Best Graphics Settings for GTA 5 Enhanced – Optimize Performance & Visuals (2025 Guide) 🎮🔥

Want the best mix of high FPS and stunning visuals in GTA V: Enhanced Edition for PC, PS5, or Xbox Series X/S? In this 2025 tutorial, I’ll show you the best graphics settings to improve performance while still enjoying that jaw-dropping Los Santos scenery.

Whether you're on a high-end rig or a mid-tier gaming PC, I break down every setting—what it does, how it affects performance, and what you can safely turn up or down. This guide will help reduce stuttering, lag, overheating, and get the most out of your hardware.

Perfect for both new players and returning heisters looking for smooth gameplay!

The Settings:
-Ray Traced Shadows: Off
-Ray Traced Reflections: High/Medium
-Ray Traced Global Illumination: High
-Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion: Off
-Ray Tracing BVH Quality: High/Very Hight
-Shader Quality: High
-Texture Quality: Very High (or medium on low end PC)
-Anisotropic Filtering: 16x
-Particle Quality: High
-Tessellation: High/Very High
-Water Quality: High/Ultra (Turn down to med or low if you lag in the water)
-Grass Quality: High
-Lighting Quality: High / Very High
-Reflection Quality: very High
-Shadow Quality: High (reduce to medium/low for older PC)
-Soft Shadows: Soft
-Long Shadows: On (turning off can save some FPS during Sunrise/Sunset)
-High Res Shadows: On
-Ambient Occlusion: HBAO
-Population Density: Half
-Population Variety: Half
-Distance Scaling: Full or Half
-High Detail Streaming While Flying: On
-Extended Distance Scaling: Half

Disable Ray Tracing if your CPU has performance issues.

🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Video:
✅ Best performance-to-visual settings for PC (NVIDIA & AMD)
✅ How to reduce stuttering and lag in GTA 5 Enhanced
✅ The ideal balance between textures, shadows, and draw distance
✅ How to disable heavy settings like MSAA or Grass Detail that kill FPS
✅ Ray tracing and DLSS (if supported) explained
✅ Bonus: Settings for older hardware

💡 Performance Tips Covered in the Video:
🧠 Use NVIDIA/AMD control panel settings to cap frame rate and avoid overheating
🧠 Avoid overusing post-processing if your GPU is under 6GB VRAM
🧠 Combine optimized settings with lower population density to prevent CPU bottleneck
🧠 For laptop users – make sure high-performance GPU is enabled

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