Alright so before we begin, I'd just like to say that I can run GTA V on a fairly smooth 50-60 fps depending on the situation. I could be playing for about half an hour, moving very smoothly in my own home when suddenly my FPS drops to around 20-30. Does anyone know why? My FPS will sporadically increase back to the 50-60 at random intervals. I have yet to discover the reason why. If anyone could tell me, please let me know.
These are my specs.
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Is vsync on? I noticed that in GTA V (and some other games I've played) having vsync on seems to make the game snap to 30 fps if it cant quite manage 60. Try turning it off if its on.
No, it's off.
I'm honestly stumped about this.
What version of Catalyst drivers are you running? If you're on the latest stable drivers (December 2014) or older, I know exactly why. There's a beta driver that's optimized for GTA V.
The stable 14.12 drivers are not optimized, and in some cases can make the game unplayable. I have an R9 270x and I can run the game at 80fps, but after a while performance will degrade, and at that point racing in GTAO or intense firefights will cause my fps to rapidly throttle back and forth between 60-80 and as low as <10, and there'll even be chokes where the game's not at all responsive for half a second to two seconds. Choking and fps spikes can happen before the performance degradation phase, usually related to having to load lots of assets. Turning traffic variety and density down to almost zero alleviated [I]some[/I] of the problems (minimizing the amount of textures being loaded into video RAM at once).
The beta driver fixes everything about that. [B]However,[/B] at least in my personal experience, this comes with a major drawback. Your experience may vary, but I have had to disable GPU-accelerated rendering in my browsers, because otherwise almost any page with webm video embeds crashes the graphics driver hard, and 25% chance it'll be so bad it takes explorer.exe down with it (and any programs that do survive the crash will give you the Solitaire victory card bounce effect on the desktop if you drag their windows around), requiring a system restart without being able to close out of most apps. Loading [URL="http://playrust.com/devblog-60/"]Rust devblogs[/URL] will crash it 100% of the time on my system if the GPU is used for rendering because of the embeds.
But I figured out that GPU acceleration was the problem and disabled it, and since then my system's been as stable as normal. Despite the drivers being beta I haven't had any problems at all in games, just the GPU-accel webm embed = death issue. AMD's going to release a stable driver eventually, and I would hope this problem's fixed (unless it's unique to me or something), so this is temporary at worst.
Gotcha. I'm pretty sure i have the Beta driver on, but i'll go reinstall in just to be safe (Or if windows update did something when i wasn't looking).
I'mm post back with more news if that fixes my problem or not.
You want the 15.4 Beta, released 4/12/2015.
If you're on that beta already, try turning traffic variety down? This means you'll see more of the same model of cars and peds, but it won't impact anything else.
Nope, nothing. And all the variety settings (Plus most of the settings) are turned down. Maybe it's a memory leak that keeps happening?
Seems you have 5GB of memory. I'd reboot, shut down unneeded things in the system tray (if Chrome is set to run in the background, it will automatically load itself and all your extensions on Windows start), and then open up only Steam (if you bought it on Steam) and GTA V and minimize the population density and variety, and lower draw distance at half or below. If you've got these settings low already, never mind, obviously.
The idea is that we want to try and give GTA V as much RAM as we can, because if you end up starting to push things onto swap to get the job done, it gets ugly fast.
Alright. But normally i keep everything else closed as i start up games.
Turn off "auto-scan for music" in the audio settings, I've found it lags my game like crazy when it starts scanning.
Also keep an eye out on your temperatures, your GPU might be clocking down to prevent overheating.
Nah, it didn't help. Altho i did notice a small boost in FPS. But it still drops after a while, then jumps back up. It's honestly really frustrating.
I have a strange issue where I get a solid 75fps (my monitor is 75hz) but the game has lots of mini-pauses, where it freezes for less than a second every few seconds. That's just PC gaming for you and all modern PC games do it. IF you wqant buttery smooth gaming you'll have to get a console.
There's been a bitcoin miner going around lately that turns on while you're playing games. Check your processes next time that happens. I had one that installed into a random appdata folder and it halved my fps in GTA5
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