5 hours ago, N4Cer said:

Thanks for this post! It answered a lot of my questions, and I had population variety on full and was running the game in full screen.

 

Good to hear, glad I could help. 

I have 8GB and with the settings i use iam only at 3gb but still experience screen tearing.. im gunna try out your tips and see if it helps in my situation

 

Amazing... all i did was switch it to borderless and now i dont have screen tearing.. thank u

Hey, sometimes I get stuttering.

Here's my specs:

Ryzen 5 1600

8 GB DDR4 (1x8) 2400 OC'd to 2666 mhz

1 tb wd blue

PNY XLR8 4 GB OC GTX 1050 ti (a little bit worse than the 680 mentioned here)

Is it because I don't have enough RAM or do I need an SSD?

On 8/28/2017 at 7:12 PM, FLIGHTED said:

Hey, sometimes I get stuttering.

Here's my specs:

Ryzen 5 1600

8 GB DDR4 (1x8) 2400 OC'd to 2666 mhz

1 tb wd blue

PNY XLR8 4 GB OC GTX 1050 ti (a little bit worse than the 680 mentioned here)

Is it because I don't have enough RAM or do I need an SSD?

Assuming that you tried everything above, your RAM may be bottle-necking your performance. 

Generally, an SSD can help performance -- but not so substantial to where it's worth spending the money on. For the amount you can spend buying a decent SSD with good storage, you could upgrade a lot of components on your PC.

 

Buy a couple of RAM sticks (assuming you have a couple of open slots) and see if it makes a difference. Generally, I would think 12 GB of RAM should be more than enough for a game like GTA V on medium-high settings. 

So I've been playing a lot again lately (mostly Online) and I've noticed that my performance is quite poor for my rig (or at least, it seems so to me).

My specs are a GTX 980 (not overclocked), Intel i7 5820k (@3.30GHz), 32GB RAM, operating system Windows 7 64 bit.

 

My performance is consistently sub-60FPS wherever I am, except when flying high. The countryside is the worst for performance, as would be expected, sometimes dipping to below 20.

Am I mistaken in how powerful my rig is, or is there something wrong with it? I thought I would be able to run with relatively high settings and have good framerates, and yet that isn't the case.

My settings.xml:

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<Settings>
  <version value="27" />
  <configSource>SMC_AUTO</configSource>
  <graphics>
    <Tessellation value="3" />
    <LodScale value="1.000000" />
    <PedLodBias value="0.200000" />
    <VehicleLodBias value="0.000000" />
    <ShadowQuality value="3" />
    <ReflectionQuality value="2" />
    <ReflectionMSAA value="8" />
    <SSAO value="2" />
    <AnisotropicFiltering value="16" />
    <MSAA value="4" />
    <MSAAFragments value="0" />
    <MSAAQuality value="0" />
    <SamplingMode value="0" />
    <TextureQuality value="2" />
    <ParticleQuality value="2" />
    <WaterQuality value="2" />
    <GrassQuality value="3" />
    <ShaderQuality value="2" />
    <Shadow_SoftShadows value="5" />
    <UltraShadows_Enabled value="true" />
    <Shadow_ParticleShadows value="true" />
    <Shadow_Distance value="2.000000" />
    <Shadow_LongShadows value="true" />
    <Shadow_SplitZStart value="0.930000" />
    <Shadow_SplitZEnd value="0.890000" />
    <Shadow_aircraftExpWeight value="0.990000" />
    <Shadow_DisableScreenSizeCheck value="false" />
    <Reflection_MipBlur value="true" />
    <FXAA_Enabled value="true" />
    <TXAA_Enabled value="true" />
    <Lighting_FogVolumes value="true" />
    <Shader_SSA value="true" />
    <DX_Version value="2" />
    <CityDensity value="1.000000" />
    <PedVarietyMultiplier value="1.000000" />
    <VehicleVarietyMultiplier value="1.000000" />
    <PostFX value="3" />
    <DoF value="false" />
    <HdStreamingInFlight value="true" />
    <MaxLodScale value="1.000000" />
    <MotionBlurStrength value="0.000000" />
  </graphics>
  <system>
    <numBytesPerReplayBlock value="9000000" />
    <numReplayBlocks value="36" />
    <maxSizeOfStreamingReplay value="1024" />
    <maxFileStoreSize value="65536" />
  </system>
  <audio>
    <Audio3d value="false" />
  </audio>
  <video>
    <AdapterIndex value="0" />
    <OutputIndex value="0" />
    <ScreenWidth value="1920" />
    <ScreenHeight value="1080" />
    <RefreshRate value="60" />
    <Windowed value="0" />
    <VSync value="0" />
    <Stereo value="0" />
    <Convergence value="0.100000" />
    <Separation value="1.000000" />
    <PauseOnFocusLoss value="1" />
    <AspectRatio value="5" />
  </video>
  <VideoCardDescription>NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980</VideoCardDescription>
</Settings>

 

So is there an issue with my rig or am I just fooling myself about how powerful it actually is? If it's the second option, what settings should I change?