GTA V - Dreadful FPS Drops (AMD CPU)

Booniiee · Mar 1, 2017

Recently I have been getting really bad FPS drops in GTA V and GTA Online, the game will be running at 60fps perfectly and then all of a sudden will drop to around 20-30fps and stay like this for about 20 seconds. I have tried everything that I have seen and nothing has worked (disabling turbo boost, cool n quiet off, changing processor max % etc etc)

I have also noticed that as soon as the fps is about to drop, my CPU reaches 100% load.

The PC I am currently running is:
CPU: AMD FX 8350 Black Edition @4.2GHz w/ Sideon Cooler Master 120V
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 270x Sapphire Edition 2gb (Dual OC)
MB: ASUS m5a78l-m/usb3
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengence DDR3

People have told me AMD is 'no good for gaming' but it works perfectly on other games, just GTA V seems to have these lagging issues.

Thank You

James Mason · Mar 1, 2017

PSU?
Exact make and model.

Booniiee · Mar 1, 2017

James Mason :

Atrix Expert 600W ATX PSU

James Mason · Mar 1, 2017

Well... in 10 years noone has really bothered to review them.
That's not good news.
Your PSU COULD be the problem because it's low-end chinese junk.
There's no way to test this without getting another good PSU though.

You may try upgrading to the latest BIOS version unless you don't already have it (2101)

You can also try a clean removal and reinstall of your GPU drivers:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

Booniiee · Mar 1, 2017

James Mason :

Well... in 10 years noone has really bothered to review them.
That's not good news.
Your PSU COULD be the problem because it's low-end chinese junk.
There's no way to test this without getting another good PSU though.

You may try upgrading to the latest BIOS version unless you don't already have it (2101)

You can also try a clean removal and reinstall of your GPU drivers:

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html

You, my friend are a fantastic human. Thank you so much; my bios was 5 years out of date!! Don't know why I hadn't updated it hahaha. Game is running perfectly now

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