GTAV Self Radio Lag

[wildernesshobo]

Hello,

I'm encountering a lag issue when I listen to self radio on gta5. As I'm sure you know theres not much of a good selection on the default radio and they come on rarely, so I'd really like to keep self radio.
I've googled it before and the only thing that helped people was making shortcuts and placing them into the music folder, well I tried that and I still have the issue.

It's not a horrible amount of lag, but it causes trouble, and does not go away until I change stations, and then it's instantly at 80+ fps again. It sits at around 40 with self radio on and drops to as much as 10 for no reason.
I've got no idea what to do, I tried removing songs, I started with 30 songs and now I have 10 and it hasn't changed anything.
Does anyone have some tips or a fix?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,
wildi.

 

[TheNewGeek420]

It's a new game give it some time... probably some bug, but try sending a support ticket. May i ask what CPU you have?

 

[wildernesshobo]

May i ask what CPU you have?

I've got an i5-4670k 3.4 ghz, two 7870 ghz editions in crossfire and 8gb 1866mhz ram.

 

[Supernova1138]

At the moment there pretty much is no fix, the Self Radio seems to eat up a crapload of CPU power for what it does, and that's what seems to be causing the frametime spikes and framerate drops. I find the problem goes away for the most part when I'm out in the desert where there isn't much of a population, and my CPU usage is generally lower. Other than just not using the Self Radio or restricting it to the less populated zones, all you can really do is try overclocking your CPU and see if you can brute force your way out of this.

 

[wildernesshobo]

At the moment there pretty much is no fix, the Self Radio seems to eat up a crapload of CPU power for what it does, and that's what seems to be causing the frametime spikes and framerate drops. I find the problem goes away for the most part when I'm out in the desert where there isn't much of a population, and my CPU usage is generally lower. Other than just not using the Self Radio or restricting it to the less populated zones, all you can really do is try overclocking your CPU and see if you can brute force your way out of this.

I found that out yesterday while trying to find a fix, I cut down to 6 songs and still get considerable framerate drops when the city. Thanks.

 

[desolace]

My fps drops down instantly when listening self radio please help ;/

 

[wildernesshobo]

My fps drops down instantly when listening self radio please help ;/

There's no fix for this. Read the solution, it worked for me but I eventually just gave up because the music selection sucks in the game and I lag like hell when I listen to self radio. Sorry.

 

[desolace]

Why there is no fix after a few months ? This problem is known since gta 5 was released on PC and they did nothing to fix that? Why in GTA SA and GTA IV they made it properly but in 5 it is broken? Can't understand that, so stupid.

 

[desolace]

How can we play without music , fix this why they don't fix omg?

 

[wildernesshobo]

I found a semi fix: use shortcuts to the music, have a folder of all of the songs you want on the desktop, and use shortcuts to that folder. Also, use 10 or less songs.

It gave me a stable 30 fps. It was stable without lag spikes, but it was 30 when i would have had 70+ without self radio.

I don't use self radio anymore, it's not that game breaking.

 

[desolace]

Funny cuz I have a folder on my desktop and shortcuts.. sometimes i only lose some fps but usually i got huge lags/freezes. But i have 18 songs i'll try to use only 9 and we will see. You know any mp3 player that works with gta V? Cuz i use aimp3/winamp also downloaded "global hotkey player" or sth like that. But all of them don't work when gta V is running i mean hotkeys don't work don't react cuz i don't want to alt+tab all the time to change song or pause etc.

 

[wildernesshobo]

I usually just use itunes.

 

[ps3YES]

its just like Listening to the music and playing game both eat very much CPU especially when u're driving in GTA V ...that cause lag...the only way to stop this is get a better cpu

 

[wildernesshobo]

its just like Listening to the music and playing game both eat very much CPU especially when u're driving in GTA V ...that cause lag...the only way to stop this is get a better cpu

Okay sure thanks.

 

[Smeewth]

its just like Listening to the music and playing game both eat very much CPU especially when u're driving in GTA V ...that cause lag...the only way to stop this is get a better cpu

Right, I got an i7 4790K and I still experience lag issues with self radio 😛
People need to step away from the instant reply "You got a shit <insert PC component here>, replace it".

 

[wildernesshobo]

Same lmfao

 

[Lars_9]

Same thing here although not with my FPS going down or anything, i got the issue that when i turn on Self Radio, all of the textures load a bit slower on buildings and environment + game stutters a lot more...

Maybe i could try to make the 320kbit/s mp3 files something like 128 or around that... Anyone else got a fix allready?

Specs: i5-4460
GTX 980Ti Golden Edition
16gb ram @1600mhz
Game and music folders are on my SSD...

 

[wildernesshobo]

Hey man, I upgraded my system since this thread and I still have this issue. As far as I know there is no solid fix for it, the best thing I can tell you is to keep the songs down to 6 or 7 and like you said lower the quality. That got me to stop getting huge spikes; however, the performance was still nowhere near as good as it was when I listened to other radio stations.

Hope that helped a little.

 

[Mike_299]

The solution for the cheap minded is to upload your mp3 files to your phone and use a Bluetooth speaker or even more old school is using a cd player hooked up to a speaker and just turn down sfx a bit and turn the radio off when I play my songs works fine.