Felix Lighter
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I hear the game doesn't handle alt-tabbing well. Is that a possible cause of your issues?
GTA V PC Performance Thread
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I hear the game doesn't handle alt-tabbing well. Is that a possible cause of your issues?
CarbonFire
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Try turning all three sliders all the way down (density/variety/distance) in the graphics menu and see if it has an effect. If it does (which it should if they're all-the-way maxed), then you can slowly raise those up again to see where your sweet spot lies. Otherwise, can't really think of another reason why that setup would struggle to hit 30 fps.
Philtastic
Member
Damnit, now I'm going to have to see if I can tweak to have Post FX on Ultra while locked 60 fps with my 280x. Looks like I know what I'm doing tonight then....
CarbonFire
Member
Honestly I don't know if it's worth the hit. It's just for your headlights, and it's just for non-static objects. Buildings, fences, rocks, terrain (and maybe trees? can't recall) all still have dynamic shadows from your headlights on very high (and maybe high too? haven't tested that). It can be a bear in areas with a lot of foliage too, since all the bushes and tall grass will also cast shadows.
Ultra does make the sky lighting better though, so maybe. Maybe.
EatinOlives
Member
It's not the RAM that handles your textures, it's your VRAM, which I'm going to bet is far less than 2GB.
Try putting the textures on "Normal". Yes, the textures are ass ugly on Normal but it doesn't hurt to try. Also, what are the rest of your settings? There's a few that really cripple the hardware (like MSAA).
Survived the country area.
I gave up on locked 60fps (i5 4460 and 970 here) so I cranked the settings up, including MSAA (only 2x though) and TXAA and most everything on max (except for MSAA reflections and grass on very high).
On the desert I get 35~45 fps with dips to low 30's. In the city it's 40-60 with some dips in the 30's. It's enjoyable enough and it looks incredible.
I think this game on PC is the best looking game ever. The desert area is just mindblowing. The world is massive and there's very little pop in. Everything looks so polished. Super impressed with this. Kind of want to play the last gen and PS4 version to see how they compare.
It's funny, I always thought GTAV looked "meh" on screenshots, even the promotional shots. You only feel the punch with the game in motion.
I gave up on locked 60fps (i5 4460 and 970 here) so I cranked the settings up, including MSAA (only 2x though) and TXAA and most everything on max (except for MSAA reflections and grass on very high).
On the desert I get 35~45 fps with dips to low 30's. In the city it's 40-60 with some dips in the 30's. It's enjoyable enough and it looks incredible.
I think this game on PC is the best looking game ever. The desert area is just mindblowing. The world is massive and there's very little pop in. Everything looks so polished. Super impressed with this. Kind of want to play the last gen and PS4 version to see how they compare.
It's funny, I always thought GTAV looked "meh" on screenshots, even the promotional shots. You only feel the punch with the game in motion.
SneakyStephan
Banned
From my previous post
The frametime graph is a lot more uneven on amd
Framerates being similar is meaningless is frametimes aren't.
60 fps in fraps can still look and feel like 20 if a game stutters.
d00d3n
Member
Thanks. That config keeps over min 60 fps in heavy traffic. Some minimal drops when you are exploring the wilderness occasionally, but not too noticeable during normal play. I deactivated FXAA though - smudges everything out too much.
Just tried and it helped not to alt tab but there was still issues.
A few minutes in and I ran into the bug where building textures don't load and the road goes invisible.
I'm going to drop it until a patch fixes it.
RenegadeXV8
Banned
...you DO know they're comparing a Titan X to a 290X, right?
Titan X is already 40% faster than a 290X, obviously it's going to show better frametimes.
Also per their own conclusion it's pretty smooth on AMD hardware, under 20ms frametimes is not noticeable.
Thanks I'll try this out.
I'm aware of this, I actually meant the VRAM. The 680M has 4GB of VRAM. I have 16 gigs of actual RAM.
Like I mentioned earlier, pretty much everything is at the lowest setting, except the textures (which are high) and those density/pedestrian sliders or whatever they are. So maybe the sliders are the culprit.
nkarafo
Member
The game runs great on my 960 (60fps 99% of the time) with settings to high/very high + FXAA.
However i'm getting some small annoying pauses every now and then. As if the game tries to load something. These are very sudden and last about 1/3 of a second.
Is this because i installed the game on an older 160GB drive? I couldn't find space anywhere else. Also, i'm exceeding the VRAM counter for about 40 Mbytes. Could this be the issue?
Edit: Also, the Depth of field effects are grayed out in the option menu and i can't enable it, why is that?
However i'm getting some small annoying pauses every now and then. As if the game tries to load something. These are very sudden and last about 1/3 of a second.
Is this because i installed the game on an older 160GB drive? I couldn't find space anywhere else. Also, i'm exceeding the VRAM counter for about 40 Mbytes. Could this be the issue?
Edit: Also, the Depth of field effects are grayed out in the option menu and i can't enable it, why is that?
Post processing setting needs to be Very High or Ultra to enable DOF
EatinOlives
Member
Oh, that's surprising! My graphics card has only 2GB VRAM but still pulls in 60 fps, but then again it's a desktop.
Any other options? I couldn't get Radeon Pro to work, and as far as I can tell, sweetfx isn't doing anything either.
jim2point0
Banned
SweetFX SMAA is working for me. I'm injecting it with ReShade.
nkarafo
Member
Oh, ok thanks.
Edit: Damn, i just realized i forgot to update the Nvidia driver for this game. Maybe this will fix the pauses? Anyone has tested the differences between the drivers?
CarbonFire
Member
A slow SATA hard drive could definitely be the culprit, but I wouldn't rule out the VRAM maxing out either. The former would cause issues in streaming in content for new areas as you're moving around San Andreas, and the later will cause issues as you run out of texture memory and it has to be swapped from normal memory (which is terribly inefficient).
If you haven't already, try lowering your Population variety down a bit to get that VRAM usage within the recommended area.
And yes, always update to the latest drivers
I'm getting really impressive performance (pretty much locked 60 FPS except in the swamp, hits the 40s) and looks on GTX 780 / 2500k at stock speeds.
Also forced Vsync via Nvidia with triple buffering since the in-game one was doing weird things.
Think I'm done fucking with settings, this works beautifully.
- 1920x1080
- 4x MSAA, FXAA off.
- All settings "very high" except shadows
- Shadows on high, soft shadows on "softer"
- Distance slider set to about 60-70%
- None of the advanced stuff except "stream high detail when flying" or whatever it is
- Tesselation off, but not sure if it makes a big difference
Also forced Vsync via Nvidia with triple buffering since the in-game one was doing weird things.
Think I'm done fucking with settings, this works beautifully.
How can I do the same? I haven't messed around with the textures.
Just go to settings and push your textures up. I put them on high.
It'll say are you sure because it'll go over your card limit. Say yes.
Maybe the imposed limit actually has a limit which slows things, or is that dumb?
SneakyStephan
Banned
I'm talking about the difference in frametime variance between amd and nvidia, it has nothing to do with framerate.
The amd one is constantly spiking up and down more than the nvidia one , aka amd still needs to work on this.
But yes overall it's not that bad and the engine gta5 uses seems really good for delivering pretty consistent frame times.
Compared to bioshock infinite that gta graph looks like gaming heaven.
Yeah this is a bit strange, I've gone over the limit because of high textures but I'm getting the same exact performance as normal textures.
ed: I'm getting better performance now actually. I was playing border-less this entire time, went back to fullscreen and vsync off (adaptive vsync on via control panel) and now it's a lot smoother.
Slackbladder
Member
Something is up with the servers, or something. I get driver crashes now and again but I also get a crash which gives me a message on the launcher saying something like "you have been booted because the game has been signed in elsewhere". And of course it hasn't. Then I start the game up and exit normally then go offline and start again. Only now it says I have to activate the game first before going offline even though I have done that. Hmm, I did install it on my laptop (wanted to see how badly it ran) so maybe I have to have one version online all the time?
Annoying.
Annoying.
deadcelledo
Member
I'm getting this after launching, it loads a bit and then just stays blank, no buttons or anything, I played it yesterday just fine, anyone gotten this?
I'm having an issue with SLI where the game is detecting 4096 MB of VRAM from my 2 GTX 670s, even though they only have 2GB each.
So the game is showing 2700/4096 VRAM usage and then runs between 35-59 fps @ 2560x1600 (yes I know, I need to upgrade).
I even tried on a 24" 1080P monitor and with all settings turned down I can't get the thing below 2000 VRAM usage =\
So the game is showing 2700/4096 VRAM usage and then runs between 35-59 fps @ 2560x1600 (yes I know, I need to upgrade).
I even tried on a 24" 1080P monitor and with all settings turned down I can't get the thing below 2000 VRAM usage =\
I have this problem too. I thought it was my HDD so I put the game on my SSD and it still occassionally does it. Does anyone know a fix for this?
Windom Earle
Member
I know I won't be able to go back to PS4. FXAA + 30fps + empty streets + shooting with controller (free aim impossible). PC is so far superior it's not even funny.
Also the framerate and grass downgrades on Xbone are quite bad.
OK, so I've tinkered with the settings and am now getting a semi-stable 30FPS with most everything turned down. Still looks pretty good and now doesn't run like ass.
Think it was mostly CPU-related. Found I had some random svchost.exe that was running in the background and it ran way better after I shut it down.
Think it was mostly CPU-related. Found I had some random svchost.exe that was running in the background and it ran way better after I shut it down.
The Janitor
Member
Running really good for me, atleast framerate-wise. There's this kind of judder making it feel not 100% smooth, even though my framerate is over 60.
Tainted
Member
I'm not sure I understand.... 2 x 2048 = 4096. What is the issue here ?
CarbonFire
Member
What issues are you having? Textures not showing up? Textures corrupted/blurry/don't look right?
Did you download the game from Rockstar or Steam?
Cizeta-Moroder
Banned
Ok finally this thing installed succesfully. (Had to disable nvidia gpu for the duration of the installation)
i7-2720QM | Nvidia Quadro 2000M | 16GB
Judging by the first few missions in the city at day and night:
At 1336x768 mostly 50-60fps with "Very High" textures and the rest Normal/Off/lowest, DX11
Even 1920x1080 stays well above 30fps
I'm actually quite pleased. Looks great, runs relatively well so far.
i7-2720QM | Nvidia Quadro 2000M | 16GB
Judging by the first few missions in the city at day and night:
At 1336x768 mostly 50-60fps with "Very High" textures and the rest Normal/Off/lowest, DX11
Even 1920x1080 stays well above 30fps
I'm actually quite pleased. Looks great, runs relatively well so far.
Because all data is replicated across both memory pools, you only have 2048 of usable memory in this case.
It just shows the VRAM/usage cumulatively for some reason, that's all. If it shows 2700 you're actually sitting at 1350 or so.
Hip Hop
Member
No, it doesn't. VRAM doesn't stack in use. Showing 4GB is GTA recognizing 2 GPUs but the game itself can't use more than 2048.
Jin
Member
The VRAM doesn't stack, but both GTAIV and GTAV will add them up in the graphics menu which might cause the confusion. My 980 SLI shows up at 8GB. When I raise the setting it shows something like 6000/8000 memory in use but Precision X shows it's usage as 3+ vram. Like the above post said just divide whatever the game is showing by half.
Tainted
Member
Gotchas...I wasn't aware of that. Never had (and probably never will) have a dual card system
Weird.
Kinda sucks if the fps is gonna be so jumpy on all lowest settings.
Ah cool, thanks for the info.
Rex Griswold
Member
Runs great maxed out for me, but sometimes it'll randomly tab out in the middle of something, and it doesn't always start in full screen. I can deal with the full screen startup issue, but the tab out issue is annoying as hell.
Anyone have any ideas?
I run a GTX970, an i5-4960k, 16gb of RAM, and it's installed on an SSD.
Anyone have any ideas?
I run a GTX970, an i5-4960k, 16gb of RAM, and it's installed on an SSD.
icecold1983
Member
gpu usage is never as high as 99% even when gpu limited. didnt test unplayable settings tho. the fps drops/gpu usage drops when driving are not matched by any of the threads going above the normal 50 to 75% range they tend to hover in. so its either a system bandwidth limitation or an issue with the game engine. does anybody with an overclocked ddr 4 system have a completely frame drop/frametime variance free experience when driving?
there were fleeting instances where any one of the threads might hit the low 80s, but its rare and its not limited to any particular thread. the game is very well threaded according to afterburner OSD metrics. its also worth noting how much lower than 50+ fps these drops feel. its extremely jarring. more so in this game than almost any other.