Hello! Yes, I know that it is common issue and there was already a ton of threads about it, but I looked really deep and tried multiple solutions - unfortunately none of them solved my problems.
My problem:
So, it goes like this:
I had Windows 7 64 bit and I was able to play GTA 5 without issues but I wanted to upgrade my OS. So, I made a clean install of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit on my computer, downloaded GTA 5, started new game and everything was fine... for about 1 hour. After that my constant 60 FPS (I'm using vsync to avoid hiccups, my fps without it on Win7 differ from 80 to 120 depending on area) dropped to 8, 16, 24 and go back to 60. After that happened once it was occuring much often, with 1 or 3 minutes breaks (didn't really measured). Everything goes back to normal and butter smooth gameplay when I quit game and launch it again, but issue still returns: sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes after 2 hours. It's random. I have tested it and can't come up with any triggers but time spent in game (but again - this is not constant value either) because I have tried to just casually cruise around map or just doing missions with fast travel inbetween and stutter still comes up.
What I have tried:
- my Windows 10 is up to date
- I have newest nvidia drivers
- I uninstalled Nvidia HD Audio Driver and replaced it with Realtek (had it before, on 7 - no issues)
- I changed pagefile from auto to first 8 GB, then 16, then disabled it at all (not recommended, GTA refused to open
); at this moment I'm on 16 gigs
- I tried to play with settings, it doesn't change a bit except when I'm maxing out advanced ones my FPS is no more 60 but 50 to 55; I didn't tried putting them all at low (everything except advanced sliders is maxed normally, long shadows etc are enabled too) because I don't want to play my game that way, it worked on ultra and my rig should be capable
- nothing is overheating or/and under very heavy load (except for RAM, but on this later): my CPU is between 60-80% and 60-70 Celsius, GPU 80-90% load, 4 GB vram and around 70 degrees too. Now, as for RAM, the most MSI Afterburner/Riva Tuner showed in game was 7300 out of 8000 megabytes - so maybe it's an issue? But now again, on Windows 7 everything worked as a charm. Is Windows 10 more resource hungry?
- I disabled every non-working sound playback device except headphones (idk, found this in one Steam discussion on same issue - didn't worked)
- I edited regedit for GTA process to always open with high priority
- I tried razer gamebooster to clean my RAM while playing, then uninstalled it completely because someone on Rockstar forums pointed out that razer software may affect performance - no effect
- I disabled antivirus, windows defender, windows updates
- I turned off some services from services.msc which names I can't recall now, but as all above, nothing helped
- I have changed power settings to high performance in Windows
- I have manually changed single display performance and high performance in nvidia control panel, and for GTA V only: maximum prerendered frames to 1 (now 2 - no difference), forcing to use many cores is ON as is disc shader cache enabled
- probably did something else that I can't remember while writing this post, but I assume it has to be some "computer voodoo" not real changes in system and of course didn't worked either
My rig:
i5 4690 3,5GHz
8 GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Gigabyte GTX 1070
Corsair VS 550W PSU
and the game is on HDD, i'm planning on replacing it with SSD completely in few months (I mention it because some sources are pointing to GTA being installed on HDD as issue - but again, it worked before OS upgrade)
Disclaimer:
I don't intend on going back to 7.
English is not my first language, so sorry if I misspeled something or made a grammar mistake. I'm posting here, because this forum has proven to me that is very helpful, so I will give it a shot. Thanks for reading this somewhat long post and cheers.
My problem:
So, it goes like this:
I had Windows 7 64 bit and I was able to play GTA 5 without issues but I wanted to upgrade my OS. So, I made a clean install of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit on my computer, downloaded GTA 5, started new game and everything was fine... for about 1 hour. After that my constant 60 FPS (I'm using vsync to avoid hiccups, my fps without it on Win7 differ from 80 to 120 depending on area) dropped to 8, 16, 24 and go back to 60. After that happened once it was occuring much often, with 1 or 3 minutes breaks (didn't really measured). Everything goes back to normal and butter smooth gameplay when I quit game and launch it again, but issue still returns: sometimes after 10 minutes, sometimes after 2 hours. It's random. I have tested it and can't come up with any triggers but time spent in game (but again - this is not constant value either) because I have tried to just casually cruise around map or just doing missions with fast travel inbetween and stutter still comes up.
What I have tried:
- my Windows 10 is up to date
- I have newest nvidia drivers
- I uninstalled Nvidia HD Audio Driver and replaced it with Realtek (had it before, on 7 - no issues)
- I changed pagefile from auto to first 8 GB, then 16, then disabled it at all (not recommended, GTA refused to open
); at this moment I'm on 16 gigs- I tried to play with settings, it doesn't change a bit except when I'm maxing out advanced ones my FPS is no more 60 but 50 to 55; I didn't tried putting them all at low (everything except advanced sliders is maxed normally, long shadows etc are enabled too) because I don't want to play my game that way, it worked on ultra and my rig should be capable
- nothing is overheating or/and under very heavy load (except for RAM, but on this later): my CPU is between 60-80% and 60-70 Celsius, GPU 80-90% load, 4 GB vram and around 70 degrees too. Now, as for RAM, the most MSI Afterburner/Riva Tuner showed in game was 7300 out of 8000 megabytes - so maybe it's an issue? But now again, on Windows 7 everything worked as a charm. Is Windows 10 more resource hungry?
- I disabled every non-working sound playback device except headphones (idk, found this in one Steam discussion on same issue - didn't worked)
- I edited regedit for GTA process to always open with high priority
- I tried razer gamebooster to clean my RAM while playing, then uninstalled it completely because someone on Rockstar forums pointed out that razer software may affect performance - no effect
- I disabled antivirus, windows defender, windows updates
- I turned off some services from services.msc which names I can't recall now, but as all above, nothing helped
- I have changed power settings to high performance in Windows
- I have manually changed single display performance and high performance in nvidia control panel, and for GTA V only: maximum prerendered frames to 1 (now 2 - no difference), forcing to use many cores is ON as is disc shader cache enabled
- probably did something else that I can't remember while writing this post, but I assume it has to be some "computer voodoo" not real changes in system and of course didn't worked either
My rig:
i5 4690 3,5GHz
8 GB DDR3 1600Mhz
Gigabyte GTX 1070
Corsair VS 550W PSU
and the game is on HDD, i'm planning on replacing it with SSD completely in few months (I mention it because some sources are pointing to GTA being installed on HDD as issue - but again, it worked before OS upgrade)
Disclaimer:
I don't intend on going back to 7.
English is not my first language, so sorry if I misspeled something or made a grammar mistake. I'm posting here, because this forum has proven to me that is very helpful, so I will give it a shot. Thanks for reading this somewhat long post and cheers.
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