Okay, there are endless threads, youtube videos, and google search listings regarding the graphics lagging/stuttering and disappearing textures after 15 minutes of playing GTA V. This is not my issue. I have never seen or heard anyone talk about the issue I am having which is really frustrating.
Background:
Been playing GTA V for a year or so on ULTRA graphics settings. I play offline and with LSPDFR police mod. Never any issues. One day a few weeks back I wanted to play a single player mission and for some reason I couldn't. So I turned off all my firewall login fixes and set the correct date so that I could play online (Those steps are to keep the game from signing on and constantly updating or authenticating), but that is also not my issue, so lets get back on track. While online it needed to update which I was expecting. It did update and I still couldn't play the single player missions. So I said, screw it and I reverted my game back to the normal .877 patch that I have been using for a year now and everything has been perfect. I have even done this step of updating and then reverting many times. All went well and I loaded back into game with my old setup. Loading times were fine, but now as soon as I see my character it is stuttering, freezes, choppy, lagging, and buildings in the back load in very slowly. This goes on for about 5 minutes as if it is loading the entire GTA world. After the 5 minutes everything works perfectly and 60fps from then on. So what the heck happened? I tried working with mods folder in OpenIV and nothing changed, I took mods out and nothing changed, I even allowed it to update again and reverted and still same thing. I did all the fps limiter fixes and file fixes from youtube and websites to fix "THEIR" common lagging issues from Rockstart's bad patch files. That is not my issue and even when I did try those, they didn't work.
It sounds like my graphics card is not coming on or activating for about 5 minutes into the game so it has no graphics power behind it and then after 5 minutes I hear my graphics card fans speed up like normal and then graphics are at 60fps and look great. I have also updated new drivers, old drivers, you name it. What the heck is going on? I have played other games such as BF4 to test my GPU and its working great.
Its almost as if the newest patch installed some weird file and corrupted my game or Windows even though I reverted back to an old patch which still works great, it just take 5 min to start working well. This is why I think it might be some type of file thing or something associated with the communication between the game and my graphics card. The graphics card is not recognizing that it is in the game or it is being pushed aside while other things load and take place. Its almost as if something is telling my gpu to not start up yet and it lags behind while all the buildings are loading in, then fan kicks in, gpu kicks in, and 60fps from then on. I have never heard anyone else talk about this. I reiterate, I DO NOT have the lagging game issues that everyone else has been having which with them, the game starts up perfectly fine and then after 20 minutes of play THEN it starts lagging and textures start disappearing. Those issues seems to be from either a corrupt update, memory issue, or CPU issue heating up. I DO NOT have those issues. What else do you think it could be? My CPU and GPU stay at a nice 45C-55C the entire time of game play on Ultra settings. Keep in mind I have been playing GTA V just fine for a year now with the computer specs and all of the sudden this started. My specs below.
Win7
i7 4790k 4GHz 8CPU
8GB ram
1TB 7200rpm Hard drive
GTX 970 FTW 4GB
I have always played on the highest Ultra settings with vsync and everything maxed and still got easily 50-60 steady game play up until a week ago. What is going on and what happened? I haven't reinstalled my game from a fresh copy yet since that would take me all day with trying to install all my mods again which are only a few, but confusing. I reiterate I have been playing for a year just as is so its not my mods either. Please let me know your ideas or if you have had this problem what you did to fix it. Thank you.
Background:
Been playing GTA V for a year or so on ULTRA graphics settings. I play offline and with LSPDFR police mod. Never any issues. One day a few weeks back I wanted to play a single player mission and for some reason I couldn't. So I turned off all my firewall login fixes and set the correct date so that I could play online (Those steps are to keep the game from signing on and constantly updating or authenticating), but that is also not my issue, so lets get back on track. While online it needed to update which I was expecting. It did update and I still couldn't play the single player missions. So I said, screw it and I reverted my game back to the normal .877 patch that I have been using for a year now and everything has been perfect. I have even done this step of updating and then reverting many times. All went well and I loaded back into game with my old setup. Loading times were fine, but now as soon as I see my character it is stuttering, freezes, choppy, lagging, and buildings in the back load in very slowly. This goes on for about 5 minutes as if it is loading the entire GTA world. After the 5 minutes everything works perfectly and 60fps from then on. So what the heck happened? I tried working with mods folder in OpenIV and nothing changed, I took mods out and nothing changed, I even allowed it to update again and reverted and still same thing. I did all the fps limiter fixes and file fixes from youtube and websites to fix "THEIR" common lagging issues from Rockstart's bad patch files. That is not my issue and even when I did try those, they didn't work.
It sounds like my graphics card is not coming on or activating for about 5 minutes into the game so it has no graphics power behind it and then after 5 minutes I hear my graphics card fans speed up like normal and then graphics are at 60fps and look great. I have also updated new drivers, old drivers, you name it. What the heck is going on? I have played other games such as BF4 to test my GPU and its working great.
Its almost as if the newest patch installed some weird file and corrupted my game or Windows even though I reverted back to an old patch which still works great, it just take 5 min to start working well. This is why I think it might be some type of file thing or something associated with the communication between the game and my graphics card. The graphics card is not recognizing that it is in the game or it is being pushed aside while other things load and take place. Its almost as if something is telling my gpu to not start up yet and it lags behind while all the buildings are loading in, then fan kicks in, gpu kicks in, and 60fps from then on. I have never heard anyone else talk about this. I reiterate, I DO NOT have the lagging game issues that everyone else has been having which with them, the game starts up perfectly fine and then after 20 minutes of play THEN it starts lagging and textures start disappearing. Those issues seems to be from either a corrupt update, memory issue, or CPU issue heating up. I DO NOT have those issues. What else do you think it could be? My CPU and GPU stay at a nice 45C-55C the entire time of game play on Ultra settings. Keep in mind I have been playing GTA V just fine for a year now with the computer specs and all of the sudden this started. My specs below.
Win7
i7 4790k 4GHz 8CPU
8GB ram
1TB 7200rpm Hard drive
GTX 970 FTW 4GB
I have always played on the highest Ultra settings with vsync and everything maxed and still got easily 50-60 steady game play up until a week ago. What is going on and what happened? I haven't reinstalled my game from a fresh copy yet since that would take me all day with trying to install all my mods again which are only a few, but confusing. I reiterate I have been playing for a year just as is so its not my mods either. Please let me know your ideas or if you have had this problem what you did to fix it. Thank you.
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