The Enhanced and Expanded update for Rockstar Games’ open world action game, GTA V, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for the Enhanced and Expanded PC version of GTA V, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
GTA V Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
GRAPHICS
- Screen Type: Borderless Fullscreen
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Refresh Rate: as per the max refresh rate of your display on a VRR or G-Sync display, otherwise according to your preferred target frame rate
- Frame Limit: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- V-Sync: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- Enable Ray Tracing: On
- Ray Traced Shadows: High
- Ray Traced Reflections: High
- Ray Traced Global Illumination: High
- Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion: High
- Ray Traced Scene BVH Quality: High
- Frame Scaling: Off
- Shader Quality: Very High
- Texture Quality: Very High
- Anisotropic Filtering: x4
- Particles Quality: Ultra
- Tessellation Quality: Very High
- Water Quality: Ultra
- Grass Quality: Very High
- Lighting Quality: High
- Reflection Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: High
- Long Shadows: Off
- Post FX: Normal
- In-Game Depth of Field: Off
- Population Density: Slider max
- Population Variety: Slider max
- Distance Scaling: Slider max
- High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
Does GTA V Enhanced Run On Steam Deck?
GRAPHICS
- Screen Type: Borderless Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Frame Limit: Off
- V-Sync: Off
- Enable Ray Tracing: Off
- Frame Scaling: AMD FSR 3
- Frame Scaling Quality: Quality
- Shader Quality: Normal
- Texture Quality: Normal
- Anisotropic Filtering: x4
- Particles Quality: Normal
- Tessellation Quality: Off
- Water Quality: Normal
- Grass Quality: Normal
- Lighting Quality: Normal
- Reflection Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Normal
- Soft Shadows: Soft
- Long Shadows: Off
- Post FX: Normal
- Ambient Occlusion: HBAO
- In-Game Depth of Field: Off
- Population Density: Slider max
- Population Variety: Slider max
- Distance Scaling: Slider max
- High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
As seen in the video above, these settings allow the Enhanced and Expanded version of GTA V to run at mostly above 60 fps on the Steam Deck during gameplay, occasionally dipping into the 50s during stressful instances with a lot of on-screen activity.
