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I'm not up to date on graphics cards but everything else is rock solid. I think GTA had some engine patches changing some graphics options, draw distances and the like so it might be it's just slightly outrun you- but 50-80fps in high setting sis nothing to sniff at anyway.

If you want to push a higher res monitor and keep really high settings and refresh rates then you need a lot of GPU- which is kind of exactly why I'm not up to date on today's tech, I'm very happy with my current, slightly aged setup and to get a big upgrade means a lot of moneys.

No such thing as a futureproof system really but your processor and ram combo should be good for ages.

Just wondering how futureproof my system is.

Depends on if you want it at the absolute best or usable.

Outside of some badly optimised games (thinking of crysis in the past showing my uptodateness) most companies will try to keep things usable.

As Northwind says most of your spec looks reasonable. Graphics could be an arse but could pick up a card second hand. Problem is the ****ing crypto bubble has buggered supply and demand right up for that so its an ever moving market.

That's the kind of setup I was looking at getting last year, but I managed to hold off until my (10 year old!) gaming PC finally died in January, I now have:

i5-8600K

16GB Ram

GTX1060

and twin SSD

I'm hoping to get a decade out of the processor and RAM like the last one, by updating the GPU as needed/monies allow.

What's pissing me off now is the ping spikes and packet loss I'm getting, but that's apparently a virgin media issue, in some areas they trade stability for headline-grabbing speed scores, gits.

I get mine on finance from Scan and just replace them every 4 years like I do with car,motorbikes.

So hoping to get 4 years of high to ultra settings.

Thinking the ps4 pro should go to fund a 1440p monitor?

Only thing I play on it is battlefield 1. Which now that psn has run out is not very often.

Is it just in GTA or other games as well?

If just GTA probably a quirk due to some update or another. One thing could be that the Windows update - the latest version now has all the gamer stuff to help record and stream games etc. I recommend disabling all that if you are not using it, also AMD bundles stuff to help streaming etc, again worth disabling unless needed.

Windows now has gamer mode stuff to set priorities for running software, some games seem to benefit others not. Worth searching Google to see if there is anything on that with GTA.

Your system sounds solid, shouldn't be any need to upgrade for a while yet. BTW I love my 32" 1440p screen, easily one of the best upgrades. Since you have an AMD card look for a model with the adaptive VSync compatible with AMD. avoid the more expensive GSync models which are designed for the Nvidia technology.

Yeah just Gta v. It's fine for about an hour, then it just freezes and stops responding.

Witcher 3 is fine.

I've found the 1440 monitors to be almost too high resolution for anything other than gaming, but that could just be my eyes getting old! I've stuck with twin 1080p screens for now.

Does GTA V lock itself only (ctrl-alt-del/alt-tab still work) or the entire machine, requiring a reboot? I had war thunder doing similar to my old machine, which progressed to full lock ups/bsod/black screens and then the whole thing died (PSU/mobo/gpu let go together), I replaced the PSU and GPU with new, and got a 2nd hand mobo for pennies, but it was still doing it, so it was CPU or RAM, so losses were cut and I got a new shiny. Obvs it's most likely software rather than hardware on yours, as it's far newer, but I'd imagine GTA is pretty hard on the machine, given that there's quite a lot going on in it at any one time...

For gaming at standard 1080 it's should be absolutely fine for playing almost anything at ultra.

You'll get the odd game where you'll need turn the odd graphics setting down a little.

I have an almost identical system, a skylake i5 at 4.8ghz, rest the same. I can run witcher 3 with everything max apart from the hair works settings.

Dunno about gta 5 though, some of the graphics settings in games seem to make little to no difference to me so it's worth experimenting turning some down, as all they are doing is making the system work harder if you can't see a difference.

If you Google gtav graphics settings or similar, you may find someone else has done a guide, and has found out for example that shadow quality settings make bugger all difference between med, high and ultra.

If you go up to a 1440 monitor, get one that has the freesync feature. As mentioned above its like amd's answer to nvidia g-sync.

Otherwise you might want to upgrade the graphics card, or just play on lower graphics settings as graphics cards are way overpriced at the moment.

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I've just checked on my machine andenabling game mode definately can help maintain framerates for some games.

If you enter settings just search for game and then select Game Mode. The default setting is to enable the Game Bar and Game DVR so its probably enabled. With the game bar enabled you can hit WIN & G whilst in game to enable Game Mode for that game. If the Game DVR is enabled you can also start recording - it looks like Windows is alway buffering in the background when Game DVR is enabled to allow recording to start, so best to disable Game DVR unless needed.

I've not found much specifically about GTA and Game Mode but there are some videos on Youtube that suggests it does help to maintain ramerates.

If your problems only happen after a prolonged period it maybe other common background stuff starting up (but wny only GTA?) or that GTA is pushing CPU/GPU enough that thermal throttling is kicking in to keep temps down.

There are tools you could use to capture performance and game metrics which may help solve this. Sometimes I will game in a lower res windowed so I can keep an eye on system metrics in another window.

With regards to negative comments on 1440p, they must have only tried it on 27" screens. Try on a 32" and the pixel density is the same as a 24" 1080p screen. I much prefer this than my older 2 x 24" 1080p screen setup but each to their own 🙂

The new amd driver (adrenaline)  has a performance overlay that you can enable, then view in game with a hot key combo, that might help.

I'll give it a whirl later. I think I need to delete some crap off my ssd also.

Gta doesn't freeze the whole machine, it just freezes then you have restart the game.

I hadn't used it for a while so I think it needs a good update and driver update for my Rx480.

swap 480 bios to the 580 and make sure your radeon drivers are up to date.  I use the Display Driver Uninstaller when updating the AMD drivers to make sure there isn't any conflict.

I've got a ryzen 1700 and a MSI 480 8g gaming plus with a 580 bio with water cooling (kraken G12)

What are your peak cpu temperatures during gaming, I'm starting to think this might just be down to high temperatures.

I'm on water for both and don't see over 40c on the cpu and 45 on the gpu while gaming.  rx480 on air should be fine up to about 75c

Yea, run an app and keep an eye core temps etc.

I'm running:

i5 4590

8gb RAM

GTX 1060 3gb

23” 1080p IPS panel

I can run most things with ultra/high with no issues. Mostly Assetto Corsa and Project Cars 2.

Had to do alot of messing today with it. Using my ps4 controller for gta 5 now.

Sound wasn't working as I still have drivers for when I had a Amd fx6300 and the motherboard for that, all that is deleted.

My processor had reverted back to stock speed, so bios overclock profile was set again back to 4.8 ghz.

Now back to hitting 100 fPS going down to low 70's on Gta v.

Just need to finish Doom, Witcher 3, and the Metro series.

Also found £30 steam voucher under computer so need ideas to spend that.