Huge stuttering and freezing in GTA Online

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Hi everyone. Before anything I'll leave my system specs for you to know:

ASUS Strix GeForce GTX 970 OC 4Gb DDR5
AMD FX 6300 3.5 GHz with Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
2x4Gb Corsair Vengance 1866 MHz
MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition
EVGA 600B

The thing is that I'm experiencing a huge ammount of stuttering and the game is becoming barely playable. I can't find any solution. From time to time I experience some lag with texture loading, wich means buildings and streets going invisible for a few seconds.
No, it is not overheating since it was the first thing I checked and there was nothing wrong with temperatures (CPU reaches 55° and GPU reaches 70°, both in full load).
Yeah, I know that my CPU might be bottlenecking my GPU but I don't belive that this is the problem.
I can run the game in a very smooth 50-60 fps except for the annoying freezing and stuttering. I decided to try downgrading the game graphics from ultra settings to normal settings but the stuttering was still the same, and I also didn't notice a big fps growth.
I googled my issues and found some Nvidia Control Panel settings that are supposed to solve them but when I applied them they did nothing.

When I first installed my pc about a year ago there wasn't any problem with the game. This is a thing that started to happen since december and its getting worse with the time.

I experienced no problems of this kind with Battlefield 1, a game that I can run at 60 fps in ultra settings without any problem so I don't think that there is something wrong with my PC except for GTA V. I have also been able to play Project Cars and FIFA 16 with no issues.

Sorry for my pretty bad english and I hope you can help me finding any solution
 
Solution
With my 970, the setting that destroyed fps in GTA online was the MSAA setting and the shadows setting. Make sure to set MSAA to "none" which you wont even notice a difference, and set shadows to soft rather than the special nvidia setting. These 2 things made my fps really stuttery and drop below 30. These settings automatically reset themselves after a big update when they worked on the graphics and my issues came back as well.
With my 970, the setting that destroyed fps in GTA online was the MSAA setting and the shadows setting. Make sure to set MSAA to "none" which you wont even notice a difference, and set shadows to soft rather than the special nvidia setting. These 2 things made my fps really stuttery and drop below 30. These settings automatically reset themselves after a big update when they worked on the graphics and my issues came back as well.
 
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