Lag in city with beefy gaming rig- GTA V

zdanekas

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The game says the settings that I have on right now only use 2 out of the 4 gigabytes of v ram that I have on my card. When I look in MSI Afterburner it says that I am using 3 or more gigabytes. I get really laggy in the city. Shouldn't this card be able to run this game flawlessly?
Specs:
CPU: AMD FX-8350
GPU: Sapphire R9 290
MOBO: Asrock 970 extreme4
PSU: EVGA 850G
 

entropy4money

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Monitor your CPU load as you game. I don't think the problem is the processor... I think it is the RAM. Yeah the game uses 2GB of ram but other apps and OS are using more RAM getting closer to the 4Gb, or your RAM could be starting to crap out.

Perform the following test:

1.- test your RAM using memtest86
2.- Open GTA V
3. - Go to task manager and terminate any process you are not using, including explorer.exe.
4.- see if the game got better.

Consider upgrading your ram. 4gb is in the low end nowadays.

Good luck!
 

entropy4money

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I thought he was talking about memory. My bad. You're right.