Best gaming laptops that can run GTA 5: The gaming world is widening day by day. A lot of new games introduced with high-end graphics and it requires a specific device to play that as well. The more you indulge yourself in any of the games, the more you get addicted to it.

Grand Theft Auto 6 for iOS features the largest map yet of any of the previous Grand Theft Auto series. It is slightly larger in size than San Andreas as featured in Grand Theft Auto V. The map depicts two major urban centers, two major airports, including an Air Force base and several small towns and villages around the Liberty State countryside.

• Grand Theft Auto V is an action-adventure game played from either a first-person or third-person perspective. Players complete missions—linear scenarios with set objectives—to progress through the story. Outside the missions, players may freely roam the open world.
• Sure, you could play GTA V on a MacBook ( I use a MacBook Pro 2015 13″). Mine has Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB which seems to be pretty poor but still can handle GTA V at 30 fps.

GTA Grand Theft Auto V was the most awaited games from the gaming enthusiasts and looking at the features provided in this GTA V, it was worth waiting. However, Rockstar’s open-world crime was launched in 2013 and re-engineered HD version III for Xbox and PS4 in 2014. GTA 5 for PC brings you more advantages, more visual enhancements on upgraded PC hardware.

The story of three criminals: Michael a retired bank robber living luxurious life but missing old life excitements, Franklin a streetwise repo man looking for a luxurious life, and Trevor a meth dealer wants money at any cost.

All three characters are different, but their desire of making as much money as you can, at any cost brought them together. All characters are beautifully designed, written, and acted.

Background designed in the city of Los Santos, part of Los Angeles with beautiful deserts, mountains, and forest. Breathtaking visuals, landscapes, and world-building is one of the best in the industry.

You can enjoy this game as a single player or in competition as well. There are challenging missions, a wide variety of ride options, bicycle racing, death-matches, and many more options to choose from.

GTA V graphics are one of the strong point of this game. Vivid detailing, crisp images, high-end graphics, amazing sounds, motion blur option, 4K resolution, and a lot of other features which you would imagine from the modern PC game.

All these features require superb hardware to support GTA V’s functionality. Without a power-packed machine, it is impossible to enjoy and play GTA V at its best.

Hardware Requirement’s

Rockstar’s latest, GTA V most extravagant sandbox game with features like beach driving, planning heists, bike driving, ecstatic locations, parachuting only looks good or performs best, if the system fulfills minimum requirements for this game.

Processor and Graphics card are known to be the major requirements of any game to run it on full flow. GTA V requires minimum Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 2.40 GHz or AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core 2.5 GHz processor to achieve smooth functioning of this game. As a graphic card, you will require at least NVIDIA 9800 GT or AMD HD 4870 with a minimum 1GB of dedicated video memory.

Apart from that, other requirements include 4GB of RAM, 100% DirectX compatible sound card, minimum 65GB of free Hard Disk Drive space and DVD Drive to get the full exploration of GTA V.

Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1, Windows Vista 64 Bit Service Pack 2 (NVIDIA graphics card mandatory) as an operating system are prime requirements to run GTA V. Indulge yourself in all new GTA V gaming experience and enjoy it to the fullest.

Best Laptop for GTA 5 – Recommended Specs
Processor	10th Generation Intel Core i7-10750H 6-Core Processor (Up to 5.0 GHz)
Graphics	Overclockable NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM
Memory	16GB DDR4 2933MHz Memory
Storage	512GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Display	15.6″ Full HD (1920 x 1080) Widescreen LED-backlit IPS display
Weight	Under 6 lbs.
Battery	Up to 8 Hours
Keyboard	4-Zone RGB Backlit Keyboard
OS	Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Our Picks: 10 Best Gaming Laptops for GTA 5 2021

1. Acer Predator Helios 300 (Most Recommended)
2. MSI GL65 Leopard 10SFK-062 (Recommended)
3. Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming Laptop (GTX 1660Ti)
4. ASUS ROG Strix G15 Gaming Laptop (Best 240Hz)
5. ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (Best 144Hz)
6. ASUS ROG Strix G17 (RTX 2070 SUPER)
7. New Alienware m15 R3 (RTX 2060 GPU)
8. Acer Predator Triton 500 (Best 300Hz Display)
9. ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17 (Most Powerful)
10. ASUS TUF Gaming A15 (Cheap Laptop for GTA 5)

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New 10th Gen Intel Processor Advantages

Above mentioned requirement is the minimum to run this game on your PC. The better the hardware configuration, smoother you can run GTA V. It is same as how much sugar you have added to your tea or coffee, as much sweetness you can get from it.

Intel processors are upgraded to all new 10th Gen comet Lake series, which includes a whole series of i3, i5, i7 and i9 processors. With 8th Gen series, Intel has increased more cores, threads, cache and the clock frequency to all mainstream processors.

Increased number of cores and threads ensure 44 percent improvement in performance from its predecessors. Rated as Intel’s most powerful processor till now, gives you excellent performance, top-level in-built security, and leading-edge entertainment.

Known to be the refreshed version of old 7th Gen “Kaby Lake” architecture consisting of 14nm+ technology node, 10th Gen Intel processors are the combination of comet Lake offers 14++ and 10nm technologies. Whole design and manufacturing process has been improved for 8th Gen processors. These new processors are designed to perform 4K video, 3D games, high-end games, VR and other latest innovations with utter smoothness.

There has been a massive jump in performance ever with 8th Gen processors. Multitasking, streaming, recording, high-end gaming performed up to 45 percent faster than before.

Turbo boost technology is another added advantage with these processors. Using this technology, CPU can be overclocked up to 5.1 GHz. A new level of security system Hello and True Key technology helps you to remain secure in the highly insecure world.

Swift content creation, super quick and responsive performance, amazing entertainment, robust enhanced security, fluid and ultimate gaming experience, and immersive VR experience are just some of the advantages of 10th Gen Intel Core processors, you can enjoy it more as you explore it more.

Conclusion – Gaming Laptops That Can Run GTA 5

The latest 8th Gen Intel processors are a most advanced processor in today’s era with improved performance and swift processing. Intel claims that these processors are 40 percent faster than its predecessors, which helps you to run GTA V with much comfort.

Gaming devices took this opportunity with both hands and already a lot of companies introduced their respective gaming laptops with this updated processor.

Dell, MSI, and ASUS already jumped into this wagon and introduced some of the superb devices with their customizations.

Some used mid-tier configuration while some used very high-end configurations for their devices. Some companies used a single color backlit keyboard while some other added multi-colored RGB Aura Sync keyboard attached to its device.

So, on the whole there is a huge range of gaming laptops equipped with 8th Gen Intel Quad-Core and Hexa-Core processor allows you to run GTA V with no hiccups or issues, the choice depends upon your requirement and budget.

Hopefully, this article will help you to choose from this wide range of 8th Gen Intel gaming laptops that can run GTA 5 smoothly.

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Until 2 years ago, I used to be a PC person. I had a giant tower desktop computer with fans with flashing lights. I replaced that with a maxed-out MacBook Pro so that I could start traveling and work from anywhere. The problem is, since then I’ve missed PC gaming. All that startup stuff gets so incredibly boring after awhile, and we need to destress. Why even leave your computer screen to destress when you can do it ON YOUR COMPUTER? YES! YES! FREEDOM OF REALITY!

So let’s browse the games in Apple’s App Store, well, they’re not so great. It’s kind of the iOS type stuff but then for OSX. Pretty very very shit.

But that’s stupid, because the MacBook Pro 15″ has two graphic cards, and they’re actually pretty powerful. And the MacBook Pro 13″ and MacBook Air have on-board graphic cards, but they’re fine to play PC games from a few years ago (like Skyrim). So it’s a bit of a shame, we can’t play games on it. And well, destress.

How about GTA V? It’s come out for PC a few months ago, so I wanted to see if I could get it working on my MacBook Pro. I was pretty sure I couldn’t, but I still wanted to try. I mean I’ve been wanting to play this for years, but never had a device for it. I mean, YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS, RIGHT?

I know you can run Windows on Mac with Parallels. But it’s a virtualization app, so it’d never run it with any high performance as the graphics drivers are virtual (software emulated) and not native (hardware). Try it with any game, it’ll probably crash even before playing it, or it’ll be extremely slow.

But then there’s Boot Camp, which lets you run Windows natively (without virtualization) and with high performance on your Mac. After it’s installed you’ll have to reboot to switch to Windows, but that only takes half a minute each time.

**Since Apple doesn’t like Windows, it makes it REALLY EXTRA SUPER hard to get Boot Camp to work. Obviously cause they hate Windows and never want you to use it. I get it. But that means it’s full of stupid bugs that you have to figure out yourself how to fix. It took me 10 days. Yes. 10 days of tears. Maybe that’s why I don’t know anybody using Boot Camp. So to save you all the PAIN and time, here is my tutorial with all the tricks to get it working.
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What you’ll need

• 16GB USB stick (not an SD card!), I tried a 8GB one as Apple recommends it, but it wasn’t big enough, yup WHATEVER!
• Windows 8 ISO file, in a perfect world you’d buy this from Microsoft, but they make it really hard and want to ship you a physical CD (what the fuck, it’s 2015, let me buy an ISO), so just find an ISO file of Windows somewhere (okay fine, Microsoft, I guess you don’t WANT my money)
• Steam account to buy GTA V PC (it’s about $50 I think, worth it because you can play it online if you buy it legally)

Prepare Boot Camp

First search for Boot Camp Assistant on your Mac. Click Continue and you’ll see this:

If this is your first time, select ALL boxes. The first one makes your USB stick loaded with Windows and OSX’s boot camp loader, the second one is the Boot Camp drivers it adds, the third one sounds weird but means it’ll partition your drive to set up Windows.

So now click Continue:

Select your Windows ISO file and continue.

It’ll take some time to copy the Windows ISO to your USB stick, and then download the drivers from Apple that are compatible to your Windows version.

When it finishes, you’ll see this partition window. This means it’ll divide your hard drive up in two pieces, one drive for Windows, one for Mac’s OSX. Here it gets really dodgy, because it actually doesn’t work properly EVER.

You need to choose how big your Windows drive should be. To calculate the size: Windows needs about 20 GB to function, then you need some space for your game. GTA V takes 65 GB, so that is 65+20=85 GB. To make it performant I rounded it up to 100 GB. But it depends on how big your games are etc. Skyrim e.g. is less than 10 GB. So you’d need only 30 to 40 GB probably.

But then it doesn’t work

The reason I said this is dodgy is because it’ll probably fail. You’ll see this amazingly descript error probably like me and my friends did:

It took me days to figure out how to fix it. But it comes down to this: (1) free up space on your drive and (2) if it has disk errors or not. Aim to get about 50% free space. For me that was insane because I have a 1TB drive, with 100 GB free, so I had to free up another 400 GB. It helps to just put stuff on an external hard drive while you’re setting up Boot Camp, you can put it back after.

The non-blue stuff on Macintosh HD is my free space, not enough obviously. Make sure you get about 50% free space on your drive. So if you have 256 GB drive, get 125 GB free. At 500 GB, 250 GB free. At 1 TB, 500 GB free. You get it.

Now fix those errors

Even after clearing all that space, Boot Camp will probably still whine and fail again, like it did for me.

That’s because it’ll run into some weird errors on your drive. Those weird errors are because off, well, I have no fucking clue. But they’re there. How to fix this? Well you open Disk Utility.

Click “Verify Disk” and it’ll check your disk. This might take awhile. I got this crazy scary error. If you didn’t get that and it’s verified, then just skip this part.

I was like “wait WHAT? NO!”. My SSD drive was broken? Why did nobody tell me! I rebooted into Recovery Mode (reboot and hold CMD+R). There I opened Disk Utility in there to verify my disk. If your disk is encrypted like mine, you need to unlock it first by right-clicking the disk, selecting Unlock and entering your password.

Then I verified it again, repaired everything and it worked fine. There were no errors. Odd right? Who cares! Because after this it worked. I rebooted into normal OSX mode and started Boot Camp Assistant again. This time I only selected the last checkbox:

Let’s try again

There we go, partition it:

After partitioning, Boot Camp Assistant automatically restarts. And then BAM!

Now Windows doesn’t like our partitions

Yay! It’s Windows! On a Mac! Don’t celebrate too early, because this is where hell starts.

See what that says? “Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 3”. Wait WHAT? WHY! Boot Camp was supposed to fix this shit, right? I was supposed to not do anything and Boot Camp would put all the files in the right place, to make it work on Mac, right?

NOPE!

Then you press Format on that partition. And it seems to work but no it doesn’t because it says:

“The selected disk of the GPT partition style”

COME ON!

What does it take for a (wo)man to get a Windows around here?

Well, a lot. After hours of Googling, I figured it out.

You need to reboot back into OSX. Exit the installation. Then hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD to boot to. Then go back to Disk Utility:

Select your BOOTCAMP partition and go to the Erase tab, then under Format select ExFAT and click Erase. Make sure you’re erasing the correct partition (BOOTCAMP not Macintosh HD).

After that reboot your MacBook into Windows by rebooting and holding the ALT/OPTION key and selecting your USB stick (I think it’s called EFI). It’ll load the Windows install again.

Try selecting the BOOTCAMP partition in the Windows installation again, you can recognize it by the size you made it. For me that was 100 GB (it showed as I think 86 GB). If it still gives an error, go last resort. Remove the BOOTCAMP partition within the Windows installation by clicking Delete.

Then add a new partition by clicking New:

Try installing it on that partition. If that still doesn’t work, you’re out of luck, cause I have no idea either.

And then…it works

You’ll see this.

The problem is that there’s a good chance the Boot Camp drivers for Windows to understand your MacBook (e.g. use WiFi, sound, etc.) aren’t installed. Luckily they’re on your USB stick. In the Start Screen go to search and type File Explorer. Then try to fin your USB stick. Open the Boot Camp folder and find an Install app, open it and let it run. It’ll probably reboot.

Now with all your drivers installed, most of the stuff on your MacBook will work on Windows now. My friend has some problems with the Bluetooth keyboard, but that was an unofficial keyboard. My Apple one worked perfectly. As did my Logitech wireless mouse.

Now let’s make Windows suck less

Okay, so Windows 8 is obviously the worst interface any person has come across. Like Windows 8 itself actually feels pretty solid, if you get out of that insane box square maze mayhem they call the Start Menu now. It’s insane. Who runs this company? So incredibly stupid to do this. My dad just switched to OSX because he couldn’t understand this Start Screen. Biggest fail of the century.

We have no choice though. We want to play games! So to get your start menu (from old times) back, install Classic Shell.

Then set this image as the start button in preferences:

Yay! Now to disable that stupid Start Screen, right-click on the Task Bar, then click Properties, then click the Navigation tab, then check “When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop instead of Start”, uncheck “When I point to the upper-right corner, show the charms”.

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Now install Steam

I’ll let you do this as it’s pretty easy. Go to Steam and the top right click Install Steam.

Then search for GTA V. Click Download.

Here’s the problem, GTA V is 65 GB and that will take awhile. You obviously don’t want to be stuck for hours in Windows. The trick here is to install Parallels in OSX (if you haven’t already). Reboot to OSX (hold ALT/OPTION and select Macintosh HD) and set Parallels up so it uses the Boot Camp partition. Open Parallels, select Boot Camp on the right and follow the instructions:

After installing, try playing GTA V. Customize the graphic settings a bit. You can’t play it on super high settings, but you can go pretty far on a MacBook Pro 15″. Like I said, it has an actually really powerful graphics card, so it can run GTA V fine.

Yay!

Now you can use your Boot Camp partition within OSX with Parallels to download games/software and continue working. Then when it’s finished, reboot to Windows and play your PC games.

It took me awhile to get back into playing games when I did all of this. I mean, it’s like it has to compete with reality, which is already insane for me, and so GTA V felt somewhat “fake” to me for days, until I accepted it was a game, and nothing I did in there would be an actual accomplishment. See, that’s what startup life psychology does to you. And on a serious note, that’s why we should all play more games. Because it helps you get out of your filter bubble.

Going outside to walk your dog? Naaaaaah, why would you! There’s GTA V!

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