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GTA 5 stutters badly on my new laptop
I am going on vacation for a week and to keep myself entertained, I recently got a new laptop from Newegg: Acer Laptop Aspire E5-575-33BM Intel Core i3 7th Gen 7100U Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Grade A-Newegg.com
I got this laptop because had nice specs and features for its price of $304. The most important to me was the CPU, the integrated graphics, the RAM, and not so importantly but a nice feature: a terabyte of HDD storage. With these specs, I was hoping to play one of few particular games that I installed so I can play while I'm not doing anything else, Grand Theft Auto 5. Upon from reviewing the specs and comparing them to the minimum requirements detailed on the Steam page, it seemed like the game would be playable. However, when I started the game myself, there was a major problem.
The game would constantly stutter. The opening R* scene would lag, driving around Los Santos was laggy, and the final benchmark would freeze the game a while after it starts. Even while running in the bare minimum settings the game provides to you, stuttering is an obnoxious and constant problem. My guess is that the memory is what's dragging the performance down. I tried using the Windows 10 Game Mode and Razer Cortex Game Booster (although the latter, I uninstalled after hearing about it being not helpful) and I still have this problem. I'll be leaving Saturday, so I'd like to know something hopefully sometime tomorrow.