Stutterings, map not loading or only loading LOD on PC

[hoodedshiba]

Hi, these are my PC settings:

 

I5 2500 3.30 GHz

8 GB RAM

GTX 1650 4 GB

Win10 Pro 64bits

 

The graphic settings I use in the game are the default ones with V-Sync enabled and I play in 1360x768 resolution. My monitor is 60hz.

 

During Benchmarking the game runs very well, is mostly at 60 fps and doesn't drop below 35 fps. When playing in heavier areas like in the middle of the city of Los Santos for example, the game stays between 40-60 fps. If I turn off V-Sync the game can get more than 60 fps.

 

However, during the game, mainly in GTA Online stutterings, map not loading or only loading LOD are occurring. This doesn't have a pattern to happen, when the game wants it to run very well at 60 fps but sometimes even if it's in the same location and situation the game starts to drop to less than 30 fps reaching even 20 fps and 10 fps. I've literally lowered the game's graphics settings to as little as possible (potato mode) and I'm still having these issues anyway. Nvidia's Geforce Experience app recommends that I play with much higher graphics settings than I used to play before so I don't really understand. My PC settings seem to be fine to run the game OK but why am I having these fps drop issues? I've tried disabling V-Sync but the problems still keep happening. I've also tried to enable V-Sync Half but problems happen a lot more often, so it's worse to limit the game to 30 fps. I think the game is only using 2 GB Ram.

 

Please help.

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2021 by hoodedshiba

[Airwolf359]

In GTA Online, your framerate will be lower, and your CPU and Ram usage will be more, compared to single player, because there is more going on in the world.

Try closing any programs that use a lot of Ram, like Google chrome, so there is more Ram free for GTA V.

Also, do you have Windows installed on a SSD or a mechanical harddrive? That could explain the slow loading

[hoodedshiba]

9 hours ago, AirWolf359 said:

In GTA Online, your framerate will be lower, and your CPU and Ram usage will be more, compared to single player, because there is more going on in the world.

Try closing any programs that use a lot of Ram, like Google chrome, so there is more Ram free for GTA V.

Also, do you have Windows installed on a SSD or a mechanical harddrive? That could explain the slow loading

Hi. When I took the screenshot I forgot Chrome open but I don't play games with Chrome open. I close all programs normally using Windows Explorer and also close programs that are open in the background using Windows Explorer. I don't have SSD, Windows and the game are installed on a 1TB HDD which currently has 608GB of free space. When I logged into GTA Online I noticed that GTA V's ram usage had risen to 3GB but it didn't use more than that. I also noticed that sometimes the disk usage is at 100%, does that influence anything?

[Airwolf359]

12 hours ago, hoodedshiba said:

Hi. When I took the screenshot I forgot Chrome open but I don't play games with Chrome open. I close all programs normally using Windows Explorer and also close programs that are open in the background using Windows Explorer. I don't have SSD, Windows and the game are installed on a 1TB HDD which currently has 608GB of free space. When I logged into GTA Online I noticed that GTA V's ram usage had risen to 3GB but it didn't use more than that. I also noticed that sometimes the disk usage is at 100%, does that influence anything?

Yes, 100% disk usage is something you don't want to see. It doesn't mean that the disk is full, but it means that the disk is reading or writing at its maximum speed.

This means your disk can not load the game's textures in time, and that results in the issues you have described.

You can fix this by lowering texture quality to decrease disk activity, and maybe put Windows in game mode to reduce disk usage by other programs.

 

I have had GTA V on a HDD with no problems whatsoever, but I have Windows 10 on a SSD, because Windows 10 puts a lot of load on a mechanical HDD and makes them slow for other programs.

Windows reads a lot of small files from different locations, and the HDD spends more time looking for files than actually reading them, while SSDs do not have this issue.

 

And with only 8GB of Ram that is almost full, Windows will also be hammering the page file, slowing the system to a halt.

Edited September 28, 2021 by AirWolf359

[tentonnes]

Like another guy who posted recently. Windows 10 and games like GTA V with 8GB RAM in 2021 almost certainly mean you will be hitting the page file at some time. That will hammer your hard drive to 100% aswel.

 

As you only have 8GB of RAM I would say that is why you are seeing 100% disk usage, the computer hammering the hard drive as it scrambles to find more virtual memory as use all the main memory up with the game running. This will cause textures to load really slowly. 

 

I would try what the poster above me has correctly said, but I would also consider adding another 8GB of RAM. 8GB is really really low these days for anything other than browsing internet. 

 

You have to remeber that since GTA V released on PC, not only does Windows use more memory through subsequent updates but so does GTA online. 

Edited September 28, 2021 by tentonnes