Suddely lost my 60fps on GTA V - GTX 1080

[Liberty610]

Hey guys,

I am having a FPS issue with GTA V all of a sudden. I had stopped playing GTA V for a while, and just booted it up a couple weeks ago. I had this issue when I first started playing it, but I am not sure how or why it went away, but now it is back. I did go into Nvida Geforce and set it to 'Optimize' and thought that is what fixed it, but I have even tried that with no luck.

 

I was getting 60fps without any issues at every aspect of the game for the past week or so (I'm trying to go through the story mode now sence I have never finished it). I have been playing the game a lot, and am now 53% through the story mode. In ever scenerio of the enitre play though the last 2 weeks, I was getting a constant 60 fps, but now all of a sudden I am getting anywhere between 22 fps and 35fps. The only thing I can think that I have changed in my system is I updated to the Windows 10 Creative update. I booted the game and got 60 fps after the update the last time I played it, and just last night I was getting 60fps when I first staretd playing it, when all of a sudden it dipped down to 20 to 30, and not staying at a constant 30fps. I can't get it back to 60 no m,atter what I do.

It doesn't matter what I was doing in the game, I would ALWAYS get 60 fps. I have been running a small over clock on my GPU using MSI aAfterburner, but even booting the game up without that running I am now having this issue. I have done several restarts, used Ccleaner to clean up registry. I am running the latest drivers on my graphics card, latest BIOS on my motherboard. I have tried turning off Vsync, ect

In GTA's setting's menu, it shows I am not even using half of my cards memorey. The bar is solid green. Not yellow or red. As I stated, I completed half the game without ever going below 60fps in any scenerio (I use the small FPS counter in Steam). I was locked in at 60.

When I tab out of GTA V and look at the task manager, nothing is taking up CPU usage or ram. With GTA tabbed out, my CPU is getting 5% to 7% use which is normal under idle.

I am running at a higher resolution then most. I have an LG ultrawide monitor. So here is what I have setup wise:

-LG Ultrawide monitor running at 3440 x 1440 resolution connected to my graphics card via display port
-Intel i7 6800k
-MSI 1080 GTX 8gb
-32gb Of Quad Channel G. Skill ram

 

I don't know why, but I just all of a sudden lost my 60 fps. It booted up getting 60 fps last night, then about 5 minuetes into the game, it dropped, and I have been unable to get it back.I have attached images that show my current settings, and I am sure these are the same settings as I was running when I was getting a steady 60 fps because I was using Nvidia's Geforce optimize settings.

Any thoughts? as I stated, the only thing I can think of that has changed is, I am updated to Windows 10 creative, but I was still getting 60fps after the update. I even started at 60fps last night, when all of a sudden mid game it dropped.

[DXMember]

check your nVidia control panel, make sure you do not have forced VSync in driver

[Zando_]

Do you have Windows game mode on? If so, turn it off, it’s terrible. 

[Princess Luna]

Disable Xbox DVR through registry, Disable Windows Game mode, DDU in Safe mode and reinstall nVidia drivers fresh new.

[Wonders3004]

thermal throttling? or somehow the game shows 60hz but it is forced in 30hz or 24hz. i know when i tab out sometimes certain games will go into fullscreen windowed and put my hz to 24

[Glennieboyyy007]

in advanced graphics the frame scaling mode is way up there. it now produces 2.5 times the 3440x1440. put it back to 1 or off or what the normal is. that should fix it. then you can also turn up the other settings. i can post a screen shot of my settings with my 1070 if you want, with almost everything maxed

[Liberty610]

14 minutes ago, Glennieboyyy007 said:

in advanced graphics the frame scaling mode is way up there. it now produces 2.5 times the 3440x1440. put it back to 1 or off or what the normal is. that should fix it. then you can also turn up the other settings. i can post a screen shot of my settings with my 1070 if you want, with almost everything maxed

Dude, you are the man! I turned off all game DVR and Game mode options in Windows, but that didn't help. I went into advanced graphic settings, and turned down the fram scaling. Depending on what I choose I can get between 60 and 100+ frames. Trying to find the best happy medium!

 

If you could screen shot your settings, that would be cool, but I might be able to figure the rest out. I don't know why/how this happened, because I didn't change that setting to my knowledge. Thanks for all the replies guys!

[Glennieboyyy007]

the options that affected my framerate the most were: high resolution shadows (in advanced settings) and msaa (in normal settings). also i got v-sync on but i get a stable 60fps, if i turn it off i get even 100+ sometimes, remember i have a 1070 so your 1080 will do even better.

[Liberty610]

2 hours ago, Glennieboyyy007 said:

the options that affected my framerate the most were: high resolution shadows (in advanced settings) and msaa (in normal settings). also i got v-sync on but i get a stable 60fps, if i turn it off i get even 100+ sometimes, remember i have a 1070 so your 1080 will do even better.

Thanks a lot! You have been a big help!

[Glennieboyyy007]

21 minutes ago, Liberty610 said:

Thanks a lot! You have been a big help!

no problem man. glad i could help you.

now have fun playing gta, i sure will (got 550 hours on it since 15-02-17