GTA V CPU Optimization

[Redrooster]

I can play gta v with most settings maxed out and get a solid 60fps

 

But I installed a mod menu (don't worry, I'm only playing solo), and when i drive at breakneck speeds and shoot 10 bullets at a time, my fps dips. 

 

What settings can I turn down to reduce the CPU load?

 

[Jurrunio]

pedestrian display distance?

[Redrooster]

32 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

pedestrian display distance?

I think I have already turned it down

[Triventular]

I have had this weird bug before not sure if it was exclusive to mine.. i have an i5 3570 and gtx 970 and it struggled to maintain 60fps most part on windows 10. for the hell out of it, I did a fresh install of windows 7 on a partition and my frame rates went way up and more consistent. I thought of staying on win7 just for this game but when all the updates for win7 was installed, i was having the same experience i had on win10, struggling to maintain 60fps.. also, afaik and imo, its rarely hard to remedy cpu bottlenecks

[Mira Yurizaki]

There's not much you can do to reduce the amount of workload in the game the CPU must do. The game was designed around a set of parameters and changing those parameters will change how the game behaves.

[Redrooster]

14 hours ago, Triventular said:

I have had this weird bug before not sure if it was exclusive to mine.. i have an i5 3570 and gtx 970 and it struggled to maintain 60fps most part on windows 10. for the hell out of it, I did a fresh install of windows 7 on a partition and my frame rates went way up and more consistent. I thought of staying on win7 just for this game but when all the updates for win7 was installed, i was having the same experience i had on win10, struggling to maintain 60fps.. also, afaik and imo, its rarely hard to remedy cpu bottlenecks

And I fully admit I have a pretty sizable cpu bottleneck (RTX 2060 and an I5 3550); but this summer, I should be getting (either) a r5 2600x or a zen 2 cpu

[Paul Rudd]

22 hours ago, Redrooster said:

What settings can I turn down to reduce the CPU load?

• Particles
• Grass Quality
• Self Radio
• MSAA
• Distance Scaling
• Extended Distance Scaling
• Soft Shadows (always keep at Sharp)
• Post FX (always keep at High)
• Population Density/Variety
• Ambient Occlusion
• Water Quality
• All Advanced Settings
• Anything running in the background.
• Optimize your PC in Windows.

[Mira Yurizaki]

19 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

• Particles
• Grass Quality
• Self Radio
• MSAA
• Distance Scaling
• Extended Distance Scaling
• Soft Shadows (always keep at Sharp)
• Post FX (always keep at High)
• Population Density/Variety
• Ambient Occlusion
• Water Quality
• All Advanced Settings

A few of these are impacted by CPU performance.

19 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

• Anything running in the background.
• Optimize your PC in Windows.

Unless the hardware is a complete potato, this doesn't do much either.

[Paul Rudd]

36 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

A few of these are impacted by CPU performance.

All of them impact CPU performance to some degree.

36 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Unless the hardware is a complete potato, this doesn't do much either.

It does a LOT. Some optimizations have very minimal impact but when you combine dozens of them it can make a dramatic difference. Some things that run in the background can use a LOT of CPU usage.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

All of them impact CPU performance to some degree.

Only a few of them actually would have an appreciable effect on CPU time, like rendering things at a distance and causing more things to show up.

 

Otherwise the rest is basically telling the GPU to render something better. The CPU doesn't need to do any extra work.

3 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

It does a LOT. Some optimizations have very minimal impact but when you combine dozens of them it can make a dramatic difference. Some things that run in the background can use a LOT of CPU usage.

That might be the case with potato hardware, but I wouldn't consider the i5-3550 potato hardware. Especially if the i5-3450 can get this:

But with hardware that can mostly keep up? It doesn't really do anything:

 

If there's a background process that's eating up a lot of CPU time, either something is wrong with it or something is happening that's causing it to fire off a lot. Which if said event to cause the background process to go nuts is unintentional, something is also wrong.

[Paul Rudd]

10 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

Only a few of them actually would have an appreciable effect on CPU time, like rendering things at a distance and causing more things to show up.

 

Otherwise the rest is basically telling the GPU to render something better. The CPU doesn't need to do any extra work.

Think what you wish. I'll stick with personal experience.

10 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

That might be the case with potato hardware, but I wouldn't consider the i5-3550 potato hardware. Especially if the i5-3450 can get this:

I'm not clicking on that video, that dude thinks ten mystery games are worth one hundred and forty something dollars when they're in fact worth around twenty something dollars all together.

10 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

But with hardware that can mostly keep up? It doesn't really do anything: If there's a background process that's eating up a lot of CPU time, either something is wrong with it or something is happening that's causing it to fire off a lot. Which if said event to cause the background process to go nuts is unintentional, something is also wrong.

It does a LOT. You stick to reading blogs, I'll stick to personal experience with things running in the background causing MASSIVE CPU usage. Something wrong or not wrong, the CPU is being used and kills CPU usage. There's a reason I have yet to upgrade my i5 after upgrading to a 1070 and it has everything to do with optimizing the hell out of my PC and putting an end to things running in the background which in turn rid my bottleneck to a degree in which I do not have to upgrade.

 

This is my personal experience. You stick with yours. I'll stick with mine.

[Ryujin2003]

6 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

Think what you wish. I'll stick with personal experience.

I'm not clicking on that video, that dude thinks ten mystery games are worth one hundred and forty something dollars when they're in fact worth around twenty something dollars all together.

It does a LOT. You stick to reading blogs, I'll stick to personal experience with things running in the background causing MASSIVE CPU usage. Something wrong or not wrong, the CPU is being used and kills CPU usage. There's a reason I have yet to upgrade my i5 after upgrading to a 1070 and it has everything to do with optimizing the hell out of my PC and putting an end to things running in the background which in turn rid my bottleneck to a degree in which I do not have to upgrade.

 

This is my personal experience. You stick with yours. I'll stick with mine.

Oh wow. That's awesome! Can you please share your PCMR ways with us and show us how you optimize W10? That would be like dope AF. I do envy your personal experience. One day, when I grow up, I hope to be as awesome as you.

[Paul Rudd]

52 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

Oh wow. That's awesome! Can you please share your PCMR ways with us and show us how you optimize W10? That would be like dope AF. I do envy your personal experience. One day, when I grow up, I hope to be as awesome as you.

Well lemme know when you grow up. I'd be more than happy to share my ways on your journey to awesome.

[Ryujin2003]

4 hours ago, Dr. Historic Low said:

Well lemme know when you grow up. I'd be more than happy to share my ways on your journey to awesome.

Cool story bro.