Complete Overhaul Mod for GTA V

GTA V Redux

Rebuilt weather, textures, and effects with ReShade, plus a reworked police system, weapons, population, vehicles, and physics.

Download v1.19 Torrent

Visuals-only version (torrent) · ReShade presets

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See the Difference

Weather

Rain-Slicked Streets

Rebuilt wet-weather reflections and lighting at night.

Weather Effects

Storm Overhead

ReShade effects during a lightning storm.

Textures

Blaine County

Rebuilt terrain and vegetation textures across the county.

Vehicles

Griffith Observatory

Reworked vehicle handling and physics.

Effects

Golden Hour

Rebuilt lighting and atmospheric effects.

Population

Los Santos From Above

Reworked population and pedestrian AI across the city.

Population

Story Mode

Rebuilt character models and lighting for story-mode cutscenes.

Effects

Rooftop Standoff

Reworked weapon models and volumetric lighting.

Vehicles

Blue Steel

Reworked vehicle paint shaders and reflections.

Weather Effects

Sunset Patrol

Rebuilt atmospheric haze and volumetric lighting at sunset.

Textures Population

Downtown Los Santos

Rebuilt city textures and traffic density downtown.

Textures

Land Act Reservoir

Rebuilt terrain and industrial structure textures.

Textures

Vinewood Hills

Rebuilt terrain, vegetation, and city textures from altitude.

Textures

City Palms

Rebuilt foliage and building textures downtown.

Vehicles

Studio Shine

Reworked vehicle paint shaders and reflections.

Population Textures

Vinewood Plaza

Rebuilt street textures and reworked vehicle handling.

Effects Population

Tactical Response

Reworked police AI and weapon effects.

Textures

European Quarter

Rebuilt building textures and lighting downtown.

Effects

Afterburner

Rebuilt vehicle and aircraft effects.

Weather Textures

Del Perro Lighthouse

Rebuilt rain effects and terrain textures at the coast.

Effects

Freefall

Rebuilt atmospheric haze over the city, shown with a different ReShade preset.

Effects Weather

Beachside Campfire

Rebuilt fire and night lighting effects.

Population Effects

Del Perro Pier

Rebuilt lighting and population density at the pier.

Vehicles

Street Presence

Reworked vehicle handling and physics.

Weather Vehicles

Golden Hour Drive

Rebuilt sunset lighting and vehicle shaders.

Textures Vehicles

Heavy Duty

Rebuilt vehicle textures and detailing.

Weather

Mount Chiliad at Dusk

Rebuilt atmospheric lighting and cloud effects.

Population Textures

Vinewood Estate

Rebuilt building and landscaping textures.

Vehicles Population

Cab Chase

Reworked vehicle handling and traffic AI.

Vehicles Weather

Dusk Pursuit

Reworked vehicle handling and dusk lighting.

Installation

This is a step-by-step guide to installing GTA 5 Redux. Follow the steps in order, starting from a fresh, unmodded copy of GTA V.

Skipping steps or installing out of order is the most common cause of install issues - follow all of them, in order.

Before You Start

A legitimate copy of Grand Theft Auto 5 Legacy (Steam or Rockstar Warehouse - pirated copies are not supported)
OpenIV installed
BattlEye disabled for Story Mode (see the ASI Loader step below - required, or the game won’t load mods)
A minimum of 70GB extra disk space available
A PC that can comfortably run GTA 5 vanilla at a decent FPS

GTA 5 Redux only works with the Legacy version of GTA 5, not Rockstar’s 2025 Enhanced Edition re-release - OpenIV does not support Enhanced.

GTA 5 Redux is installed into a mods folder, separate from your original game files, so you can still access GTA Online and uninstall it cleanly.

GTA 5 Redux improves graphics, so expect a frame drop of around 5-15 FPS compared to vanilla (depending on the ReShade preset selected).

Install OpenIV

OpenIV is the tool used to install GTA 5 Redux.

Download OpenIV

Download the latest version of OpenIV, then run the installer.

Start OpenIV

Open OpenIV and select Grand Theft Auto V Windows.

Select your GTA V install folder:

Rockstar Warehouse: C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games

Steam: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V

Continue to the end of the wizard.

Install ASI

The ASI Loader lets custom mods load into GTA V, and creates the mods folder that Redux installs into.

Click Tools > ASI Manager, then install ASI Loader and OpenIV.ASI.

Disable BattlEye before you launch, or the game will refuse to load mods.
The ASI Loader works by replacing dinput8.dll, a file Windows normally loads as part of DirectInput - that’s how it gets Redux’s mod files into the game. Rockstar’s BattlEye anti-cheat blocks this on sight. If you see a “BattlEye Launcher” window and a message like Blocked loading of file: "...dinput8.dll", that’s what’s happening.
Mods are only safe in Story Mode, never GTA Online. To turn BattlEye off for Story Mode, open the Rockstar Games Launcher, go to Settings, and disable BattlEye (or add -nobattleye to the game’s launch options) - then launch Story Mode specifically, not “Grand Theft Auto Online”.
Before you ever go back online, re-enable BattlEye and remove dinput8.dll and any other mod-loader files - taking modded content into GTA Online risks a ban.

Install GTA 5 Redux

Before you continue, make sure you have a 100% clean, un-modded install of GTA V.
Tip: You can verify your game files are unmodified using Steam’s verify integrity feature or the Rockstar Games Launcher’s verify option.

Download the latest version of GTA 5 Redux from the top of this page.

The Download v1.19 button gives you the .oiv file directly, ready to open - no extraction needed. If you used the GitHub Release page instead (split into several .7z.001, .7z.002, … parts), put every part in the same folder, then right-click the .7z.001 file and extract it to rebuild the .oiv.

Open OpenIV and select Tools > Package Installer.

Locate the GTA5_REDUX_v1.X.oiv file you downloaded and open it to begin the installation.

Click Install, and choose the option to install into the mods folder.

The installer will copy all the required files - this can take a while.

Once it’s done, you can launch GTA 5 Redux directly from the installer to test it. If everything installed correctly, you’ll see the GTA 5 Redux intro video when GTA V loads.

ReShade Installation

ReShade adds visual presets you can choose between to change GTA 5 Redux’s look. It’s optional - ReShade can occasionally cause crashes for some users, and GTA 5 Redux still works fine without it.

Download ReShade from the official website and run the installer.

Select Click here to select a game and manage its ReShade installation.

Click Browse..., then navigate to your Grand Theft Auto V folder and select GTA5.exe:

Rockstar Warehouse: C:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games

Steam: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto V

Tick Legacy standard effects - the Redux ReShade presets need it, despite the checkbox’s own hint that it’s only for old presets.

Download the ReShade presets (a separate small download from the main mod).

Extract it, then copy the .ini files from the GTA_5_REDUX_RESHADE folder to your main GTA V folder.

Choosing a ReShade Preset

ReShade presets are chosen from the in-game ReShade menu, which opens automatically when GTA V starts.

Press Home to bring up the preset drop-down and pick one.

Uninstall

To remove GTA 5 Redux, delete the mods folder in your GTA V folder.

Note: this also removes any other mods you have installed there.