Unstable FPS / Massive FPS drops

[Casper]

Hello folks!

Im having trouble with my FPS in the game itself (Multiplayer & Singleplayer). I dont really know what causes this weird issue thats why im asking if someone is having the same problem like I do.
Usually I play GTA San Andreas with between 70 - 90 FPS which is really smooth and enjoyable, but there are few areas where I get massive drops.

From 70 - 90 FPS to 7-15 FPS.

I took a Image of the map and marked the areas where I get the unstable FPS. In the following picture Los Santos only but there are also places in San Fierro, Las Venturas etc. where I get simillar FPS drops.

http://image-upload.de/image/qCCXoF/e8a10d3924.jpg

PC Specifications:

Motherboard: MSI 2A9C

CPU: Intel-i5 650 / 3.20 GHz / Quad Core

RAM: 4.00 GB / DDR3

GPU: ATI Radeon / HD 5570 / 2GB / DDR3

HDD: Hitachi / 2 TB

OS: Windows 7 / Home Premium / x64


GTA San Andreas

- Fresh Installed today
- No any modifications installed

Settings:

Draw Distance: Default

Frame Limiter: Off

Widescreen: On

Visual FX Quality: Very High

Mip-Mapping: On

Anti Aliasing: 1

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (32)


All Drivers updated


What I tried:

- Setting Graphics down to lowest
Even than, in the marked areas the FPS drops.

- Installing newest Patch
No any changes

- Stream Memory Fix 2.0
No any changes

Note: When I start the game I turn off all the programms in the background. Means only the game itself is running (except normal windows process)

- Defragment
No any changes



I dont know if its normal or not
I didnt find anything helpful iby searching trough the internet

Maybe its just the crowded places or the amount of objects.

regards
Casper

[Honigsenf]

Hi Casper,

just to be sure, tried framelimiter = on ?

[Casper]

Hi Casper,

just to be sure, tried framelimiter = on ?

Yea I tried that, the result was even worse

[Janar]

I have Radeon HD 6670 card, occurred such lag spikes aswell.
Open AMD Vision Engine Control Center (previously known as ATI Catalyst), look for Image Quality and check Anti-aliasing, Anti-aliasing Method and Anisotropic Filtering. Setting these to low or performance helped me get rid of those lag spikes.

[Casper]

I have Radeon HD 6670 card, occurred such lag spikes aswell.
Open AMD Vision Engine Control Center (previously known as ATI Catalyst), look for Image Quality and check Anti-aliasing, Anti-aliasing Method and Anisotropic Filtering. Setting these to low or performance helped me get rid of those lag spikes.

Seems to be a good suggestion but it was already set to it :/

[Janar]

Hmm, that's weird. I'm out of ideas, but I was able to get rid of the lagspikes.

[Casper]

Hmm, that's weird. I'm out of ideas, but I was able to get rid of the lagspikes.

Well thank you any way.

Anyone else got a idea?

[Murt]

Tried to install the latest graphic drivers?

[Casper]

Tried to install the latest graphic drivers?

All Drivers updated

I updated them a few days ago.

[Shejken]

Open up task manager and check the processes tab for any heavy background program, example an antivirus performing search.

As if it occurs also in singeplayer, we could list off game related issues itself.

[MrTrane]

Visual FX Quality: Very High

Try to set it to High or Medium and see if there is any difference.
All the areas that you stated are surrounded by big amount of trees, buildings and most of the time players.
The Visual FX are the shadows of the game objects, vehicles and characters and sometimes it is the cause of lag when it is set to Very High.

[Casper]

Open up task manager and check the processes tab for any heavy background program, example an antivirus performing search.

Try to set it to High or Medium and see if there is any difference.
All the areas that you stated are surrounded by big amount of trees, buildings and most of the time players.
The Visual FX are the shadows of the game objects, vehicles and characters and sometimes it is the cause of lag when it is set to Very High.

Finally after already a year playing with weird FPS drops, someone found out how to fix it!
Though I have to set it to low to play with a stable amount of FPS.

Thank you Trane!

[MrTrane]

Finally after already a year playing with weird FPS drops, someone found out how to fix it!
Though I have to set it to low to play with a stable amount of FPS.

Thank you Trane!

You're welcome, I'm glad I helped.

[TheRock]

Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\SAMP\sa-mp.cfg < check if the multicore option is on 1, so afinities will work.. and just like Trane said, Keep Visual Fx on low, unless you want to take some kind of screenshot.. I just don't get why you use Widescreen whilst on 1080p hah..

Also try this: http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=7638

[Casper]

Documents\GTA San Andreas User Files\SAMP\sa-mp.cfg < check if the multicore option is on 1, so afinities will work.. and just like Trane said, Keep Visual Fx on low, unless you want to take some kind of screenshot.. I just don't get why you use Widescreen whilst on 1080p hah..

Also try this: http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=7638

Also thanks to you.
I'm using Widescreen since it deforms the the resolution, not sure why...