Experiencing lag spikes, not stable gameplay

[ateszaholdjaro]

Hello!

I have been a fan and a player of MTA:SA for quite a while now, but for a couple of months it became unplayable for me. For short, I have been experiencing frequent drops in FPS and just spikes of lag while playing. I have noticed that the map renders worse than before (even if driving too fast trees keep popping up from nowhere), buildings load in low poly until getting decently close to them.

This problem gets better when hosting a game on my own, or starting up map editor. Like, if I play on an own hosted game and try to shake the camera around I have still stable FPS and nearly experience any spikes of lag. If I do that on a community server on which I played regularly I get around 25 FPS and nothing more. Even if I throw the mouse from left to right my FPS drops crazy and get a huge spike of lag, which was never a problem before. This way, playing on a race&chase server is basically impossible. If I try playing on RP servers, I am averaging 30 FPS, I never get a stable, good and enjoyable connection. 
 

I think I have a decent setup for me to run the game (Ryzen 7 5800X, Radeon 5600XT, 32GB DDR4). Been trying to fix it for a couple of days now, with no success. Have tried: BIOS update, Chipset update, clean/fresh GTA:SA and MTA:SA install, all drivers update, install on HDD both, install on SSD both, some guides here from this forum, etc. 

I appreciate any help.

 

[ateszaholdjaro]

EDIT: types of MTA servers, which has its own launcher (ex. SeeMTA), I have got 0 problems with them. They run perfectly fine, smooth, without any lag spikes or significant FPS drops. 

[ateszaholdjaro]

EDIT2: Just for even better measure, here is 2 videos I made while playing and an MTADiag log.

https://streamable.com/y66aa8 https://streamable.com/4pgltc https://pastebin.multitheftauto.com/4110623949

[ateszaholdjaro]

EDIT3: Tried to use some Debug modes whilst playing the game, ended up generating a .log file, with the lines below:

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]11:27:36.395 - Started timing checkpoints [Ver:1.6.0-9.23324] [Date:2025-08-16]
11:27:36.710 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:36.711 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 30ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 28ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:37.478 - >Detected slow frame: 36ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:37.480 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 33ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 33ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 31ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:37.992 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 14ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:37.993 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 31ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 29ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:38.253 - >Detected slow frame: 36ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:38.254 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 30ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 29ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:38.508 - >Detected slow frame: 33ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:38.510 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 29ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 27ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 26ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:39.022 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:39.023 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 30ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 29ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:39.290 - >Detected slow frame: 38ms    (Prev frame was 14ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:39.292 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 34ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 30ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 28ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:39.536 - >Detected slow frame: 37ms    (Prev frame was 14ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:39.539 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 27ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 26ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:40.045 - >Detected slow frame: 36ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:40.047 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 28ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 27ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:40.303 - >Detected slow frame: 35ms    (Prev frame was 14ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:40.306 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 28ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 27ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:40.559 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 15ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:40.561 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 30ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 26ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 25ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:40.815 - >Detected slow frame: 36ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:40.817 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 33ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 29ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 28ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:41.070 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:41.072 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 30ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 26ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 25ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:41.335 - >Detected slow frame: 35ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:41.338 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 27ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 26ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:41.588 - >Detected slow frame: 35ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:41.590 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 28ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 26ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:42.109 - >Detected slow frame: 36ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:42.111 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 28ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 27ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:42.615 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:42.623 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 30ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 26ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 25ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:42.870 - >Detected slow frame: 35ms    (Prev frame was 13ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:42.873 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 32ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 28ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 27ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:43.387 - >Detected slow frame: 34ms    (Prev frame was 14ms)  (Game time 12:00)
11:27:43.389 -     Frame slow points: [CallIdle2 31ms (calls:1)]   [CClientGame::DoPulses 27ms (calls:1)]   [NetPulse 26ms (calls:1)]   
11:27:43.621 - Stopped timing checkpoints