Finally fixed my stutter problem, and here is how...

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*** If you already tried this fix and it didn't work for you, please refrain from posting hateful and trolly comments, cause this actually may help a bunch of people solve their problem.

So it wasn't a game bug or the display driver that was causing the stuttering for me after all, it actually was my page file settings, and I managed to fix it just by turning on "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives", not to be confused with the "System managed size".

*** Before doing the folowing, please read - Day Eahta PuPu's post below, and decide if you want to proceed with the page file change, but keep in mind that your system will warn you if you're running short on ram if you have your page file disabled, also when you're done playing GTA V, or if the fix doesn't work for you, you should absolutely enable your page file again. AND if you have less than 8gb of ram, don't even try this fix, it'll probably just cause you to run out of ram after a few minutes in-game.

What I did was:

Go to my computer > system properties > advanced system settings > click "Settings..." under the Performance tab > select the advanced tab > under virtual memory click "Change..." > select no paging file under all your drives and restart your pc > when it restarts go back and select "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives".

here's how it should look after you're done - http://i.imgur.com/eMcIPkS.jpg

This is for windows 7, should be similar for 8, 8.1, 10.

Hopefully you get the same result as I did and you can finally enjoy your game.

[OrizoN]

You got 8GB RAM, 16?

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Originally posted by OrizoN:

You got 8GB RAM, 16?

I have 8.

[A Regular Italian Plumber]

For the love of god do not listen to anyone that tells you to remove your pagefile. That is begging for OS issues and BSODs. If removing it improves performance that means you have been running out of ram as that is when pagefile is used.

Move it to a different HDD from where the game is installed if anything. It wont make your entire system unstable and it wont affect the game when its doing something.

And OP this isint trolling or being hateful, this is 10+ years of computer repair experience talking.
You DO NOT want to remove the pagefile or have it set to ANYTHING but "let the system manage it"

[OrizoN]

Ok i will try thanks, my paging file is managed by the system ^^

[OrizoN]

Originally posted by Day Eahta PuPu:

For the love of god do not listen to anyone that tells you to remove your pagefile. That is begging for OS issues and BSODs. If removing it improves performance that means you have been running out of ram as that is when pagefile is used.

Move it to a different HDD from where the game is installed if anything. It wont make your entire system unstable and it wont affect the game when its doing something.

And OP this isint trolling or being hateful, this is 10+ years of computer repair experience talking.
You DO NOT want to remove the pagefile or have it set to ANYTHING but "let the system manage it"

So it's better to let the settings on "System Managed Size" ?

[A Regular Italian Plumber]

Yes. A larger pagefile wont help with anything aside from draining HDD space, and removing it will cause issues with the OS since it uses the pagefile for important files that dont need to run at RAM speed and its used in place of RAM when you run out.

Like I said leaving it alone is the best course of action. If you have a really slow HDD (5400RPM or something) and absolutely have to move it, you can just move it to a different HDD so it wont affect your OS or games when its being used.

What OP suggested is nothing short of dangerous to your system and this post should either be removed or he should edit it.

[Raf 力]

It seems not to work. Are you sure it works for you?

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Originally posted by Day Eahta PuPu:

Yes. A larger pagefile wont help with anything aside from draining HDD space, and removing it will cause issues with the OS since it uses the pagefile for important files that dont need to run at RAM speed and its used in place of RAM when you run out.

Like I said leaving it alone is the best course of action. If you have a really slow HDD (5400RPM or something) and absolutely have to move it, you can just move it to a different HDD so it wont affect your OS or games when its being used.

What OP suggested is nothing short of dangerous to your system and this post should either be removed or he should edit it.

I edited my post. Though, you do know that windows warns you if you're running out of ram when you have your page file disabled, and then force closes the program that's draining it to free the ram, instead of just BSOD-ing.

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Originally posted by Raffaelmito:

It seems not to work. Are you sure it works for you?

It works for me 100%. Before I couldn't play the game for over 10 minutes without the game starting to chug like crazy, though the game ran fine for me before they patched it the second time, that patch started the stuttering, and I think the third one made it even worse.

[URMarty]

Originally posted by Dooleh:

Originally posted by Raffaelmito:

It seems not to work. Are you sure it works for you?

It works for me 100%. Before I couldn't play the game for over 10 minutes without the game starting to chug like crazy, though the game ran fine for me before they patched it the second time, that patch started the stuttering, and I think the third one made it even worse.

before the patch it worked fine here too, just saying.

[Raf 力]

Try going to your steam - steamapps - Grand theft auto V - Gta V.exe - right click exe file - properties - compatibility - tick the "run this program in compatibility mode for:"
Choose windows 7
And tick "Run this program as administrator"
Please tell me if this helps or not.

Thanks to a steam user

[URMarty]

Originally posted by Raffaelmito:

Try going to your steam - steamapps - Grand theft auto V - Gta V.exe - right click exe file - properties - compatibility - tick the "run this program in compatibility mode for:"
Choose windows 7
And tick "Run this program as administrator"
Please tell me if this helps or not.

Thanks to a steam user

I am on Win 7

[Raf 力]

Me too but this helped me, try ;)

[A Regular Italian Plumber]

Originally posted by Dooleh:

Originally posted by Day Eahta PuPu:

Yes. A larger pagefile wont help with anything aside from draining HDD space, and removing it will cause issues with the OS since it uses the pagefile for important files that dont need to run at RAM speed and its used in place of RAM when you run out.

Like I said leaving it alone is the best course of action. If you have a really slow HDD (5400RPM or something) and absolutely have to move it, you can just move it to a different HDD so it wont affect your OS or games when its being used.

What OP suggested is nothing short of dangerous to your system and this post should either be removed or he should edit it.

I edited my post. Though, you do know that windows warns you if you're running out of ram when you have your page file disabled, and then force closes the program that's draining it to free the ram, instead of just BSOD-ing.

Windows always warns you when you run out of ram regardless of the pagefile setup. And you dont BSOD with it off because you run out of ram, the pagefile is an essential part of the operating system and windows uses it to store information that does not need to be read quickly or for things that simply cant be constantly refreshed without causing issues (in addition to being used for virtual ram). DRAM (regular ass RAM) is volatile and needs to be constantly refreshed with the same addresses to work without losing info, so writing values that need to run in an environment where they are not constantly being refreshed several thousand times per second on a volatile memory source is where the instability and BSODs come from.


I know you are just trying to help, but nothing you have suggest is helpful to anybody. Its harmful information that masks a different underlying issue. Your HDDs read/write speed is the problem, not the pagefile. Using up your HDD to 100% is what is causing your issue, in short either your HDD is too slow, or too many things are accessing it at once. The pagefile is simply doing its job and using a small % of your HDD R/W, removing it does not fix the fact your HDD is being overused, it simply removes one of the most important processes running on it to free up a little bandwidth.

[OrizoN]

Anyway my problem isn't from the HDD because i can play 1h with no stutters at all,temps are good, cpu usage too but my memory begins to up more than 80% so the game start to use the page file who is slower than RAM, this is why people got stutters after a long period gaming time, the problem came from Rockstar (look at all the topic about that memory usage problem aka "memory leak") and my game was running really fine with the 335.1 patch but after the 350.1, the stutters reappears