TheJanManShow Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Just wanted to share that i have suffered (i mean *really* suffered) sudden loss of fps after 15-30 mins of playing. My framerate suddenly dropped to 0.5 fps and my system was non-responsive for about 3-5 seconds, then i could move the cam/mouse for about 1 second, then it froze again. This even happened in the game menus. Alt-tabbing wouldn't solve it, nor applying the various commandline.txt tricks, nor using memory or any friggin' defragging tools... Been searching for a solution since dec. 7 Today i redownloaded the nvidia beta drivers 180.84 and noticed that the filesize of these drivers (72.3MB) differed from the drivers that i had downloaded on december 6th (69mb). Has nvidia updated these beta-drivers without changing the version number? WTF??? Using these new drivers seems to have solved my problem I have just played for almost 3 hours - rainstorms, daylight, nighttime, explosions - without any stuttering, lag or freezing with relatively stable 20-25 fps@1280x960 - hooray!! My Settings: Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: High View Distance: 22 Detail Distance: 50 Vehicle Density: 30 Shadow Density: 0 My Specs: AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Nvidia 9800GTX 2GB RAM WinXP SP3 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin6 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 OMG Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058784588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djamos Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 i wish it was for me too but im stucked! i upgrade my video drivers to 181.00 and the game got worse even more.... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058784931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gegeg Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Just wanted to share that i have suffered (i mean *really* suffered) sudden loss of fps after 15-30 mins of playing. My framerate suddenly dropped to 0.5 fps and my system was non-responsive for about 3-5 seconds, then i could move the cam/mouse for about 1 second, then it froze again. This even happened in the game menus. Alt-tabbing wouldn't solve it, nor applying the various commandline.txt tricks, nor using memory or any friggin' defragging tools... Been searching for a solution since dec. 7 Today i redownloaded the nvidia beta drivers 180.84 and noticed that the filesize of these drivers (72.3MB) differed from the drivers that i had downloaded on december 6th (69mb). Has nvidia updated these beta-drivers without changing the version number? WTF??? Using these new drivers seems to have solved my problem I have just played for almost 3 hours - rainstorms, daylight, nighttime, explosions - without any stuttering, lag or freezing with relatively stable 20-25 fps@1280x960 - hooray!! My Settings: Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: High View Distance: 22 Detail Distance: 50 Vehicle Density: 30 Shadow Density: 0 My Specs: AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Nvidia 9800GTX 2GB RAM WinXP SP3 hi ok dude pls give us the dl link every link i see is 69mb big maybe that reallz fix it greetz Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058784956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJanManShow Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 (edited) Just wanted to share that i have suffered (i mean *really* suffered) sudden loss of fps after 15-30 mins of playing. My framerate suddenly dropped to 0.5 fps and my system was non-responsive for about 3-5 seconds, then i could move the cam/mouse for about 1 second, then it froze again. This even happened in the game menus. Alt-tabbing wouldn't solve it, nor applying the various commandline.txt tricks, nor using memory or any friggin' defragging tools... Been searching for a solution since dec. 7 Today i redownloaded the nvidia beta drivers 180.84 and noticed that the filesize of these drivers (72.3MB) differed from the drivers that i had downloaded on december 6th (69mb). Has nvidia updated these beta-drivers without changing the version number? WTF??? Using these new drivers seems to have solved my problem I have just played for almost 3 hours - rainstorms, daylight, nighttime, explosions - without any stuttering, lag or freezing with relatively stable 20-25 fps@1280x960 - hooray!! My Settings: Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: High View Distance: 22 Detail Distance: 50 Vehicle Density: 30 Shadow Density: 0 My Specs: AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Nvidia 9800GTX 2GB RAM WinXP SP3 hi ok dude pls give us the dl link every link i see is 69mb big maybe that reallz fix it greetz I downloaded the older version (69MB) on dec. 7th from the link displayed in the rsgc... Can't remember the link though... Just to make it clear, it's the 72.3MB Version that made my game work: http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/180....nglish_beta.exe Edit: Found the link for the old, not working 69MB Version: http://http.download.nvidia.com/downloads/...nglish_beta.exe Edited December 19, 2008 by TheJanManShow Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058784967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParrotBoy Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I used to have thta problem... But I fixed it by changing GTAIV.exe's priorities to realtime in th task manager... Hope this fixes this without having to do this everytime I want to play! Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058784985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
djamos Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 tried that also but non of this work for me... and now i have the video memory problem Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058785013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelated Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 (edited) Are you sure that driver package just doesn't include the PhysX driver too? I don't think Nvidia would change the driver without updating the version number as well. Where did you download it from? Some sites unpack the driver and repack it in a different format like .rar, .7z, etc.. BTW there is a new Nvidia WHQL 180.48 driver available. http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us Edited December 19, 2008 by Pixelated Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058785798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVNT Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Just wanted to share that i have suffered (i mean *really* suffered) sudden loss of fps after 15-30 mins of playing. My framerate suddenly dropped to 0.5 fps and my system was non-responsive for about 3-5 seconds, then i could move the cam/mouse for about 1 second, then it froze again. This even happened in the game menus. Alt-tabbing wouldn't solve it, nor applying the various commandline.txt tricks, nor using memory or any friggin' defragging tools... Been searching for a solution since dec. 7 Today i redownloaded the nvidia beta drivers 180.84 and noticed that the filesize of these drivers (72.3MB) differed from the drivers that i had downloaded on december 6th (69mb). Has nvidia updated these beta-drivers without changing the version number? WTF??? Using these new drivers seems to have solved my problem I have just played for almost 3 hours - rainstorms, daylight, nighttime, explosions - without any stuttering, lag or freezing with relatively stable 20-25 fps@1280x960 - hooray!! My Settings: Texture Quality: Medium Render Quality: High View Distance: 22 Detail Distance: 50 Vehicle Density: 30 Shadow Density: 0 My Specs: AMD Athlon X2 4800+ Nvidia 9800GTX 2GB RAM WinXP SP3 This is the exact problem i've go too and have tried explaining to R*. Unfortunately I'm currently on an ATI card so I can't try this, but I'll be surprised if drivers fix it. Willing to try. Thanks for letting us know though. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058786705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
noahthefrog Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 (edited) I already had the larger version apparently. Downloaded it when it first came out. Edited December 20, 2008 by noahthefrog Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058786921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
archey Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 Just to make it clear, it's the 72.3MB Version that made my game work:http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/180....nglish_beta.exe is this for windowsXP 32 bit? if not can u give link to the 72.3MB windows XP 32 bit drivers Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058786969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanykh Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 thnx man i updated my nvidia driver and it works really good Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058808505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctoR-g! Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 HELL YEAH! Worked for me too! Thanks a lot. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058808886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJanManShow Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 is this for windowsXP 32 bit? Yes. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058808904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbps Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I extracted both (69 and 73 Mb drivers) and compared them. There are little differences you can see I noticed interesting tool PDsetup.exe... Installed it just now. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058809116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelated Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 I extracted both (69 and 73 Mb drivers) and compared them.There are little differences you can see I noticed interesting tool PDsetup.exe... Installed it just now. Sorry to say but it's a placebo effect. The only difference between those driver packages is on contains the AutoCAD Performance Driver and one doesn't. Nvidia would never change the actual driver properties without updating the version number. But that it seems to work for you is great probably due to reinstalling the driver more than anything else. BTW installing the AutoCAD Performance Driver (PDsetup.exe) is completely pointless unless you use AutoCAD. Doesn't anyone card about what it is they install on their PC? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058809279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbps Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 AutoCAD Performance Driver (PDsetup.exe) it's NVIDIA Performance Drivers. where did you find that it's AutoCAD ? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058809318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelated Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 AutoCAD Performance Driver (PDsetup.exe) it's NVIDIA Performance Drivers. where did you find that it's AutoCAD ? Nvidia Performance Drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/AutoCAD_PD_workstation.html It's for using an Nvidia GPU to accelerate graphical rendering in the AutoCAD program. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058810112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbps Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 (edited) AutoCAD Performance Driver (PDsetup.exe) it's NVIDIA Performance Drivers. where did you find that it's AutoCAD ? Nvidia Performance Drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/AutoCAD_PD_workstation.html It's for using an Nvidia GPU to accelerate graphical rendering in the AutoCAD program. it's AutoCAD Perf. Drivers <- Quadro_Certified/17.2.1/Powerdraft2009_XP_Vista_32_64.exe (2mb) it isn't NVIDIA Performance Drivers <- PDsetup.exe (4mb) see screenshot http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/618/changes180844qv8.jpg and look here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=...ot;&btnG=Search Edited December 26, 2008 by kbps Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058811317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelated Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 AutoCAD Performance Driver (PDsetup.exe) it's NVIDIA Performance Drivers. where did you find that it's AutoCAD ? Nvidia Performance Drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/AutoCAD_PD_workstation.html It's for using an Nvidia GPU to accelerate graphical rendering in the AutoCAD program. it's AutoCAD Perf. Drivers <- Quadro_Certified/17.2.1/Powerdraft2009_XP_Vista_32_64.exe (2mb) it isn't NVIDIA Performance Drivers <- PDsetup.exe (4mb) see screenshot http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/618/changes180844qv8.jpg and look here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=...ot;&btnG=Search OK just because the .exe isn't named the same as in the driver package doesn't mean it's not the same. Look at the read me for the Nvidia drivers that PDsetup came with. It clearly stated what they are for the performance drivers are for AutoCAD. What do you think they are for then if not? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058822619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slyjelly33 Posted January 6, 2009 Share Posted January 6, 2009 uhm, im confused. when i try to install the new driver, it leads me to dual core optimizer setup rather than nvidia driver setup! why is that? is there another link for the driver somewhere? i dont understand. this thread is probably to old so no one will reply to this. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/385701-o-happy-days-how-i-fixed-my-lagging-problem/#findComment-1058852330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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