GTA V PC Lag when driving.

[LePenguin01]

It lags ALOT when I drive in both single-player and online. I can't play the game well since the whole game is about cars. I installed the 15.4 beta drive on the amd website but it only helped a small bit.
SPECS:
R9 280x
fx-8320
4 gb ram

 

[mcnumpty23]

4gb of ram isnt much--probably the minimum for the game so try to shut down unneeded stuff when playing

though think the games still buggy any way from what i have read

 

[Denis Stoikovski]

It lags ALOT when I drive in both single-player and online. I can't play the game well since the whole game is about cars. I installed the 15.4 beta drive on the amd website but it only helped a small bit.
SPECS:
R9 280x
fx-8320
4 gb ram

Same here 770 oc i5 3350p 8 ram,it goes from 80 fps to 50 every damn second..Though the gpu goes from 95 usage to 47 when this happens.

 

[DasHotShot]

Turn down some settings and optimize this

 

[burdenbound]

Increase RAM, I am curious to see if some one does a review of different hard drives for this game. When driving there is a lot of textures that it needs to load in, I know when I played the game on 360 it had issues keeping up so not sure if that problem carried over into the PC version.

I personally have it loaded on my SSD so I don't have anything to compare it with.

 

[LePenguin01]

The game runs very smoothly the first ten minutes and then starts lagging. I'm sure the gpu and cpu can handle it but the ram. If I get 8 gigs will it run smoothly again?

 

[mcnumpty23]

use task manager to see how much ram you are using--cant guarantee getting 8 gigs will cure it--but it wont hurt either

 

[LePenguin01]

use task manager to see how much ram you are using--cant guarantee getting 8 gigs will cure it--but it wont hurt either

GTA V is using 88% of memory.

 

[mcnumpty23]

use task manager to see how much ram you are using--cant guarantee getting 8 gigs will cure it--but it wont hurt either

GTA V is using 88% of memory.

thats a lot then so more ram will probably help though nothing is guaranteed

 

[Captdonno]

Minimum RAM requirements for the game is 8GB. Safe bet that's your primary issue.

 

[LePenguin01]

use task manager to see how much ram you are using--cant guarantee getting 8 gigs will cure it--but it wont hurt either

GTA V is using 88% of memory.

thats a lot then so more ram will probably help though nothing is guaranteed

I'll get more ram then. I'll post something to see how it goes.

 

[bignastyid]

GTA V seems to use alot of ram, normally my system uses 6gb of ram or less when gaming, with GTA V I use just a bit over 7Gb.

 

[Soupertrooper]

I've been having this issue too. at one point I lowered my settings all the way down (except for resolution). It's not the graphical settings that is causing this.

Windows 8.1 (I don't know, but I think this is what's causing the issues. None of my friends are having the same issues and they all have windows 7)
AMD FX-9590
32gb ram

Edit: Definitely not windows 8.1, I'm gonna try installing on an ssd
Nvidia GTX-660

 

[LePenguin01]

Fixed it. Yea, it was the ram. Just got 8gb. No lag anymore but the framerate is 30. How can I raise it to 50-60 fps? I thought it was suppose to run at that speed.

 

[burdenbound]

Fixed it. Yea, it was the ram. Just got 8gb. No lag anymore but the framerate is 30. How can I raise it to 50-60 fps? I thought it was suppose to run at that speed.

Turn vsync off, I have experienced really bad input lag in GTA V with it on and usually it causes my fps to cap at 1/2 my refresh rate. The good thing so far is that I have experienced very little screen tearing with vsync off.

 

[LePenguin01]

Fixed it. Yea, it was the ram. Just got 8gb. No lag anymore but the framerate is 30. How can I raise it to 50-60 fps? I thought it was suppose to run at that speed.

Turn vsync off, I have experienced really bad input lag in GTA V with it on and usually it causes my fps to cap at 1/2 my refresh rate. The good thing so far is that I have experienced very little screen tearing with vsync off.

I did turn it off but still 30 fps...

 

[thephantom4567]

The game runs very smoothly the first ten minutes and then starts lagging. I'm sure the gpu and cpu can handle it but the ram. If I get 8 gigs will it run smoothly again?

I am having the same issue. It starts playing great, but im using my cpu meter to watch my RAM usage and it slowlly increases the longer i play until i get nothing above 10 fps for more than a second. Getting more RAM may work for you, but i currently have 8 gigs of RAM and my RAM usage goes up to 83 percent and task manager says it is only using 2.5 gigs.

 

[LePenguin01]

The game runs very smoothly the first ten minutes and then starts lagging. I'm sure the gpu and cpu can handle it but the ram. If I get 8 gigs will it run smoothly again?

I am having the same issue. It starts playing great, but im using my cpu meter to watch my RAM usage and it slowlly increases the longer i play until i get nothing above 10 fps for more than a second. Getting more RAM may work for you, but i currently have 8 gigs of RAM and my RAM usage goes up to 83 percent and task manager says it is only using 2.5 gigs.

For me it was the ram. Still, I get 30 fps. Installing GTA V on an ssd is left...

 

[Sdanial]

I am having lag when driving, i have constant 60 fps and then I get sudden fps drops to 55 fps with noticeable lag for less than a second and then goes back to 60 fps. I closed all applications running in the background I even closed explorer.exe, and Nvidia processes, turned GTA 5 priority to High and turned auto music scanning to off. This fixed my lag/hiccup while driving.

Hope this helps.

Specs:
GTX 980m
Core i7-4710MQ
8 GB Ram