GTA 5... a bit shaky, but that's the vibe.
GTA 5... a bit shaky, but that's the vibe.
Hello, I’m curious if anyone could explain why GTA 5 behaves differently across your group of friends. I own an i5-4690K with 8GB RAM at 1600MHz and a GTX 760. My friend #1 has an i3-4150, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 560—he runs the game fine, about 50 FPS, no freezing. Friend #2 is similar in specs but uses an i3 with R9 270; his experience is much worse, with 25 to 55 FPS depending on settings. I’ve checked for malware, adjusted settings, changed application priorities, and even shut down background apps. Updated drivers helped my friend, but the issue persists. His CPU isn’t maxed, RAM isn’t saturated, yet he still freezes occasionally. He mentions his hard drive is nearly full (only 150GB left on a 1TB drive), which seems to be a concern. I’m not sure if it’s a driver, software, or disk problem. It’s new for him—previously there was no such issue. Did any of you try running the game on both an SSD and HDD? Anyone else noticed a difference in performance? Also, someone mentioned that uninstalling Garmin apps improved things, though I didn’t update them before.
Fascinating issue with the pagefiling. It seems Friend #2 is performing better. I'm using an R9 270 and an 8320, which I think has lower single-core speed compared to an i3, yet I consistently see around 60 FPS.
Your 4670K and 560 models operate smoothly at 60fps even with low settings.
I face the same issue again. My system runs a 750 Ti OC with an i5-3470 processor and experiences stutters every few seconds. After following the steps you mentioned—turning off background apps, prioritizing GTAV or GTA5.exe in Task Manager, setting GTAlauncher to low priority, and enabling Nvidia Experience settings—I noticed performance improved to 60fps. If it still stutters, try reducing settings further and ensure V-Sync remains enabled.
Adjusted the settings to standard (low) textures, excluded AA and AO, lowered scaling, turned V-Sync on and off. Appreciate the details. Regarding page filing, I wouldn’t want to turn it off completely because if RAM runs out he’d be in trouble. I did most of these changes except for GeForce Experience for friend #2 since they have an AMD card.
Tell friend #2 to try DX10. I also had a bad experience with DX11.
I attribute the issue to the hard drive. I just installed the game yesterday to check its performance on my 1st gen i3 and GTX-650. For the first few minutes (10-50min) it worked fine, then the device began to lag consistently, matching the HDD activity. Once that happened, the game became choppy and every time I quit and waited for the HDD to shut down, the problem returned, restarting the issue.