Iacobellis
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Did you connect your video cable through the GPU?
GTA V PC Performance Thread
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Did you connect your video cable through the GPU?
Pop On Arrival
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I can pretty much confirm I lose 10-15 frames whenever I put on self radio. Sucks cause I never get to use it.
I've lost about 10 frames since the latest patch Rockstar put out. Absolutely ridiculous. A lot of people have noticed shittier performance too since launch.
MSI GTX 970 / i5 3570
I'm pretty sure I've seen posts about that in this thread. I haven't really been paying attention too hard to see if there was a solution though.
I'm sorry, you just blew my mind. Most memory nowadays I thought was sold in Dual or Quad Channel kits. Does your computer recognize 8 gigs of Ram when you click on start menu>right click on "My Computer">click on properties?
This is a good question, but he said he was using Geforce Experience, so I was afraid to ask
Yeah, I am. HDMI on my video card.
Sorry if I'm asking some seriously stupid questions, I haven't built a computer in over 14 years and I'm completely lost. I moved the tower out of my desk and into the open and it seems to run a bit better now. CPU was showing at 60c idle. I reseated the stock cooler and ordered a new one.
60's not so bad....oh, idle...
I'm more worried about asking insulting questions. This might sound cliche but I don't think of questions as stupid. Someone's having a problem and asks a question and person calls it stupid all it does is piss off the person having the problem, not solve it, and make them think PC gamers are assholes. It's always just weird trying to help someone when you're not just there, knaaaamean?
Always keep some spare thermal paste around!
I'm more worried about asking insulting questions. This might sound cliche but I don't think of questions as stupid. Someone's having a problem and asks a question and person calls it stupid all it does is piss off the person having the problem, not solve it, and make them think PC gamers are assholes. It's always just weird trying to help someone when you're not just there, knaaaamean?
Always keep some spare thermal paste around!
There's really no such thing of dual or quad channel memory. You can theoretically put two different brands of memory in matching slots and it will run in dual channel mode as long as they are compatible. Running in single channel wouldn't cause the problems he's seeing anyways. For normal usage most applications will run nearly identically whether using single channel or quad channel memory. Modern processors are extremely efficient at managing the bottleneck that your system memory would cause.
Glad you got it sorted out.
Great!
Oh, I just always saw them sold as "kits" since motherboards for processors I've seen run them dual or quad channel, well, just dual for his. I only brought it up since he asked if they were supposed to be in the same color slots earlier
plasticpassion
Member
Why does amd catalyst recommend I use DX10 instead of 11?
HD 7970 ghz edition 3gb
i5-3570k @3.8 ghz
HD 7970 ghz edition 3gb
i5-3570k @3.8 ghz
Dries
Member
Yep, unfortunately this is a thing. Hopefully Rockstar can fix this soon.
Can someone guide me on how to warp to different locations in the Director mode? I want to test performance with different grass settings. I read somewhere you can do this in director mode or is it editor mode? I cant see any option for choosing location. How is it done please
First mistake, never use the CD since it's all outdated. Go to the motherboard manufacture site and grab the latest drivers and install:
Chipset
Management engine
USB 3.0
LAN
Also avoid installing motherboard monitoring software from the manufacturer.
Soodanim
Member
Sorry for the late reply.
Galax/KFA2 is the brand, it's currently at stock, which according to the product page on Overclockers are: Base 1050MHz, Boost 1177MHz, Memory 7010MHz.
Okay, I stopped writing to do a full daytime loop of San Andreas in a Comet to test framerates. In the city I managed to get a few seconds of under 60fps, and the lowest I got in those spots was about 54. The rest of the time the MSI Afterburner/RivaTuner OSD only showed anything under 60 for 1-2 refreshes at a time at most before going back up to 60+, with it hovering in the high 60s in parts and a top spot of 75. The absolute floor I saw was out in the country when I pulled off the freeway into a grassy field and did doughnuts, and that produced a low of 51.1 with an average of 54fps.
Now for the settings:
1080p
144hz
FXAA Off
MSAA X2
TAXX On
VSync Off (G-Sync)
Population Density 75
Variety 100
Distance Scaling 75
Texture Quality High
Shader Quality High
Shadow Quality High
Reflection Quality Ultra
Reflection MSAA Off
Water Quality High
Particles Quality Very High
Grass Quality High
Soft Shadows PCSS
Post FX Ultra
Motion Blur Off
In-game DoF Off
Anisotropic X16 (forced in NVCP and off in game, but won't stay off)
Ambient Occlusion High
Tesselation Very High
Long Shadows Off
High Resolution Shadows Off
High Detail Streaming On (SSD)
Extended Distance Scaling ~20%
Extended Shadows Distance Greyed Out
No Self Radio
The 970 is always (whenever I've looked) the bottleneck, being at 99% use. The 4690K (stock) has all four cores at between 65 and ~90% used.
My settings are pretty different to yours, a lot higher but FXAA over MSAA on the 970 and hold 60fps even at the sawmill. Although I'm at 1545/7800Mhz. The GPU usage varies a lot for me, 45-95% usage. i7 3770 4.25Ghz and 8gb 2000Mhz ram.
After you enter director mode continue till you land in game. Then hold Back button on the 360 pad to open the quick menu. In there you can warp to any location and do a whole bunch of other things in real time.
Inkvoterad
Member
You sure that would be safe? I still got the stock cooling and i don't have any extra cooling system except 4 fans.
Blue Ninja
Member
Just realized I've been having the same issue I had in AC IV, where the game alternates between 60 and 30 and doesn't have anything in between. Decided to just up some of my lowered settings and set Vsync to capped 30 until I get a new GPU.
Eduardboon
Member
Is anyone playing this game on a 2012 macbook pro retina with the 650M?
If it actually runs on a stable framerate and looks OK I could buy this to play with my "pc master race brother" because he refuses to buy a ps4.
If it actually runs on a stable framerate and looks OK I could buy this to play with my "pc master race brother" because he refuses to buy a ps4.
Horse Armour
Member
Is it just me or does AF not work properly? I've tried both the 16x ingame setting and nvidia's high quality 16x AF driver setting and it still only looks like 4xAF is being applied.
ussjtrunks
Member
The game doesnt have triple buffering, I use borderless windowed as thats triple buffered
.The game doesnt have triple buffering, I use borderless windowed as thats triple buffered
as others have said, if you load the game and then ALT-TAB twice it switches to triple buffered vsync. works for me in full screen, until they patch it
thanks mate, dunno how i missed that one heh.
Its better to force in NVCP than in game. The blur maybe from depth of field.
Dries
Member
Nah, AF isn't working in my game either. At least with the in-game setting. But now you say that even forcing it with the nvidia control panel also doesn't work? Damn. Rockstar has their work cut out for them:
- Self Radio stuttering (annoying as shit)
- Missing AO
- Missing AF
Lockjaw333
Member
I see a lot of people using PCSS. It has a considerable performance hit on my 970. Looks great but not sure if it's worth it since it's bringing me below 60 here and there.
Cannon Goose
Member
The game does have AO though, right? You just can't turn it off or adjust it in any way.
Dries
Member
True, but some people have noticed it not being displayed in their game, even with the setting on. It works for me, so yeah. I dunno.
I have 60fps like 98% of the time now and I'm still using pcss. Maybe I'll try knocking it down to softer and see if I can bump something else up. Don't know if I can afford it but maybe even another tick of DSR.
undercoverb0ss
Member
I had a mixture of settings that was working well at 4K w/ my 980 G1 @1500Mhz but it seems with the patching I have definitely lost performance ;/
undercoverb0ss
Member
Is there an easy way to roll GTAV back to the launch build? I don't care about going online.
Forcing AF through nvidia control panel definitely works here (gtx 970, windows 8.1, latest nvidia driver)
Dick Justice
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Pop-in, jaggies and performance seem to be a lot worse for me compared to the unpatched game. Not sure what the fuck Rockstar did.
Oh hell yeah, game keeps crashing on that mission where you inspect some people from within a chopper to eventually steal a car from your target. Of course this mission is lengthy as shit and the whole 15min flight is not skippable. blargh
Second reproducable crash today after the transporter heist where the game would crash when switching to Michael unless you have the loading page on (wtf even Rockstar).
Second reproducable crash today after the transporter heist where the game would crash when switching to Michael unless you have the loading page on (wtf even Rockstar).
Cannon Goose
Member
I have definitely noticed more pop-in in the city and countryside since the patch. I'm not sure I was even aware of it before the patch came out.
Well, you can get the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO. It is a cheap CPU fan cooler and can help you to oc your FX 8320 to 4ghz.
There are other alternatives.
So anyone with 16gb ram, i7 4790k, and R9 290x, how are you doing ?
I've asked this many times, no answers
I have that exact setup, games been working fine for me. Pretty much everything on Very High with FXAA (I can drop 2-3 settings down to High and use MSAA if I want). I have all the Advanced features completely off except the flying one.
Yeah overall its a very good experience. Drops down into the 50's in really bad areas (lots of vegetation, etc.) but generally very solid.
Dries
Member
Someone earlier mentioned that the Self Radio stutters occured when the CPU was 100% loaded. I can now verify this. All the other radio stations have my CPU usage up around the 65% area. Once I switch on Self Radio my usage shoots up near the 85% range for all four cores. During a stutter I see my usage spike up too 100%.
So strange. I really hope R* can fix this.
So strange. I really hope R* can fix this.
I've found that the number of songs you have has a huge impact on how big the performance drop is.
I had about 20~ songs originally and saw no performance drops. I later added my big list of 220 songs and the framerate would drop by about 10 frames when I listened to self radio. Might be worth trimming down your lists if you've got a lot.
CarbonFire
Member
Is that with automatic music scan on or off?
That's weird, mp3's are hardly a power draw. Hell, I had hundreds of songs in GTA 3, Vice City, San Andreas and GTA IV, and I never saw a performance hit. I mean, I still laugh to this day when I remember my friend's 100MHz 486 couldn't play .mp3's and connect to the Internet at the same time, but that just goes to show what little draw these small files a few megabytes in size are on the processor.
Must be something in the code that has the game constantly scanning each file, or something.
Same. My CPU is never at 100% either. It's not too bad though .
oneils
Member
I have a gtx770 and sometimes find I have to restart my computer to get performance to increase if I play the game after leaving sleep or hibernate mode. It seems to flush vram? I have no idea , but have noticed a big difference when I reboot the computer sometimes - especially if the vram bar is red.
Edit: nvm, looks like your pc was running hot.
Philtastic
Member
I'd advise bumping up/down the bolded. The thing to turn down is reflections from ultra which has a huge framerate hit but, unless you're spending a lot of time staring at reflections up close, you will not be able to notice a difference between ultra and very high. You also want to keep textures at highest which should not affect framerate unless you exceed your VRAM (or 3.5 GB in the 970's case). Water and shaders have very little framerate cost so I'd leave those at highest. If you can stand some dips, I would even bump up Shadow Quality to Very High which enables headlight/helicopter spotlight dynamic shadows off of dynamic objects (eg. NPCs, cars, certain things that can be destroyed).
Basically, trade unnoticeable differences in reflection quality to bump up some pretty noticeable things that don't even cost much anyway. See my settings linked below, although I'm using FXAA instead of MSAA to keep performance up. Your 970, which is faster, might be able to do the same settings with MSAA.
I have a 280X, and GTA V runs great. See the following link for my specs and settings and performance. Basically, mostly 1080p60 with dips to ~45-50 during the most strenuous parts of the game (sunset being chased by 5-star cops through grass with headlights and helicopter spotlights on and gunfire everywhere).So anyone with 16gb ram, i7 4790k, and R9 290x, how are you doing ?
I've asked this many times, no answers
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=161228200&postcount=5111