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I right now have a AMD FX-6300 and a GTX 960. I have MGVA and some callouts installed but my game lags down to like under 40 FPS.  I use very high settings for my graphics and average 50 FPS. I'm wondering if it's my CPU or GPU. I'm thinking about upgrading one of the two but I don't know which one I should upgrade. It's either I get a GTX 1060 and over clock my FX-6300 Or just get a FX-8350 and leave the GTX 960 alone. What do you guys think?

If I over clock I would try and over clock to  4 ghz

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LSPDFR is a pretty CPU intensive plugin to be running on top of a AAA game, so many things going on at once especially if you have lots of plugins, so I'd say upgrading your CPU would definitely be the most beneficial in this case
However if you were going to do that I'd suggest considering investing a Ryzen chip and mobo over 'upgrading' to just another older gen AMD chip .. Better performance plus future proofing.

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56 minutes ago, PgUp said:

LSPDFR is a pretty CPU intensive plugin to be running on top of a AAA game, so many things going on at once especially if you have lots of plugins, so I'd say upgrading your CPU would definitely be the most beneficial in this case
However if you were going to do that I'd suggest considering investing a Ryzen chip and mobo over 'upgrading' to just another older gen AMD chip .. Better performance plus future proofing.

Ryzen isn't all that great for gaming. You're better off with intel for that if you're gonna go down the route of future proofing.

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26 minutes ago, LukeD said:

Ryzen isn't all that great for gaming. You're better off with intel for that if you're gonna go down the route of future proofing.

I do agree that Ryzen is not opt. for gaming BUT, With updates it will have its gonna be the new processor type for games in the future. I have a 1800x OC to 4.0, Doesn't show much performance but with running the newest tech for PCs, It's gonna easier to upgrade in the future with AM4 sockets and parts.

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1 minute ago, TrentMU said:

I do agree that Ryzen is not opt. for gaming BUT, With updates it will have its gonna be the new processor type for games in the future. I have a 1800x OC to 4.0, Doesn't show much performance but with running the newest tech for PCs, It's gonna easier to upgrade in the future with AM4 sockets and parts.

Yes, but I can counter argue that by saying the exact same thing for Intel so that kind of invalidates your point lol

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Just now, LukeD said:

Yes, but I can counter argue that by saying the exact same thing for Intel so that kind of invalidates your point lol

True we should end it here before we start an AMD vs Intel war on this poor mans topic haha

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Either way you should notice a bump in performance.  Not sure which one will yield better results, but perhaps you could try and find some benchmarks online.  I can tell you from my personal experience that I did notice a bump in performance upgrading from my GTX 960 to GTX 1070.

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13 hours ago, LukeD said:

Ryzen isn't all that great for gaming. You're better off with intel for that if you're gonna go down the route of future proofing.

Ah yeah, I actually agree with LukeD to be honest. For some reason I had it in my head that ... He has older gen AMD > Just recommend the newer gen AMD, they'll be cheaper .. But looking at the prices for the decent Ryzen chips they're pretty expensive...

Scratch what I said .. Grab a 6th gen intel processor, or the newer 7th gen if you have the budget.
An i5-6600k is way better than what you have currenty, but I'd recommend a i7-6700k if you can.
6th gen is dropping is price because of the release of Kaby Lake, but Skylake is still really good, so you should be able to grab one for about half the price of a new Ryzen chip that'd have matching performance.

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On 10/04/2017 at 9:08 PM, Hystery said:

That's curious that the OP has trouble with a FX-6300 when I run the game and LSPDFR pretty fine with a FX-6100...

It just depends on your settings and expectations for how the game will look and run, among other things like the what the rest of your setup is..

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1 hour ago, PgUp said:

It just depends on your settings and expectations for how the game will look and run, among other things like the what the rest of your setup is..

 

Well I mean, I just have a FX-6100 and a GTX660 (so basically the basic recommended hardware for GTA V), I run the game fine between 35 and 50 FPS depending on the area I'm in, with graphics between medium and high, so that's why I find it weird that the OP has trouble with a FX-6300 and a GTX960. It should run pretty fine, hence I suspect it's less a hardware issue and more a software issue with programs running in the background draining his resources (and maybe also the computer case needing a little cleaning).

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2 hours ago, Hystery said:

... I just have a FX-6100 and a GTX660 ... with graphics between medium and high

 

On 05/04/2017 at 9:08 PM, BeakedFish said:

... I have MGVA and some callouts installed but my game lags down to like under 40 FPS.  I use very high settings for my graphics and average 50 FPS.


There's really no wrong answer here when discussing the issue because we don't physically have the computer infront of us, we can't see for ourselves everything that's going on, but here's the main difference between you two, just the settings and he runs MVGA (which of course is more taxing again due to it's nature, and you have to turn some graphics settings to max for it to even work well), and then you got AA which is a major resource hog, you guys may have different settings for AA as well.

This comes back to like I said, the differing expectations in how the game looks but also performs at the same time. So some of the issue is just high expectations, I'm sure if OP could settle for High settings his stutters would go away, but yeah, I find it hard to hand out that sort of advice when I myself find it hard to "settle" and turn down my settings..


Personally, reading back on it now, I'm surprised that he can get 40FPS with very high settings and MVGA on that gear, 40-50FPS in GTAV on very high gfx is not easy, especially with bare min gear. (I would consider 6300 and 960 not very far off a FX 6100 and GTX 660).

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16 hours ago, Hystery said:

 

Well I mean, I just have a FX-6100 and a GTX660 (so basically the basic recommended hardware for GTA V), I run the game fine between 35 and 50 FPS depending on the area I'm in, with graphics between medium and high, so that's why I find it weird that the OP has trouble with a FX-6300 and a GTX960. It should run pretty fine, hence I suspect it's less a hardware issue and more a software issue with programs running in the background draining his resources (and maybe also the computer case needing a little cleaning).

 

What do you mean by this? In the game or the WIFI connection? 

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5 hours ago, TheSandwichStealer said:

 

What do you mean by this? In the game or the WIFI connection? 

No no, the game. For example, if the area gets really crowded (lots of traffic, peds, FX like explosions, all this at once), then my FPS tend to drop around 35 FPS. Otherwise it's pretty stable. :smile:

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