With perfect timing, Rockstar announced the PC version of its western masterpiece as we were mulling over building a new PC, and the thought of making the best-looking games ever made even prettier is all the incentive we need to get our wallets out, and our anti-static wristbands on.
Yet Rockstar’s games are a curse on PC. Built not just for today but for the future, and with a sprawling settings menu letting us tinker with everything from water physics to tree fidelity, shadow resolution and three different types of anti-aliasing, this is either a tinkerer’s wet dream or a perfectionist’s nightmare. We lock the framerate to 30, slide almost everything up to the highest setting, and try to forget about it.
This story is from the January 2020 edition of Edge.
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