Rockstar's Sixth GTA V Enhanced Patch Fixes Unlocks, Adds PC Game Pass Support

Rockstar Games pushed out its sixth post-launch patch for GTA V Enhanced on PC roughly one month after the enhanced edition's troubled debut, addressing award and outfit unlock issues alongside a cluster of graphics and performance bugs, and adding support for PC Game Pass ahead of the game's arrival on Xbox Game Pass on April 15.

The update, weighing in at approximately 400 to 900 MB depending on whether you're running the Rockstar Games Launcher, Steam, or Epic Games Store, downloads automatically the next time you sign into your chosen launcher. According to Aaron Trueman at RockstarINTEL, most of the changes target graphics improvements specifically in GTA V Enhanced, though both the Legacy and Enhanced PC versions received patch notes through Rockstar's support site.

The technical fixes are extensive. IGN's Aritra Bhowmick documented repairs to frame-rate drops underwater, multiple crash-related problems, issues affecting DLSS users, and instances where the game unexpectedly exhausted VRAM. The patch also resolves chameleon paint failing to persist on vehicles after sessions and fixes cases where a player's GTA+ Membership status went unrecognized in-game. Unlock problems, specifically award and outfit unlocks on PC, were among the headline fixes in this build.

This sixth patch follows two smaller early updates that dropped in the first week after launch. A March 5 update fixed a 120Hz cap that kicked in when Frame Limit was set to Off, and also resolved an issue that was incorrectly charging players for the Karin S95 migration reward vehicle. The March 6 patch brought general stability and security fixes, though DSOGaming noted at the time that those two updates were quite small and left the game's core problems untouched.

The Game Pass integration carries implications beyond the patch itself. GTA V, both Legacy and Enhanced, became available on Xbox and PC Game Pass last month, and Trueman confirmed that PC Game Pass players will receive this update. FiveM also released an update adding support for the Game Pass versions of the game.

Mod users remain in a difficult spot. The executable for the Enhanced Edition is named GTA5_Enhanced.exe rather than GTA.exe, meaning tools like OpenIV and Script Hook can't find it. DSOGaming confirmed that all gameplay mods built for the Legacy Edition are currently incompatible with Enhanced, calling out NaturalVision Evolved and QuantV specifically as non-functional.

Despite six patches in roughly a month, several significant problems remain open. Missing text chat functionality, account migration failures, and ongoing stability concerns are still unresolved, noted by both IGN and GTA BOOM. GTA V Enhanced currently holds the distinction, per RockstarINTEL, of being the worst-reviewed GTA game on Steam ever. GTA BOOM framed the rapid patch cadence as evidence of Rockstar's commitment to fixing the issues, while acknowledging that the reception problem has not gone away.