To Titan XP and GTA V owners - low FPS

[emilxert]

Hey! So recently I've got this most powerful (yet) graphics card and can't comprehend one thing specifically in GTA V:

I've looked at some benchmarks online of this card in this game maxed out and all I see is lowest FPS around 77 with 4x MSAA at 1080p.

However in my case I'm getting constantly inferior FPS without any AA and at 1080p of as low as 36-38 frames. These numbers are achieved by skydiving on hydra into grassy areas with trees (near Mount Chiliad). Skydiving in Los Santos gets me to 45-52 FPS.

So does the same happen to you, Titan XP owners, or am I doing something wrong?

Other specs are: ASUS Rampage V Edition 10, Kingston Hyperx Predator 16 GB @ 3200 Mhz, i7 6850K @ 4.0 Ghz, game installed onto a Kingston SSD.

Much obliged for your replies!

 

[The_Staplergun]

Is it a 1x16 or 2x8 ram setup?

 

[emilxert]

2 sticks of 8 Gb

 

[The_Staplergun]

The game is extremely cpu intensive and isnt really optimised to run on multiple threads. It's all about single thread speed, and 4.0ghz is slower than the later chips such as Skylake and kaby lake.

This could be attributing to the problem among other things that I don't know of.

 

[emilxert]

Would you say anything positive about pushing this CPU to 4.2? Nowhere beyond that would I go though

 

[The_Staplergun]

As far as that goes I honestly couldn't help you. I know Skylake and kaby lake i5 and i7 quad cores, and a little about ryzen. I'm still learning about the other processors. I'll have to defer this to other people who pass through.

 

[blue_smoke]

you've got many, many cores on a very nice Skylake CPU. You should not be having any issues. Reinstall your gpu driver, or windows if it comes to that. make sure your gpu is in the top x16 slot on your mobo and if all else fails then there's no nvidia driver yet that's optimized for the XP and gaming either that or GTA V simply can't use the whole card for some reason.

 

[emilxert]

I need to mention that 38-52 happens only in intensely grassy areas or quick skydives into the city (benchmarking the system to the fullest) and not on a regular basis. Is this so still not common?

There's a guy on YouTube testing the card at 1080p with Titan XP, and he gets like 50-59 FPS on a mission where Trevor is chasing a train on a bike:

https://youtu.be/AmWuJ0iVLrU

 

[boju]

Few settings here might interest you, more so grass quality. Skydiving once you start getting closer to the ground i can imagine all those pretty flowers and individual grass blades are going to impact performance quite a bit.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/heres-how-to-make-gta-v-look-beautiful-and-play-well-on-your-pc/

 

[emilxert]

I'm not really into lowering settings, I'd rather like to know if other TXP gamers encounter same performance in extreme graphics locations of the game)

 

[bystander]

I need to mention that 38-52 happens only in intensely grassy areas or quick skydives into the city (benchmarking the system to the fullest) and not on a regular basis. Is this so still not common?

There's a guy on YouTube testing the card at 1080p with Titan XP, and he gets like 50-59 FPS on a mission where Trevor is chasing a train on a bike:

https://youtu.be/AmWuJ0iVLrU

GTA V is one of the few games which does use more cores and will improve performance, but even then, GTA V has reports of low FPS in a few areas that require a lot of CPU work. You most likely ran into one of those areas.

Use MSI Afterburner and monitor the usage of your GPU and CPU cores. Check temps as well. Perhaps there is something wrong with your system, but benchmarks are not a good representation of all areas of the game.

 

[emilxert]

GPU usage according to MSI AB is 50-60% at 1650x1050 with all AA on and maxed out and other stuff at max. Only frame scaling does increase GPU usage to 80-99% with or without AA.

Again, any Titan XP users please chime in to confirm or rebut the validity of my results

 

[bystander]

GPU usage according to MSI AB is 50-60% at 1650x1050 with all AA on and maxed out and other stuff at max. Only frame scaling does increase GPU usage to 80-99% with or without AA.

Again, any Titan XP users please chime in to confirm or rebut the validity of my results

That points to a CPU bottleneck. Most likely game related.

 

[emilxert]

Another aspect I can't get my head around - how can latest CPU bottleneck latest GPU, arghh. Hope the game is the culprit. Checked Crysis 3, Battleifield 4, 1 - performance seems to be akin to other people.

Still waiting for TXP owners 🙂

 

[bystander]

Another aspect I can't get my head around - how can latest CPU bottleneck latest GPU, arghh. Hope the game is the culprit. Checked Crysis 3, Battleifield 4, 1 - performance seems to be akin to other people.

Still waiting for TXP owners 🙂

It's quite simple, the game was not well tested everywhere, and when the game was released, they were saying that 30 FPS was more cinematic, so when it drops to near 30 FPS, it didn't bother them. They also didn't likely fine tune every aspect of the game. I also find it interesting that so many people expect their CPU to always be faster than their GPU, especially when buying a Titan X at 1080p.

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

GTA V takes advantage of additional CPU cores better than most games right now, but it still favors 4 higher clocked cores over 8 slower clocked cores.

Gamers Nexus used very different settings of course, notably MSAA off, but the relative performance still holds true.

 

[boju]

I'm not really into lowering settings, I'd rather like to know if other TXP gamers encounter same performance in extreme graphics locations of the game)

Well try the grass setting at least, its not that big of deal lowering this quality aspect of the game if it gives you more fps. Unlikely you'll notice it anyway.

Could even try using dsr to scale a higher resolution and turn off AA. Ideally you should be running 2k anyway.

1070/1080 isn't far off a Titan, maybe you'll have more results basing it around those two graphics cards. I get you want specific Titan users but just trying to help your chances and the outcome you want which is obviously more fps. As said, this game isn't really optimised that well and saying that an exception to your rule can maybe do away with the urge running absolutely everything max.

Grass normal and try DSR 2k and turn AA off. You never know might just give you more fps than before while looking even better.