Lagging in GTA V with a GTX 970

[QuantumPrimus]

I have the GTX 970 which i had bought a couple of weeks ago. I have tested it out with multiple games. Some games run really well, others run really slow. One of the games I experienced some lag in was Grand Theft Auto 5. I run the game at 1920x1080 at 60hz and at mostly normal settings. I usually get around 40-80 frames a second. Would this be effected by the power supply or processor I have. I have a 500 watt power supply and an AMD fx 6300 processor. If its not the power supply, is there anything else it could be?

My full specs

MSI 970 Motherboard

1 TB hard drive disk

1 500 GB hard drive disk (the disk i have GTA V on)

EVGA GTX 970 Graphics Card

AMD fx 6300

Corsair 500 watt power supply

 

[Cyberdid]

It could be processor bcoz fx 6300 is slow in performance. For gtx 970 you should go for Intel i5 4690k or amd fx 8350.

 

[sizzling]

An 8350 wont perform any better, its cores are just as weak. The AMD FX range just have weak single core performance and are known to hold back a 970 in CPU intensive games like a GTA V. As long as your PSU is not a Corsair CX or VS and you have a good CPU cooler the best you can do is try overclocking the CPU

 

[Looby219]

Not the processor. An FX-6300 should be more than enough. Check out this link and adjust your in game settings. There may simply be some settings in games that are way too high:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1909-gta-v-graphics-optimization-guide

I suspect that's not it though, very unlikely. A big possibility I'm thinking is driver issues. Try reinstalling your NVIDIA drivers.
Also, if you do not keep all the games on the same hard disk, it may be a very slow hard disk, in which case you would need to replace it.

 

[QuantumPrimus]

Not the processor. An FX-6300 should be more than enough. Check out this link and adjust your in game settings. There may simply be some settings in games that are way too high:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1909-gta-v-graphics-optimization-guide

I suspect that's not it though, very unlikely. A big possibility I'm thinking is driver issues. Try reinstalling your NVIDIA drivers.
Also, if you do not keep all the games on the same hard disk, it may be a very slow hard disk, in which case you would need to replace it.

have reinstalled the drivers twice for the Graphics card. I have mostly all the settings set to normal except the post FX. I'll try to turn down the settings down and see what happens.

 

[maxalge]

Not the processor. An FX-6300 should be more than enough. Check out this link and adjust your in game settings. There may simply be some settings in games that are way too high:

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1909-gta-v-graphics-optimization-guide

I suspect that's not it though, very unlikely. A big possibility I'm thinking is driver issues. Try reinstalling your NVIDIA drivers.
Also, if you do not keep all the games on the same hard disk, it may be a very slow hard disk, in which case you would need to replace it.

no amd processor is "more than enough", they are barely adequate nowadays

gta5 needs a fast cpu to run well

 

[DustinV]

Gta V is cpu intensive, you need to swap out to an Intel motherboard and an i5 like the 4460

 

[Alan Caldwell]

AMD processors have many weak cores that tend to perform bad in games whereas Intel has less strong cores that perform well.
So switch to Intel and keep gaming 😉

 

[QuantumPrimus]

AMD processors have many weak cores that tend to perform bad in games whereas Intel has less strong cores that perform well.
So switch to Intel and keep gaming 😉

The problem is, i dont have that kind of money to go and buy the intel systems. They are just to much for my budget and of what I have seen, they are just to expensive for me. Is there any AMD equivilent? (I just want a processor that is cheap and can stop the problems)

 

[Alan Caldwell]

AMD processors have many weak cores that tend to perform bad in games whereas Intel has less strong cores that perform well.
So switch to Intel and keep gaming 😉

The problem is, i dont have that kind of money to go and buy the intel systems. They are just to much for my budget and of what I have seen, they are just to expensive for me. Is there any AMD equivilent? (I just want a processor that is cheap and can stop the problems)

AMD is AMD as I have explained above, try to sell off your current mobo and proccy and get an Intel i5 6600k with a Z170 mobo.

 

[QuantumPrimus]

AMD processors have many weak cores that tend to perform bad in games whereas Intel has less strong cores that perform well.
So switch to Intel and keep gaming 😉

The problem is, i dont have that kind of money to go and buy the intel systems. They are just to much for my budget and of what I have seen, they are just to expensive for me. Is there any AMD equivilent? (I just want a processor that is cheap and can stop the problems)

AMD is AMD as I have explained above, try to sell off your current mobo and proccy and get an Intel i5 6600k with a Z170 mobo.

Ok, thank you for your help and as well as everyone else who has looked at this.

 

[Alan Caldwell]

AMD processors have many weak cores that tend to perform bad in games whereas Intel has less strong cores that perform well.
So switch to Intel and keep gaming 😉

The problem is, i dont have that kind of money to go and buy the intel systems. They are just to much for my budget and of what I have seen, they are just to expensive for me. Is there any AMD equivilent? (I just want a processor that is cheap and can stop the problems)

AMD is AMD as I have explained above, try to sell off your current mobo and proccy and get an Intel i5 6600k with a Z170 mobo.

Ok, thank you for your help and as well as everyone else who has looked at this.

You are welcome 😉