which means that alpha-to-coverage probably is the culprit (as I suspected earlier).

Okay so they're doing alpha to coverage. Can it be disabled independently from MSAA?

 

[psorcerer]

Can it be disabled independently from MSAA?

I couldn't find a way to disable it. But without AOTC the foliage will look bad. And it should not impact the framerate this much. It's probably a bug or driver problem.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

Phone Customer Service from Rockstar ordered to hang up on people during conversation:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/1916-investigation-rockstar-games-customer-service-calls

Not cool...

 

[homerdog]

Ima start doing that to my customers and see what happens.

 

[Malo]

They could be forced to hang up on customers because of a large influx of calls and don't want to waste time telling the person over and over the same thing when they could be taking other calls.

 

[AlNom]

Okay so they're doing alpha to coverage. Can it be disabled independently from MSAA?

Don't suppose you have transparency supersampling turned on in the driver?

 

[homerdog]

I don't have the game yet . Actually that reminds me Ima go get it right now.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

And this is why I don't use the same password for my games as I do for websites.

Phone Customer Service from Rockstar ordered to hang up on people during conversation:
http://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/1916-investigation-rockstar-games-customer-service-calls

Not cool...

Turns out to be massive miscommunication between Rockstar and their support agents (whether internal or outsourced).

http://www.gamersnexus.net/gg/1917-update-on-rockstar-games-phone-support-hang-ups

Turnaround for getting a hacked account back is relatively short now.

Regards,
SB

 

[homerdog]

This crap is taking forever to download.

 

[Malo]

This crap is taking forever to download.

Steam always maxes my 100Mbit connection. It's 60+ Gb!

 

[homerdog]

Lol I throttled it to 1MBps (big B) over night cause my bro was watching netflix and it's still not done. I have a ~20/1Mbps connection btw.

Probably a good thing since I have this crap called work I have to do. And it takes all day. Actuall

 

[AlNom]

You're doubly lucky Master Chief Collection isn't on PC.

 

[homerdog]

No, you're lucky. I never had my vengeance.