GTA V Low Performance - GTX 960

[Patikol]

Hello everyone,

I am having an issue with GTA V on my PC.

It seems that my GTX 960 is now performing as it should in GTA. To be exact, I experience almost continuous stutter and almost never 60 fps in Normal-High Settings.

What is even more weird, is that I tried setting it to 720p just to see how it'll go, and it still stuttered!

My build is the following:

AMD A10 7700K 3.8GHz
Palit Jetstream GTX 960 2GB
8GB RAM 1866MHz
Coolermaster 600w Elite PSU.

I've also seen numerous videos on youtube by guys that have the same build as mine (a10 7700k and 960) and they can run GTA V at almost all settings maxed at 60 fps (all of them). So please do not comment that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU. Even if it is, I should be getting the same performance as them.

As I mentioned I even stutter and dont get 60 fps even at Normal settings in 720p, so the problem should be somewhere else.

I also checked if my GPU is at 100% while playing, and it is so the problem is not there.

If anyone has any idea why this could be happening, please enlighten me.

 

[superninja12]

''So please do not comment that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU''
with all the respect , youre here looking here for help , so dont act arrogant please.

1 make sure you luged your hdmi cable into the Gpu.
2 did you install all your drivers correctly
3 make sure you turned off graphics from your Apu.
4 it might be your cpu if you dont notice a difference between low and medium.

 

[ingtar33]

it's your cpu that's the problem not the gpu. when gpu's are taxed/acting as the bottleneck, their drivers do a fairly good job preventing stuttering (even on AMD cards). When CPUs are the bottleneck you get a LOT of stuttering. The biggest clue you gave me was when you said you tried a "lower" resolution. lower resolutions shift load off the gpu and make the cpu a bigger bottleneck. since you saw no change in behavior I suspect the cpu is your main problem

A possible solution is to TURN UP the graphic settings higher. shift the load back to the gpu, and off the cpu and you might have a smoothing experience.

you can also try to overclock that cpu. I'm pretty sure GTAV only runs well on quad core AMDs when they're clocked up around 4.6-4.8ghz.

I've also seen numerous videos on youtube by guys that have the same build as mine (a10 7700k and 960) and they can run GTA V at almost all settings maxed at 60 fps (all of them). So please do not comment that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU. Even if it is, I should be getting the same performance as them

double check the speeds the cpu is clocked up to in those videos. also I never trust a youtube review about much of anything. what drivers are being run? what temps are they getting? did they overclock anything? what version of the 960 do they have, the 4gb ram version or the 2? there are plenty of variables.

All i know is your symptoms as described point to the cpu being the bottleneck for the reasons highlighted above.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Same build? So same amount of system RAM, the game is running on the same HDD and they are using the same OS with the same background applications and anti-virus as you?

There is more to a build than just the CPU and GPU.

720p might be stressing the CPU more and that CPU is not exactly the fastest around. Lets also look at the fact that the GPU is at 100%, that does not mean the GPU is running great. In fact a GPU pegged at 100% means that when it has to swap out assets it will probably drop frames to do so.

GTA V is a very demanding game. At 1080p maxed out it requires more than 4GB of VRAM.

I would suggest making sure your driver is up to date and a clean driver install has been done using DDU, not the built in "clean" install from nVidia. Also check what is running in the background and how much of the CPU is being used when gaming. If it is also maxed out then you have a bottleneck somewhere.

 

[RCFProd]

You dropping down from 1080p to 720p and still performance not increasing is exactly cpu bottlenecking mate =/.

However GTX 960 does not handle GTA V maxed anyways, at 60 fps. I know because I had a GTX 960 in this build and still didn't max it.

 

[Patikol]

''So please do not comment that my CPU is bottlenecking my GPU''
with all the respect , youre here looking here for help , so dont act arrogant please.

1 make sure you luged your hdmi cable into the Gpu.
2 did you install all your drivers correctly
3 make sure you turned off graphics from your Apu.

It wasn't irony if thats how you got it, it was actually a polite request because I know some fanboys will just read "AMD" and immediately decide thats the problem. I will, though, respect a solution saying my CPU is bottlenecking if it has some correct and serious info and facts and not just "its AMD"

1)Yes my GPU is connected to my screen through HDMI.
2)Yes I have correctly installed the latest driver for my GPU.
3)Yes I've turned off the graphics from my APU through the BIOS and have my GPU as the primary video source.

And something more that I forgot to mention and may save you some time, I also set the PCIe's selected version to 3.0 through BIOS.

 

[ingtar33]

Patikol, read my reply again. and it's been a while since I needed to prove my AMD CPU street cred in a THG forum but check the signature. That was my last AMD chip. I don't have a hard on against amd chips. I'm just a realist. At 3.8ghz an amd quad core will have issues with GTAV.

if you can overclock that cpu a bit you'll probably have a much better experience. I know GTAV runs well on AMD chips, they just have to be clocked up much higher then that.

 

[Patikol]

Patikol, read my reply again. and it's been a while since I needed to prove my AMD CPU street cred in a THG forum but check the signature. That was my last AMD chip. I don't have a hard on against amd chips. I'm just a realist. At 3.8ghz an amd quad core will have issues with GTAV.

if you can overclock that cpu a bit you'll probably have a much better experience. I know GTAV runs well on AMD chips, they just have to be clocked up much higher then that.

Would an overclock to around 4.5GHz solve my problem and make stutter dissapear?

 

[RCFProd]

It would help (to a certain degree) if your setup can handle that, like a good motherboard and a CPU cooler. If you don't have an aftermarket CPU Cooler don't try it anyways.

But instead, balance your graphics settings first, like medium/high or something without MSAA.

 

[ingtar33]

Patikol, read my reply again. and it's been a while since I needed to prove my AMD CPU street cred in a THG forum but check the signature. That was my last AMD chip. I don't have a hard on against amd chips. I'm just a realist. At 3.8ghz an amd quad core will have issues with GTAV.

if you can overclock that cpu a bit you'll probably have a much better experience. I know GTAV runs well on AMD chips, they just have to be clocked up much higher then that.

Would an overclock to around 4.5GHz solve my problem and make stutter dissapear?

It would probably help a lot. just looking at the benching for this game even with a 980ti you'd be limited to 43fps average at 3.8ghz clock speed on that AMD quad core. by bumping the clock speed up to 4.4 your average fps with that 980ti would be a little bit under 60, i'm sure if you got it up to 4.5 or higher you'd have a pretty reasonable experience with GTAV. Pretty much every game on the market can be played "reasonably" with an AMD chip in the 4.7ghz range no matter how hard it is on the cpu.

Not sure how much the a10-7700 overclocks but if you can get it clocked higher I would expect your experience to improve a bit.

 

[SoNic67]

Your problem is a measly AMD A10 7700K, four core CPU. That's like a dual core i3... cannot keep up even with a 750Ti.
You need proof? Run the game while GPU-Z is running in background, to see the actual GPU utilization. You can in the same time run Window's Task Manager-Performance tab for CPU utilization.
You need to upgrade to a 8 core CPU from AMD on that MoBo.