gta v mini stuttering

[dayfallog]

so i just got gta v on pc and the game stutters badly, ever few seconds i drop 10/20 fps and its making the game unplayable and it seems to happen in the menus as well, all my settings are the default/normal with no AA and im using about 1.1gb of vram on a 4gb card, this happens regardless of Vsync being on or off.

 

example of what happens

 

my pc specs are:

-i5 4690

-gtx 970

 

-16gb ddr3

iv tried a few things that have not helped:

-running the game in all 3 DX modes

-upping the graphics settings

-forcing vsync with both the control panel and dxtory

-reinstalling my drivers
-playing in windowed mode

nothing makes it better or worse it just happens.

[Venzee]

Used to have this issue occasionally - might be worth checking out your settings in Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\settings.xml and playing around with them a bit, could be an easy fix there or if not, when this happened to me and I couldn't find a way past it I did a clean reset of my PC. Backed it all up, reset it and fixed the issue completely for me but it's not an ideal way around it if it's just microstutter. Perhaps run task manager and see if any other programs suddenly use resources when the stutter happens?

[dayfallog]

4 hours ago, Venzee said:

Used to have this issue occasionally - might be worth checking out your settings in Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\settings.xml and playing around with them a bit, could be an easy fix there or if not, when this happened to me and I couldn't find a way past it I did a clean reset of my PC. Backed it all up, reset it and fixed the issue completely for me but it's not an ideal way around it if it's just microstutter. Perhaps run task manager and see if any other programs suddenly use resources when the stutter happens?

those setting seem fine to me and i cant really re install my whole PCs OS, and iv ran it with only gta running it still happens, when i play uncapped i break 100fps easy so its not like i can't run it smoothly 

[Rotorhead359]

Just watched that gif. GTA V doesn't like to run at framerates that high. It will put your CPU at 100% load (at least on one core) which causes it to stutter as other programs take CPU power away from GTA V. The game tends to run best when it has some headroom on the CPU.

You could try offloading some CPU load onto the graphics card by raising the graphics. It will lower your overall framerate but it will be more stable with less stutter. You should aim for 60-80 fps with your graphics card at 100% usage (that is GPU usage as shown in task manager, not video memory full).

As a starting point, run the game in borderless windowed mode, full resolution, directX 11, raise all the graphics settings to Very High but leave Grass Quality on Normal, leave anti-aliasing and Advanced Graphics off. Especially Extended Distance Scaling should be kept off as it overloads your CPU.

I would not recommend enabling or forcing V-sync as it introduces input lag, but you could use an external frame limiter like RivaTuner. Also, set maximum pre-rendered frames to 1 in nVidia control panel.

Edited August 3, 2019 by AirWolf359

[dayfallog]

3 hours ago, AirWolf359 said:

Just watched that gif. GTA V doesn't like to run at framerates that high. It will put your CPU at 100% load (at least on one core) which causes it to stutter as other programs take CPU power away from GTA V. The game tends to run best when it has some headroom on the CPU.

You could try offloading some CPU load onto the graphics card by raising the graphics. It will lower your overall framerate but it will be more stable with less stutter. You should aim for 60-80 fps with your graphics card at 100% usage (that is GPU usage as shown in task manager, not video memory full).

As a starting point, run the game in borderless windowed mode, full resolution, directX 11, raise all the graphics settings to Very High but leave Grass Quality on Normal, leave anti-aliasing and Advanced Graphics off. Especially Extended Distance Scaling should be kept off as it overloads your CPU.

I would not recommend enabling or forcing V-sync as it introduces input lag, but you could use an external frame limiter like RivaTuner. Also, set maximum pre-rendered frames to 1 in nVidia control panel.

thanks, i do have a new 12 core on pre order so that will hopefully clear up issues, im fine with it being my cpu as long as i know the issue