Major stuttering and cpu utilization on gta 5 (i5 4670k overclocked)

[Josh-Sweeny]

Just got GTA 5 now and have been experiencing some very annoying stuttering issues, which i believe to be due to somehow my i5 4670k bottlenecking my 780 even though previously it has not and i was told it wouldnt even bottleneck a 780 sli configuration. Turning down the settings has had very little effect either as going from very high to high or even normal gives me at most 10-15 fps but the stuttering still persists. Also every time i tab out of the game and look at my cpu utilization for the past 5 minutes there has been very frequent fluctuations of 100% utilization which i think is the cause of the stuttering that is occurring. I have the i5 4670k overclocked to 4.0ghz and it never goes above 65% so i dont think it is throttling. I even tried removing the overclock which did not help at all.

IS there something i am doing wrong?

I have a screenshot of my cpu monitor here as i have gta in the background. When the spike occurs is when i tab in and start to play http://gyazo.com/d000d28aa8ee5d97e3cf23ed0dd11bd6

Edit: I'd also like to mention that about 2 hours ago i reduced the particle quality and reflection quality and grass quality to the lowest settings as they were said to be the most cpu intensive settings which resulted in perfect gameplay. Now when i play with the same settings the stuttering is back. ( I am also playing in 1440p with only 1.5gb of my 3gb memory supposedly being used up)

 

[Joseph DeGarmo]

GTA V is a very CPU-intensive game from the reports I have gathered. The game apparently utilizes more than four cores, making an upgrade to an i7-4790k worthwhile, but it's your decision if you want to upgrade the CPU. Some other future games, especially DirectX 12-based games, will follow suit.

 

[Josh-Sweeny]

GTA V is a very CPU-intensive game from the reports I have gathered. The game apparently utilizes more than four cores, making an upgrade to an i7-4790k worthwhile, but it's your decision if you want to upgrade the CPU. Some other future games, especially DirectX 12-based games, will follow suit.

Thats was what i was thinking and was hoping not to be the case, would like to think i still had a couple of years left in my cpu which i only bought about 2 years ago... I didnt want to buy a new cpu for one game so i was hoping there was another way, but if you say in the future more games will be like this i may be looking for a cpu upgrade rather than a gpu upgrade later this year...

 

[Joseph DeGarmo]

Just run the CPU-intensive settings on medium and everything else on high or ultra.