I'm going to guess it's some other program on your computer. I've had several different games seemingly minimize by themselves and found out it was some totally unrelated program in the background trying to do an update. As soon as it happens the next time, note the time and check your event viewer and see if something else is doing something during that exact same moment. I forget what was causing my issue with other games like Battlefield and Dark Souls but I found it through this method and eventually was able to remove the software that was causing it.
GTA V PC Performance Thread
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I'm going to guess it's some other program on your computer. I've had several different games seemingly minimize by themselves and found out it was some totally unrelated program in the background trying to do an update. As soon as it happens the next time, note the time and check your event viewer and see if something else is doing something during that exact same moment. I forget what was causing my issue with other games like Battlefield and Dark Souls but I found it through this method and eventually was able to remove the software that was causing it.
kuoniradha
Neo Member
Hey everyone, my first post here.
Played the original one on 360, now trying out the PC version.
I've been playing it from my HDD, i5 3570k (stock... at least for now), GTX 970 (Gigabyte G1 Gaming stock), 8 GB DDR3 RAM.
Settings are maxed out BUT: no MSAA, no TXAA, no Advanced Graphics options.
The framerate is pretty smooth at 60 fps, but I gotta admit I'm experiencing some dips in the mid 50s and mid 40s sometimes. Really annoying, because the framerate then comes back to 60 fps. I guess I gotta tune down something.
Played the original one on 360, now trying out the PC version.
I've been playing it from my HDD, i5 3570k (stock... at least for now), GTX 970 (Gigabyte G1 Gaming stock), 8 GB DDR3 RAM.
Settings are maxed out BUT: no MSAA, no TXAA, no Advanced Graphics options.
The framerate is pretty smooth at 60 fps, but I gotta admit I'm experiencing some dips in the mid 50s and mid 40s sometimes. Really annoying, because the framerate then comes back to 60 fps. I guess I gotta tune down something.
I'm hearing on reddit that closing the rockstar social launcher after opening the game will improve performance immensely. Apparantly its running at 1200fps and gobbles up all the cpu usage it can muster.
Unfortunately, closing the launcher might crash the game after 20mins though reports vary.
Unfortunately, closing the launcher might crash the game after 20mins though reports vary.
what if you play offline?
Just wondering here, do you have custom radio? I removed it and all seems fine now but not sure if thats 100% the issue.
I did that and yeah, it does. The launcher fucks with your CPU like crazy. No crashes until about an hour after I start the game up, but the error seems to be with FPS overlays. I'm about to start it back up without one so we'll see.
Seems like a throttling issue. Maybe check your NVCP (if you're on NV card) and see if you're running threaded optimisation and power management is set to performance (?) -- can't remember the exact setting, but it should be set to maximum performance instead of power-saving mode.
A screenshot, for comparison, with afterburner OSD (98% utilisation):
Actually I do. What did you do to remove it? Just delete the folder?
Yeah, I can confirm the crashes about 30 min after closing the launcher.
kuoniradha
Neo Member
So I did lower some settings (I went from everything maxed out to: Shadow Quality High, Reflection Quality High, Water/Particles/Grass High, Post FX High) and I'm still getting those dips, then going back to 80 FPS or so. So I decided to max out everything again, since I saw no benefit in lowering those settings. RAM and VRAM usage are just fine though.
No custom radio, still running from HDD. I guess I'll try to run it from my SSD tomorrow, since it's really late in Europe lol.
No custom radio, still running from HDD. I guess I'll try to run it from my SSD tomorrow, since it's really late in Europe lol.
Maybe you are cpu limited. You can see cpu usage with MSI afterburn...
icecold1983
Member
the screen i posted was specifically to show the utilization %s during the drops i get while driving. otherwise gpu usage is usually between 90 and 95% w/ vsync disengaged. nothing in my system is throttling. changing from adaptive to maximum in nv cpl has no effect.
TheThunder
Member
Speaking of the in game memory bar, as I mentioned in my first post I'm sitting at ~2300MB out of 2048MB according to it after I upped my Textures from Normal to Very High and I haven't had a single stutter and I've been to the country side, even while doing flying missions.
By the way, when it comes to the "Ignore suggested limits" option, why is it awkwardly worded, is being "on" makes the settings unlocked or is that when it's "off" ?
By the way, when it comes to the "Ignore suggested limits" option, why is it awkwardly worded, is being "on" makes the settings unlocked or is that when it's "off" ?
Coolbgdog12
Member
Okay I think I've sort of fixed my texture pop in issue as well as the constant stuttering.
If you turn off the user radio, and turn off auto scanning of user tracks, it should help. I tried playing self fm and I'd start to get teh constant hitching and pausing as well as texture missing from the map while driving. I'd turn the radio off and then everything would be perfectly fine framerate wise and the map loaded up properly in real time.
The game runs pretty decent on a dual core CPU(I have the Pentium G3258 and a R9 280).
I get about 40fps avg up to 60fps in less graphically intensive parts(like the intro scene for example.) This on with a mix of high/very high settings.
If you turn off the user radio, and turn off auto scanning of user tracks, it should help. I tried playing self fm and I'd start to get teh constant hitching and pausing as well as texture missing from the map while driving. I'd turn the radio off and then everything would be perfectly fine framerate wise and the map loaded up properly in real time.
The game runs pretty decent on a dual core CPU(I have the Pentium G3258 and a R9 280).
I get about 40fps avg up to 60fps in less graphically intensive parts(like the intro scene for example.) This on with a mix of high/very high settings.
Karspankey
Banned
Mines does the same. 60fps until it goes down to the teens and back up to 60 again.
Interesting. If you're on DDR4, the X99 platform CPU should be powerful enough. At least for me, my overclock is high enough that I don't think CPU limitation is going to be an issue (i7-5930K @ 4.4 Ghz).
Having said that, I do have some microstutters from time to time when driving out in the countryside, but I reckon that was more of an issue of SLI setup.
icecold1983
Member
nah, 4770k and 1866 ddr3 here. my cpu is a 4.0 ghz.
yeah, I had a problem with crashes in the
Trevor bombs theLost's trailer park sneaky mission.
It crashed like 3 times and i never figured out what was causing it. I just shut the PC off for a while and tried it again later, doing it all "quick-like" because I was thinking "man, I'm getting sick of this" and it worked that time.
other than that problem, I've been getting locked 60fps like...70 percent of the time, I guess? most of the rest is flickering between 57-60fps and very...very rarely it'll drop below mid 50s to the 40s
shawties
I'm running a 2500K @4.5 and 2 970s @ 1468. The game's not incorrectly doubling my VRAM like it's doing with that other guy.
other than maxed settings I have anti-aliasing disabled (all of it), shadow, reflection, water, particles and grass on high, post fx on very high (down from ultra), and high resolution shadows off with extended distance scaling 2 ticks down and extended shadows distance disabled since shadows are only on high.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the performance I'm getting with GTAV, even though I kinda wished I was able to plow through on max even with higher resolutions like i could with Ground Zeroes with just one card. I guess I should try setting the priority to high in task manager, but I'm not expecting much.
edit:i forgot about this line. I wonder if I found it as funny when I first played this game. It made me guffaw this time, though
late edit
h! it turns out I had SLI disabled for some reason. I'm not sure why and I don't know for how long.I've switched my settings to what I think is similar what other people posted. Max everything in Graphics and everything in Advanced Graphics disabled with 4X MSAA and reflection MSAA off. I left TXAA off because I'm not sure if it interferes with the MFAA setting in the Nvidia Control panel. Now I get a pretty much locked 60 @1080p, with it every now and then dropping into the high 50s but I can't really notice them, just see the frame rate counter flicker and they happen very infrequently.
Ah OK, I had assumed you have DDR4 based on what you said in your previous post.
In any case, I don't think 4770K will be limited either, especially with the Hyperthreading turned on.
Koutsoubas
Member
With my Titan Black, i7 4960X and 16GB RAM @1080p I got 57-70fps with everything Ultra(very high in our case) and MSAA 4x
I gotta say, I was expecting more. I think in the next few days with the patches that coming and new drivers it will be better.
Still im upgrading to 980 SLI for the Witcher 3! xD
I gotta say, I was expecting more. I think in the next few days with the patches that coming and new drivers it will be better.
Still im upgrading to 980 SLI for the Witcher 3! xD
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Are occasional short flickers common for this game?
My MSI 970 is overclocked, but has proven to be stable with benchmarks and every game I've played so far.
My MSI 970 is overclocked, but has proven to be stable with benchmarks and every game I've played so far.
Rex Griswold
Member
Thank you very much, I'll try this when I get home tonight.
When i'm driving sometimes there are no roads, no buildings. Or textures are blurry, low detailed. It's like it takes too long to load the right high res textures.
I moved the game to my SSD hoping it would solve this issue. But to no avail.
And i downloaded through rockstar launcher.
Windows 8.1
8gb ram
GTX 980
Latest drivers
IMACOMPUTA
Member
Day 1 the game ran great. No crashes, played for a couple hours.
Today the game has crashed 4 times in the same amount of time.
It always happens when I do something like:
Crash a car at super high speed
Shoot down a police helicopter when there are tons of cops
Etc
I have a 3570k and a 780ti. 8gb RAM and page file set to let windows manage on a non-OS HDD.
Today the game has crashed 4 times in the same amount of time.
It always happens when I do something like:
Crash a car at super high speed
Shoot down a police helicopter when there are tons of cops
Etc
I have a 3570k and a 780ti. 8gb RAM and page file set to let windows manage on a non-OS HDD.
Twenty7KVN
Member
Yea this game is really inconsistent. At first i couldn't get past the second mission without it crashing. Then i was having really bad streaming issues( the textures and geometry would take really long to load in) and ctd shortly after. Then my performance is all over the place,sometimes it stutters alot and the frame rate is all over the place,then it's pretty stable then it would ctd again. And the errors are usually system is running low on memory or gta 5 has stopped working or something. I'm really getting tired of this. I'm thinking of asking rockstar for a refund,i barely have time to play this game at night,and i spend most of that time trying to solve these problems.
digitalrelic
Banned
Thank you so much! I have a heavily OC'ed i7 4790k as well as a heavily OC'ed GTX 980. 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM. I used your settings but added 4x MSAA, enabled Long Shadows, maxed out Extended Shadows Distance, and move Extended Distance Scaling up 2-3 notches from min and I'm running at a locked 60FPS all over the map. City, country, you name it. Gorgeous game.
CarbonFire
Member
It's very possible one or several of your files got corrupted during download. Rockstar's Downloader is a big pile of ass that doesn't verify the file integrity (or if it does, it does a terrible job at it). The process is a little arduous, but hopefully it should solve any missing texture or file issues causing you problems.
Download this program.
http://www.winmd5.com/
Then run it, point it at your GTA V install directory, and check each one of the 23 rpf files. If you downloaded everything perfectly and your install isn't broken, then the MD5 numbers should match the ones found in this Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC/comments/328ljj/found_a_fix_for_the_social_club_download_reset/
If any of the files MD5 "hashes" doesn't match up, move it out of the directory (don't delete it just yet), and the Rockstar Launcher should force download the file again. Hopefully correctly this time. If everything works and the missing textures goes away, then you can delete those previously moved corrupted files.
kuoniradha
Neo Member
As before, everything maxed out but:
- no smaa
- no txaa
- shadows high
- no advanced settings
If I play it from my SSD, the game will run just smooth. No dips, no stutters.
Then, if I play from my non-Windows HDD, dips and stutters appear again. And I never changed my pagefile's size for any of my HDDs...
Streaming issues maybe? Again, my RAM and VRAM usage stats are just fine (5100 RAM used, 3050 VRAM used, CPU usage at 80-95%).
Stock i5-3570k, stock Gigabyte 970, 8 GB DDR3.
Let's everyone buy a SSD for this game! Btw, they had streaming issues on the Xbox 360 if you recall...
- no smaa
- no txaa
- shadows high
- no advanced settings
If I play it from my SSD, the game will run just smooth. No dips, no stutters.
Then, if I play from my non-Windows HDD, dips and stutters appear again. And I never changed my pagefile's size for any of my HDDs...
Streaming issues maybe? Again, my RAM and VRAM usage stats are just fine (5100 RAM used, 3050 VRAM used, CPU usage at 80-95%).
Stock i5-3570k, stock Gigabyte 970, 8 GB DDR3.
Let's everyone buy a SSD for this game! Btw, they had streaming issues on the Xbox 360 if you recall...
FallingEdge
Member
I did this for the Steam version and x64b.rpf was different. Removed it, verified cache and Steam redownloaded the old x64b.rpf. I wonder if I get the RSC version, it would fix my crashes.
What is your shadow setting at? At High or lower I've noticed some weird rendering, like it only renders some stuff if you're really close. Turning it to VH fixed it.
Also your GIF is either huge and/or terrible. Reminding me of days when Chrome couldn't handle gifs. Might be better if you made a youtube video or something. It looked like what I had but I can't be sure because it's taking forever.
CarbonFire
Member
While that seems odd, there might be a legitimate reason why that repository is a different size/hash. That said, it's worth a shot, though Steam DOES have file verification, so it may trip on that Rockstar-sourced x64b file when you try to run the game or if it updates. Just keep the old file around just in case something breaks.
What's your VRAM usage? Generally a drop to zero is because it goes over your VRAM (or in a 970's case, goes past 3.5).
Does your game run smoothly at the beginnning? I experience similar issues. Runs incredibly smooth for about 10 mins (driving around, anything) then I will start experiencing drops.
motherxwolf
Member
3770k
Hd7970 3gb
16gb ram
Everything stock
Getting random ass stuttering, only while driving. Updating to amd beta drivers right now, it runs pretty good everything on high im getting 50 to 60fps but these stutters are ruining it for me.
Hd7970 3gb
16gb ram
Everything stock
Getting random ass stuttering, only while driving. Updating to amd beta drivers right now, it runs pretty good everything on high im getting 50 to 60fps but these stutters are ruining it for me.
Mineshaft_Gap
4077th
Interesting, that might be my problem. Your overclock is stable in every other game I assume? I've never had a game crash with the overclock I've settled on. :/
Were you able to reenable your OC after the intro and be fine?
So for those of you with lower end cards, specifically I've got a GTX570 but I think a 660 would be similar, how much are your frames dropping when you're out in the countryside? I've heard 660s are playing mostly on high settings with extras turned off and getting 30 fps in the urban areas at 1080p but does it drop below that in the desert areas?