Unusual underutilization problem GTA V
3 hours ago, Floatas said:I am. But i need to upgrade to 16gb RAM, even pagefile on ssd is not helping with those stutters. In solo lobbies i'm fine , in populated >8 people i can't go past 55, looks like cpu can't handle the info it is receiving, even tho it's not hitting it's limit.
Oh you are getting stutters. Well that makes sense with just 8GB of RAM. Your CPU is fine. Add another stick of 8GB RAM and you will be stutter free. But that won't fix fps being at a certain spot like 55. That you can blame on the game and how it performs online and the fact that you're using the i5 you are using and the RAM speed you are using. Mine does the exact same thing. I have an i5 very similar to yours and my RAM speed is also DDR4-2133. My fps drops to around 46-49-54 in the city(or high demanding/high populated areas of the map). That's the game itself, completely normal. Only way I know of to make that 55 fps in online go away is to basically upgrade your CPU and/or upgrade your RAM to a higher speed and/or OC your RAM to a higher speed. This is a very simple process usually and very safe to do as long as your mobo and particular RAM allows it. If it allows higher RAM speed, you could then buy 2 sticks of a higher speed and possibly OC it. You could then sell off the DDR4-2133 8GB you have in there now. It's worth a good $40-$80 at this moment in time, depending on the brand and how you go about selling it.
There is one trick that may help with any CPU strain you may have in GTA 5. If you by chance use self radio, stop using it. You can still use it but without using it, you'll notice CPU usage drop around 20%. I have to do this because my CPU has a tiny bottleneck on my GPU in GTA 5. Turning off self radio helps with it tremendously. I still see 100% CPU usage in the city sometimes but it's not often enough(like I said, tiny bottleneck) to worry about upgrading my CPU. If I had a better cooler, I could then use my turbo CPU clock speed and the bottleneck goes away. I like to use self radio but not while driving around(which sucks because that's the best time to use it). Use self radio when inside apartments or in lobbies or in areas of the game where you are achieving high fps. And I like to use it while flying because most of the time I fly I get pretty high fps. Just use other radio stations in the areas like the city. Again, you'll notice the 20% decrease on CPU usage just by switching from self radio to regular radio stations.
What motherboard do you have? I can check if it allows higher RAM speeds and if its OC'able. And what brand and model is your current RAM?
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