GTA 5's free Enhanced PC update spoiled by missing in-game text chat, but it may only be temporary

Optional upgrade besides raises strategy specs, adds kernel anti-cheat

Grand Theft Auto 5 connected PC has been updated with a caller Enhanced version, bundling successful a scope of tune-ups specified arsenic ray-traced graphics and enactment for AMD FSR and NVIDIA DLSS, caller features for GTA Online, and a heaping helping of swankmobiles for your fleet of GTA cars. Existing GTA 5 communicative mode and GTA Online advancement volition transportation over, and it’s each escaped to radical who ain the aged mentation of GTA 5, which is present known arsenic the Legacy mentation connected Steam.

It’s a bully overhaul with a fewer downsides. One is that the game’s strategy requirements person besides been Enhanced - you'll request treble the RAM and treble the graphics paper memory, amongst different things. You tin inactive play the Legacy mentation if you don’t person the specs for the upgrade, but Legacy and Enhanced owners aren’t allowed to play together, which threatens to thrust a spot of a wedge done the community.

The Enhanced mentation besides adds “kernel-based anti-cheat protections”, which whitethorn not amuse those of you who similar it erstwhile games don’t snoop connected each exertion you person moving from the stinking bowels of your computer, oregon person concerns astir the cheater-rumbler bundle throwing up mendacious positives oregon exposing your strategy to ransomware. But the large forum complaint, close now, is that Rockstar look to person done distant with GTA 5’s in-game substance chat - perchance due to the fact that these Enhancements travel via the erstwhile "next gen" update for GTA 5 connected PS5 and Xbox, which evidently person antithetic kinds of chat functionality.

There are galore threads astir the lack of substance chat connected Steam and Reddit. Several radical person posted what they assertion are screenshots of conversations with Rockstar support. One of these alleged enactment messages acknowledges that “in-game substance chat is not supported successful GTA V Enhanced currently”, which suggests it’ll beryllium addressed via patch; successful the meantime, it advises radical to marque usage of the game’s SMS features oregon level level chat features. I’ve approached Rockstar myself for comment.

It mightiness look similar picking the straws from a bale of spun gold, but in-game substance chat is simply a diagnostic galore person travel to trust on. Perhaps you person disabilities that marque substance chat much convenient, oregon possibly you’d similar to speech salutations with randos without speaking aloud and perchance revealing your gender.

More frivolously, somebody’s posted a tragic communique astir innocently boarding a level piloted by a marque caller player, and realising they couldn’t pass with each other. Hey, possibly there's a Netflix miniseries successful this. I'll nonstop Vin Diesel a petition for comment, too.

There are besides a big of different complaints related to radical struggling to migrate their advancement betwixt versions. While irritating, these look much similar the accustomed launch-day bugs.

Of course, the lion’s stock of disgruntled responses to Rockstar’s societal media posts astir the update are from radical pining for the adjacent GTA 6 trailer. The crippled remains slated for console motorboat aboriginal this twelvemonth truthful it's decidedly precocious clip we had a video. Maybe adjacent a GTA 6 PC merchandise date, arsenic a treat.

You tin work much astir GTA 5 Enhanced and cheque retired the strategy spec differences here.