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Hello guys. I've been experiencing some issues with GTA V on my PC. The game runs fine, reaching even 100+ fps in some places but sometimes it freezes and stutters for like a second or so every once in a while. Today the game even crashed when I was driving around the city and hit a car. I've tried to look for solutions around the web but none that I've tried really worked. This problem only happens in GTA, every other game I play runs smoothly without any problem.

These are my specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5 4690k @ 3.5GHz
• GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 WindForce OC 6GB
• RAM: 8GB
• Motherboard: ASUS H81-Gamer
• OS: Windows 8.1 Pro
• HDD: 1T

I shouldn't have issues running it right? Let me know if you have any solution.

Thanks!
 
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make sure mb has newest bios to rule out a bios bug. install newest intel chipset drivers to rule out bad drivers for the gpu and hard drive run hdtune check that your hard drive is fine and not stalling. in power managemnt settings turn off power savings for hard drive and pci slots so that the video card and drive dont try and power down.
 
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Ok so I'm bringing this back again. The game became unplayable, every time I drive fast trough the city or crash into anything is a complete disaster. I even get freeze lockups for like 2-3 seconds. What the hell do I do!?
 
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Check the settings maybe. I have had that myself on GTA, and I actually found that increasing the settings level made it better. I was getting like 50% GPU Usage at points. Try disabling v-sync out of interest. Its basically a game you have to optimize yourself because its so badly optimized.

You could also check to see that you dont have frame scaling enabled because that s a killer. Do you use Afterburner OSD to see your usage stats in game?
 
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Even if I set the settings to normal I still get the freezes so that's not the problem I suppose. I took a screenshot of Task Manager and my GPU Software while playing so you can see if there's anything out of the ordinary.

This problem is really weird, when I first startup the game it runs amazing for like an hour or so and after that it just starts this freezes all over again.

Could it be the 8gb of ram just not being enough?

Here is the screenshot:
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V-sync is disabled both on Nvidia Control Panel and in-game. Frame Scaling is off and no, I don't use that program. The things I changed were on Nvidia control panel and it where about putting the game on high performance (CPU), "Maximum pre-rendered frames" set to 1, "Shader Cache" is OFF, "Mixed Display/Mixed-GPU acceleration" is at Single performance mode and V-sync Off.

 
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If this is what you wanted, those were the highest temperatures I've caught. I was playing and had that program running on my 2nd monitor. I wasn't freezing at the time tho...

Picture:
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Kind of, and they are v high temps on some of those cores, so you could be getting some CPU throttling or bottleneck, but it doesnt show the actual usage or throttling % which it does log. I would say your CPU is the culprit for the performance issues tho all the same.
 
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I've set the CPU to max performance for GTA so maybe that's why the temperatures are that high. It only has its stock fan refreshing and a 120mm fan blowing air from the side door ( I have another 80mm fan in the back but it's pulling the air out of the computer). But shouldn't this CPU be more than enough for this game? Because, like I said before, even if I set the graphics s to the lowest possible I still experience the stuttering.

I only have this problem on GTA, every other games I play (such as Overwatch, Rocket League, FIFA 17 and Witcher 3 sometimes) runs without any problem...
 
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It should be a good enough CPU yeah, but it's more to do with balance. Some settings will use RAM, some VRAM, some CPU etc. There's always a bottleneck in a system somewhere, but it's hard to say without having a closer look at the graphs. Can you save the graph logs and post maybe?
 
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Yeah it will. When I run GTA V it uses over 10GB of RAM so that could be an issue, but thats with a 1070 so it may use more.

To get graph logs there's a button at the bottom of the sensors page in HWInfo to save as a .CSV file. Run a few games where you get the issue while it's saving an then upload somewhere.
 
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GTA is the only game I'm getting issues with. I'll do that as soon as I get home.

 
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Here's the file:http://

Another thing I've noticed, when I have the suttering I see my CPU usage on Task Manager going up and down whenever the stutter occurs. Besides that, it says "Speed: 4.24GHz" while this CPU is clocked at 3.5GHz, idk if that's normal...
 
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I assume you're playing this through the Steam client?
Consider verifying the game cache.

You can also try lowering the DX12 to DX11.2. Many problems arise from DX12 cause it is still a bit of an innovative software that has a few kinks to unwind and a few screws to tighten.
 
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Yeah the log file says your CPU was hitting around 4.3GHz (yours has a 3.9GHz Turbo Boost) and your GPU was drawing over 100% power (which doesn't happen at stock) so you must have some overclock setting enabled. Like I say, am not familiar with Gigabyte Extreme becuse I have never used it, but does it have an overclocking or gaming mode or anything? Have you enabled any auto-overclocking profile in your BIOS?

Your CPU is hitting very high temps (over 80c CPU Package) but there is no actual throttling recorded. It is probably a bit too hot though, and it's under serious strain I can see that much. It's hiting 100% load quite often, and that's probably coinciding with the freezing.

Also, your HDD is at 100% Read quite often so that's being pushed to it's max too.

They are both clearly bottlenecking your GPU, even though the CPU seems to have been overclocked. See if you can find out how your GPU and CPU both seem to be by looking for a Gaming/OC one-click setting on your system.
 
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This is how my BIOS looks like. I've never messed with it besides changing the fan curves.
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And this is the xtreme gaming software where you one-click-oc it and it comes in gaming mode from stock.
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As far as CPU temps go I think I can work that out since the fan I've bought for the side door is a Coolermaster Jetflo 120 comes with some adapters so I can either get 1200rpm (the current one I'm using now), 1600rpm or 2000rpm

I found this program that basically tells you the info about the CPU, check it out:

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Yeah gaming mode is just the default setting for your GPU. OC mode would be the one that'd be overclocking it technically. Your CPU shouldn't be getting overclocked by that. Your BIOS look fine too, and report the actual CPU frequency. Have a look in the advanced mode section.

What ASUS software do you have installed?

Thing is, if your CPU is overclocked and it's still hitting 100% then the truth is it's struggling with your 1060.

 
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I used to have a GTX 750Ti with the same CPU and it did the exact same thing... I'm not sure about that, I just installed whatever it was on the MoBo disk.

Btw, this is how the CPU graph looks when the stutter occurs:
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Yes, I play trough Steam and I'm using Directx 11, it won't let me go higher than that.

 
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