GTX 960 & Intel I5 4690K Frame Drops GTA V? New to PC Gaming?

[jojellybean]

*BEFORE YOU GIVE ME ADVICE, I OPTIMIZED SETTINGS OF THE GAMES FOR MY GPU USING GEFORCE EXPERIENCE IF THAT HELPS! :)*

Intel i5 4690K

GTX 960 4GB OC Edition

Corsair 8 GB Gaming Ram

550W Power Supply

Windows 10



Today morning, GTA V was great. After downloading 2 new games from the Steam Sale, I shut down my computer.

When I turned the game back on, I noticed the frame drops were present again :/.


A Few Easy Questions

1) I feel a little bit of warm air coming out from the computer from the GTX 960. Is this normal?

2) Are there any preferable settings you recommend? GTA had a lot of the things set on Very High but I don't think it is because of this because I was playing with it's regular settings with no lag before.

3) Is my ram not enough? If so, what can I do to clear it up without harming anything like processes?

[Moe]

sigh.

1: yea, warm air from a gpu is normal - helloo!
2: run what ever settings the game defaults to after deleting settings.xml
3 - 8gb ram is enough yes.

[Alexalmighty]

to check and make sure what the actual gpu and cpu temps are download HWMonitor and keep an eye on it if anything is over 80c report back

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes run Prime95 + FurMark to stress CPU & GPU and see what max temps u get.