GTA 5 on PC to Get PS5 and Xbox Series S/X Enhancements, GTA Online Features in Free Upgrade

Grand Theft Auto 5 is getting a free improve on PC subsequent month that may deliver a number of technical enhancements and GTA Online options beforehand solely obtainable on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X variations of the sport. In addition to improved graphical high quality and online-specific content material, the improve additionally brings entry to GTA+ membership for PC gamers. The free improve arrives March 4 for all gamers who personal GTA 5 on PC.

GTA 5 Free Upgrade on PC

Developer Rockstar Games detailed the contents of the PC improve in a weblog put up Thursday. With the improve, GTA 5 on PC will lastly get PC-specific ray tracing options like ambient occlusion and international illumination. Additionally, the improve will even add help for ray traced shadows and reflections, which first arrived on current-generation consoles. Players who improve to the brand new model will even have the ability to migrate their Story Mode and Online progress from the earlier model.

PC model of GTA 5 will lastly additionally get help for AI upscaling strategies like AMD FSR1 and FSR3, and NVIDIA DLSS 3. Other technical enhancements coming to the sport embody sooner load instances on SSD and DirectStorage; enhanced help for increased resolutions, facet ratios, and framerates; DualSense controller help with adaptive triggers; and enhanced audio with help for Dolby Atmos and improved constancy of speech, cinematics, and music.

Rockstar recommends a minimal of 8GB of RAM, Intel Core i7-4770 or AMD FX-9590 processor, and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 or AMD Radeon RX 6400 GPU with 4GB VRAM for the upgraded model of the sport on PC.

(*5*)The improve will add new autos and car upgrades at Hao’s Special Works
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GTA Online Features

The free improve will even add GTA Online options, at the moment solely obtainable on PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. These embody new autos and car upgrades at Hao’s Special Works, Ambient Animal encounters throughout Southern San Andreas, GTA Online’s Career Progress characteristic, a refreshed touchdown web page, and an improved introductory money reward of GTA$4,000,000 for newer gamers.

GTA Online participant expertise enhancements like kernel-based anti-cheat protections and proactive voice chat moderation additionally arrive as a part of the improve.

Finally, the improve additionally brings GTA+ membership to PC gamers, who can join to the service to avail particular advantages like GTA$500,000 each month (delivered upon billing), member-only Shark Cards with 15 p.c bonus GTA$, a choice of basic Rockstar Games titles to obtain and play in the GTA+ Games Library, and extra.

Rockstar stated it could proceed help for earlier model of GTA 5 on PC in order that gamers who didn’t have {hardware} that matched minimal necessities of the brand new improve might preserve taking part in. Support for FiveM mods will even proceed and shall be prolonged to the upgraded model sooner or later, the developer stated. However, gamers on earlier model won’t be able play on-line in classes with gamers on the upgraded model of the sport.