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GTA V - stuttering with gpu load and gpu clock drops.

Joohny23

Joohny23

Joohny23

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So in few words. When playing GTA V gpu usage, gpu clock, gpu voltages and fps drops for a second and then turns back. It drops once every maybe 2 hours. It is related to my hardware or software issue?

My pc:
Gigabyte 1080 Xtreme ( No OC ) ( good temps 60 C )
6700K No Oc ( good temps 55-60C )
16gb DDR4
Corsair 750 RM
SSD Bx 100 Crucial 256GB

I am on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. Drivers 368.69.
 
I think its just a quirk of the engine. You have to make sure nothing else is running whilst playing(in my case I do), including monitoring softwares, and yet it will still stutter/pause occasionally. No other game does it, its a bad loop in the program somewhere in my opinion.
 
Only gpuz and fraps installed, thats all. + GTA V. Every 2 hours it stutter fps. I know its very rare. Then gpu core clock drop, voltage drop, gpu load drop and power drop for one second.

If gpu core clock dropping its related to hardware or not necessary?
 
I am worried about gpu if this is not caused. Any ideas? It spike/stutter maybe once every 2 hours in game. Then gpu core clock,voltage,gpu load and fps drops for a second and turns back.
 
Hi, had same issue in GTA since updating to Windows Anniversary. Did a fresh OS install last week using the latest ISO downloaded from Microsoft site and it's solved.
 
Joohny23 said:
with gpu core clock,gpu load drop with fps drop for a second?
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Yes, from average of 70-80 fps down to 30 fps for no reason. i.e. I could be standing still somewhere when the lag spike hit and see the clocks/load/fps drop.

I should add that I have also removed Xbox App and Windows Store along with doing the fresh OS install, in case that has anything to do with it, as they are negatively affecting some OpenGL apps and I don't need them. But I tried that before doing the fresh OS install and it didn't solve the problem on its own. I don't think they can affect DirectX.

Also, the only Nvidia drivers I installed after reinstalling OS are two: the actual Graphics driver 372.90 and the PhysX System Software driver.

Using a GTX 970.
 
I am little worried because here is similiar example with fps and gpu clock drop:

https://forums.warframe.com/topic/638340-warframe-not-using-full-gpu-clock/


Somebody said:"Thought my PSU broke down this thursday. And the graphs are taken before the breakdown. So you see some weird things happening on the PrefCap Reason and including some power dips and occasional clock dips while the psu that was in the verge of braking down didn't manage to give sufficient power to memory controller and gpu.

Now I have a new psu (Corsair 650W) but I haven't tested it with graphs yet."

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So maybe my psu is failing?
 
That graph indicates there's nothing wrong with your PSU. I dont see why GTA would break your PSU over other games. And using the in game Vsync will sometimes cause your framerate to lock at 30fps use adaptive Vsync in Nvidia control panel.
 
In all my years using PCs a PSU either works or it doesn't. They isn't a inbetween lol
If the PSU was struggling to power the GPU it would simply just switch itself off to protect itself and your hardware.
 
So if he said:" So you see some weird things happening on the PrefCap Reason and including some power dips and occasional clock dips while the psu that was in the verge of braking down didn't manage to give sufficient power to memory controller and gpu ( UTIL )."


He is not right that occasional clock dips means faulty PSU?
 
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