Those wet scenes above from the enhanced edition do look good especially at night but it got me thinking. I just played GTA 5 on PC not long ago, I finished it just about a month before the enhanced was released. I don't think I ever saw it rain in the OG version even once.
Damn, we need more of this sort of video on YT: No clickbait, no annoying thumbnails, informative, straight to the point, no shouting or obnoxious facial expressions, etc.
I am currently replaying it, currently setting up the big score... it looks awesome, the new RT reflections are finally clear and it runs amazing maxed out @3440x1440 & DLSS Quality (forced transformer model).
Seriously?
I played it last month. It's playable in 2025 for sure, but I can't help to see the low res textures and also the animations and character models are showing their age.
The R*shit Launcher still exists so not much different. Only now you can't see photos of your friends and achievements, I think. Have not really checked, because will have to update like 50 GB since the last time I started GTAV.
due to that garbage i can never again own their games on PC unless i create a new steam account, with a new credit card.. which ofc i am not interested in doing.
if you lose your PW to social club there's no way to ever get an account again since its tied to your steam and epic account etc. i tried with their support for a few days, had all the requirements they asked for (screenshots of steam account) etc but it was just impossible to fix in any way, not via steam, not via R*, R* basically just said fuck off.
Why not? Old models could be removed/refined. Unused textures removed. Better compression of the stored files.
The new version isn't old version files 1 to 1, + texture file size difference.
Not saying they are higher, but just using filesize of game install compared to older one isn't in anyway a way to tell.
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- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
A game that complex and deep of scope, has many planned then unused assets, missions that was planned and scraped/changed, models/audio/dialog for those that are not used they missed/skipped and packed up into the files.
Hell GTA3 was only a gig or two in size, and had many. Hot Coffee was one of them.
If I remember right GTA 4 had entire dialog audio and models for story NPC's that was never used as they was scrapped before launch.
If you think games release that size and somehow only have exactly the needed assets and they magically managed to comb thru them before release to get out all the bloat. You are mistaken
Stormwolf - "Who cares about some racial stuff, certainly not the victims."
- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
"I was examining all data files of GTA V Enhanced. The main size difference is because of audio. GTA V on PC earlier used either raw uncompressed audio"
Yea had to be either compression or orphaned assets.
No way they release enhanced version with lower textures as the culprit of lower file size difference.
Stormwolf - "Who cares about some racial stuff, certainly not the victims."
- Democracy Dies in Dumbness.
- Watching people my age grow from cynical youth who distrusts and dismisses the older generation, into cynical old people who distrusts and dismisses younger generations.
"I was examining all data files of GTA V Enhanced. The main size difference is because of audio. GTA V on PC earlier used either raw uncompressed audio"
Never saw a game before that used 'raw uncompressed'
"I was examining all data files of GTA V Enhanced. The main size difference is because of audio. GTA V on PC earlier used either raw uncompressed audio"
Never saw a game before that used 'raw uncompressed'
Many games did. It saved CPU time on cost of storage. Similar to storing the same game twice on a DVD to reduce load times.
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Going to be interesting when we can use such img2img graphics in real-time, though that will take a while. convert anything to photo-realism, convert anything to anime etc etc
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textures can't be higher.
