GTA V 2-3 FPS In-game

[Luka Petrovic]

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/communities/public/questions/208259107-Can-now-only-ever-get-3fps-in-GTA-V

I have exactly the same problem as the user described on the above link. Game is literally unplayable with 2-3 FPS max in game. All the other games work completely fine without any problems. I tried re-installing the game, drivers, tried both overclocking and downclocking CPU and GPU, almost everything..

Probably worth mentioning that I used to play this game with 60FPS almost all maxed out like a month ago. I didn't change anything software or hardware related since then so that shouldn't be an issue.

Specifications:
FX-8350 4.0 GHz
R9 290 PCS+ 4GB VRAM
8GB RAM
Windows 10

 

[boju]

Is this through steam?

 

[Luka Petrovic]

Is this through steam?

Nope, retail version.

 

[boju]

Ok was going to suggest reinstalling Steam since i had someone with 5fps issues, reinstalling steam worked but anyhow....

Since you were able to play GTA5 properly before and not now but other games play fine has just got harder to work out.

Running in Administrator/Borderless windowed mode might help seeing if its a recent Windows/AMD driver bug.

 

[Luka Petrovic]

Already tried, no change at all.

 

[boju]

Do you have steam installed? Click the activate a product on steam and enter the product cd key you used to activate your copy. If Steam accepts maybe try see if the performance is as bad on steam. Would be something to go by.

Only other thing i can suggest besides reinstalling the game (backup your save files) is reinstall gpu drivers again but before doing so use http://www.wagnardmobile.com/ to remove any trace, reboot then reinstall drivers.

One more question, did you do an upgrade of Win10 then had this performance issue?

 

[Luka Petrovic]

I'll try activating the game through steam but I doubt that will work and even if it does there shouldn't be any performance difference.

Already did the clean uninstall then install of the drivers, no change at all. Did the same with the game.

I upgraded to Windows 10 when it got released so that isn't an issue too.

 

[boju]

When did you download gpu drivers last and is it the new Crimson?

 

[Luka Petrovic]

At first I thought the problem was with the Crimson update too so I reinstalled the Catalyst one in hope that that would solve my problem. I guess I was wrong 🙁

 

[boju]

Reason i asked 2 months a go AMD released a hotfix for Crimson to fix a bug where fans would throttle under manual mode and not cool the gpu properly. http://wccftech.com/amd-crimson-driver-update-released-should-fix-fan-throttling-issue/

But reinstalling Catalyst should have fixed any overheating issue.

Games still play fine now, just not GTA5?

 

[boju]

AMD would have released a newer Crimson driver by now with fix included so if you've downloaded the latest it shouldn't be an issue with this fan thing.

 

[Luka Petrovic]

Yep, everything still works fine except the infamous GTA V..
I'll reinstall the Crimson driver as I confirmed the possibility that it's not a driver problem.

I really have no idea what's causing this weird issue.

 

[boju]

Hmm yea strange one.

GTA5 uses stream assets using the HDD, maybe try a defrag. If i find anything else that could be useful i'll let you know.

 

[boju]

Your hdd isn't too full is it?

 

[boju]

Sorry forgot to ask SSD or HDD? SSD don't defrag.

 

[boju]

Found this:

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxOPbJwcgJc"][/video]

 

[Luka Petrovic]

It's on HDD, I've got like 800GBs of free space. It defrags itself every week so that ain't the problem too.
My OS is on SSD and I don't have enough space to test the game on it. Taken all the things in consideration I think that would be the least possible solution to my problem.

 

[boju]

Yea na the defrag suggestion i came across. People have said loading times did improve slightly on an SSD but you are right, your problem wouldn't be storage related.

 

[boju]

I own GTA5 copy through steam, im not sure how Rockstar handles their patches for retail or if you're forced to update before playing like Steam does, how does it update?

 

[Luka Petrovic]

Yeah like you said, whenever you want to play the launcher checks for updates and downloads them if needed.

 

[boju]

Ok fair enough, thought it might do that.

Try the video, maybe theres a setting in GTA5 thats causing all of this.

 

[boju]

GTA5 has inbuilt vram measuring graph when choosing settings to not exceed limits, i assume you know what thats for but just checking.

 

[Luka Petrovic]

No, it's not exceeding the graph, it's around 2.5 GB and my GPU has 4.
Tried every single setting but it doesn't change anything, after I set everything to low it got around 10fps max so it's not really a solution.

 

[boju]

Sorry man this problem has my head running 3 fps, if i think of anything or find anything else will let you know 🙁 Please update if you get it fixed.

 

[Luka Petrovic]

Mine even lower now haha, of course I will update the thread if I find something but I really doubt it..

Thanks for trying man, I appreciate your help!