GTA5 Locks up Computer

[xOneManLegacy]

So I recently purchased GTA5 for the pc and I've been having a problem where my computer completely locks up if I try to interact with anything outside of the game. (Tab out, volume controls, recording software, overlays)

 

[HunterSkater429]

how much ram do you have? hell what are all your specs? 

[xOneManLegacy]

5 minutes ago, HunterSkater429 said:

how much ram do you have? hell what are all your specs? 

forgot my signature wasn't my specs,

 

MB: GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

CPU: FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz

RAM: 16GB @ 1333MHz

GPU: RX 480 8GB @1388MHz

 

 

 

[Pesukarhu]

Play gta in windowed borderless or windowed mode so it doesn't have to minimize when going out of focus. Using a controller i can have gta open and play it while doing other things with my mouse and keyboard, and it is running in windowed mode.
Does your computer lock up with gta having a white tint over it, blue screen, black screen or just freeze frame of gta?

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, xOneManLegacy said:

forgot my signature wasn't my specs,

 

MB: GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

CPU: FX-8350 @ 4.0GHz

RAM: 16GB @ 1333MHz

GPU: RX 480 8GB @1388MHz

 

 

 

whats your usage look like in task manager when you have all your stuff running,

 

my guess is you have too much going on at once for your CPU 

[xOneManLegacy]

2 minutes ago, HunterSkater429 said:

whats your usage look like in task manager when you have all your stuff running,

 

my guess is you have too much going on at once for your CPU 

My CPU never goes above 70% with GTA

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, xOneManLegacy said:

My CPU never goes above 70% with GTA

well you said recording softwear, if gta uses 70% im sure your softwear uses more then 29% expaily while recording, depending what you use ig  

[xOneManLegacy]

Just now, HunterSkater429 said:

well you said recording softwear, if gta uses 70% im sure your softwear uses more then 29% expaily while recording, depending what you use ig  

I was just listing things that kill the game. Mentioned it cause if I accidentally pushed a button that would bring up an overlay to something like xbox, relive, ect it would lock everything up

[xOneManLegacy]

7 minutes ago, xOneManLegacy said:

I was just listing things that kill the game. Mentioned it cause if I accidentally pushed a button that would bring up an overlay to something like xbox, relive, ect it would lock everything up

 

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, xOneManLegacy said:

I was just listing things that kill the game. Mentioned it cause if I accidentally pushed a button that would bring up an overlay to something like xbox, relive, ect it would lock everything up

have you tried reinstalling the game as hard as that is for gta5? maybe defrag your disk clean up unwanted files. use Ccleaner it helps uninstall stuff 

 

[xOneManLegacy]

4 minutes ago, HunterSkater429 said:

have you tried reinstalling the game as hard as that is for gta5? maybe defrag your disk clean up unwanted files. use Ccleaner it helps uninstall stuff 

 

I mean It started doing it the first time I installed it. Ill try reinstalling it, will only take like 2 hours anyway

[xOneManLegacy]

Just now, xOneManLegacy said:

I mean It started doing it the first time I installed it

 

[HunterSkater429]

1 hour ago, xOneManLegacy said:

I mean It started doing it the first time I installed it. Ill try reinstalling it, will only take like 2 hours anyway

yes could be something that happend during the install that makes it not like alt tabbing idk, try all you can

[SageOfSpice]

Go to the GTA 5 install directory, and create a shortcut for GTA 5 Launcher. Right click your new shortcut, and go into properties. In the "Target" window, write " -verify" after the quotations that surround the file path with a space separating the two. Now launch that, and it'll verify the game files for you.

 

I play GTA 5 all the time on my FX-6300, so it's definitely no deficiency of the CPU. It may be an instability, though.

[xOneManLegacy]

And now, before and after reinstalling in, durring loading screens it decides it wants to stop responding.