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GTA 5 Enhanced: all the new features on PC
Ray tracing, DLSS, 60 FPS, HDR, Dolby Atmos… GTA 5 Enhanced is a real technical overhaul on PC. Here's everything that changes compared to the Legacy edition.
GTA 5 Enhanced is the next-gen PC version of Grand Theft Auto V, released on March 4, 2025 and offered as a free upgrade to owners of the game on Steam, the Epic Games Store and the Rockstar Games Launcher. It brings the PS5 / Xbox Series improvements to PC and now serves as the foundation for FiveM Enhanced. Here’s everything that changes.
Ray tracing is the real star
The most visible addition is ray-traced lighting on PC. Enhanced adds several options:
- Ray Traced Shadows — sharper, more consistent shadows.
- Ray Traced Reflections — surfaces, windows and car bodies that genuinely reflect their surroundings.
- Ray Traced Global Illumination — light bounces off surfaces naturally.
- Ray Traced Ambient Occlusion — more depth and contact between objects.
- Scene BVH quality — a slider that controls the precision of the calculation.
Update 1.71 went even further, adding high-resolution ray-traced reflections and a second light bounce for global illumination.
DLSS, FSR and performance
Enhanced includes modern upscaling tech to gain frames per second without sacrificing sharpness:
- NVIDIA DLSS (shipped as DLSS 3, then updated to DLSS 4).
- AMD FSR 1 and FSR 3.
- A resolution scaler and fine-grained quality settings (lighting, reflections, shadows, extended draw distance).
The result: the game comfortably targets 60 FPS, including with ray tracing enabled on suitable hardware.
Visuals and audio
Beyond ray tracing, Enhanced modernizes the whole presentation:
- HDR for far richer contrast and colors on compatible displays.
- High-resolution support and graphics presets (up to a “Maximum RT” preset).
- Dolby Atmos audio for spatial sound.
Loading and comfort
Enhanced takes advantage of recent PC hardware:
- Much faster loading thanks to SSD and DirectStorage technology.
- Exclusive Hao’s Special Works content inherited from the next-gen version.
Enhanced or Legacy: which to choose?
Both versions coexist on PC. Enhanced delivers the best visuals (ray tracing, DLSS, HDR) and is the future-facing foundation, notably for FiveM. Legacy remains the original, lighter edition, still preferred by some servers while the modding ecosystem migrates.
If you want to play modded multiplayer on the new version, start with our guide: how to install FiveM for GTA 5 Enhanced. And to learn what the migration changes for servers and developers, read what’s new in FiveM for GTA 5 Enhanced.