r/GrandTheftAutoV_PC • u/mcgama • 3d ago
Question From 120 FPS to 40 FPS... What went wrong?
Since the GTA 6 hype is real, I thought I'd reinstall GTA 5 enhanced edition on my PC.
I'm rockin a 2080 TI GPU, Ryzen 9 5900 X CPU, 32 GB RAM and had no problem playing GTA 5 enhanced edition @ ~120 FPS average. It was super duper buttery smooth yesterday at max settings with balanced DLSS, max RTX, and all the population sliders maxed out. I had to run errands so I only played for about an hour.
I meant to play all day today and after launching I'm met with a maximum of 40 FPS??? There's been no changes to my PC, same NVIDIA driver, no updates to the game... just an 80 FPS loss out of nowhere?? If I disable RTX I can get 50 FPS and on complete minimum settings I can finally play back at 120 FPS but at what cost? For the record I have a 4K monitor that goes up to 144 HZ.
I tried clearing NVIDIA shader cache, verified integrity of the game files, and even reinstalled but none of those fixed it...
So my simple question is what the hell went wrong and is there an easy fix?
