My computer:

OS: Windows 7 Home Edition 64 bit

CPU: Intel Core i5 3350P 3.10GHz

RAM: 8,00GB DDR3 686MHz (9-9-9-24)

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LX2 (LGA1155)

Graphic: Asus GTX 970 4GB

HDD: 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZRX-00A8LB0

Power Supply: AeroCool VP-550 (I think its 550W)

 

What should I upgrade? I always launching LSPDR with plugins (about 25) and I always have 30fps but sometimes it falls to 15fps. So what can help me? SSD or new RAM? 

Ram and graphics card, and maybe get Windows 10

Wow! 970 is old? I know Win 10 is good for games, but is it safe for me? I heard about policy of Microsoft when they released Win 10. 8 GB more RAM will be good for me? Which do you recommend?

Personally I would get an SSD. The difference between HDD and SSD is like night and day.

I'm unsure if that would boost your FPS though.

Your processor maybe? I have a GTX 770 4GB and an i7 4770K and I get over 60 FPS even with VisualV installed at all times. This is on high and medium settings though, not maxed out. If I max the game I drop to like 25FPS.

It may your processor. Overall, your specs are better than mine, but I still get 30 - 40 FPS with Visual V and multiple mods installed. Also, check if you're running a lot of unneeded processes in the background. It'll most likely slow you down. And oh yeah, if you have Norton... just kill it.

So finally what? RAM or processor? I don't know anything about computer specs, so I cant make a decission. :) I dont know what ram and processor are doing in computer.

 

The processor is the "brain," the main engine, and the main source of lag if you're running a lot of plugins.  GTA V is a processor-intensive game because there's a lot of artificial intelligence scripts that keep the city running.

 

RAM will help load things faster.  If RAM was your problem, your game would be crashing and you'd be getting "low memory" messages, and the game would be really really slow to start up.  It could potentially cause lag, but I would not upgrade from 8 GB of RAM until everything else has been upgraded.

 

The graphics card is what allows you to turn up the visual settings of the game.  If you have lag that can be alleviated by turning down shaders, texture details, and other graphics settings, then you know that is your bottleneck.  The GTX 970 is more than capable of handling a 2013 game like GTA V at high settings.

 

Looking at your specs:

 

You've got an Intel "-P" processor.  The P at the end means there was a defect in part of it, so the integrated graphics is disabled and the processor runs at a slowed down speed (the Gigahertz, or GHz, tells you literally how fast it can process things.  Other things factor into this too).  Intel sells them as budget options so you can get a computer for cheaper than normal.  I think this is the bottleneck.  If you swap it out for an i7 that can push up to 4.0 GHz, I think you'll see the greatest improvement out of anything.

 

Make sure you get an i7 in the 3000 series so that it will fit into the same socket as your i5, otherwise you'll have to buy a whole new motherboard too.  An Intel Core i7 3770 goes for about $300, but you might be able to find one cheaper now that it's kind of old.

 

As for a Solid State Drive, they are very nice in that they make everything load faster.  The games load faster, the computer is ten times quicker to start up and shut down.  But they don't improve your FPS; it's RAM that loads things on-the-fly in a video game.  Fast and slow memory; two different things.  Anyway, the point is it's more of a luxury item.

Edited November 22, 20169 yr by IndianaJoe