GTA 5 Natural Vision Evolved graphics mod: How to download, system requirements, and more

Natural Vision Evolved is one of the most popular graphics mods you can download for GTA 5. It was made by Jamal Rashid, better known as Razed Mods, and the best thing about it is that it's completely free. Unlike its other counterpart, Natural Vision Remastered, Evolved is a work-in-progress variant that's trying to take the graphics enhancement to another degree.

It's currently in its early access stage, and as such, Patreon subscribers can get early builds of the mod as it gets developed. Nevertheless, Natural Vision Evolved completely transforms Grand Theft Auto 5's San Andreas by changing the lighting, weathers, color tones, textures, vegetation, and much more.

If you're looking to download Natural Vision Evolved for GTA 5, this article will help you by giving you step-by-step instructions, along with detailing the system requirements.

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How To Install Natural Vision Evolved mod for GTA 5

Assuming you've already downloaded NVE, here's a step-by-step guide for installing the graphics mod:

1. In the Grand Theft Auto 5 directory, create a folder called "mods," then copy the "updates" folder and paste it inside "mods."
2. Set up OpenIV by running it, then choose the language (English or Russian). Accept the EULA, and choose the install directory.
3. Once OpenIV is installed and running, choose Grand Theft Auto V for Windows and select your game directory.
4. After OpenIV loads up, choose the ASI Manager from the toolbar and make sure all three options (ASI Loader, OpenIV.ASI, and openCamera) are installed.
5. After downloading NVE from Razed Mods, open the RAR file as well as the GTA 5 directory, while keeping OpenIV running.
6. Choose Edit Mode in the app, then drag and drop the Natural Vision Evolved Installer Part One into it.
7. When the installer window pops up in OpenIV, select Install and choose the "mods" folder. Do the same with the Part Two Installer. Once both files are installed, exit out of Edit Mode and close OpenIV.
8. Now, open the ENB folder inside the downloaded NVE folder, choose any of the three presets (low, medium, or ultra) depending on your hardware, copy over all the files inside one of the presets and paste them in the GTA 5 root folder.

Natural Vision Evolved will now be installed, and the loading screen will be replaced with this graphics mod for GTA 5.

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GTA 5 Natural Vision Evolved requirements

Razed Mods hasn't provided any system requirements for Natural Vision Evolved. It depends completely on your system and how well it runs Grand Theft Auto 5 in general. There are three different ENB presets as well, which should be used according to your PC specifications.

Nevertheless, System Requirements Lab has provided a minimum and recommended setup for running Natural Vision Remastered, a similar GTA 5 graphics mod, which is as follows:

Minimum:

• CPU: Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHz (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHz (8 CPUs)
• RAM: 8 GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 660 2GB / AMD HD 7870 2GB
• Dedicated VRAM: 2 GB
• Pixel Shader: 5.0
• Vertex Shader: 5.0
• OS: Windows 10 64 Bit, Windows 8.1 64 Bit, Windows 8 64 Bit, Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1
• Free Disk Space: 72 GB
• Sound Card: 100% DirectX 10 compatible

Ideally, you'd want a PC that can run Grand Theft Auto 5 in medium to high settings with enough framerates (above 60 FPS) so that NVE can run smoothly.

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GTA 5 Natural Vision Evolved download link

Nighttime looks absolutely stunning with NVE (Image via Razed Mods)

You can download Natural Vision Evolved for GTA 5 from the official website of Razed Mods, linked below:

Download here

As mentioned before, it's completely free of cost, and the latest file (July 2024 update) for the Single Player Beta version will take up 12.46 GB. Like most Grand Theft Auto 5 mods, you'll also need OpenIV before installing NVE. So go ahead and download it from the official website (openiv.com).

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