Derpcrawler
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HDD are not all same, he might be running WD Green for all we know, or his HDD haven't been de-fragmented in ages and is 4+ years old.
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GTA V PC Performance Thread
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HDD are not all same, he might be running WD Green for all we know, or his HDD haven't been de-fragmented in ages and is 4+ years old.
icecold1983
Member
uploading a video now that clearly shows it
CyanideFuse
Member
For all those getting crashes have you checked the event viewer / applications to see what it reports?
Two of us play the game using the one Rockstar account but different windows users logins. This allows us to have separate saves. Anyway I haven't had any crashes other than an unstable OC on the processor. My boyfriend has been getting very different crashes to me. It kept crashing out last night approx every ten minutes (I had played earlier in the day without any problem); to add this was the first time we started to close the launcher.exe. This was the re-occurring errors reported at the same time as two errors:
I haven't had any HDD issues with anything else on the computer but this is what was reported back:
Two of us play the game using the one Rockstar account but different windows users logins. This allows us to have separate saves. Anyway I haven't had any crashes other than an unstable OC on the processor. My boyfriend has been getting very different crashes to me. It kept crashing out last night approx every ten minutes (I had played earlier in the day without any problem); to add this was the first time we started to close the launcher.exe. This was the re-occurring errors reported at the same time as two errors:
I haven't had any HDD issues with anything else on the computer but this is what was reported back:
Derpcrawler
Member
Here's the HDD I'm using
Pretty fast!
I am not talking about your HDD, duh, now hide your e-peen since my SSD is faster anyways. He has a problem and from what he described - it's a streaming issue, most probably because of HDD.
Windom Earle
Member
No, the game just needs lots of memory and stable hardware (Of course I am sure there are people with legit issues too).
Still a great port.
With today's overclocking culture, people crank everything to the max and then don't understand when things crash.
LilJoka's explanation is accurate. The size itself doesn't matter. But you should watch the PF usage trend. If you are seeing a constant PF usage increase while playing, then your game is asking for more memory than the OS can provide and hence is allocating virtual memory instead of physical memory in order to prevent crashing. This can cause performance issues such as pausing/stuttering as the game will now end up reading stuff from disk instead of RAM.
Burgess_101
Member
Couple of questions:
1. Is there a way to move the Rockstar Games/GTA V folder in documents somewhere else? I dont have enough space on my SSD for this stuff and I would like to record videos/take pictures.
2. GTX 780 @ 1080p what are the best settings? At the moment I am getting 45-60 on average and I really want it to just stick at least to the 55-60 area.
1. Is there a way to move the Rockstar Games/GTA V folder in documents somewhere else? I dont have enough space on my SSD for this stuff and I would like to record videos/take pictures.
2. GTX 780 @ 1080p what are the best settings? At the moment I am getting 45-60 on average and I really want it to just stick at least to the 55-60 area.
nkarafo
Member
I am running a WD blue series and it's a pretty recent drive (bought it about 7 months ago). The problem, however seems to be the exact same as when i had the game on a much older 160GB disk (i don't notice any improvements on the more recent drive). Which makes me think this is not really a HDD issue but something else?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
Regardless, I was giving my own experience of the game's performance while installed on an HDD. It could be one of any number of things causing that user issues, however buying an SSD thinking it will solve the problem is akin to cracking a nut with a sledgehammer.
icecold1983
Member
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2t0BsiVu0jpb2d0QVZFYkJnRUk/view?usp=sharing
you can see the txaa kick in on the alphas once i stop and movement settles. in motion its identical to the msaa i show in the beginning in terms of temporal aliasing.
He can use that as a comparison, he runs a bench we can see how his HDD compares, as I don't get any streaming issues.
Sounds like you have the ego, how quick to attack...
nkarafo
Member
I will use the exact same test and will report.Here's the HDD I'm using
Pretty fast!
Edit: WTF?, the program gave me a blue screen of death the moment i double clicked it
How full is the HDD? It's possible if GTA has been installed at the end of the drive that it's closest to the centre of the drive, further reducing performance.
You can use HDTune to do a read test across the drive. That will show a graph of tested sequential read speeds against GB.
If you are getting a BSOD opening that, you may have other issues. Maybe take discussion to the PC building thread.
nkarafo
Member
I tried a different version and it works but how do i do the speed test?
Click All top left. The 4k test takes a little while so wait it out.
daninthemix
Member
Out of interest do you leave the voltage on auto and just set the core multiplier?
Shuggananas
Banned
By the way what are some ways to display your FPS in game ? I don't feel like installing fraps, always hated this clunky shit
MSI afterburner has an OSD that most use.
nkarafo
Member
NVM, i downloaded the wrong program (info instead of mark)
upload gifs
Here's my WD Blue 500GB disk (not very fast)
Windom Earle
Member
Auto voltage can work, but is usually not recommended. I am using a fixed value.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=366547
I had this microstutter approx. once every second, and it drove me crazy..
I couldn't find any other way to fix it, so I turned on pre-rendereded frames in the Nvidia control panel, and now it's completely butter smooth without any stutter whatsoever.
Input-lag? Yeah, well.. It's not that bad actually (with a mouse it's probably quite bad..). I prefer a little bit of latency over stuttering right now until there's a better fix out there.
I couldn't find any other way to fix it, so I turned on pre-rendereded frames in the Nvidia control panel, and now it's completely butter smooth without any stutter whatsoever.
Input-lag? Yeah, well.. It's not that bad actually (with a mouse it's probably quite bad..). I prefer a little bit of latency over stuttering right now until there's a better fix out there.
NVM, i downloaded the wrong program (info instead of mark)
upload gifs
Here's my WD Blue 500GB disk (not very fast)
I looked up your drive and it has 2x250GB platters, that means lower disk density leading too slower performance. Most manufactures are using 1Tb platters nowadays. The Toshiba 1TB ACA is the cheapest using 1Tb platter technology.
I think others have said this, but use something like O&O Defeagmenter to try and increase performance. You want to do the SPACE defrag method.
The Janitor
Member
Changing mouse input method from raw to direct is sooo much better. The camera judders like fuck when you turn it on anything except direct input, atleast for me.
I haven't had any crashes offline, I've done about 5 missions.
daninthemix
Member
How many frames did you set?
chromatic9
Member
I'm on 6GB of DDR3, running great so far. It will just use up what you've got so like I'm using 2-3GB for GTA exe and 5-5.5GB in Task Manager. Usually the Page file is set to your RAM size automatically
I had the BEX64 GTA5Launcher.exe error on my laptop running intel/nvidia gpu combo, but could get around it by disabling the nvidia gpu before starting the social club an then re-enable it before the game starts.
It runs smooth on my nvidia 765m 2gb 1920x1080 on high (yes even on textures) i had my eye on the memory usage and its usually around 1600-1800mb out of the 2gb on the GPU.(maybe i will run into problems later in the game, as they write in the settings that it can consume upto 2.3gb memory)
The only in game problem so far is that after i tab to desktop and putthe laptop on standby, the sound was gone and had to restart the game to get it back.
On my normal rig with intel 5820 and a gtx970 i have had no problems at all, even runnign it at 4k scaling was working.
so far i played little over 10 hours with 70% of this on my laptop
btw. im not running any fancy filters
It runs smooth on my nvidia 765m 2gb 1920x1080 on high (yes even on textures) i had my eye on the memory usage and its usually around 1600-1800mb out of the 2gb on the GPU.(maybe i will run into problems later in the game, as they write in the settings that it can consume upto 2.3gb memory)
The only in game problem so far is that after i tab to desktop and putthe laptop on standby, the sound was gone and had to restart the game to get it back.
On my normal rig with intel 5820 and a gtx970 i have had no problems at all, even runnign it at 4k scaling was working.
so far i played little over 10 hours with 70% of this on my laptop
btw. im not running any fancy filters
We already knew a mid-range setup could produce spectacular results :
This is with a 4690 I5 @4.5ghz.
The game is unsurprisingly very CPU bound.
Cannon Goose
Member
Just had a "err_gfx_d3d_init" crash during the mission where you meet Trevor
The crashes are few and far between for me but they seem completely random and I've seemingly had three different kinds of crashes. Once it just hard locked with no error message, then it crashed after I stopped the launcher from running in the background, and now this error message.
Thankfully Rockstar have finally put decent checkpoints in a GTA game, or else this would be absolutely maddening.
The crashes are few and far between for me but they seem completely random and I've seemingly had three different kinds of crashes. Once it just hard locked with no error message, then it crashed after I stopped the launcher from running in the background, and now this error message.
Thankfully Rockstar have finally put decent checkpoints in a GTA game, or else this would be absolutely maddening.
Hmm I'm running:
Intel i7 3770k @ Stock
AMD 290 @ Stock
24Gb Memory
Yet my fps is all over the place at 35-90 at 2560x1080 high/very high settings. I wonder what it takes to get a more stable framerate or what in my system is causing it to chug
When I turn down settings it doesn't actually seem to improve the performance by much which is odd, there must be a bottleneck somewhere I guess?Kind of a lame write up since the benchmark is hardly indicative of in game performance.
If you use triple buffered vsync it won't happen. Also if you OC your 6300 to 4.2 Ghz (AKA, just lock it at the Turbo boost clock) you should be able to hit 50-60 without issue on a mix of high/max settings
Referring to This post.
Legit impressed with what the 6300 can do given the price. I imagine with better cooling and an OC to 4.5 you might get the extra frames needed for a locked 60.
Granted, seeing as GTAV seems to be utilizing threads/cores rather well I suppose going 8-core won't hurt at all. Ain't like the 8350 is that expensive either.
CyanideFuse
Member
Just had a "err_gfx_d3d_init" crash during the mission where you meet Trevor
The crashes are few and far between for me but they seem completely random and I've seemingly had three different kinds of crashes. Once it just hard locked with no error message, then it crashed after I stopped the launcher from running in the background, and now this error message.
Thankfully Rockstar have finally put decent checkpoints in a GTA game, or else this would be absolutely maddening.
Is your GPU overclocked by any chance?
Go into event viewer and see if the error relates to a graphics card crash.
My God if the checkpoints were like GTA IV's it would be blood pressure destroying.
chromatic9
Member
Feel like they need some other hardware, one extreme to the other in the article. We know dual core is not enough but Intel's quad cores from 5 years ago are good enough. Plus they need mid range Nvidia cards. Could've been a good article for people looking to get a PC for 60fps on a budget. Probably left thinking they need a £270 CPU lol.
Cannon Goose
Member
No overclocks on my CPU or GPU. I've never looked in the Event Viewer, what would I be looking for to see if it was related to my GPU?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
XP941 for comp at is onNVM, i downloaded the wrong program (info instead of mark)
upload gifs
Here's my WD Blue 500GB disk (not very fast)
I currently have the game installed on my 250gb 850 Evo and am debating on putting it on the M.2.
We already knew a mid-range setup could produce spectacular results :
This is with a 4690 I5 @4.5ghz.
The game is unsurprisingly very CPU bound.
Yep i have an I5 3570k ( stock clock for now) and the game uses all cores at 100%. First game that does it in my gaming experience.
CyanideFuse
Member
I don't have my event viewer to hand at the moment but you usually see an entry marked as exclamation mark in yellow in the "Windows Logs/System" part of the event viewer and on the entry it says something like:
I have an nVidia card for reference in regards to this error message.
Edit: Got my event viewer now. At the same time as this driver crash I had this error in the "Windows Logs/Applications" part (GTA had crashed out):
Try turn off v-synch in the game and force it in nvidia control panel.
nkarafo
Member
I did that yesterday and it was probably worse. I'll test again.
I think it may have been because they didn't use the new AMD drivers.