GTA 5 stutters

[Nieles88]

I have a lot of stutters on GTA 5 and I have tried most fixes that are common and messed around with the graphics settings. Nothing worked.
The stutters mostly start 5-10 mins after starting the game up.
It's there mostly while driving in the city.

I am running on:
GTX 970
i5 4690k
8GB RAM

I thought about upgrading RAM, but am not sure if that will help, and I don't wanna spend money on something that won't have an advantage.
All other games like The Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 run smooth 60fps.

Anyone knows what the problem might be?

 

[raisonjohn]

Do you happen to have a previous GPU other than the GTX 970?

If yes, have you tried a clean installation of the Nvidia drivers for the GTX 970? This means using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove all previous drivers associated with previous GPUs and then installing the most recent Nvidia driver for the GTX 970.

If no (i.e., the GTX 970 is your first ever GPU installed in your system), then try right-clicking on your desktop, click Nvidia Control Panel, then click Manage 3D Settings at the left side of the window, scroll down to Power Management Mode (Feature) and select "Prefer Maximum Performance" (Setting). In the same window, look also for Multi-Display/mixed-GPU acceleration (Feature) and select "Single Display Performance Mode".

Try it out and see if the stuttering still occurs.

 

[schwatzz]

When was the last time you defragged your HDD?

 

[Nieles88]

Do you happen to have a previous GPU other than the GTX 970?

If yes, have you tried a clean installation of the Nvidia drivers for the GTX 970? This means using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to remove all previous drivers associated with previous GPUs and then installing the most recent Nvidia driver for the GTX 970.

If no (i.e., the GTX 970 is your first ever GPU installed in your system), then try right-clicking on your desktop, click Nvidia Control Panel, then click Manage 3D Settings at the left side of the window, scroll down to Power Management Mode (Feature) and select "Prefer Maximum Performance" (Setting). In the same window, look also for Multi-Display/mixed-GPU acceleration (Feature) and select "Single Display Performance Mode".

Try it out and see if the stuttering still occurs.

This is the first GPU in this system, so no other drivers remaining. I've had a lot of drivers from this GPU on this system though, so maybe your tip will work?

I've tried those settings for GTA 5 in the programs tab, but it didn't work and I don't think changing the general settings would change anything either, would it?

 

[Nieles88]

When was the last time you defragged your HDD?

I did it today actually, it didn't work. Thanks anyways though.

 

[schwatzz]

Do you have any other programs running, like unnecessary start up programs? Have you tried temporarily disabling your antivirus?

 

[Nieles88]

Do you have any other programs running, like unnecessary start up programs? Have you tried temporarily disabling your antivirus?

There is nothing running, not even my anti virus, no effect.

 

[raisonjohn]

Additional settings in Nvidia Control Panel to try out:

Shader Cache: On
Anisotropic Filtering: use value to match your in-game settings (such as x16 or other value)
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frame: 1
Threaded Optimization: On

In GTA V in-game Graphics menu, try:

Tesselation: Off
MSAA: Off
Reflections MSAA: Off
...and decrease other visual effects so that your total VRAM usage is just about ~2500MB to ~3000MB.

 

[schwatzz]

Just to clarify, does the stuttering still occur when you apply the lowest graphical settings?

 

[Nieles88]

Just to clarify, does the stuttering still occur when you apply the lowest graphical settings?

Yes it does.

 

[Nieles88]

Additional settings in Nvidia Control Panel to try out:

Shader Cache: On
Anisotropic Filtering: use value to match your in-game settings (such as x16 or other value)
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frame: 1
Threaded Optimization: On

In GTA V in-game Graphics menu, try:

Tesselation: Off
MSAA: Off
Reflections MSAA: Off
...and decrease other visual effects so that your total VRAM usage is just about ~2500MB to ~3000MB.

I have tried all those settings and the in game settings are always below 2500 MB, but it still stutters.

 

[Calvin5040]

Additional settings in Nvidia Control Panel to try out:

Shader Cache: On
Anisotropic Filtering: use value to match your in-game settings (such as x16 or other value)
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frame: 1
Threaded Optimization: On

In GTA V in-game Graphics menu, try:

Tesselation: Off
MSAA: Off
Reflections MSAA: Off
...and decrease other visual effects so that your total VRAM usage is just about ~2500MB to ~3000MB.

I have tried all those settings and the in game settings are always below 2500 MB, but it still stutters.

I have a 970 for a while and this didn't seem to be a problem until the last GTA5 update.
Changed all the setting to low doesn't change a thing.

ASUS ROG G20AJ
INTEL i5-4460 3.2GHz 64x
16GB SO-DIMM
64-BIT WIN 8.1
Installed: EVGA - GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics

 

[Foamerr]

Check your RAM usage while in game, Reinstall drivers, turn population density and variety all the way down. It could be a matter of repairing the game through steam or reinstalling it. You could also check the drive where the game is located, It could be dying if it is a hard disk. GL