Grand Theft Auto V is a beautiful game, however it’s no secret that its visuals could look a lot better on the PC. Well, thanks to modders, the game’s visuals have been overhauled in a tremendous degree. The mod responsible for turning GTA V into such as stunning visual treat is called The Pinnacle of V – World Enhancement Project and below you can view some really impressive screenshots.
What’s really astounding is that this project comes with some really high resolution textures as well. In other words, we’re not talking about a mere Reshade/SweetFX mod.
Furthermore, this mod brings some new graphical features to the game itself. For example the mod – among other things – increases global reflection and shadow intensity, adds Volumetric Lighting to all weathers during night, enables shadows from weapon, explosion and other smoke/particle effects within near vicinity of player, and improves the game’s wind effects.
Here are the key features of The Pinnacle of V – World Enhancement Project:
VISUALS –
The best and most realistic Reshade & Enb configurations included to provide a perfect color balance and bring new life to the game.
Totally redone every in game weather, removing chromatic aberration, noise, vignetting, and other postfx.
Improved clouds, lighting, color control, reduced fog to realistic amounts and much more. Major overhaul! (Letting the game change weathers in its natural cycle provides the best experience! Don’t always use a trainer, you’ll be surprised.)
Photo realistic rain and puddles.
Increased global reflection and shadow intensity.
Added Volumetric Lighting to all weathers during night.
Removed flashing from pickup objects(weapons cash wallets etc.)
Enabled shadows from weapon, explosion and other smoke/particle effects within near vicinity of player(uses the same distance as the general shadow box)
Removed most lensflare and limited corona size.
Improved/stronger wind effects.
Edited particle effects to allow more collision, as well as made more objects breakable(more coming in future updates).
Better grass and plant general settings.
Global smoke effect improved, everything from exhaust to chimneys to explosions 😉
Better weather lighting, fog control, and atmosphere.
Much improved storm weather waves and water effects.
Improved vehicle lights, coronas, flare, spotlights and police lights.
2. TEXTURE OVERHAUL –
Plants, grass, bushes, vehicles, water, blood, stars, moon, and more! The texture overhaul is a massive project on its own, and it will be receiving regular updates as progress is made. These textures are not just simply upscaled. They are entirely brand new textures being introduced into the game.
4k Clouds
4k Water
4k Stars and Moon
4k Plants and Grass
4k Blood
4k Fire Sprites
4k Coronas
4k Rain Drops and Splash Textures
4k Cloud Noise
4k Vehicle Bottom Shadows
2k Real Vehicle Replacements for Carrier Types(Coke, Pepsi, graffiti, and more!)
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.” Contact: Email
44 thoughts on “This Project Overhauls GTAV’s Visuals, Turning It Into One Of The Most Beautiful Games Ever Released”
Damn that looks pretty, can’t wait to try it when I upgrade my pc..
That’s a limitation of today’s hardware, not the incompetence of the developers and modders.
Screen space reflections are programmed to calculate just static objects and not movable ones.
Everyone goes out and spends 4-6 times the price they would have paid for their console? Because people who own consoles only own them because they’re too dumb to know they can dump way more money into a high end PC? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that most people just don’t care that much? Nah, I’m sure it’s consoles fault also that over half of Steam users still don’t even have a quad core cpu. Cause…logic 🙂
That kind of makes my point. If your console argument held any water, those old laptops and netbooks would be high end gaming PCs. The fact that graphics are so important to you in gaming that money is literally not a concern is fine, but please understand, this is a minority mindset. Most gamers want a good experience at a good price, not “the best” for double their mortgage. The idea that everyone who now owns a console would run out and buy a $1500 PC if consoles disappeared is silly and baseless. They would likely spend about as much as they spent on their console.
The most played games on the planet are League of Legends, CS GO and Dota 2, which require very low specs to run. A standard Dell laptop can run Dota 2 for example.
And before you bang on about price, I love how you conveniently forget the hundreds of dollars you spent on a TV, couch and sound system to play your under-powered sh*t hardware on with no exclusives worth bragging about.
My rig is over 10 times faster in terms of raw power when compared to a current gen console, but it’s nowhere near x10 the price. Once you go into the higher end you start getting much more horsepower/dollar.
In the end it all depends on what sort of experience you want, I want really high resolutions, highest settings or beyond with mods, and high framerates.
Damn that looks pretty, can’t wait to try it when I upgrade my pc..
2fps ftw!
So much graphixs.
The cars not being reflected in puddles spoils it for me. It looks like they’re floating.
I totally agree, that would be the golden brooch on it.
some people are never happy. Why don’t you be positive and show some appreciation the the dedication these people give to the mod.
Get off the internet if you can’t handle people having different opinions than yours.
But his opinion if different to yours and you can’t handle it.
sounds like he actually IS handling it. BOOM GO HOME
I’m at home. ?????
PUDDLE REFLECTION GRAPHICS OR GO TO HELL
Was constructive criticism.
Everyone is already doing that, why don’t you accept a little tiny bit of criticism?
Butthurt peasant console owner spotted.
You could not be more mistaken.
That’s a limitation of today’s hardware, not the incompetence of the developers and modders.
Screen space reflections are programmed to calculate just static objects and not movable ones.
My R9 390 8GB is waitinh for those 4k textuers 🙂
cool it all fits in your mem pool, at 23 FPS
That was in BO3 Beta with R9 280X.
and remember, BO3 is an unoptimized mess of a port. GTA is not.
MY 970 4 GB is waiting for those textures too!
You guys need to invest in watercooling first. From an elitist’s POV lol.
My PC is in my bathtub.
Mines in my walk-in freezer. I wear bear skin to play my PC, NAKED.
Now I know why I’ll want a Pascal card next in a few months.
Ive been wating for Pascal for ages now, even before GTA 5 came out.
Pascals will eat this for breakfast :).
Just wow.
Uses a max of 4.5 gigs of vram according to evga precision for me.
but.. but.. the protaganist is an acid dealer
I love oversaturated colors
so this is awesome for me 😉
Can you hear that? It is the sound of millions of peasants crying “nobody cares about gta v pc, we already finished that game”
Oh and there are weapon mods too, i replaced the desert eagle with a revolver
The player models kill this but looks amazing otherwise. Why are all the roads wet in video?
toddyhancer looked better.
Could use a little personal tweaking here and there but still absolutely amazing.
the original looks better, this is way too uncanny valley, the original has a stylized look you can believe in
dear GOD better than p*rn!
Everyone goes out and spends 4-6 times the price they would have paid for their console? Because people who own consoles only own them because they’re too dumb to know they can dump way more money into a high end PC? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that most people just don’t care that much? Nah, I’m sure it’s consoles fault also that over half of Steam users still don’t even have a quad core cpu. Cause…logic 🙂
That kind of makes my point. If your console argument held any water, those old laptops and netbooks would be high end gaming PCs. The fact that graphics are so important to you in gaming that money is literally not a concern is fine, but please understand, this is a minority mindset. Most gamers want a good experience at a good price, not “the best” for double their mortgage. The idea that everyone who now owns a console would run out and buy a $1500 PC if consoles disappeared is silly and baseless. They would likely spend about as much as they spent on their console.
The most played games on the planet are League of Legends, CS GO and Dota 2, which require very low specs to run. A standard Dell laptop can run Dota 2 for example.
And before you bang on about price, I love how you conveniently forget the hundreds of dollars you spent on a TV, couch and sound system to play your under-powered sh*t hardware on with no exclusives worth bragging about.
My rig is over 10 times faster in terms of raw power when compared to a current gen console, but it’s nowhere near x10 the price. Once you go into the higher end you start getting much more horsepower/dollar.
In the end it all depends on what sort of experience you want, I want really high resolutions, highest settings or beyond with mods, and high framerates.
So at a minimum all PC users are spending $1,400? Excuse me while I lawl.
It only looks good in fog and rain folks. Step into the sun and have your eyes obliterated like so much campfire marshmallows
From the sublime to the ridiculous
These one size fits all mods often look as much hideous as the do amazing.