IndianaJoe

There's a couple of old plugins in the downloads that are known to kill FPS. I think either Entity Persistence or Keep Calm will do that, and some others; they're just poorly coded. Try adding things in one or two at a time to figure out what's causing it.

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.

Try disassembling everything, dusting it all off, and putting it back together. Run it a few times over the course of a day and see if it persists.

I believe that <gamename> in vehicles.meta must be a Rockstar vehicle name, such as POLICE, POLICE2, or POLICE3.

Delete Update.rpf from Grand Theft Auto V --> Update. Run the game without a plugins or mods folder and let it update. It should download a new update.rpf file and hopefully fix any problems with the visual settings.

That Whelen Edge is pure sex.

Alright, this, finally, was my original post. You can find more info here: You can change any car to work in any slot. 1. Change the name of the vehicle files: police.yft ----> police3.yft police.ytd ----> police3.ytd police_hi.yft ----> police3_hi.yft 2. In OpenIV, export your Vehicles.meta file from (mods folder) Update -> Update.rpf -> Common -> Data -> Levels -> gta5 -To edit it, Notepad++ is a great free program. -Find the vehicles.meta entry for the original model the car was named after (in the example above, this would be police). -Copy the entire entry (from <Item> to </Item>) and paste it above the top entry -Change the model and texture names of the vehicle to police3: <modelName>police</modelName> <txdName>police</txdName> <modelName>police3</modelName> <txdName>police3</txdName> -Now find the old vehicles.meta entry for police3 and delete the entire thing. -Save and replace your Vehicles.meta in OpenIV. 3. Do the same thing for the Carvariations.meta. -There are many different carvariations files, I use the one in (mods folder) Update -> x64 -> dlcpacks -> mpvalentines2 -> dlc.rpf ->common -> data -Export with OpenIV and edit with Notepad++ -Copy the carvariations entry (from <Item> to </Item>) for any vehicle. They're all formatted the same, it just decides what colors the car spawns with. -Change the <modelName>police</modelName> to <modelName>police3</modelName> -Near the end, change the <sirensettings value ="1" />. The vast majority of custom cars use the value 1. -If they use a special sirensettings value, it's usually in the description, or a custom carvariations entry is provided. Make sure you've replaced your edited vehicles.meta and carvariations.meta files in OpenIV. The car model files can go in one of the DLC patches: (Mods folder) Update -> x64 -> dlcpacks -> patchday11ng -> dlc.rpf -> x64 -> levels -> gta5 -> vehicles.rpf *as new dlc patches come out, cars can be placed in the latest dlc pack; i.e. patchday12ng or anything lower on the alphabetical list. Putting your cars in the latest dlc pack just ensures that they will overwrite any previous files, such as those in x64e.rpf or any other dlc packs. Even though there are no police3 model files in patchday11ng's vehicles.rpf file, your models will overwrite police3 because the game loads this dlc pack after any other files. Hence it's a good idea to just load up your cars into the lowest dlcpack in the list found in (Update -> x64 -> dlcpacks). As long as you don't mess up the meta files when you edit them, you can change any car to any slot using this process. The key point to remember is to copy the vehicles.meta entry of the car slot it was originally built for (police), and change the model/texture names to the slot you want to put it in (police3), and overwrite the intended slot's entry (police3). Same for carvariations, except you can use any entry and edit it as described above. This method works for adding new vehicle slots as well. Simply follow the steps above, except anywhere you would put police3, put a custom name like dodgecharger instead. As long as you have 1. a vehicles.meta entry 2. a carvariations.meta entry and 3. vehicle model files (yft and ytd's), all with the same matching names, you can add cars to your game without overwriting slots. This process seems a little long written out but once you get the hang of it it's not so bad.

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