Yukime Lumi Logs a First GTA Arrest While Fighting Frame Stutter Across a Six-Hour Stream

SPECIALITE — Yukime Lumi of Specialite logged a first arrest as a police officer on a Grand Theft Auto V (GTA5) server on Sunday, in a stream of about six and a half hours that was otherwise taken up by a frame stutter she could not shake.

She said at the start that she would join the server, on the second day of the event tagged #ガチグラ2 (Gachigura 2), from 8 p.m. Early on, cars stored in the garage would not come out for several players, who were told they lacked permission to withdraw the vehicle. Yukime was among them, and the problem was sorted out within the first hour.

“Right now it’s not even at the level of talking about squads. I can’t really play the game properly.” — Yukime Lumi, while troubleshooting the stutter

The arrest came about two hours in. Yukime joined a chase after a getaway car that ended with two suspects caught, then announced that it was her first arrest and that she had braced for it but it worked out. Chat answered with messages such as “Nice first arrest,” and one viewer noted that her driving had improved.

The stutter was the thread of the night. Yukime said the game stuttered badly whenever she drove or turned the camera, while walking was fine. She turned on an on-screen frame-rate readout, lowered her keyboard’s polling rate to its minimum of 1,000 Hz, cleared the game’s cache, restarted her PC, lowered graphics settings, updated her drivers and later reinstalled the game, none of which settled it. Two Super Chats arrived as she weighed buying a new keyboard. She also saw her processor climb past 80 percent when the stutter hit and said she might have to replace it, noting that the stream runs on a separate PC and the game was the only thing open on this one. Flying a helicopter and riding a motorbike felt smoother to her than driving a car.

Squads were the other theme. Early in the stream she said she was in no hurry to pick one, as she is not at ease in large groups and wanted one that suited her pace, ideally with freedom in what members wear. She noted that squad members have an easier time getting to mid-size crime events. By the third hour, though, squads were off the table for now. Near the end she tried to reinstall a tweak she had been told would lighten the load, could not get it working, and ended the stream when connecting to the practice server took too long.