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Prince_Polaris

I just want to know if there are ways to reduce the load GTA V has on my CPU. It's an i5 4690, and no other game I own runs the CPU at 100% like this game does. Are there perhaps certain settings I can turn down?

Also, ever since the windows 10 creator's update I cannot use windows borderless or else I have massive screen tearing, does anyone know why? I got an 3GB Asus Radeon R9 280.

JanyaGalactic

windows 10 - this is the problem!

Talking from personal experience with windows 10 testing.

as long as possible it's best to keep windows 7, it's still getting updates!

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Prince_Polaris

windows 10 - this is the problem!

Talking from personal experience with windows 10 testing.

as long as possible it's best to keep windows 7, it's still getting updates!

Eh.... I like windows 10, and in my opinion it's less system-heavy then 7.

HaRdSTyLe_83

but is the 100% load causing stutters? my i5-6600k @4,6 sometimes hit the 100% load on 1440p ultra, but i havent seen any stutter from it and the game runs fine without even droping the fps.

i know some settings are more cpu bound, anything like population density or anything that adds more peds etc to render, not sure about draw distance

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Prince_Polaris

but is the 100% load causing stutters? my i5-6600k @4,6 sometimes hit the 100% load on 1440p ultra, but i havent seen any stutter from it and the game runs fine without even droping the fps.

i know some settings are more cpu bound, anything like population density or anything that adds more peds etc to render, not sure about draw distance

It stutters sometimes, but most of the time my issue is pop-in. Hard to drive through the city when the roads, buildings, sidewalks... actually everything but the cars is turning invisible and flickering in and out of existence :(

 

I even installed the game on an SSD I stole from one of my laptops specifically for this game!

Prince_Polaris

I was getting a lot of stutter and CPU spikes until I turned off Windows 10's gaming features such as recording, game mode (bar) etc. Check under Settings -> Gaming.

I turned off the game bar and recording stuff, let's see if that makes it better!

JanyaGalactic

I was saying winbdows 10 made game lag and stutter while in windows 7 its all fine and watching performance on both windowses proved windows 10 being more system heavy plus some unknow issues with scripts! i will keep windows 7 until it loses support for all programs which need internet because gta 5 in unplayable on windows 10 (same f*cking hardware giving good fps on high settings combined with W7 BUT W10 is cutting away frames while keeping the fps rates)!

Edited by ACM-Jan

 

Don't forget this one too...For me, this seemed to have the greatest impact.

I gotta turn game mode itself off? Well... sure, I'll try it!

 

You should, in my experience the game mode cut my fps in half in many games. Definitely not the best possible experience they promised.

Prince_Polaris

game mode was off as i still was suffering, i cannot suggest W10 to anyone, it's serious problem

Everything except for GTA works flawlessly on windows 10 though :(

And... it seems to be better, maybe, or maybe I've convinced myself it is, I dunno.

guster-von

 

game mode was off as i still was suffering, i cannot suggest W10 to anyone, it's serious problem

Everything except for GTA works flawlessly on windows 10 though :(

And... it seems to be better, maybe, or maybe I've convinced myself it is, I dunno.

 

Have you tried running the game on Full Screen? Mine became buttery smooth after turning off this off. I feel like there is a significant difference between these two methods, Windows Borderless and Full Screen.

Prince_Polaris

 

 

Don't forget this one too...For me, this seemed to have the greatest impact.

I gotta turn game mode itself off? Well... sure, I'll try it!

Let us know how it turns out...

With game mode off, the game seems to be a little less hard on my CPU, but there's still parts of the map that run it to 100%... but I really do think it's a little better!

Prince_Polaris

 

 

game mode was off as i still was suffering, i cannot suggest W10 to anyone, it's serious problem

Everything except for GTA works flawlessly on windows 10 though :(

And... it seems to be better, maybe, or maybe I've convinced myself it is, I dunno.

 

Have you tried running the game on Full Screen? Mine became buttery smooth after turning off this off. I feel like there is a significant difference between these two methods, Windows Borderless and Full Screen.

Windowed borderless causes massive screen tearing and full screen minimizes itself every time I tab out to respond to discord, so both of those are out :(

Prince_Polaris

Update! Racing through the city in my new warrener along with a youtube stream playing on monitor #5 now gets me this:

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So it seems turning that gaming stuff off did help a bit! As I parked to type this, it dropped down to hover between 80 and 90%, so that's cool too.

HaRdSTyLe_83

Update! Racing through the city in my new warrener along with a youtube stream playing on monitor #5 now gets me this:

 

 

if you are running multiple monitors and perform multiple tasks then you can expect more load, a Ryzen would help you alot with that

JanyaGalactic

Also, don't use Self Radio if you have an i5 CPU, it's really a performance hog for a very stupid reason, and that's bad coding.

it actually conflicts with game somehow until it crashes, before that it just takes over whole process generating lag in other parts of game and cpu brand doesn't matter here, rockstar did it's "magic" here!

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Prince_Polaris

 

Update! Racing through the city in my new warrener along with a youtube stream playing on monitor #5 now gets me this:

 

 

if you are running multiple monitors and perform multiple tasks then you can expect more load, a Ryzen would help you alot with that

 

Well I didn't ask for a CPU recommendation.. I'm gonna get my hands on a sexy new i7 4790 for all this nice multitasking~

 

 

 

Also, don't use Self Radio if you have an i5 CPU, it's really a performance hog for a very stupid reason, and that's bad coding.

it actually conflicts with game somehow until it crashes, until that it just takes over whole process generating lag in other parts of game and cpu brand doesn't matter here, rockstar did it's "magic" here!

Ugh, really? Well then, no more self radio for me then, I'll crack out VLC on one of the monitors and do it the old fashioned way >:C

JanyaGalactic

Ugh, really? Well then, no more self radio for me then, I'll crack out VLC on one of the monitors and do it the old fashioned way >:C

this is the best way, it even works on dualcore! ;)

Edited by ACM-Jan

If you don't want screen tearing, you need a monitor with "Freesync" I think your R9 280 GPU will have that, but you can also check and match your Hertz on monitor properties to your monitor. Another problem is you have a AMD GPU in a i5... The "i" series (i3,i5,i7) like Nivida GPU's, but lately the two companies are working together to solve compatibility issues.

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Prince_Polaris

If you don't want screen tearing, you need a monitor with "Freesync" I think your R9 280 GPU will have that, but you can also check and match your Hertz on monitor properties to your monitor. Another problem is you have a AMD GPU in a i5... The "i" series (i3,i5,i7) like Nivida GPU's, but lately the two companies are working together to solve compatibility issues.

I had no screen-tearing before the creators' update. This is something new.

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