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Hi, when I boot up GTA and load into the game then start to drive at high speeds I experience stuttering which makes the gameplay very irritating. I have put this down to my PC being unable to load the textures in time resulting in the frame drops and stuttering. I can only guess this is because I do not have an SSD or becuase I have only 8GB of RAM and therefore about only 60% will be available when the game specs require 8 GB.

 

If you have any experience or ideas then please help, thanks.

 

Edit: I have a R9 295X2 so that is not the issue and a 4690K. Thanks for everyone's help!

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Hi, when I boot up GTA and load into the game then start to drive at high speeds I experience stuttering which makes the gameplay very irritating. I have put this down to my PC being unable to load the textures in time resulting in the frame drops and stuttering. I can only guess this is because I do not have an SSD or becuase I have only 8GB of RAM and therefore about only 60% will be available when the game specs require 8 GB.

 

If you have any experience or ideas then please help, thanks.

What GPU do you have?

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Hi, when I boot up GTA and load into the game then start to drive at high speeds I experience stuttering which makes the gameplay very irritating. I have put this down to my PC being unable to load the textures in time resulting in the frame drops and stuttering. I can only guess this is because I do not have an SSD or becuase I have only 8GB of RAM and therefore about only 60% will be available when the game specs require 8 GB.

 

If you have any experience or ideas then please help, thanks.

SSD

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SSD is the best way to improve performance overall, even on relatively old computers.

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