I just sent this to R*
QuoteBIKER DLC-related bugs
1) Clubhouse Vespucci Beach
- Mural 2 disappears and reverts to the default Mural 1
Most of the time I only see the default Mural. Sometimes the one I paid for "returns" but won't stay. I cannot reproduce the circumstances, it seems random.
- The blue corona has disappeared inside the club. It's where I should be able to arrange the bikes. Same happened to a friend.
- Custom Club Name is not visible for other players
They see "Motorclub MC" or something like that, a screenshot I took in a friend's club where I couldn't see his custom club name only shows an empty board. That player said in my club the board's letters flickered. Maybe that's why the screenshot shows an empty board.
- Bikes seem to sink into the concrete floor a couple of inches. As if the concrete was still wet..
- Gun Locker (maybe same with CEO?) does not support all weapons. For instance, if all mellee weapons are hidden, I still have the golf club and the crow bar when using the weapons wheel. Same goes for the "Pistol."
- Favourite Bike (with health boost) -- seems to be randomly picked by the game. It took several hours riding the bike I wanted to be my favourits. Before, it was a bike I am pretty sure I hadn't uses half as much as the one I wanted to be my favourite. Even stranger, a friend of mine had the Bati as "favourite" which he didn't even remember having used used since the DLC was released. It took ages to get the one he wanted. It is incomprehensible how that works. It might be a good idea to allow the player to hand-pick their own favourite bike, just like you can determine where to respawn.
2) Ammu*Nation
- VIP Variants of the Heavy Revolver and the Switch Blade are locked again. Bodyguard Variant remain accessible. I used to have access to both of them.
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Dear Support Team, appart from the bugs listed above which I'm sure you're going to try to fix, I have one additional request:
Because of the Mural bug I decided to test whether or not a renovation would help. So I spent $226,500 (Oct 8, 2016 at 12:28AM) which, frankly, I wouldn't have done if the mural hadn't reverted to the default. And it didn't solve the problem. To be fair, I kept the mural still shown as active so I didn't spend money on the mural. I spent $175,000 on the club name (which wasn't visible for other players) and $51,500 for the club emblem, too. However, I'd really appreciate a little in-game financial support for my attempt to solve the problem like that :)
Good luck with all those bugs, I know I'm not the first and not alone with stuff like that. I love the Biker DLC and I do hope that you guys manage to fix those bugs.
Thank you very much and my best regards,
Art
And I just added this:
QuotePS: Almost forgot, because I left it untouched in the club
Nagasaki Chimera (trike)
- No bulletproof tyres available.
I wouldn't have bought it if I had known about it before.
It's got to be an accidental omission by Rockstar. I understand if you don't offer rims but PLEASE offer bulletproof tyres. I had already spent $210,000 on that trike, and armour $50,000 and I think brakes $40,000 when I was informed via voice chat about the missing wheel options. I decided not to upgrade that trike any more until a patch solves the issue. Else I would very much appreciate a 100% refund (50% selling it as is and 50% by you) because I don't need a vulnerable vehicle like that.
By the way, sorry for any typos/mistakes, it's very late and I'm tired but I just had to get this whole bug report off my chest ;)
Thank you very much
Art
I filed a ticket about my FPS drops. It's horrible. The game isn't fun to play anymore. Super un-smooth. Nothing I can do about it. Have tried everything, even did a complete new windows install. Still suffer from it. I hope they come with a solution because it's pretty shitty :-\\
That sucks. :-( Hope you guys get your glitches sorted out ;)
Btw, my blue corona for the bike management is also gone. They will probably fix it with the next patch. Same with the bullet proof tires of the trike. Not so sure what they will do with my framerate issue. Probably give me tons of advice what to try to fix it. :-\\
"hopefully" other players report fps issues as well so that they'll have to take it seriously and fix it.
They will, but first, they need to get the same issue by themselves (otherwise, impossible to fix, how can you fix something without knowing what is broken?). I assume there are lots of coding to rewrite, recompile, test and release.
Meanwhile, I got the first stereotype response from Support. I knew they'd do it and I asked for their individual help.
Now the real journey begins. I'll keep you in the loop.
Best of luck on your likely long adventure with support 8-X
cheers. :)
I think most of the stuff I told them will be part of an upcoming patch because it isn't "just me" having problems with those issues. The rest is more a question of how willing they are to give me a few in-game bucks for some stuff I wasted money on due to bugs.
Today I got this reply
QuoteHello Art,
Thank you for contacting Rockstar Support.
We appreciate your time for reporting this issue regarding the murals and there is no bullet-proof tires on your Nagasaki Chimera. We will look into this.
With regards to your issue with Custom Club Name is not visible to other players, the blue corona has disappeared inside the club, the bikes sink into the concrete floor, Gun Locker does not support all weapons and the issue with the favorite Bike we request you to please provide us a video so that we can investigate your issue further. If the video is too long to upload to this ticket, you could add an unlisted video to YouTube and provide us with a direct link.
Once we have this information, we will research your issue and get back with you when we reach a resolution.
We would like to inform you that we do not have an option to provide you the refund in this regards.
We greatly appreciate your patience and cooperation!
It's a bit too late to reply to that now but some things don't seem to make sense (a blue corona that isn't there, how do they think it can be captured on video? And, if I can see my club name, how can I prove with a video that other's can't see it? maybe if I get invited into a club the name of which will show and then walk in front of their board and look at "motorcycle club" rather than that name would prove it. The favourite bike takes forever to become one.. "if the vid is too long.." -- how do they think is that going to fit on a video at all?) plus I don't record any videos.
A few screenshots that I took might help and maybe someone can help me with some ideas of how to deal with that support request.
Any ideas welcome. I'll read it in perhaps 15 or 16 hours from now.
I would indeed provide them the screenshots. Maybe post them here and send them the link? I think you can cover basically everything with it; the blue corona should be there and you show it isn't, so that should be enough already. The biker club logo is harder. I could start a MC w@&k so you get the on-screen message that "Motorcycle Club" started this and that mission suggesting you to do something. Then you can explain that in fact that MC is from a friend of yours called Blunters 4 life. No proof, but at least the best you could do.
I don't see the point in providing moving images because unlike my issue, yours is related to concrete appearances, or the absence of one. The Bulletproof Tires is something you could also capture; the absence of the menu option to put bulletproof tires on, in LS Customs.
:)
While I replied again today after trying the second suggestion R* provided, I got a massive Windows 10 update. No idea what changed, but it was enough to sow a little seed of hope that this might influence my FPS issue with GTA V as well. Guess what; I've been playing the game for 50 minutes now without ANY frame rate drop :) :-X
I also noticed something else; since the Biker DLC another bug, that heavily frustrated me last year, seems to be fixed. It's the one where crew emblems would get stuck to cars, no matter what I did, even selling cars wouldn't take the emblem away, given the fact that it would slam itself on the next car I would by on that same spot. Now apparently, on 2 of my vehicles that were stuck with an unwanted emblem, the emblem was gone. I checked on one other, and there it was still present, but a single trip to the mod shop and I could easily get rid of it. Hasn't returned yet 8-X :-D :-X
:-X :)
Second test; again the framerate drops. So it hasn't been cured yet :P
damn, Binnatics :( I wonder what it is that causes those frame rate drops.
meanwhile, I replied to Rockstar.
QuoteDear xxx
thank you for your reply.
Before we forget, you seem to have skipped the issue with locked VIP versions of those two weapons -- I paid money to unlock and equip them and now they are locked again. I used to have access to both VIP and bodyguard variants of those weapons. It would be really nice if you took a look at that issue as well.
I appreciate your time for taking a look into the murals and the missing bulletproof tyres options -- however, just to make sure, I wish to clarify that in the mod shop there is no option to mod the Chimera's tyres at all, hence no way of getting any bulletproof tyres. So it's not only "my" Chimera but the Chimera in general. There should be an option though, as all other bikes and cars that I own (or owned) do have the bulletproof tyres option.
At this point I come to realise that maybe your department (Support) can't solve the issues I brought to your attention because I believe it is something that needs to be checked by the developers / programmers of the Biker DLC. Unlike issues such as not having received a refund, these issues seem to be part of the coding. If this is the case it might help the devs if these issues are brought to their attention. Maybe you can help which would be really nice.
You asked me to provide a video. I would love to do that. However, I am completely inexperienced and I have never recorded any videos so far (except using the editor in GTA IV) , I don't have any software necessary and so on. Also, some of the issues simply cannot be recorded. For instance, how would you want me to show that someone else can't read the name of my club on the board in my clubhouse? I could only show you that I can read it, not that someone else can't. Or, how could I demonstrate that it takes forever for a random motorcycle to become my favourite bike without recording hours and hours of riding it? In the meantime, the bike that I wanted to become my favourite actually has become my favourite, so that I am now happy that I got it. The problem is, however, that a player cannot select a bike to become the favourite bike. When you sell the bike the game thinks is your favourite, you cannot make one of the remaining bikes your new favourite just like that. The old one stays that way even if you no longer possess it. Again, something for the developers to consider and check. And the blue corona that indicates the spot where to rearrange the order of the motorcycles in your clubhouse, it has disappeared and has remained absent. How would you capture something that is not there on video?
I think I can help you with screenshots. I can show that the corona is not there. I can show a bike sunken into the concrete floor. I can take a screenshot of the weapons list in the gun locker where there is no golf club and no crow bar and no pistol to show/hide on the list and I can show that I (still) have said weapons in my weapons wheel.
Assuming that you would much rather like to take a look at my screenshots attached to this post than making me (or waiting for me to become) a video director, I will add screenshots of which I believe that they will help you to "get the picture" of what is bugged in the game. For your convenience, I edited notes into the screenshots so you will instantly notice what is wrong there.
I hope that I was able to help you with my comments and screenshots to identify the bugs and issues which I have experienced.
Please let me know if there is anything else I could do to help you.
Thank you very much.
With best regards,
Art
[smg id=9348 type=preview align=center caption="blue corona on"]
[smg id=9349 type=preview align=center caption="blue corona off"]
[smg id=9350 type=preview align=center caption="wet concrete"]
[smg id=9351 type=preview align=center caption="club name on"]
[smg id=9352 type=preview align=center caption="club name off"]
[smg id=9353 type=preview align=center caption="club name off 2"]
[smg id=9354 type=preview align=center caption="Chimera no wheel option"]
[smg id=9355 type=preview align=center caption="gun locker 1"]
[smg id=9356 type=preview align=center caption="gun locker 2"]
[smg id=9357 type=preview align=center caption="gun locker 3"]
[smg id=9358 type=preview align=center caption="gun locker 4"]
Good (and funny at times ^-^) post and helpful pictures. It's funny how you somehow manage to turn the situation into 'you' helping 'them' instead of them helping you :-X :)
I hope they reply mature this time. So I hope they will to my reply after their utterly helpful suggestions (oops, am I being cynical now? :angel:) I bet they will in the end ;)
:)
OK, just received this and I am a bit agitated now.
QuoteHello Art,
Thank you for explaining the issue that you're experiencing the issues after the biker DLC update in detail.
We are sorry to hear that you are facing issues with your Steam version of our game.
The following troubleshooting steps have helped resolve many issues, so we'd like to try them here.
Please verify the integrity of your game cache files:
Load Steam
From the Library section, right-click on the game and select Properties from the menu.
Select the Local files tab and click the "Verify integrity of game cache" option.
Steam will verify the game's cache file. This process may take several minutes.
Once the process is completed, the Check Window will automatically exit.
Please let us know the status of this issue. If the issues still persist, we can escalate this further for the investigation based on your report.
Best regards,
xxx
Now they're getting me started. I had to crank it up a notch. >:(
QuoteHello xxx,
thank you for your reply.
I just verified the integrity of my game cache files and steam reported 100% integrity, no changes necessary.
The status of "this issue" is the same as before except the blue corona has reappeared in the club house which may be temporarily. It was there before and disappeared, so I don't believe that it miraculously fixed itself and I still consider it worth looking into. Everything else is still as reported previously. Which means, I still have the same issues to cope with.
You said you could escalate this further based on my report. Since my report essentially is "nothing has changed, everything is still bugged as already reported in detail," I ask you to please escalate it further.
I hope the next level of support, tier 2, will actually look into the screenshots and read my previous detailed reports. So far I feel treated like someone who just said, "my game doesn't w@&k." The solutions and suggestions given to me were generic and pretty much standard procedure. Of course they didn't w@&k or help.
I spent a lot of time trying very hard to help you with as many details as possible so you could start your investigation.
I sincerely hope that someone is finally going to. This isn't personal, just stating that so far it has basically been a waste of time. I hope that we can now try to solve "this issue" and I would very much appreciate a reply that isn't created by using pull-down menu generic templates but actually someone talking to me.
Thank you for your efforts, I am looking forward to an individual support.
Best regards,
Art
Concerning my FPS issue, they now asked me to post a video, so they can escalate it to the concerned department for farther investigation. I'm about to launch GeForce Experience to do so. Can't cover my issue with screenies :-D
at least you can show them :) good luck with that escalation :-D
Rockstar should know from Art's detailed description of the problems that it's not a caching issue. I'm not a developer, yet even I can tell right away that it's not a caching problem. A bike appearing to be half-embedded in a floor is not indicative of caching problems - that's faulty coding, plain and simple. RS has seen the screenshots (assuming they even looked at them) so I'm surprised they had the hide to send out such an automated, template response.
Hope you guys can get through to them and get some satisfaction out of them :)
Binnatics, you may want to disable the Xbox DVR. That culprit steals frames and should definitely be deactivated. Unfortunately, you need to log into Xbox Live just to get into the options menu in that app and disable the DVR. >:(
What is an Xbox DVR???
Was it there before the DLC? In that case, it's not interesting for me. Nothing influences my fps issue, not even lowering the res to 800-600
This is what I'm talking about (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6239-DZCB-8600) ;)
Aha! Someone else is now taking care of my issues >:D
QuoteHello ArtBlade,
We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. Your case has been escalated to the proper department. Please note, cases are addressed in the order they are received. We appreciate your patience.
Best regards,
xxx
And here is me, willing to help again :-()
QuoteHello xxx,
now that sounds nice :) Thank you!
Meanwhile I found out something that might help you guys:
- VIP Variants of the Heavy Revolver and the Switch Blade
I had unlocked both variants, VIP and Bodyguard variant when the VIP stuff was new. Now, I do have access to both variants as long as I don't become president of my own MC. As soon as I start my MC, the VIP variants are locked.
I think the Biker DLC is somehow built on how the VIP stuff works because of what I just stated above and because I once saw a message all across the screen that I was no longer a "bodyguard" which happened when the president disbanded his MC of which I was a member. I actually have a screenshot of that, see attachment :) So maybe some stuff can be solved knowing about that relation between bikers and VIP.
Something that seems to have been "miraculously" fixed:
- Blue corona inside MC club house fixed?
They have been back for a few days now, looking stable.. no idea why but hey, I'm not complaining as long as they w@&k. :) My friends say the same, they also got their coronas "back" :)
Something strange:
- The custom MC club names.
Yesterday I had a three friends in my session and in my club house (I play "invite only" 99.9% of the time) so two of them did see the club's correct name on the board while one didn't. He saw "Motorcycle Club." However, all of us have always been able to see our own club's correct name in the club house.
I've added another screenshot that shows how that generic name keeps popping up -- sometimes when playing biker missions. You can see in the pic that the custom name had been replaced with Motorcycle Club. "MISSION OVER -- Motorcycle Club destroyed the munitions." That is something two of my friends mentioned independently, they also sometimes see that type of message with a generic club's name. Only the colour of the name relates to which club it actually was.
OK, so far from what I have found out in the meantime.
You see, I actually want to help you guys solve some of your game's issues because if you do, you solve mine. :)
Let's try to w@&k together.
Thank you and have a nice weekend
Best regards,
Art
[smg id=9378 type=preview align=center caption="MC with VIP message"]
[smg id=9379 type=preview align=center caption="custom MC with generic message"]
Quote
PS
re: "wet concrete" floor in clubhouses
It appears as if the Nightblade and the Gargoyle are particularly heavy. They're the two types of bikes I keep seeing sunken into the concrete. Another screenshot that shows that problem even better than the one posted earlier.
I hope this helps :)
[smg id=9380 type=preview align=center caption="more wet concrete"]
posted a PPS:
Zombie Bobber also sinks into concrete
Damn, what happens if you try to sit on them? I guess this must be some sort of collision issue between the bike wheels/ground.
they come back up
Definitely a collision issue, the wheels probably ignore the X-axis on the floor 8-X
the x-axis? I think x=left-right, y=up-down and z=near-far. Should by y-axis, then
I think what GKID means is that the bike wheels are not detecting a collision with the floor's x-z plane. Collision detection is usually actuated by moving objects, not stationary ones, so in this case the wheels would be doing the detecting, but they're not registering a collision with the x-z plane of the floor until some of the wheel geometry has already slipped through.
Funny how the bike comes back up when you get on it. Having a rider aboard must reset the bike's collision detection parameters or something.
Does this ever happen when you park the bike in the street, or just in the garage?
Yep, thanks for deepening it out, fragger :)
These types of issues occur on other locations as well, but I can't bring up an example now.
And they don't always sink into the ground. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Maybe they only sink in when it's dry weather, between 3 am and 23 pm and not on Fridays :-D
Binnatics, :-D
Thanks for the explanation, fragger :)
GKID, alright :)
I sent another post to Rockstar.
QuoteHello :)
While I think that you've got enough reason to check the wet concrete phenomenon, I have two more bugs to tell you about.
- Laptop at Simeon's "import" garage (see screenshot)
When you enter an invite-only session for the first time and spawn in the club house (still the one at the beach) you'll see an animation, the world from above zooming down into where you spawn -- well, no. You see Simeon's garage from above but spawn in the correct location. It also works if you start a contact mission, you zoom out of Simeon's garage despite the fact that you're at Vespucci beach in the club house. The laptop disappears once you leave the club house. Kind of funny but still a bug.
- Malc keeps sending e-mails complaining and calling you complaining, always about the laptop he thinks you never used, even if you used the laptop in a public session. A friend and I who haven't bought any businesses (we prefer to play invite-only) keep getting those pesky stalking calls and mails. If you delete the e-mail, you still keep getting a message popping up above the mini map stating that you have unread e-mails. I mean.. hey.. it is really annoying :) Also, if he calls you (whenever), the phone miraculously picks up itself. I can't even ignore it or hang up without answering, it keeps connecting me with Malc automatically. If you are in a voice chat in-game, the phone call disrupts and stops the voice chat for the time being. Also, very annoying. Mission done, he calls. Briefing, he calls. Nothing, he calls about the laptop. I am close to nailing his head to the club house table, set it on fire, and feed the charred remains to the Lost. >:D Can you do something about that, pretty please, with sugar on top? :)
Thank you.
Looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Art
[smg id=9382 type=preview align=center caption="club house at Simeon's"]
Nice ^-^ :-X
ta :)
I know that you've got businesses, so.. does Malc still send you e-mails and calls you about the laptop, too?
meanwhile, with Nomad's help, I solved one riddle.
Quote
Hello again :)
Good news: I found out about the "Pistol" (and partly the Crowbar and the Golf Club) -- the gun locker description basically already states it: only PURCHASED weapons can be hidden.
Everyone gets "the Pistol" for free when they start out online, so that isn't meeting the requirement for the gun locker. The Crowbar and the Golf Club need to be picked up, you cannot purchase them.
The "trick" with the pistol is, you first need to throw it away and then you have to purchase it at Ammu*Nation so it becomes a purchased weapon. Only then the gun locker list will show the pistol as a selectable item. Great.. guys, seriously, you did that on purpose? :)
Let's just say, please make it so that all OWNED weapons, not just only the purchased ones, can be hidden. What good is it to be happy to have found a golf club and a crowbar just so you can't hide them with the gun locker? Let alone a present, the pistol, having to throw it away and re-purchase it just so you can hide it? I think you too see how that doesn't quite register with at least some people's minds. I assume that you guys didn't mean to do that. So.. I think including those weapons shouldn't be too hard for you but it is next to impossible for the player to solve that on their own. Please consider it :)
2 screenshots (pistol solved 1 and 2) attached.
[smg id=9383 type=preview align=center caption="pistol solved 1"]
[smg id=9384 type=preview align=center caption="pistol solved 2"]
I keep solving my problems on my own..
Quotehello guys :)
Update: Gun Locker, Melee Weapons, Golf Club
The "Golf Club" is now on the list and can be hidden. I think it is related to the "Pistol" issue (needed to throw the pistol away and purchase it) because I recently threw away the golf club but one biker clubhouse mission required me to kill a target using a golf club so I had to pick up one. And now the melee weapon list shows 15 rather than 14 entries.
I might be able to reproduce that with the crow bar. If I can get that to w@&k, I'll let you know :)
Catch you guys later.
:-X
:)
And indeed:
QuoteHello again :)
Update Gun Locker part 2, the Crowbar
So indeed, today I was able to add the crowbar to the list of melee weapons. I started a Last Team Standing called "LTS Cypress Flats" where the crowbar can be found. I chose "forced + pickup" as weapon choice and picked up the crowbar. Mind you, I didn't have to throw away the crowbar, the forced+pickup was enough, just picking it up made the game recognise it. It also worked for a friend of mine, too, same with the golf club (and the pistol) which is very nice.
Now.. as always, looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Art
Who needs support, eh Art? :)
well, apparently they do so I keep them posted up :-()
:laugh:
:-D
I found another bug, related to the statistics in Social Club. As soon as you reach above 1000 wins (or an equal amount of losses probably) the statistics get confused and they no longer show the circle charts related to those statistics. It remains grey again:
[smg id=9401 type=full align=center caption="Races bug"]
Unlike the usual red vs. blue:
[smg id=9402 type=full align=center caption="Deatchmatches stats"]
looks like a derivation of the Y2K-bug. This time it's a W1K (win 1,000) bug.
^-^
Man.. ??? :'(
QuoteHello again -- with another problem.
Only yesterday we discovered a bug we hadn't been aware of:
(Heist) GEAR is inaccessible!
In the interaction menu that lets you select your style on the fly, there is an option to select heist gear such as the night vision device. Only you CANNOT select ANYTHING. The night vision or rebreather or anything called "gear" simply cannot be selected at all. Neither in free-roam nor during contact missions, actually so far we haven't been able to make use of that selection under any given circumstance.
Workaround:
The only way that we found it still worked was when inside an AmmuNation using the counter where to buy gear from. Then you can access gear that you already own or purchase new gear. So the only way to equip night vision is to use AmmuNation or if you create an outfit featuring the night vision device and save it. Choosing the outfit makes it w@&k UNLESS you try to change it or the game removes it. "Funny" is when looking at a friend wearing night vision during a mission -- you'll see a black ski mask with holes for the eyes. No device. Yet it still works until something changes it.
Unfortunately, for some reason AmmuNation isn't accessible during missions so if the gear is removed, it cannot be put back on unless you saved an outfit with it and select that outfit.
Please take a look at that issue -- it is REALLY annoying to see an option that doesn't w@&k and that you cannot use gear you own unless you know about said workaround.
Thank you and my best regards, awaiting your reply.
Art
For 3 days in a row now I don't have any suffering from FPS drops. It happened once before, for just 2 days. Next update, which was another car released, gave me back the problem. So I'm not yet closing my ticket, it might fall back into those horrible drops again. Anyway, heavily enjoying the good steady framerates for the time being ;)
nice, fingers crossed :)
can you confirm the night vision issue, too? Nomad and I do have them
Confirmed :)
In other words, you are doing R* QA testing for them :-D
that's right -- someone needs to get the job done :-D
:-D
I have to apologize to Rockstar Support. All the time I've been blaming them for my FPS issues while it wasn't them failing me, it was my own CPU cooler :D :D :D
I hadn't had any FPS drops for a week, until last Saturday night. Suddenly it started again. I was super disappointed; I just told R* that my issues were gone and there they were again. But the next day I realised that my system was extremely quiet all of a sudden, while I had also noticed the past couple of days that my CPU cooler fan was running at max speed for some unknown reason. I linked the silence with the sudden FPS trouble coming back. In fact, I realised that the noise I had heard the past week was maybe the reason why my system wasn't stuttering while running GTA.
I dug into my system maintenance tools and found out what I was already expecting; my CPU cooler fan was running at a modest 0 rpm :-[
I realised that this was probably the reason for the FPS issues while playing GTA. Control center showed that while on load playing GTA my CPU went up to 94℃ (!)
I think I remember GKID telling me to do thoroughly hardware testing, which I then found unnecessary; the problem only occurred while playing GTA and only and exactly since the Bikers DLC came out. I wish I had listened better :-[
I learned a couple of things today:
- Always do a complete hardware behaviour test when the system starts stuttering and malfunctioning :angel:
- Always test more than just one demanding game when stuttering occurs :angel:
- My CPU cooler (Scythe Mugen III) is a pretty damn good cooler. With a non-functioning fan it still managed to keep my CPU close to acceptable temps even when playing GTA on heavy load :-X :)
- I should listen to GKID when it comes to pc problems :-D
So after all the only thing I can blame Rockstar for is releasing the Bikers DLC at the exact same day as my cooler fan decided to go belly-up :-D
Today I went to my local hardware dealer and asked them to test and examine my rig, see if indeed the fan had broken. I was a bit afraid it would be my mobo not managing the fan properly but tests cleared that it was definitely the fan that needed replacement.
They did the replacement for me and I only had to pay €12,- for the fan + €17,50 for the replacement job.
I tested the system in my control center and it's working perfectly now. Let's see if indeed my fps issues are over for good 8-X
you were lucky that your CPU didn't go up in smoke :-X
Nice that you got it sorted. I would also recommend to use MSI Afterburner when stuff like this happens. Very nice to have if you experience issues with your system or of you just want to be nerdy :angel:
Well, I am not going to call myself a complete expert when it comes to hardware, but at least I have some knowledge :) CPUs can handle high temps for short peroids, but extended usage might cause them to get worn out faster. Or in worst case, get completely burned out. Modern CPUs comes with temperature safeties which will throttle them down to prevent overheating or shut down the system to prevent permanent damage.
GTA is pretty CPU heavy and therefore, the rendering process gets slowed when the CPU can't keep up. Maybe send R* a message that some faulty hardware was messing you up ;)
I was thinking of doing that GKID, but they already closed my ticket since a day or two earlier I said my trouble were gone. Better leave them alone, they have enough on their mind probably and don't seem to really care what solution there was for me.
But indeed, a good look at the hardware status is definitely something to keep in mind ;)
Ah, then it should not be a problem. Did you tried to disable the DVR program I mentioned earlier or haven't you bothered to do so? Disabling it will give you a fps boost.
I tried to find a program like that, but it wasn't there, so I didn't bother
It resides within the Xbox App, but you can disable it by editing the registry on your PC. I would recommend get yourself a Xbox Live account and change settings there rather than fiddling with the OS
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6239-DZCB-8600
Just by the way, on topic
Yesterday I noticed that Rockstar had closed my ticket. No comments, no email, just closed. Three months after I started it, and one month after my last addendum.
Then again, I don't care anymore.
Seems like R* have given GTA V its middle finger now 8-X They have patched the Kuruma trick in Pacific Standard according to Binn. Also, the netcode is now a complete mess. Friends and other players randomly connect/disconnects frequently in public sessions. Never happens in private sessions.
I guess they are busy getting RDR2 out of the door later this year ;)
Probably. But we already found a solution for the Kuruma glitch. By the way; I think it was not R*'s intention to disable the Kuruma glitch. They have probably disabled access to garages because of other reasons. My guess is that ppl found exploits to get expensive cars out of missions and use their garage access to keep and sell them. Not sure where or how, but I doubt they all of a sudden disable a glitch that has been available for almost 2 years now.
There's another glitch / exploit ppl use to play finales unlimited times after each other without doing setup missions. That is way more costly to R*'s sharkcard business than the Kuruma glitch, that only provides a secure way of transporting the 'take' to the mission end. People using that finale glitch can make money with the Pacific Standard Heist 5 to 6 times faster than normal Heist players. They didn't do anything about that 'glitch'. So no, I don't think they did this intentionally.
The disconnections you describe, Gkid, have been there for a very long time already. It started happening shortly before the CEO stuff got launched. Somewhere early 2016. Before that, it had never happened to me. I think it started when they released the Banshee 900R and the Sultan RS at Bennies. Recently it seemed to be getting worse, but that might also be a coincidence.
I think the reason for all the bugs is the extensive changes R* made to GTA Online. Almost every major DLC came with new types of gameplay, influencing the entire game. Some of them were quite revolutionary, like the Online Events DLC and the introduction of the VIP and CEO stuff. I have seen glitches and bugs come and go when you look at heists. I think that, apart from a lucrative business and a popular MP environment, GTA Online is a perfect way of experimenting with new features. And that's what they're doing. :)
I haven't tracked R* patch notes for awhile. True, every new addition to GTA O means new code and functionalities, which might conflict with eachother.