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GTA V runs more smoothly with MSAA on. WTF?

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This is NOT a troll post. I am seriously confused about this occurrence and would like to hear the opinions of others.

 

When I played Grand Theft Auto V, I always noticed and was bothered by a slight stuttering despite maintaining a 'constant' 60 FPS. My GPU was at 100%, yet it maintained temperatures around 70 degrees Celsius and the fan never went above 86%. None of my CPU cores were maxed, and I had RAM to spare. However, when I turned MSAA up to 8x from off and made absolutely no other changes, the stuttering issue stopped and my FPS remained at a steady 60. The difference was that my GPU fan had to speed up to 100%, and it maintained a temperature around 90 degrees.

 

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Well mine does the opposite, runs smoothly with no MSAA, put on 8x, drop to a whole 17 fps. Can feel my 960 dying when MSAA is on

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I have no idea how that could happen.  Very strange.  All I can say is that (for me at least) GTA V is actually very good at rendering smoothly, such that when you're getting 60 fps, it's a useful 60, and not 60 frames all at once and then a gap that leads to stuttering.

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4 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Well mine does the opposite, runs smoothly with no MSAA, put on 8x, drop to a whole 17 fps. Can feel my 960 dying when MSAA is on

same here.

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might be because the GPU has more to do or something really not sure and i would say strange rendering bug lol

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41 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Well mine does the opposite, runs smoothly with no MSAA, put on 8x, drop to a whole 17 fps. Can feel my 960 dying when MSAA is on

 

37 minutes ago, kameshss said:

same here.

that's how it's supposed to work ;) performance hog

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outdated drivers? lol

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11 hours ago, Sauron said:

 

that's how it's supposed to work ;) performance hog

Gets even better at 4k with 8x Msaa, a whole 5 fps xD

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