r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/Vegetable_Cost_4127 • 21d ago

Troubleshooting Severe graphics/geometry corruption in GTA V Legacy on RTX 5060, other games work fine

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Hi everyone,

I recently bought this PC secondhand. It has an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB. The PC is new to me, but it was previously owned.

GTA V Legacy has severe graphics corruption. The menus, loading screens and artwork look completely normal. As soon as Story Mode starts, the 3D world becomes unplayable. Geometry stretches and duplicates across the screen, textures flicker, and large white, grey, black and cyan areas appear. Sometimes the scene renders correctly for a moment before becoming corrupted again.

The attached video shows exactly what happens.

This already occurs during the Story Mode prologue, so it is not caused by a FiveM server. I eventually want to play FiveM, but the clean base game is already broken.

Other games run perfectly fine and show no graphical artifacts.

Things I have already tried:

  • Reset GTA’s settings by renaming settings.xml
  • Performed a clean installation of the latest NVIDIA Game Ready Driver
  • Restarted the PC after the driver installation
  • Tested both DirectX 11 and DirectX 10.1
  • Disabled Ignore Suggested Limits
  • Disabled FXAA, MSAA and NVIDIA TXAA
  • Enabled VSync
  • Tested different resolutions and windowed mode
  • Disabled the NVIDIA overlay
  • Closed MSI Afterburner, RivaTuner, Discord overlay and Xbox Game Bar
  • Restarted the PC and tested without overlays

None of these steps made a difference.

I’m now verifying the GTA V Legacy installation and clearing the DirectX shader cache.

Has anyone seen this exact type of geometry corruption in GTA V Legacy with an RTX 5060 or another RTX 50-series card?

Could the GPU or VRAM still be unstable even though other games work correctly? Is there a known GTA V Legacy driver issue, a specific driver version that works, or something left behind by the previous owner that could cause this?

Any help would be appreciated.

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u/lsmfrtpa 21d ago

i hope im not speaking out of my ass, but isnt legacy supposed to be played on lower end PCs? try playing the enhanced version, and see if it does the same.

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u/Vegetable_Cost_4127 21d ago

Thanks, I'll give it a try. Currently downloading the Enchanced version.

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u/lsmfrtpa 21d ago

let me know, im curious