GTA V running on very low FPS on my GTX 970

[da007255]

Hi

I recently upgraded to Windows 10. I must say every game runs much smoother now and the loading times are much shorter. But, since I upgraded, GTA V won't run properly anymore. Back when I had Windows 7, I always had 60-70 fps without any stuttering. Now, on the same settings, I get very low FPS (5-15). I have upgraded all of my drivers, but that didn't do the trick.

Specs:
-Intel Core I5-4690k stock settings
-Nvidia GTX 970 4G from MSI also stock settings
-8Gb of RAM
-Gigabyte Z97-SLI

 

[sizzling]

Are your gpu drivers up to date? Might be worth trying a fresh install of the game

 

[Nick Smith]

Most likely the game itself needs an update or you can optimize it from GEForce Experience, at last delete the game seeings from - My documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V\Settings.XML ( or similar?). So the game launcher will create a new one.
You can also check the behavior of GTAV.exe to check if it's working normally, the GPU moniter runs normal, etc.
Cheers

 

[da007255]

Nick Smith, the game is up to date, so are all of my drivers. I deleted the settings file and I optimized the game with Geforce Experience. But, now when I start the game it freezes on the black screen with the white text on the beginning and it stops responding.

 

[James Mason]

If you have graphics or driver issues, one of the most common fixes is a clean uninstall and removal of your graphics drivers.

To uninstall your drivers, first download and run Display Driver Uninstaller, and follow it's recommendations of booting into safe mode and ect.
(This is a direct download link so you don't grab the wrong version)
http://www.guru3d.com/files-get/display-driver-uninstaller-download,20.html

You'll download a compressed file called "[Guru3D.com]-DDU.zip"
Right click and choose extract.
Go into the folder and run the DDU v##.##.exe
This will extract more files to this folder.
Run Display Driver Uninstaller.exe
Choose Yes when it asks you to boot into SafeMode.
After you've rebooted into safe mode.
When DDU comes up, if it hasn't selected your GPU manufacturer (Nvidia/AMD/Intel) then choose it from the drop down list
Press the Clean and Restart option
If a window comes up asking to disable the Windows automatic installation of display drivers click yes.

After (or before removing the old drivers, just put the new ones on the desktop or somewhere handy) rebooting back into Windows, manually download the latest drivers from Nvidia or AMD, don't use auto detect, choose you GPU model and OS from the drop down lists.
Nvidia: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
AMD: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

 

[da007255]

I fixed the startup problem, but I still have the FPS drops to 15... 🙁

 

[xfirestormxx]

Check your Antialiasing settings in GTA and in Nvidia Control Panel

 

[da007255]

I found the solution... It was my Xbox One controller, which was connected to my PC when I started GTA V. Sometimes it caused GTA V to stop responding/working and sometimes it caused the infinite loading. So, I unplugged the controller before starting GTA V, and after the game started succesfuly and loaded to the story mode or Online, I connected the controller again. And it works fine! Thanks for help though.

 

[xfirestormxx]

No problem, glad you got it working