After yesterday’s reveal, PC gamers were a bit disappointed with the visuals of Watch Dogs. Well, good thing we can use SweetFX to improve the game’s graphics the moment it gets out. What? You still don’t believe that SweetFX can significantly improve a game’s visuals? If so, go ahead and take a look at the following GTA IV screens that were rendered at 2K. And while vanilla GTA IV may look awful for today’s standards, GTA IV modded is easily one of the most impressive titles, rivaling even upcoming next-gen titles. Now imagine what the modders will achieve once GTA V releases on our platform. Kudos to Reddit’s users ‘HuntingPandas’ ‘Unreal’ and ‘TokesNoMo’ for capturing these screenshots (the Ferrari shot was rendered at 4K and not 2K)!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Frickin’ awesome!
Wow, looks amazing!
Looks as good as current-gen but not better. The current-gen is a good value I must say then.
Doesn’t look as current gen and doesn’t run at shitty 720p 30fps which is 2004 PC stuff.
Current Gen is X1, PS4, and WiiU(if you want to include that).
Oh, I assumed otherwise as the current gen (you are right) is still ”next gen” in this article.
By the way GTA5 impressed me on what they can do on the PS3 and 360. Just from the graphical standpoint I was suprised that they pulled that off. The water in the game is some of the best i’ve seen on anything. It’s the draw distance and frame rate that was disappointing but they had to cut some things. So much so that when I sniped from a tall building or shot rockets from a tall building I could never kill a pedestrian.
Yeah it’s impressive but the framerates are terrible, there is some 360 vs ps3 comparisons on that but they can’t even do 30fps. Why console games like GTA V don’t look that bad is because people play them far away on small screens. Put that 720p crap on a 24” monitor half a meter away and it’s just horrible. 55” is actually much smaller than a basic monitor viewed from an average distance. A phone game might look amazing, until you play it on a big screen. Same thing here.
Is the game even playable while looking like that?
Please, need some gameplay
Where Is the SweetFx Config?
It looks great in specific screenshots, post a video that looks as impressive running at a decent framerate on anything but a massively high-end PC.
Please stop calling “next gen” . It becomes very confusing because some people still call 8th gen , “next gen” which is “Current Gen” now .
Next-Gen is 1080p, and some consoles can’t even reach that. PC gaming: 1080p since…since.. well a bloody longtime (:
Can’t wait to see GTA V mods in the future.
do you need 3 gtx 780ti to run it cause gta 4 bad optimized on pc
My Ferrari 458 screenshot (the first one) was taken at 3840×2160 (4K)…