- May 25, 2016
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DISCLAIMER: I'm going to be as detailed as possible so I can recieve proper feedback for my issue
Specs:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo)
ASRock 970 Extreme4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
G.Skill Ares Series 16GB DDR3 @ 2400Mhz (8GB x 2)
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB
SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified
Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
My Problem:
There are two main problems I have while playing GTA V:
1. During gameplay (Single Player or Online), my game will randomly freeze. This freeze lasts 1-2 seconds on average and seemingly happens randomly during pause menu's, cutscenes, the main menu, and all forms of gameplay (driving, walking, piloting, etc.). These freezes pause my audio, my video, and don't allow mouse movement or any inputs.
I monitored my graphics card and my cpu during gameplay to see if there were any abnormalities. For my graphics card, I used MSI Afterburner. For my CPU, I used PerfMonitor2.
I tested the game twice in 1920x1080, firstly using the settings I set them too for a close to 60+ fps average which included setting everything to Very High, No VSync, No MSAA (besides the water MSAA @ 8x), 16x antialiasing, and extended shadows maxed with high detail streaming on.
Here are those results for my CPU.
Next, I tested the game in 1920x1080 using the lowest settings possible for everything.
Here are those results for my CPU.
2. My second problem happens when launching the game. Before I started trying to fix the freezing issue, my game would crash on launch. I would use Steam to launch the game which then launched the Rockstar Games GTA V launcher, I would be auto-signed in and the game would begin to launch. On the first launch, it always crashed during the first second of the police sirens and windows would ask to debug or close the program. I would close the program, wait for the RSG Launcher to give me the option to launch in Safe Mode or Retry, then wait 1 second (which I found to be necessary) and hit retry. The game would then launch properly. If I didn't wait 1 second or if I waited too long, the game would continue to crash on launch. The first retry seemed to be the only one that worked.
After changing my settings to the ones used in the first freezing test, the game launched normally every time without issue.
Now, after changing my settings while testing the freezing issue, my launcher crashes nearly every time on launch and I have to retry multiple times before it launches. I can run it in safe mode, but then I have to change the settings back to what they were, and the cycle continues. So, hitting retry over and over until it works was the only way for me to continue testing different settings on the freezing issue.
What I've tried already:
I need any input that I can get to make this game work. I owned it for the PS3 before I sold them and bought GTA V for my PC. I've already beaten the story mode while dealing with the freezing issue (It's annoying but it didn't affect the story mode), but now that I'm getting into online with friends, this issue is seriously frustrating. For example, in an online race, the game will freeze for 1-2 seconds while I'm in first place with two people tailing behind me. When the game comes to, I'll be in 4th place but be in the same spot I froze at, going the same speed before the freeze occurred. To them, I'm just lagging, but my internet isn't the issue, it's the game.
To whoever read all of this, thank you and I hope someone out there can help me figure out my problem.
Specs:
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo)
ASRock 970 Extreme4 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
G.Skill Ares Series 16GB DDR3 @ 2400Mhz (8GB x 2)
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB
SeaSonic 620W 80+ Bronze Certified
Mushkin Reactor 256GB 2.5" SSD
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM HDD
My Problem:
There are two main problems I have while playing GTA V:
1. During gameplay (Single Player or Online), my game will randomly freeze. This freeze lasts 1-2 seconds on average and seemingly happens randomly during pause menu's, cutscenes, the main menu, and all forms of gameplay (driving, walking, piloting, etc.). These freezes pause my audio, my video, and don't allow mouse movement or any inputs.
I monitored my graphics card and my cpu during gameplay to see if there were any abnormalities. For my graphics card, I used MSI Afterburner. For my CPU, I used PerfMonitor2.
I tested the game twice in 1920x1080, firstly using the settings I set them too for a close to 60+ fps average which included setting everything to Very High, No VSync, No MSAA (besides the water MSAA @ 8x), 16x antialiasing, and extended shadows maxed with high detail streaming on.
Here are those results for my CPU.
Next, I tested the game in 1920x1080 using the lowest settings possible for everything.
Here are those results for my CPU.
2. My second problem happens when launching the game. Before I started trying to fix the freezing issue, my game would crash on launch. I would use Steam to launch the game which then launched the Rockstar Games GTA V launcher, I would be auto-signed in and the game would begin to launch. On the first launch, it always crashed during the first second of the police sirens and windows would ask to debug or close the program. I would close the program, wait for the RSG Launcher to give me the option to launch in Safe Mode or Retry, then wait 1 second (which I found to be necessary) and hit retry. The game would then launch properly. If I didn't wait 1 second or if I waited too long, the game would continue to crash on launch. The first retry seemed to be the only one that worked.
After changing my settings to the ones used in the first freezing test, the game launched normally every time without issue.
Now, after changing my settings while testing the freezing issue, my launcher crashes nearly every time on launch and I have to retry multiple times before it launches. I can run it in safe mode, but then I have to change the settings back to what they were, and the cycle continues. So, hitting retry over and over until it works was the only way for me to continue testing different settings on the freezing issue.
What I've tried already:
I've uninstalled my old graphics card drivers and installed the latest.
I've deleted the "settings.xml" and verified the integrity of my game's cache
I've set my GTA V Launcher to launch as admin
I've stopped and disabled "Background Intelligent Transfer Service," "Superfetch," and "Windows Search," along with editing the registry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>System>ControlSet001>Services>Ndu>Start" from value "2" to "4"
according to this video.
I need any input that I can get to make this game work. I owned it for the PS3 before I sold them and bought GTA V for my PC. I've already beaten the story mode while dealing with the freezing issue (It's annoying but it didn't affect the story mode), but now that I'm getting into online with friends, this issue is seriously frustrating. For example, in an online race, the game will freeze for 1-2 seconds while I'm in first place with two people tailing behind me. When the game comes to, I'll be in 4th place but be in the same spot I froze at, going the same speed before the freeze occurred. To them, I'm just lagging, but my internet isn't the issue, it's the game.
To whoever read all of this, thank you and I hope someone out there can help me figure out my problem.
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