Anyone who has a AMD FX 8320 and running GTAV with it experience low frame rates (running 1080p and everything on High)? I'm not sure if its just me
I recently upgraded to a r9 270x so I thought I would be able to run it. Turns out that I started lagging in the game since my frames were dropping. Decided to overclock the GPU with catalyst and did not change. I then started checking websites to see if there were any people having stutters.
I'm not sure if its on my end, overclock this cpu or even spend money on a 8350 to increase a 0.5 clock speed.
Do not attempt overclocking on a asrock 960gm/u3s3 (surprised you haven't melted that mobo with a 8 core allready) You may what to stress test your system and see if the cpu is being throttled by that weak motherboard
Dont oc the cpu on that board as you'll fry it. A higher frequency cpu clock wont do much in the way of increasing frame-rates anyway. It the gpu that handles the bulk of the workload.
Check temps - both cpu and gpu. Run something like hwmonitor in the background whilst you're playing for awhile, exit out of the game and check the max temps - you may find that the cpu and/or gpu has throttled itself due to high temps.
Does the same occur stutter occur with lower quality settings? If so just live with lower quality settings. If so then - drivers, uninstall, DDU (from guru3d), clean install of newest drivers. If problem persists wait around a little and see if others are having similar issues as there are bound to be a few bugs. There are still bugs in GTA4 that havent been sorted yet....
See if you can find a way to monitor your CPU clockrate. I think AMD Overdrive has a way to do that. See if your CPU is running at the frequency it should.
If the mobo you are running isn't meant for 8-cores, there is a chance that the VRMs could be overheating, and it is throttling your CPU.
im using a FX 8320 and it runs GTA V fine with a GTX 780. so the CPU is not the problem. but the auxin temp of 127°C does not sound very healthy. does the mainboard manual say where the auxin sensor is positioned on the mainboard? if it is the VRM getting that hot, you MB might not be able to run your CPU. if it is not the VRM i would guess that its a faulty sensor, no other part of the mainboard should get that hot.
even if it is not the VRM overheating like this, i would still advise against overclocking on that board.
Is it stuttering when playing online? I have that issue only when playing online multiplier. Seems to only happen when the game has more then 5 players on it. Never get the issue when it's just me and a few others.
Either your CPU is being throttled due to inadequate power delivery from the motherboard VRMs,
And/or
You're maxing out the Vram usage on your GPU. 2GB isn't much for this game. My friend had to turn things down to "normal" to get good performance with his 2GB GTX 680. May want to check Vram usage while in-game. If you're maxing that out, it can cause stuttering/frame rate drops.
i think that the issue is your GPU unfortunatly. The benchmark charts that i have seen, dont realy show that good scorings, atleast not on max settings.
It's also possible that the FX-8320 is struggling with the AI. Currently running a FX-8320 and it has major issues running a huge number of AI in games like ARMA.
I'm running everything on normal. I'm using 1250mb out of 2048 right now. Max fps is 78 while lowest is 19. Manual doesn't say anything where the auxin sensor is. I'm not sure if this mobo has a dedicated sensor.
Arma cannot be compared to GTA5 at all. Arma is notoriously single-threaded and very poorly optimized, which is what the AMD FX-series piledriver cores struggle with, since they are, individually, fairly weak.
6+ core FX CPUs should run GTA5 just fine as it's been well optimized to make use of more cores, where applicable. The consoles are 8 core CPUs and are significantly weaker, so if they can run the game, an 8320 shouldn't have any issues.
This game is a fairly GPU-heavy title from what I've seen thus far. I think in this case the R9 270x is being run at it's limits, even if the Vram isn't being maxed.
What's your CPU usage % while gaming? and how many cores? How is the workload being balanced? Is it spread among several or all cores, or is it heavy on only a few cores?
Running this game at 1080p with everything on high might be asking a bit much of the 270x. If you're running MSAA, try turning that off.