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Is my CPU limiting my gaming?

bobbarley

bobbarley

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Afternoon chaps!

I recently purchased GTA5 for the PC. I've got the PC listed in my sig and I'm finding the game rather choppy. Graphics are more or less on maximum and with FRAPS running I'm getting around 40fps. However the game judders when I'm driving around, stuttering every few seconds.

Do you think it's the CPU struggling to keep up?
 
I checked on the cpu and gpu load on my system on most games

I found this game to be very very cpu heavy

if you look on the steam forum people have complain about issue of stutter
I suspect it could be to do with hdd, some ppl install it on a slow hdd like a 5200rpm stuff

I ran it gta v on a q8400 core2quad and 6 core xeon x5650
the q8400 runs completely 100% load flat out and struggles
while the xeon runs fine very smooth
 
you need more cores and threads for that game,single core games will play fine

gta5 can use multi cores and threads

better gpu or oc the gpu might help aswell
 
My friend had the same GPU as yours and a 4670k, he was only getting 40 fps and finding it rather choppy too, he ended up getting a 290x, but it does run rather smooth on my laptop which only has an onbaord nvidia card but an i7.

So it basically makes use of a powerfull GPU and lots of cores like wazza said an upgrade to both wouldnt hurt.
 
I find that GTA V can be choppy online because of bad servers, when I play offline I get solid 60fps, best thing you could do is download HWinfo and see what the average load on both cores of your CPU over 30 minutes is. I would think dropping either a i5 or i7 into that board would help massively though.
 
You need to overclock the g3258 more in order for it to keep up, mines sat at 4.5ghz.
It performs very well at high clocks vs quads in many games.
 
GTA V needs more than 2 cores for smooth gameplay no ifs and buts - even if that doesn't solve the stutter your getting alone.
 
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Cheers fella. I followed that guide step by step. 3.8Ghz runs as solid as a rock, but anything over that and the system crashes when it loads Windows, every time.
 
It's probably the motherboards limit or a bios issue or not using enough vcore or vccin the odds of it being the g3258 limited to 3.8ghz are low.
 
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