Question I go from 40 something and sometimes hit as low as 25fps on GTA Online

[SamDelgado123]

Hi

I have a i3-4170 with a MSI RX560 4GB OC and a dual 8GB RAM on a gygabite H81M-H
For some reason almost regardless of what settings I have my game starts at 62fps inside my apartment but goes as low as 25-23 while driving at high speeds, I've tried nearly every setting and it seems that the game is just fixated on that. I am running the latest driver of this card (2020 something) and I am starting to get frustrated. I don't mind playing at 40-50 but I think this PC should be able to hit 60 somehow, I see videos of people with my processor and weaker GPUs pull it off

 

[CosmicDance]

Having 16 GB of RAM would definitely help to smooth things out.
8 GB isn't really enough for gaming these days.

Andy

 

[SamDelgado123]

Yeah Andy I understand that but the problem is that for example there's this video of a guy with my processor and the 2gb version of the RX560 running it at 60fps and well... How come I can't?

 

[WildCard999]

The video could be faked (there's quite a few on YT) but there's other things that could factor in such as other programs running in the background. If you have, for example, like Chrome and Discord opened then it's going to hurt your performance. You also may want to make sure your GPU drivers are up to date, run full scans on Windows Defender/Malwarebytes (Free) to ensure there's nothing nasty in the system slowing it down and check temps as thermal throttling could affect performance. Both the CPU & GPU should be under 80C while gaming.
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[TerryLaze]

GTA V loading times
*Do not try this at home,since rockstar is known to ban people for anything and tempering with the game threads definitely is ban worthy.

The game has its main thread running at a high priority which ** forces windows to cut off secondary tasks until the main task finishes...since this is a game though the main task doesn't finish until you quit the game and since the main thread needs the info from the secondary tasks to continue you get all kinds of issues from longer loading times to missing textures to stutters or slow downs.

*Instead lowering the FPS with a FPS limiter (same as a weaker GPU would do naturally) will cause the main thread to pause more often since it won't have to keep up with the GPU giving you the same result.

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If a higher-priority thread becomes available to run, the system ceases to execute the lower-priority thread (without allowing it to finish using its time slice) and assigns a full time slice to the higher-priority thread.