Stuttering

[Bonaldo]

Might be a placebo effect my game always runs fine for the first few minutes and then the stutter comes and everything goes to hell. But at this point I might try that if rockstar doesn't release a patch.

 

Tell me if it works for you, I'm curious

 

Do you have GTX 970 too?

[Bonaldo]

i also turned off high resolution shadows (which seems to do jack sh*t visually but eats up a lot of VRAM) and now the benchmark never drops below 30fps

[max_rally]

Holy sh*t guys, I think I found the solution for Nvidia cards (at least GTX 970)

 

Just...install the old (347.88) drivers and the stutter is gone

 

It looks like NVIDIA when trying to optimize the drivers for GTA V actually f*cked up

 

I installed these drivers, set everything on max in 1080p + MSAA x2 + TXAA (VRAM usage is 3485 MB) and it's smooth

 

I ran the benchmark, and at the lowest point I got 25 fps (it reached 25fps on the Vinewood sign scene), but it very rarely dropped below 40fps

 

On the new drivers I was getting well below 20fps at some points and massive stutters

 

Try it

Tried it, nothing changed.

[GTATAG]

There are stutters and framerate drops when you set your graphics settings above the GPU memory limit, if you have a 2gb video card, try to keep it way under 2048 and set your textures to "Normal".

We'll just have to agree that this game is meant for a 4gb video card if you want to have good visuals in it.

[Bonaldo]

 

Holy sh*t guys, I think I found the solution for Nvidia cards (at least GTX 970)

 

Just...install the old (347.88) drivers and the stutter is gone

 

It looks like NVIDIA when trying to optimize the drivers for GTA V actually f*cked up

 

I installed these drivers, set everything on max in 1080p + MSAA x2 + TXAA (VRAM usage is 3485 MB) and it's smooth

 

I ran the benchmark, and at the lowest point I got 25 fps (it reached 25fps on the Vinewood sign scene), but it very rarely dropped below 40fps

 

On the new drivers I was getting well below 20fps at some points and massive stutters

 

Try it

Tried it, nothing changed.

 

 

It helped me

 

Finally I can play this f*cking game comfortably

[x-ReGaL-x]

I have now played for 5hours without stuttering.

 

I have a 840 Pro Samsung SSD and I installed Samsung Magician.

I picked max performance mode, and now everything is just great.

 

On a GTX 980

[kakashi07]

Holy sh*t guys, I think I found the solution for Nvidia cards (at least GTX 970)

 

Just...install the old (347.88) drivers and the stutter is gone

 

It looks like NVIDIA when trying to optimize the drivers for GTA V actually f*cked up

 

I installed these drivers, set everything on max in 1080p + MSAA x2 + TXAA (VRAM usage is 3485 MB) and it's smooth

 

I ran the benchmark, and at the lowest point I got 25 fps (it reached 25fps on the Vinewood sign scene), but it very rarely dropped below 40fps

 

On the new drivers I was getting well below 20fps at some points and massive stutters

 

Try it

 

Worth a try.

 

How do you downgrade your graphics drivers?

[gdfsgdfg]

Use DDU to clean uninstall your current driver, and install 347.88 but I highly doubt a driver update would affect the game so much.

 

@Bonaldo no I have 660

Edited April 15, 2015 by gdfsgdfg

[Shayd80]

Again I really dont understand "my rig in my sign" and i have no stuttering ...

 

You might download Rivatuner and check real time stats because i realise the amount of vram used in game isn't the same than what the settings are showing you, with my actual settings (very high msaax2 vsync .... )it says around 2800 vram used but when i'm playing Rivatuner is showing around 3.1 to 3.3 Gb Vram used and since the 970 has 3.5 Gb that's probably why you have stuttering

 

Also vegetation or grass (I don't remember how it's called) is a killer in Ultra, set it in Very high other than that i don't understand ...

Edited April 15, 2015 by Sharks80fr

[kakashi07]

You people have no clue what we are talking about yet you still pretend you do.

 

The stutter has nothing to do with VRAM.

 

My game stutters both on minimum settings(~1.2 gb vram used) and high settings.

I have 2gb vram

 

Get your facts right before you pretend you know sh*t

[interfreak]

Oddly, downgrading the driver to 347.88 did see a slight increase in performance...going to do some more testing.

[gdfsgdfg]

I downgraded to 347.88 and nope there is no major difference, game runs fine at first but once again it will stutter and become unplayable. So its really not a driver problem.

Edited April 15, 2015 by gdfsgdfg

[iNETSTAR]

try to setting in nvidia control panel, 3d settings ->> gta5.exe if u dont have add it

Vsync OFF

and Power mengament for SIngle monitor

[mojito]

Oddly, downgrading the driver to 347.88 did see a slight increase in performance...going to do some more testing.

 

edit:

 

yea the game ran perfectly before i updated to the 350 driver, now it runs good but occasionally i get stutter, still playable so im gonna wait till i get time then i'll restore windows image

Edited April 15, 2015 by Chuck Finley

[kakashi07]

Can anyone confirm that downgrading the driver removes the stuttering?

[YG.]

Same f*cking problem here, especially with fast cars.

 

Same goes for my friend (he has 970) and I have 560. We were driving really fast in the city yesterday and both of us had stuttering issues

[J_hallin]

I downgraded to 347.88 and nope there is no major difference, game runs fine at first but once again it will stutter and become unplayable. So its really not a driver problem.

I have this issue and see many others experrienccing the same. Starting to think it is not on our side..

[Bonaldo]

It's weird that downgrading the drivers doesn't work for you

 

I swear that my stutter is COMPLETELY gone

 

And I played for few hours

 

Did you uninstall the current driver before installing the older one?

[LordKryos]

GTX 970, 8GB RAM, i5 3570k @ 4GHz, same issue. Can pretty much get >60 with most settings on max, except for the stuttering which happens so frequently it makes me feel like I'm play <30fps. Certain things will cause me to drop between 20-40 frames, for example, tried reversing my car in first person and dropped from like 80fps to 40 at one point without even moving. I'd just hit the S key, hear my car rev and it would crap itself

 

Edit: Also, I have tried with and without the new driver

Edited April 15, 2015 by LordKryos

[kakashi07]

GTX 970, 8GB RAM, i5 3570k @ 4GHz, same issue. Can pretty much get >60 with most settings on max, except for the stuttering which happens so frequently it makes me feel like I'm play <30fps. Certain things will cause me to drop between 20-40 frames, for example, tried reversing my car in first person and dropped from like 80fps to 40 at one point without even moving. I'd just hit the S key, hear my car rev and it would crap itself

 

Edit: Also, I have tried with and without the new driver

This means we should wait for rockstar to release a patch

[lubo]

Hi guys! I am using an i3-4330 and R9 280x. All of this is good but I have 4GB GDDR3 1333MHz RAM and my HDD is some SATA3 16mb cache crap that I found out is dying since last month. Is it the hard drive or the RAM that's making that stuttering? Cuz I feel like its the hard driver but I am not really sure.

Im the same aCc3sbg.

i5 2500/r9 290 tri x

But

4gb 1333mhz ripjaw/500gb seagate 3200rpm drive.

 

Getting pop in. Textures not loading up properly(really pixelated and poor quality buildings etc)

Hell, the road disappeared from me earlier today.

 

Cant get any further than the race at the start with franklin. when i get ot he end of the race it crashes and i get an error. the exact one has escaped me now.

 

Tried a number of different things now and that intro race. All getting very boring R*.

[Dan2k]

After hours of trying and thinking I found a solution which fixed the problem for me, the game runs perfectly smooth now.

 

What I did:

At first i found out that the stutter was caused by the GTA V Launcher which still was in the taskmanager as a process while you're already in the game. So i just closed the Launcher which temporary fixed my stutter problem but only for a few minutes because the game crashed without the launcher process. After that i saw (using DXtory) that the Launcher itself had about 8000 fps when it started the game. So i thought that this probably causes the stutter.

 

So what completly fixed my problem is an FPS-cap for the GTA Launcher. (20 Fps)

I use DXtory for that.

 

You can download it here: http://exkode.com/dxtory-downloads-en.html

 

When you start the game with DXtory active it creates a profile for the GTA Launcher and one for GTAV itself.

After that you need to close the game and modify the profiles like that:

 

Select the GTA Launcher profile, go to the advanced tab and check "Limit Video FPS" and put a 20 in the box.

After that select the GTA Profile and unlimit or limit the games fps to your preference.

 

Now start the game, the stutter should be gone... hope it works for you guys too

Edited April 15, 2015 by Dan2k

[BS_BlackScout]

I have a silly question and maybe a job if there anyone patient enough.

Can someone test Windows 7 and Windows 8 and compare if there are any differences in performance?

*If you have both in your HDD* //Stuttering, Frame-Rate, any//

[TheQuagmire]

I'v played around with the stuttering I have on my 670 Gtx. I thought maybe it was hard drive causing the bottle neck, but a m8 of mine who has a ssd experience the exact same thing so I wasn't alone.

I played around with the density settings, that seemed to have some or no effect? I need to play around with it a bit more, and than I tried something else like switching the DirectX version from 11 to 10, not 10.1 just 10. Suddenly 90% of my stuttering was gone. I could do entire races w/o every seeing stuttering fps lag. Now this hasn't removed the issue 100% I still get the occasional massive fps drop, but it's now quite rare, and make the game extremely playable.

 

Maybe the issue has to do with something with DirectX 11? I am using 350.12 Drivers, and with DX10 the game is very playable.

Just a heads up to everyone give it a try, and let me know if switching did anything for you guys.

[Streifenkarl]

I've also got a i5, GTX970 and 8GB of Ram and some bad stuttering.

 

Two things I did:

 

Reduced Grass Quality to Normal (improved frame rate), the set V-Sync to Half. Game runs smoothly now. It's not ideal, but makes the game playable.

Vsync @ half means 30 FPS which is inacceptable for a game, where you can play in first person mode.

[x-ReGaL-x]

After hours of trying and thinking I found a solution which fixed the problem for me, the game runs perfectly smooth now.

 

What I did:

At first i found out that the stutter was caused by the GTA V Launcher which still was in the taskmanager as a process while you're already in the game. So i just closed the Launcher which temporary fixed my stutter problem but only for a few minutes because the game crashed without the launcher process. After that i saw (using DXtory) that the Launcher itself had about 8000 fps when it started the game. So i thought that this probably causes the stutter.

 

So what completly fixed my problem is an FPS-cap for the GTA Launcher. (20 Fps)

I use DXtory for that.

 

You can download it here: http://exkode.com/dxtory-downloads-en.html

 

When you start the game with DXtory active it creates a profile for the GTA Launcher and one for GTAV itself.

After that you need to close the game and modify the profiles like that:

 

Select the GTA Launcher profile, go to the advanced tab and check "Limit Video FPS" and put a 20 in the box.

After that select the GTA Profile and unlimit or limit the games fps to your preference.

 

Now start the game, the stutter should be gone... hope it works for you guys too

Thank you for this suggestion.

 

I will get back to you, if it fix the stutter for me.

Seems plausible.

[x-ReGaL-x]

 

After hours of trying and thinking I found a solution which fixed the problem for me, the game runs perfectly smooth now.

 

What I did:

At first i found out that the stutter was caused by the GTA V Launcher which still was in the taskmanager as a process while you're already in the game. So i just closed the Launcher which temporary fixed my stutter problem but only for a few minutes because the game crashed without the launcher process. After that i saw (using DXtory) that the Launcher itself had about 8000 fps when it started the game. So i thought that this probably causes the stutter.

 

So what completly fixed my problem is an FPS-cap for the GTA Launcher. (20 Fps)

I use DXtory for that.

 

You can download it here: http://exkode.com/dxtory-downloads-en.html

 

When you start the game with DXtory active it creates a profile for the GTA Launcher and one for GTAV itself.

After that you need to close the game and modify the profiles like that:

 

Select the GTA Launcher profile, go to the advanced tab and check "Limit Video FPS" and put a 20 in the box.

After that select the GTA Profile and unlimit or limit the games fps to your preference.

 

Now start the game, the stutter should be gone... hope it works for you guys too

Thank you for this suggestion.

 

I will get back to you, if it fix the stutter for me.

Seems plausible.

 

Omg, the game is REALLY buttersmooth now, solid 60FPS and absolutely 0 stuttering.

 

However.

 

The game crashed, just like if you closed the console.

You had that issue?

[kakashi07]

After hours of trying and thinking I found a solution which fixed the problem for me, the game runs perfectly smooth now.

 

What I did:

At first i found out that the stutter was caused by the GTA V Launcher which still was in the taskmanager as a process while you're already in the game. So i just closed the Launcher which temporary fixed my stutter problem but only for a few minutes because the game crashed without the launcher process. After that i saw (using DXtory) that the Launcher itself had about 8000 fps when it started the game. So i thought that this probably causes the stutter.

 

So what completly fixed my problem is an FPS-cap for the GTA Launcher. (20 Fps)

I use DXtory for that.

 

You can download it here: http://exkode.com/dxtory-downloads-en.html

 

When you start the game with DXtory active it creates a profile for the GTA Launcher and one for GTAV itself.

After that you need to close the game and modify the profiles like that:

 

Select the GTA Launcher profile, go to the advanced tab and check "Limit Video FPS" and put a 20 in the box.

After that select the GTA Profile and unlimit or limit the games fps to your preference.

 

Now start the game, the stutter should be gone... hope it works for you guys too

What if we use nvidia control panel to set the Launcher.exe to use the integrated Gpu(on laptops at least) and GTAV.exe to use the dedicated GPU?

[Laqueesha]

Got the massive stuttering as well. Using the latest NVIDIA Game Ready Driver. It's freaking North Stutter Borough, Alaska up in this bitch.

Edited April 15, 2015 by Laqueesha

[umdking]

ok guys,i think maybe i found the solution,especially for those who have the high end gpus(eg.970 980 class)

so it's all about the Vsync option,you should turn it ON if your rig can keep the game always above 60fps.then it will eliminate all the stuttering.

i have a i5 4670k oc4.2 + gtx980 + SSD,and had massive stuttering even when it was running at 140+fps(i lowered the settings for more fps to see what exactly happened).

i think the it was caused by the fluctuating fps,the bigger the difference between max and min fps the worse.

how the hell did R* spend these 4 months delay to "POLISH" this crap??customers have to smooth the game by the using the Vsync,ridiculous and joking.