I've had rock solid performance and no crashing whatsoever. It did once but it was probably my fault. I have a friend that has the launcher crashing and has yet to play it yet. I spent a good 45 mins helping him out and conceded to just have him submit a ticket to Rockstar, because I was stumped.
Also if any of you want to play online with somebody I'm most certainly down. I'm F33D ME (similar avatar to CoFo) on Steam and Denther9 on Social Club.
C4C, my 7970 is clocked at GHz Edition speeds (lower than yours) and I can max out pretty much except for some of the highest settings. Using FXAA only and no MSAA. I'm a stickler about "jaggies" and it looks good with FXAA at 1080p. My processor only runs at about 40-50 percent usage and seems to use 7 of my 8 cores, with an even distribution of the workload across them all. I actually would expect you to have pretty good performance, pretty close to mine. That extra 100MHz on your CPU speed versus mine will help a little bit and the core per core performance of our chips is pretty similar. You'll be happy. :good: