Major FPS drops in GTA V for the PC

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fordongreeman

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I have a Core i7 8700K, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM, and two-way SLI GTX 1080's with an HB bridge.

When playing grand theft auto 5 on 1920x1080 with 2xMSAA and all of the other settings set to very high/ultra, my fps drops down to 25-30 in certain areas of the game.

With such a monster PC, why is this happening at only 1080p resolution?
 
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It's most likely the HDD. You'll want want one that's 7200rpm and 256mb cache(those older ones with 64mb cache have occasional loading/lag issues on open world games).
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I think this might be the problem.

HDD's can slow things down other than loading times.
 
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An SSD would be much faster than any hard drive in loading areas/textures in open world games?
 
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Yes it would, but as i don't have "High end" PC, i dont experience stutter, unless with one game that I had 60GB's which was COD (new one) on multiplayer.

Well you could try this;https://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/download/
Download it, install, then tick all HDD's and by Defrag should be black arrow pointing down, click it and defrag and optimize.

HDD has 3 different spots, fast, medium and slow, fast read is around lets say for mine 110MB/s and write is around 100MB/s but after the head reads outer ring of HDD it drops, because longer circle.

Now that could take atleast 3h in total, but it depends how fast is your HDD, you could do it overnight.
 
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An SSD would be the best/fastest option. Since you have an i7-8700K, I'm assuming your motherboard has at least 1 M.2 slot. M.2 SSD's are the fastest... specifically the Samsung 960 Evo/Pro series. Those have considerably faster read/write speeds then any other consumer based SSD.

A standard HD @ 7200rpm has a read/write speed of around 100 - 80Mb/s
standard 2.5" SSD's have a read/write of around 500Mb/s - 400Mb/s

The Samsung 960 Pro's read speed is 3,500Mb/s & write is 2,100Mb/s (the 'Evo' model is 3,200Mb/s - 1,800Mb/s)
 
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