GTA5 fans, here is something for you. Modder ‘JohnDiscord’ has brought the amazing Drive V Mod to the Enhanced Edition of Grand Theft Auto 5. This mod will overhaul the physics of all vehicles, and will bring to the game a more realistic driving system.
In case you didn’t know, Drive V is a special mod that took 5 years and over 2,000 hours to make. It was created by a modder named PermissionToLand. This mod is all about making driving feel realistic and fun. What makes it really cool is that every car or vehicle feels different to drive. Each one has its own physics, so they don’t all handle the same.
The most important change the modder made was fixing the way cars turn on the Z-axis. In the original game, cars felt way too twitchy and reacted too quickly when you moved the steering wheel. Now, bigger and older cars have a realistic delay when you steer. This means they don’t turn right away, just like in real life. You’ll also notice that cars like the Emperor have soft suspension and more body roll, kind of like how cars felt in GTA IV. On the flip side, sporty cars now have stiffer suspension, so they feel tighter and more stable when driving fast.
Here is an example. The taxi now has worse steering and weaker brakes compared to the police car. This shows the taxi’s wear and tear from being used so much. The police car has more power and better handling because of special police upgrades. But it still feels like a big, heavy Crown Victoria, and it can slide or oversteer if you’re not careful. The Interceptor, on the other hand, drives more like a modern car. It’s faster, smoother, and easier to control.
PermissionToLand has changed how fast and powerful each car is to make them feel more like their real-life versions. For old muscle cars, the modder even did the math to find their true horsepower, since they used a different rating system in the past. Off-road driving is now more realistic too, so cars behave better on dirt and rough roads. The mod also makes crashes look more real by increasing how much cars get damaged or bent, kind of like in GTA IV. Downforce (which helps cars stick to the road at high speeds) has been removed from all vehicles, except for real supercars that would actually have it in real life. Lastly, the mod raises the ride height (how high a car sits off the ground) to better match real-world cars. So now, cars look and feel much more realistic.
In short, this is a mod that will completely change the way vehicles behave. So, needless to say, I highly recommend trying it. You can go ahead and download it from this link. If you have installed Natural Vision Enhanced, you can install this version that is compatible with it.
If, for whatever reason, you don’t want to use the NaturalVision Enhanced Mod, you can try two other visual/graphics mods for GTA 5 Enhanced Edition. These are the RealityV Mod and the ChromatiX Enhanced. Both of them aim to improve the graphics of the vanilla version. And, both of them look better than the vanilla Next-Gen Update.
Another cool mod is the Next-Gen Euphoria Mod. This mod aims to overhaul the game’s Euphoria Physics Engine. However, I’m not sure whether it’s compatible with Drive V. In theory, it should be. Still, it might lead to some conflicts.
Enjoy and stay tuned for 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.”
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