Been playing the PC version of GTA V. So far… it works and works well on my computer. Just got past the first ‘Franklin and Lamar’ mission without a single fail, or falling behind Lamar in the driving part. Speaking of that part, amazing FPS! Felt like a constant 60 FPS. Damn good port here.<\/p>\n
When launching the game, I was greeted by a menu to set my controls (or use a Controller).
\nSpeaking of the controls, I’m still learning what I had setup. Some of the keys where even forced on me. What do I mean by this? Well, when I was setting them up, I always get “this key is bound to that! You’ll overwrite if you do this!” issues. It’s mainly because I’m a lefty, yet I use the arrow keys to move and do everything.
\nAnyway, I had several unbound keys because of this. And when I went to save them, it told me it won’t do it. So I’m forced to make sure all keys are bound to a random key before I can even play.
\nWhat really annoyed me, is the phone has its own set of keybinds. So I had to bind them to the WASD keys, and the phone open to the X key. Very inconvenient, but… what can I do?
\nI could had bounded them to my numpad, but that was already used by the aircraft\/sub\/helicopter controls… even if I’ll use my Mouse to control them, they still had to be bound.<\/p>\n
Meh… so I launched and started the intro. Immediately I noticed I couldn’t move after I had control. I couldn’t turn. I couldn’t jump. I couldn’t do anything. It made me think that I was stuck in controller mode, even though I don’t have one hooked up.
\nI looked through Google, no help. Then I started messing with my mouse, and made my guy point his gun at the hostages, which got up and moved. After that, I was finally able to move! Guess I wasn’t paying attention to what it was telling me in the upper left hand corner (where the tutorial\/info screens show up).<\/p>\n
After that, I was aiming with my mouse the way I always wanted to. It was non-sloppy, most of my shots hit. THIS is what I had wanted since I got the PS4 version of GTA V and played with it. Very happy with that.<\/p>\n
I also found the new custom radio station. Remember Independence FM in GTA IV? It’s called ‘Self Radio’ (aka, playing your hand-picked songs). I found it thanks to looking on the Internet (off of the GTA V Reddit), of how to set it up. But since I’ve been using it, I’m getting microstuddering. Of course I blame what I just added, as it was working fine. If you don’t know what microstuddering is (and you’re too lazy to wiki it), it’s pretty much like sudden pauses in the animation. It can be seen while driving, waiting at the light (if you drive safe like me) and watching the cars, and even during cutscenes. I have tried updating my GPU drivers, obviously thinking this isn’t going to fix it (but I should do it anyway). At the start, it seemed the problem was fixed… yet now it’s back. Thankfully.. I don’t think it’s as<\/em> bad as before, but I’m still seeing a jerky mouse cursor when in menus and the map, and the jerky gameplay. Time will definitely tell, and answer if it was really worth upgrading my drivers.<\/p>\n . Good: Bad: Neutral: If you expected to see more Good reviews, it’s because most of them have already been said when I reviewed the game for the PS4 version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Been playing the PC version of GTA V. So far… it works and works well on my computer. Just got past the first ‘Franklin and Lamar’ mission without a single fail, or falling behind Lamar in the driving part. Speaking … Continue reading
\nWhat upsetted me is, you got to put your music on your C drive. And as slow as my boot speed is? That isn’t happening. It’s only 160GB, and on its last legs. I’m still very, very<\/strong> happy it hasn’t died yet (knocks on wood), as I had it since the day I got this case (back in 2005).
\nAnyway, there is a really good alternative (and it’s supposed to ‘reduce lag’, according to what I read from a user), is to make shortcuts of all your songs of where they are, then move said shortcuts to your User Music folder in the My Documents folder on your C drive.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s very annoying, and kills the immersion when it happens. It can also make driving safely somewhat difficult.
\nThis seems to be a known bug, and the only “fix”, is to simply not use it. But my ‘version’ of the bug is worse than this. It also happens when listening to other stations, and even while going through the menus when paused.<\/p>\n
\nI think it’s time for my review;<\/p>\n
\n-Unbelievably fast FPS. Of course, I told the game to do the video settings for me, based on my hardware. Still, it did a great job picking. The FPS doesn’t choke during high speed things. It’s just… lovely.
\n-Downloaded faster than the PS4 version (5 hours instead of 9, which made sense).<\/p>\n
\n-Keyboard controls force you to have EVERY single option binded, or else it will reverse the changes if you try to save them.
\n-Getting microstruddering when using the Custom Radio (dubbed ‘Self Radio’). What’s worse is it also happens when in menus, and when listening to other stations. This seems to be a known bug and a lot of people are getting it, yet it remains unfixed. Even after updating my GPU drivers. Though after doing that, it’s not AS bad as before, but it’s still really, really noticeable at times (especially during cutscenes).<\/p>\n
\n-Forward movement is as touchy as I expected. Without a knob on a controller, you can’t control your speed or your car’s speed. You’re literally flooring the pedal. But I’ll take this over having more precision aiming with a mouse than a controller anyday. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n