Lag stutters after playing ~10 minutes

[Tseard]

Hello,

 

I am going to need some help. Ever since I installed GTA V, I've had this issue that after 10 minutes of smooth playing, the game suddenly starts to get lag spikes. From really bad ones to some softer ones. I've tried changing settings, spicing it up, lowering it but nothing seems to improve or resolve this.

 

Note that the mods that you see in the video are installed when this issue was still at hand, they did not make any effect on it from what I can tell.

 

Here are pictures of my current GTA V settings. I have included a video that is a showcase of the lags that occur. 

 

https://prnt.sc/ntaiv4

 

https://prnt.sc/ntaiz0

 

https://prnt.sc/ntaj3c

 

 

Edited May 25, 2019 by Tseard

[Ali]

Check the heat of your GPU, also try V-Sync, but this seems primarily like a hardware issue to me. Download HWInfo or something to determine the stats of your cards/psu/cpu etc to figure out where the issue is. If your GPU overheats, it'd do this.

[KillThePoor]

Try this, it worked for me.

[Liam_Airey]

What specs are you running?

 

GTA 5 is known for it's memory leaks and if you're running 8gb's of ram or lower you're gonna start stuttering and lagging after a few mins of play, I recently upgraded from 8gb to 16gb of ram (an extra stick of 8gb ram) and this issue cleared itself up as I had the same issue, if you can't upgrade your ram I'm probably gonna have to say you'll be stuck with the stuttering but if you're running 16gb's or more I'm really not too sure what it could be. 

 

Just to confirm in a normal session of GTA 5 the memory usage slowly rises to around 9gb's and more depending on how long you're playing, so even though 8gb's of ram is supposed to be "enough" for GTA 5 it really isn't. 

 

EDIT:

 

Just thought i'd slip a screenshot in here just to show you what my memory raises to after around half an hour of being IG.

 

As you can see it takes up to around 9gb of ram (on the right), even though the recommended specs for GTA 5 is 8gb, I'm assuming all the updates and DLC from the initial release have knocked it over so once again if you're rocking 8gb of ram you're unfortunately gonna need to upgrade or put up with the stutters.

 

Only solution I could give if you can't upgrade is restarting the game every time it starts to stutter, but obviously that can only be a short term, annoying solution.   

 

Edited June 6, 2019 by Liam_Airey

[LookAtMyRight]

I got this problem also. And yes the only way to fix this is just to restart the game ? it sucks.

To avoid this just completely avoid Alt-Tabbing I guess.