
Navigate to the Display tab and note down the number next to Display Memory Press the Windows key + R to open the Run window and type in dxdiag.

PC gaming is an unpredictable, finicky thing, of course, so if you have anything other than my specific hardware/software setup, this fix might not work-or even make things worse. Related: Grand Theft Auto 4 Should Be Next In Line For A Remaster You need a Vulkan-compatible graphics card to use this fix, but if you do, your woes could be over. So to make it stop, you have to force the game to use a different, more efficient renderer-specifically Vulkan. I'm no tech expert, so I might be getting some details wrong here, but as far as I can tell, the stuttering is caused by an outdated and/or poorly implemented Direct3D/DirectDraw renderer.

After several hours of scouring Reddit threads, blogs, and posts on GTAForums, trying countless alleged 'fixes' that made absolutely no difference, I discovered the root of the problem.
