[PC] Performance tips! (CPU speed, not car speed)

I hate this game so much, I have a decent setup, but can't keep the game not freezing. My graphics so low now, it is impair my performance. And the game still freezing from time to time. The next possible step is to got GTA3 graphics, but I don't want to go that far, yet. I just don't understand why others have problems with keeping their games run at 60FPS, so they run between 30-60, while my game usually runs at 60 easily, but out of nowhere it starts to freez. I would have no problem with the game running on 40 fps or something, but do it stable. But fo some reason, I can't do that, my game needs to freez, teleporting me around, risking others, that I'll take them out...

Any idea? bladecruiser

When you say "out of nowhere it starts to freeze" do you mean stuttering like I used to get constantly (your game freezes for a moment, although sometimes that moment lasts a few seconds and when it unfreezes everyone's cars have jumped ahead because on their screen they didn't freeze)?

Because I have a theory that in GTA stuttering can be caused by internet issues. It's a similar story to the PS4 version of Tetris that is unplayably stuttery because the genius developer basically added a check for online leaderboards or something but that check doesn't run separate to the rest of the game so it interrupts the game's normal playing every other second and causes unbearable stuttering. My proof for this being a thing in GTA V is that no game I own stutters at all. In singleplayer I never ever stutter either. It's only in online that I stutter and the stuttering is always consistent with how my internet is doing that day. On a day where my internet is doing well I'll get minimal or no stuttering. On a bad days (like that time I DC'd on Spa Short in muscles right after holding off Mitch through the final turns ;_;) not only will I get bad lag but also really bad stuttering. Also my ISP (Virgin Media for anyone wondering) throttles connections during peak hours. It just happens that playlist time, even if I'm not in the playlist, is the worst time for my stutter and lag issues. When I play earlier or later in the day, even with as many people as in the playlist, I never stutter much or at all

I don't think your issues are internet-related then. There's so many different causes of stuttering in this game it's so hard to narrow it down. Hell I have a friend who has basically the same setup as me but water-cooled and with a better graphics card and lately he's been having major stuttering issues seemingly out of nowhere

I'll try out to run the game without v-sync, but to be honest, with more and more events having a rule about 60 fps, and it looks terrible, with my display, I'm not to happy about that.

Make sure your gpu settings work with game settings. I had to set Preferred Refresh Rate to application controlled in my nvidia 3d settings. Before that i was getting major throttling issues.

I had it set ingame to 144hz, vsync on etc and was getting between 107 and 144fps with a mixture of high and very high settings.

Since joining Nonchalant Dominance i have restricted it to a constant 62fps by setting my above nvidia 3d settings to application controlled, and my ingame settings to vsync on half, 120hz and all settings to very high. Sometimes it dips to 60fps but thats it.

Hope this helps.

Ps i havent read every post in here so not sure if this has been suggested.

i have issue where i get constant 60 FPS and some reason it drops down to 20 FPS for like 30 secs and then goes up to 60 again. Getting these FPS drops in about every 20-30 mins. Any1 know how to fix it?

Well guys, the acid finaly kicked in,