GTA 5 CPU Bottleneck

[Gloego]

So I recently discovered that GTA 5 manages to consume 100% of my CPU at startup, which then leads to it crashing shortly there after.

I have a AMD FX 8350, so I don't think it should be doing that....
My graphics card is a 970 as well, so it shouldn't be throttling my CPU, especially just during start up.
I'm fully updated on everything driver and windows related, as well as the most recent GTA patch.

Any ideas?

 

[cin19]

What is your MB model and the PSU?

 

[Gizmotist]

This is kind of weird seeing as GTA 5 is not a cpu heavy game. This game can be ran at 2 cores just fine

 

[customgtp]

I always thought gta games heavily relied on the cpu actually, I might be wrong but I thought #4 was a work horse on a cpu. The open world environment and all the cars.

 

[customgtp]

It runs great on my 8350 clocked at 4.7.w/ 2 780's...i even clocked it down to 4.5 because the cpu seemed to run a little hot playing gta 5

 

[Gloego]

What is your MB model and the PSU?

Don't remember exactly what mobo I got, but I got a upper end AMD one at the same time that I purchased the processor. And I'm running a 850W PSU. Like, short of my processor just being a bad unit, I can't forsee anything else being the issue with the hardware of my rig.

 

[webstaff]

I had same issues..

My fix..

Bigger PSU.. reduced the load on VRM's and small cooling fan (noticed this with hwinfo and afterburner running OSD monitoring core speeds vs core Volts)

and minor overclock.. followed by VRM cooling and massive overclock so i could get high settings.. 😀

now around 4.8Ghz + boost to 5.3Ghz..

now looking at high end i7...

it looks like all fx8xxx have the same issue with GTA 5 and CPU load.. it will find the weakest art of your system and cripple it..

but its sooo worth fixing

Regards

Webstaff