GTA V I have constant frame rate drops every 2 seconds.

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When I open up Gta V everything is fine. But when I start playing there are constant frame rate drops from 60fps to 30fps even low enough to 10fps! I got the build parts from my cousin who plays it all the time with the exact same hardware but 12gbs of RAM. Do I need more RAM? I really don't know that much about PC hardware or anything about PCs. I just love to game. And GTA V is a game I have always wanted to play. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

Specs:
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor
ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply


And I have tried many of the Solutions I found on Youtube and none of them have worked.


 
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What are your CPU temps in game, Can you post a picture using any program that records the CPU usage for the past min or so and post it after recording it in game. Like MSI afterburner or another program similar. I just need to see the CPU, sounds like it could be thermal throttling, where your CPU gets hot and automatically downclocks itself to cool off, resulting in exactly what you are saying is happening
 
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Here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4rRXok-BCY. I upped the GPU fanspeed a little and that caused it to work a little better. I didn't see the CPU temp go over 101C.
 
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That is your CPU bottlenecking your system, its constantly maxed and cant keep up with the GPU from what I can tell, let me look more into it. Is anything in your build overclocked? Also your CPU is burning up, it should not be that hot, ever. this may be the problem and causing thermal throttle, turn this off in the BIOS.

Also set it so that using Nvidia control panel add the game to the 3d manage settings, change the max pre rendered frames to 1, triple buffering ON, and V-sync ON.

Also you usually need to reseat your CPU and re apply thermal paste correctly, this should drop the temps.

Your card only has 2gb, for that game you want around 3gb dedicated to perform efficently.

But the lag and stutter is your CPU maxing
 
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I have a Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor I was thinking I would need a CPU cooler, but do I absolutely have to get a new CPU?
And now that I realize it this isn't the only game this happens. It is just this is the worst it has happened.
 
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All of those settings I have already set, But I am using the stock fan which comes with pre-administered thermal paste, I am assuming a water cooler would help. Is there one you would recommend, or should I get a better processor. And I don't remember manually overclocking does it overclock automatically?
 
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You have a good processor, its just hard to tell if it is function as intended because those temps are crazy high. You never want to use the stock cooler, buy a water cooler, or a regular heatsink cooler, either will work perfectly fine.

Once your temps drop your chip should perform MUCH better.
 
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Would i find the place to change the cpu fan settings in the UEFI?
 
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The MSI Afterburner must be wrong because it said the Temp is supposed to be 50 to 80 but MSI still says 99>
 
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I have seen that water coolers are expensive and i'm on a budget, is there anything you would recommend? And I readjusted the heatsink and temps dropped to 70C Thank you for helping me find a solution.
 
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Na the ram is not to much of an impact, you do want at least 8gb to be safe, more importantly is the VRAM, which allows your GPU to save textures to remap and reuse resulting in better performance and FPS as it has to use less of its own power.
 
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Yes, I have seen a huge performance increase. FPS doesn't drop constantly. It loads faster.
 
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