Original Light

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Upgrade your components, that's really the only way to increase your speed in games. I don't really tend to like the "snake oil" software that tend to claim they will legitimately make your PC faster. As long as you don't have any viruses, and defragment your drive every once in a while, you generally wont see a huge improvement with any software.

There is no cake in the hidden forums. But there is seafood. Namely fish and squid.

FYI, issue solved. It turns out Vsync was causing this. I'm buying a Display Port cable since apparently my HDMI cable limits my monitor's refresh rate.

Hey guys, I just wanted to start a new single player play-through in GTA V, something I haven't done in over 2 years. However, I notice that the performance of the game has dropped significantly since I last played it a couple weeks ago (just driving around). I used to be able to run the game on 4K, Ultra Settings with a steady 30 FPS. Now I can't even run the game in 2K on Medium settings without dropping to 20 fps. My specs: Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.3 Ghz EVGA GTX 1080 FTW Edition 24 GB of DDR4 RAM. I heard that all the DLC's R* is packing into the game is really causing significant performance drops. I'm not sure how true that is, but I wouldn't surprised considering they must be on the 10000000th GTA Online DLC. I can't go under 2K resolution since I have a 2k monitor. Anything less looks really shitty... and I'm not interested in putting all the settings on low... which seems to be the only thing giving me solid FPS. I notice that in areas with significant traffic, my FPS drop like a rock. In areas that have few to no vehicles, my FPS are better (but still not where I'd like it to be). Any ideas? Thanks, Original Light

I think that's an easter egg integrated within LCPDFR itself, not GTA IV. I vaguely remember that, but an interesting find. Thanks for sharing.

May be worth trying, at your own risk. As sixum said, make sure your power supply can handle it. Do some basic math. Add together the power draw of all your current components. Give a "buffer zone" of at least 100W to be safe. Meaning, if you add this second card, make sure your power supply would still have at least 100W of capacity remaining with two cards running at load. You don't want to risk drawing too close to its maximum.

I wouldn't want to mix brands. EVGA programs like PrecisionX may not like it, which you would typically use to enable/disable SLI or a secondary GPU.

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.

That would be a lot of manual labor for us, unless we just moved all locked topics to one section (which is an actual "select all" feature). But for accuracy reasons, I think it would be difficult moving all legitimately solved issues and implemented suggestions into a separate sub-forum.

The Ford Fusion Hybrid Police Responder sedan may be good for very liberal cities like New York City and Los Angeles that want to drink the Democrat Party's Kool-Aid, but I doubt the cops will like those very much. The F150 Police Package is something I do agree with, I believe that goes on sale next year. The future of the Taurus is in the air. It may be discontinued, according to recent articles. Sales keep going down. I imagine they may still produce it for fleet only in the near future, like the Vic was fleet only 2007-2011.

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one. But a majority of people consider it to be among the best service cars ever designed. It was roomy, it was cheap, it was durable (and predictable as to what was going to break), and easy to work on. They were also slower than they should have been in the later generation (Ford should have upped the horsepower), and the handling was okay for a large car. Those were the two primary negatives. And they sure as hell didn't look new, either. They kept the same appearance from 1998 to 2011. If you tell someone that you own a 2011 Crown Victoria, they would most likely ask "Ford made 2011 Crown Vics!?!?" Ford chose to neglect the car due to a global shift in increasing SUV sales and smaller FWD/AWD sedans. I know someone who runs a livery service with Lincoln Town Cars (same car, different badge) that put 500,000 miles on the original engine and transmission, other than replacing an intake manifold (they're notorious for leaking after abuse), and timing chains. They were also great taxi cabs after police service. But the main thing is, most of its buyers were fleet buyers (90% in fact in the final model years). The general public did not want the car after the early-mid 2000's (other than the large cult following crowd it has in the United States and elsewhere). That's because it was incredibly outdated. If Ford did update it, I'd imagine it would of had more respectable sales figures compared to the 1980's and 1990's (the best decades for the panther platform in terms of sales). A lot of people here will agree with me, a lot of people will disagree with me. Some people will say the Taurus looks better, the Charger looks cooler, but I can confidently tell you that mechanically speaking (if we're going by engine break-down, straight forward reliability and cost effectiveness) the Crown Vic wins hands down. I'm going to do this using facts, not opinion. It used a cast iron block, low compression V8 engine. Something that is extinct. All newer engines use aluminum. Cast iron is significantly more durable, at the cost of displacing less heat and being heavier. A Ford engineer actually told me this (I knew it before, but he reinforced it). Newer engines will often use cast iron in critical areas, and aluminum in other areas, but it's not really the same. The lower compression ratio means the engine isn't going to be stressed, in comparison to a twin-turbo high compression EcoBoost engine. The transmissions are composed of 4 gears, significantly less moving parts to fail than your new run of the mill 8-speed automatic. The car rests on a body-on-frame platform, built in the same manner as many full-sized pickup trucks and SUV's. This allows for easier repairs after collisions. Yes, the car uses 1970's technology and design. But after reading this post, maybe 1970's technology is better for police work after all? Think about it. I can't sit here and tell you with a smug face that it was the best car ever made, that would be ignorant. But I can sure as hell tell you it's one of the best cars ever made. Every cop I have talked to told me they liked the Crown Victoria better, especially here in Connecticut. Almost 6 years after discontinuation, it's still the second most common police car here in the state next to the Ford Explorer. That has to say something. And we're a rich state with huge police budgets, plenty of room to buy tons of new cars... but they seem to be holding on.

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RWD is best for police use. It's much more reliable, easier to work on, and is best suited for police driving tactics.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind seeing it come back. The new Caprice was a good take on its predecessor, it was a V8, RWD, and it was fairly reliable. I doubt Ford is going to be making any new V8 sedans, but if it were a V6 engine, more reliable than the Taurus, and RWD (and most importantly, spacious) it deserves the Crown Victoria badge. I think they could do this simply by stretching the current Ford Taurus, and making it RWD and AWD. Rather than the current choices of FWD or AWD.

Interesting story (there's a video on top as well): http://news3lv.com/news/local/nevada-highway-patrol-retires-its-last-ford-crown-victoria I think the CHP said the last of theirs will be gone early 2018. I just figured I'd post it for anyone that cares.

Oh well. I suppose we should all sell our cars and buy Tesla's to make you happy. Put all of our lives on pause and put the environment first. Ever consider what those batteries do to the environment once they're trashed? And what we mine out of the earth to make batteries? There's going to be a shortage of minerals for batteries, more so than fossil fuels. That will drive costs up for batteries.

Okay... fine. I'll be honest. It has had a direct impact on my life in one way thus far... http://nypost.com/2013/10/28/citys-final-fleet-of-crown-victoria-taxis-destroyed-by-sandy/ By destroying the last of the brand new V8 taxi cabs!

The pollution coming from a few V8 engines on the road by 2050 will be so little, since there's going to be far less of them. It wouldn't even be a spec of dust to the earth. If 50% -70% of vehicles on the road by then are electric, pollution is already going to drastically be cut. Why do you care about what other people drive? Drive what makes YOU happy. Don't tell other people how to live their lives. The glass is always half full for environmental advocates. You can still have your cake, and eat it too. Compromise. Climate change is real, I'm not denying that. But we can still have our fun, too. By the way, it's mainly factories that produce the majority of our pollution. Not vehicles.

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I doubt something would work like this in the U.S. by 2040. The best selling vehicle is the Ford F150. SUV and Truck sales are at all time highs, small car sales are dwindling (including green cars and hybrids). Our government has to offer tax incentives in order for people to buy the cars. Even then, I don't think older, classic vehicles will be outright "banned" as some people are worrying about in this topic. It only applies to brand new vehicles sold in the country. The government is not going to break into your garage and take away your 1968 Mustang. Considering the average car is kept for 12 years, this means internal combustion engine vehicles will still be common until the 2050's. I'll be in my 50's by then. My grandchildren may not know what a V8 engine sounds like, but I'll sure as hell be enjoying mine. Even as Cyan said, it's easy to promise something decades down the line. I'll also add that people get uneasy when the government starts throwing around the word "ban", especially when that comes to our personally owned property, like guns and vehicles. That doesn't sound very democratic. I sure hope these decisions are voted on by a majority.

This song reminds me of my first car, when the dealer took it to me and stepped out this song was playing:

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