Hey everybody,

I was just watching firstthirtyminutes video and looked up his specs to see how his gameplay is so smooth.....16gb ram, an i7-6700k and a gtx 980... and then there's me who j ust upgraded to a gtx 1080 (from a gtx 970) and actually experienced a much better gameplay experience with my 970! I am baffled.

 

I wanted to reach out and see what you all used for settings on the NVIDIA control panel and in-game, and if you had any advise in particular about how to make this game run better with mods now that we are at patchday 15 (I believe?).

 

My game is very lightly modded and I use MVGA and I am getting fps in the 40's and 50's with dips into the 30's very frequently, especially when driving fast.

 

Any help is appreciated because I have been messing with this for weeks and can't figure it out.

 

My Specs:

i7-4770 @ 3.4

gtx 1080

16GB DDR3-1866 Ram

 

My settings: 

FXAA: on

MSAA: off

Vsync: off

Other settings: high or very high

Population density and variety: None

 

In the advanced settings menu, all are off.

 

In the Nvidia control panel, performance mode is selected, vsync also turned off, etc.

 

I have in seen the pinned thread in the "GTA V" section of this forum and I have applied the settings in the past and I don't see it having much applicability now that it is 2 years later and we face a slew of new issues with all the extra game data.

 

I hope somebody takes the time to help me and hopefully others who are experiencing these issues. The main reason I bought a 1080 was for better GTA performance and everything BUT GTA got better after the upgrade.

 

Thanks again

 

1 hour ago, jcpse said:

The main reason I bought a 1080 was for better GTA performance and everything BUT GTA got better after the upgrade.

This is confusing me, are you talking about LSPDFR or GTA in general.

 

GTA 5 Is a pretty good optimised game that sides towards being a CPU intensive game. Can you please tell me what fps you get when you launch the game up and do not go on duty, go to both Downtown Los Santos (near the police headquarters) and then go to sandy shores and tell me the fps at both those places. Then can you go on duty and repeat the same steps as above.

For your specs assuming you are playing at 1080p, you should use the following to get around 80-100 fps; (Going by a friend that had the same hardware you and my memory)
FXAA: on
MSAA: x4
Population Density: max

Population Variety: max

Distance Scaling: max

all " " " quality on very high except Reflection put that on ultra and reflection msaa on x2, Grass on high
Post fx: Very high

Anisotropic filtering: x16

Ambient occulusion: high

Tessellation: very high

In advanced graphics I can not remember what my friend had but I think it was everything on/max and fram scaling off.

Scripts can really impact the performance. Some individual scripts can cause performance issues by themselves and a mixture of scripts can do the same. If you want to, you can post all the scripts/mods you use. You replied to me in a different thread but I will say it again here.
 

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Just to give you an example of how alot of mods and scripts can cause performance lost; I had a rig with an i5 4590 and a 970, I would get around 80 fps at a mixture of high and very high settings without being on duty. As soon as I would go on duty I would get 40-60 fps.I recently built a new computer with a i7 7700k and a 1080 Ti; I get around 135 fps at max settings whilst off duty, and on duty i get an average of 90 fps with sometime drops to the 60's, in Downtown Los Santos I get drops to 40 fps.I use a very heavily modded game, and I enjoy these mods so I deal with it. One day I will spend a long time to install my mods one by one to figure out which ones cause the performance loss.

 

8 minutes ago, Caramel said:

This is confusing me, are you talking about LSPDFR or GTA in general.

 

GTA 5 Is a pretty good optimised game that sides towards being a CPU intensive game. Can you please tell me what fps you get when you launch the game up and do not go on duty, go to both Downtown Los Santos (near the police headquarters) and then go to sandy shores and tell me the fps at both those places. Then can you go on duty and repeat the same steps as above.

For your specs assuming you are playing at 1080p, you should use the following to get around 80-100 fps; (Going by a friend that had the same hardware you and my memory)
FXAA: on
MSAA: x4
Population Density: max

Population Variety: max

Distance Scaling: max

all " " " quality on very high except Reflection put that on ultra and reflection msaa on x2, Grass on high
Post fx: Very high

Anisotropic filtering: x16

Ambient occulusion: high

Tessellation: very high

In advanced graphics I can not remember what my friend had but I think it was everything on/max and fram scaling off.

Scripts can really impact the performance. Some individual scripts can cause performance issues by themselves and a mixture of scripts can do the same. If you want to, you can post all the scripts/mods you use. You replied to me in a different thread but I will say it again here.
 

 

Hello, I am speaking specifically about LSPDFR in this thread; sorry for any confusion.

 

At this point I only play the game in SP w/ LSPDFR loaded.  Without plugins loaded, I get between 70-100fps, but usually closer to the 70-80 range in the city. Once I load LSPDFR, I struggle to keep 60 fps (Single monitor 1080p). I see your numbers and I would love that.. of course you have both better CPU and GPU.

 

Let me get more numbers so I can add to my case. I appreciate the help.

Yeah so this is performance issues related to scripts, Not hardware or optimistaion issues. That is good news as we know its not your system that is causing the issues.

I haven't done it myself yet but your best bet is to install all your mods 1 by 1 and test the game after each mod is installed to see which mod causes the performance drop. This is obviously a pain in the ass and will take a long time hence why I haven't been bothered yet. You said your game is lightly modded, so in your case it shouldn't be a huge pain to do this.

I know this is a mod/script issue as in regards to my computer, when I lower my graphics I obviously get better fps in GTA but as soon as I go on duty it drops to the same fps as on max settings.

I have a feeling the speed radar script is what may be causing issues. I am going to try getting rid of it and I'll report back