Question Micro stuttering in GTA every 5 seconds

[Gaebril]

Hi, I have been playing GTA V: Online on my old and new computer for years now without ever having any issues.

However 2 days ago when I fired the game up to play them new heists with some friends I noticed that I had some weird "lag".

Every 5 seconds the games freezes up for like 0.1 seconds then continues to run flawless for 5 seconds only to micro freeze again. This happens exactly every 5 seconds without any exceptions.
Just like in this video: https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/22/20974474/red-dead-redemption-2-rdr2-pc-patch-stutter-crash-fixes

My pc specs are:
Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3-CF
Intel Core i5 - 7500, 3.40 GHz Quadcore
24 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
1 Monitor - ASUS VE247H

And to mention something super weird, I noticed that if I unplug my ethernet cable hence making my computer offline, the game runs flawlessly. And the same second I connected the cable again the micro freezing returned
I've been at this for 10 hours or something now trying seriously everything to make this work. I've followed every nvidia related lag guide etc but nothing helps so i'm growing desperate here

I can't figgure why the game micro freezes when the computer have an internet connection and why it works perfectly when the computer is offline but maybe someone here knows why?

 

[Gaebril]

I did a benchmark and here is the results from that if it helps anyone:

Frames Per Second (Higher is better) Min, Max, Avg
Pass 0, 3.923937, 86.898338, 60.243607
Pass 1, 3.936537, 72.179756, 59.488903
Pass 2, 3.923235, 88.255020, 59.831612
Pass 3, 3.941798, 126.178192, 60.190659
Pass 4, 1.938592, 96.719276, 60.068146

Time in milliseconds(ms). (Lower is better). Min, Max, Avg
Pass 0, 11.507700, 254.846100, 16.599272
Pass 1, 13.854300, 254.030411, 16.809858
Pass 2, 11.330800, 254.891693, 16.713573
Pass 3, 7.925300, 253.691315, 16.613874
Pass 4, 10.339201, 515.838318, 16.647758

Frames under 16ms (for 60fps):
Pass 0: 161/563 frames (28.60%)
Pass 1: 151/550 frames (27.45%)
Pass 2: 170/559 frames (30.41%)
Pass 3: 204/561 frames (36.36%)
Pass 4: 2146/6917 frames (31.03%)

Frames under 33ms (for 30fps):
Pass 0: 560/563 frames (99.47%)
Pass 1: 544/550 frames (98.91%)
Pass 2: 556/559 frames (99.46%)
Pass 3: 558/561 frames (99.47%)
Pass 4: 6895/6917 frames (99.68%)

Percentiles in ms for pass 0
50%, 16.00
75%, 16.00
80%, 17.00
85%, 17.00
90%, 17.00
91%, 17.00
92%, 17.00
93%, 17.00
94%, 17.00
95%, 17.00
96%, 18.00
97%, 18.00
98%, 18.00
99%, 19.00

Percentiles in ms for pass 1
50%, 16.00
75%, 17.00
80%, 17.00
85%, 17.00
90%, 17.00
91%, 18.00
92%, 18.00
93%, 18.00
94%, 18.00
95%, 18.00
96%, 19.00
97%, 19.00
98%, 20.00
99%, 32.00

Percentiles in ms for pass 2
50%, 16.00
75%, 17.00
80%, 17.00
85%, 17.00
90%, 17.00
91%, 17.00
92%, 17.00
93%, 18.00
94%, 18.00
95%, 18.00
96%, 18.00
97%, 18.00
98%, 20.00
99%, 22.00

Percentiles in ms for pass 3
50%, 16.00
75%, 17.00
80%, 17.00
85%, 17.00
90%, 17.00
91%, 17.00
92%, 17.00
93%, 18.00
94%, 18.00
95%, 18.00
96%, 18.00
97%, 18.00
98%, 19.00
99%, 23.00

Percentiles in ms for pass 4
50%, 16.00
75%, 17.00
80%, 17.00
85%, 17.00
90%, 17.00
91%, 17.00
92%, 18.00
93%, 18.00
94%, 18.00
95%, 18.00
96%, 18.00
97%, 18.00
98%, 19.00
99%, 20.00

=== SYSTEM ===
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200)
DX Feature Level: 11.0
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.4GHz
24576MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, 8471MB, Driver Version 461.72
Graphics Card Vendor Id 0x10de with Device ID 0x1b82

=== SETTINGS ===
Display: 1920x1080 (FullScreen) @ 60Hz VSync ON
Tessellation: 3
LodScale: 1.000000
PedLodBias: 0.200000
VehicleLodBias: 0.000000
ShadowQuality: 3
ReflectionQuality: 3
ReflectionMSAA: 8
SSAO: 2
AnisotropicFiltering: 16
MSAA: 4
MSAAFragments: 0
MSAAQuality: 0
SamplingMode: 0
TextureQuality: 2
ParticleQuality: 2
WaterQuality: 2
GrassQuality: 3
ShaderQuality: 2
Shadow_SoftShadows: 5
UltraShadows_Enabled: true
Shadow_ParticleShadows: true
Shadow_Distance: 1.000000
Shadow_LongShadows: true
Shadow_SplitZStart: 0.930000
Shadow_SplitZEnd: 0.890000
Shadow_aircraftExpWeight: 0.990000
Shadow_DisableScreenSizeCheck: false
Reflection_MipBlur: true
FXAA_Enabled: false
TXAA_Enabled: true
Lighting_FogVolumes: true
Shader_SSA: true
DX_Version: 2
CityDensity: 1.000000
PedVarietyMultiplier: 1.000000
VehicleVarietyMultiplier: 1.000000
PostFX: 3
DoF: true
HdStreamingInFlight: true
MaxLodScale: 0.500000
MotionBlurStrength: 0.000000

 

[LM670-4]

Hi, I have the EXACT same problem - a slight stutter every 5 seconds (stopping only when not connected to the internet). I haven't found a solution either; however, it is slightly comforting to have finally found someone with the same issue. Since you said you started up the game to play the "new heist" (which was released December), I assume you haven't played the game in a while? For me, the February 10th "1.53 patch" introduced this issue, and it has persisted ever since. Hopefully the new update, which is due this summer, addresses and fixes this issue. Cheers.

 

[Bassman999]

I had a different problem with GTA V
It would lag BAD and stutter.
I was on wifi, and plugged in LAN cable and runs amazing now.
Other games weren't affected by the wifi.
I thought my GPU was having issues initially.