CPU usage and GPU usage and fps drops in city in GTA Online

[Noodles1406]

I am playing GTA Online on MSI PL62 7RC. When I am playing single player, the CPU usage is very good and I get solid 60 fps. In online in the countryside I also get good fps. But when I go to city in online, my cpu usage slightly drops which cause my gpu usage to drop and then fps to drop a lot, sometimes to 35 fps. How can I fix this?

[DoctorNick]

Idk. I get the opposite. In single player i get lower FPS than online..  Maybe try the old. Go to nvidia control panel. Manage 3d settings. Choose tab: Program settings. find/add GTA V. Find power management: Choose prefer maximum performance. 

 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

There are likely many more draw calls when you are in the city. Because of the way DirectX 11 works, these draw calls tend to load up a single thread of your CPU. When looking at the overall usage, it would appear that it was decreasing, when in fact your CPU is working as hard as it can. This is why CPUs with strong single thread performance have been preferred for gaming. Newer graphics APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulcan try to address this single thread limitation by spreading the load more evenly across multicore CPUs. However, some games that ostensibly run in DirectX 12 mode do not fully utilize DirectX 12 features, and so they can still suffer from this same behavior.

[Noodles1406]

2 hours ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

There are likely many more draw calls when you are in the city. Because of the way DirectX 11 works, these draw calls tend to load up a single thread of your CPU. When looking at the overall usage, it would appear that it was decreasing, when in fact your CPU is working as hard as it can. This is why CPUs with strong single thread performance have been preferred for gaming. Newer graphics APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulcan try to address this single thread limitation by spreading the load more evenly across multicore CPUs. However, some games that ostensibly run in DirectX 12 mode do not fully utilize DirectX 12 features, and so they can still suffer from this same behavior.

Is there any way I can increase fps in GTA online? I play at 1680x1080 resolution. Have all my settings at the lowest except textures at very high, fxaa on and af 16x. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

4 hours ago, Noodles1406 said:

Is there any way I can increase fps in GTA online? I play at 1680x1080 resolution. Have all my settings at the lowest except textures at very high, fxaa on and af 16x. 

I wouldn't know.