GTS SA Performance problems

willhub · 24 Jul 2007 at 11:08

Got some unusual problems in GTA SA.

First of all, everything is at max of course, but outside my fps is around 50-70fps, seems far too low for this card, and then when I get in a car, I am driving along and my frame rate goes down to 25-35 and there is extreme stuttering.

anyone got any idea what is going on?

mame · 24 Jul 2007 at 12:09

When i was playing gta:sa if i forced v-sync on in the drivers the performance seemed to take a really big hit. Also have you got the frame limiter switched on or off in the game settings? Still seems very low for that card though.

FrannoBaz · 24 Jul 2007 at 12:22

i have the same problems with my 8800GTX

carlazai · 24 Jul 2007 at 13:40

Does anyone else suffer from the target seeming to drift to the left? cant solve this problem

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 09:57

Anyone got any info on why I get this stuttering? I want to start playing GTA again

knowledge123 · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:00

Patch, defragment, 'let application decide' AA and AF in CCC (do the AA/AF in GTA:SA itself) maybe? Had problems with performance in NFS:MW, turned out it didn't like CCC doing the AA/AF

Naffa · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:00

As mentioned above, do you have the in game frame rate limiter switched off?

EDIT: Lmao at your sig knowledge. Da' truf'. :cool:

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:03

willhub said:
First of all, everything is at max of course, but outside my fps is around 50-70fps, seems far too low for this card, and then when I get in a car, I am driving along and my frame rate goes down to 25-35 and there is extreme stuttering.

Frame limiter caps it at 25, as you cans ee in my first post I stated it would go down to 25-35. In parts my fps is around 50-70, in carls house I get 128fps.

Naffa · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:04

Is that a no then?

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:05

naffa said:
Is that a no then?

Well I would have thought so, since I am getting 70 in places it obviously means no frame limiter, when it's turned on the fps is capped at 25fps.

Naffa · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:38

Yeah, I know it's capped at 25. No need to give me a sarcy response for trying to help. :rolleyes:

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 10:50

naffa said:
Yeah, I know it's capped at 25. No need to give me a sarcy response for trying to help.

I aint been sarcy, I thought it would have been obvious the frame limiter was not on since I did state I was getting 70fps in one point.

"andy" · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:35

dunno why your moaning about getting 30 fps ?

its smooth with the limiter on imo

your just noitcing the stuttering because of the ocnstant up and down change in fps

if you ran it maxed on the limiter constantly it would be fine

skullman · 25 Jul 2007 at 13:19

It is best to play it with the limiter on. With it turned off I experienced some stuttering and also the game would go out of sync - during cutscenes especially. Also I dunno how it affects performance, but I heard the game doesnt get on with multi-core cpu's.

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 13:33

Hmm that may be a good point, I've never tried it untill today on my dual core setup.

I aint using that damnd frame limiter, a game that old and running at 25fps, no thanks, too choppy for me.

The frame limiter did stop the stuttering, but 25fps on GTA SA is awfull for me.

Dutch Guy · 25 Jul 2007 at 13:51

I laways had the limiter on, without it I would get stuttering .

I think that you would get stuttering no matter how fast the videocard is, there is something in the game that is limiting fast framerates sometimes.

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:02

Dutch Guy said:
I laways had the limiter on, without it I would get stuttering .

I think that you would get stuttering no matter how fast the videocard is, there is something in the game that is limiting fast framerates sometimes.

With my 8800GTS, X800XTPE, 9600np I did not get stuttering...

Dutch Guy · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:51

willhub said:
With my 8800GTS, X800XTPE, 9600np I did not get stuttering...

So you had a constant high framerate, or did you have the limiter on?

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 15:12

Dutch Guy said:
So you had a constant high framerate, or did you have the limiter on?

I did not have the limiter on, and no I did not have a constant high frame rate.

It must be the dual core CPU's.

snowdog · 25 Jul 2007 at 15:12

andy said:
dunno why your moaning about getting 30 fps ?

its smooth with the limiter on imo

your just noitcing the stuttering because of the ocnstant up and down change in fps

if you ran it maxed on the limiter constantly it would be fine

No its not, especially when driving in MTA the frame limiter P***** me off as when you looked sideways you could see it being all stuttery, while when gone to sa-mp, it was smooth as silk.

25 fps perhaps is smooth for games like rts etc, but for fast driving games, it definatly isn't, while walking it was unnoticable though, but when driving : need about 35 min. to get it smooth.

Hmm willhub, have you disabled everything in nvidia/ccc panels, ie. set it to let app decide?

Also what ingame AA lvl are you on? Lvl 3 was buggy as hell for me it disappeared textures, killed framerates, etcetc, try aa lvl 2.