GTA V on the ExcelStor Technology J9250S 250 GB

[snakehead97]

So I just bought GTA V on PC. Bear in mind I have a really low end PC. We're talking 3GB RAM, Core 2 Duo E4600 2.40 GHz and a Geforce G210.

But I was surprised of how little the game requires and I saw YouTube Videos of people running the game fine with the same specs.

However once I got passed the Prologue and the world opened up i noticed huge lag particularly when driving around the world. In fact when I'm on foot or in a cutscene the game runs at playable 20-30 FPS. But when I was driving the lag was getting to a degree of freezes that lasted a couple of seconds.

I can only assume that when I'm driving because of the scale and seamlessness of the wold my machine just doesn't have the power to run this game. But according to the YT videos all those people run the game fine and have the same specs except for the Hard Disk Drive. My HDD is a ExcelStor Technology J9250S 250 GB specs are in the attachment. I Installed the game in volume D which is not the System Volume (The volume where Windows is installed).

So I am here to ask is the problem in the HDD and if that's the case then is there a way to fix it or is it time to upgrade? I tried lowering all the setting to minimum, messed with the config file and even used Low End PC mods but the problem still exists.

Thank You in advance!

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[spdragoo]

YouTube as evidence is less trustworthy than Wikipedia as source material for your thesis paper. Otherwise you wouldn't have YouTube videos showing guys pouring orange juice into their laptops without ruining them.

Since you are nowhere near the minimum (<4GB RAM, dual-core instead of quad-core, & GPU is too low), you will need to upgrade to the minimum to even get any playable FPS out of it (20-30 FPS not really being playable).

Be forewarned, though, even players using Haswell i7s with a GTX 970 or better get FPS dips when driving -- as you correctly surmised, it's the world scale (draw distance is so large that when in the cities, especially when driving, the CPU gets bogged down with all of the data it has to send to the GPU).