Acriticalmas

AHowes
Do you have v-sync enabled in the game?

I have it disabled in-game but enabled via Nvidia control panel. I read something about changing the V-sync to adaptive will improve performance?

If your monitor refresh rate is 60 hz and you have vsync enabled (as you do), the max frame rate you will experience will be 60 fps. That's how vsync works.

Adaptive vsync would still limit you to 60 fps.

V-SYNC - Framerate synced with monitor refresh rate (no tearing, input lag, increasing input lag as framerate lowers since)

V-SYNC OFF - Framerate un-synced (tearing, very little input lag)

Adaptive Sync - At high framerates, VSync is enabled to eliminate tearing. At low frame rates, it's disabled to minimise stuttering. (input lag at high frame rates, tearing at low frame rates)

FAST-SYNC - De-coupled rendering and monitor refresh. VSYNC OFF but the monitor will only render completely rendered frames, thus eliminating tearing (MINOR input lag but NO TEARING! ) also it is monitor agnostic so it will work with any screen. It is analogous to hardware triple buffering but does not back-pressure the render pipeline.

If you want the vsync affect but also higher framerates, change it to fast-sync.

Ah that’s handy to know. But my actual question was whether other people were getting FPS drops with everything maxed out (MSAA at x2 and not resolution scaling) on GTA5 with the ftw3 paired with 7700k and 16gb of 3000Mhz ddr4 ram. Just trying to figure out if the problem is my system or game being unoptimised.

Acriticalmas
Ah that’s handy to know. But my actual question was whether other people were getting FPS drops with everything maxed out (MSAA at x2 and not resolution scaling) on GTA5 with the ftw3 paired with 7700k and 16gb of 3000Mhz ddr4 ram. Just trying to figure out if the problem is my system or game being unoptimised.

It may be worth giving this a try:
https://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59641
 

Cheers. I’ll give this a try when I get him. Thanks.

You should have v-sync set to game config or whatever it says.. t hst way you can control it in your game. With it set as on in the nvidia control panel it will always force it on.

Acriticalmas
Ah that’s handy to know. But my actual question was whether other people were getting FPS drops with everything maxed out (MSAA at x2 and not resolution scaling) on GTA5 with the ftw3 paired with 7700k and 16gb of 3000Mhz ddr4 ram. Just trying to figure out if the problem is my system or game being unoptimised.

GTA 5 is still very taxing even of the 1080 Ti, I saw GTA 5 used in some 1080 Ti benchmarks and reviews, if you search I'm sure you will find them... It was the one game pulling the lowest amount of fps... I would take a look at tweaking some graphics settings as this game maxed out is going to very demanding... What resolution and framerate target are you aiming for?

AHowes
You should have v-sync set to game config or whatever it says.. t hst way you can control it in your game. With it set as on in the nvidia control panel it will always force it on.

I've been talking to people at linustechtips and others have been experiencing the same thing on GTA5, it just a really demanding game with the grass and advanced graphics effect killing performance even at 1080p.

Graphite8five

Acriticalmas
Ah that’s handy to know. But my actual question was whether other people were getting FPS drops with everything maxed out (MSAA at x2 and not resolution scaling) on GTA5 with the ftw3 paired with 7700k and 16gb of 3000Mhz ddr4 ram. Just trying to figure out if the problem is my system or game being unoptimised.

GTA 5 is still very taxing even of the 1080 Ti, I saw GTA 5 used in some 1080 Ti benchmarks and reviews, if you search I'm sure you will find them... It was the one game pulling the lowest amount of fps... I would take a look at tweaking some graphics settings as this game maxed out is going to very demanding... What resolution and framerate target are you aiming for?

So I have been using all setting at max (2x MSAA) and advanced setting on (no resolution scaling) playing at 1080p aiming for stable 60fps. 
with grass now turned down to very high its pretty much 60fps now. Just surprising that even a gtx 1080ti can't handle it.

 
 

Acriticalmas
So I have been using all setting at max (2x MSAA) and advanced setting on (no resolution scaling) playing at 1080p aiming for stable 60fps. 
with grass now turned down to very high its pretty much 60fps now. Just surprising that even a gtx 1080ti can't handle it.

 
I'm surprised the 1080 Ti cannot max GTA 5 at 1080p 60 fps also. I know some settings like grass are meant to be very taxing so maybe they're a killer at any level? Another possibility is 1080p 60 fps is the bottleneck itself, you should be aiming to drive something bigger with that gear IMO.

Graphite8five
 
 

Acriticalmas
So I have been using all setting at max (2x MSAA) and advanced setting on (no resolution scaling) playing at 1080p aiming for stable 60fps. 
with grass now turned down to very high its pretty much 60fps now. Just surprising that even a gtx 1080ti can't handle it.

 
I'm surprised the 1080 Ti cannot max GTA 5 at 1080p 60 fps also. I know some settings like grass are meant to be very taxing so maybe they're a killer at any level? Another possibility is 1080p 60 fps is the bottleneck itself, you should be aiming to drive something bigger with that gear IMO.

Yeah, I was a little disappointed that such expensive card and high promises didn't pan out. But at least I can play witcher 3 all maxed out haha. Well under max setting on GTA5 at 1080p and where fps drops do occur its taxing GPU at 100% usage so I think its just a very graphically demanding. But yeah CPU/GPU power is definitely limited the resolution and refreshr ate. Just saving now to get a 1080p (144hz) or more to get 1440p (144hz).