Performance drop out of nowhere?

I've been playing for some time now, and I have never had a single issue with the game. But In the past few days, out of nowhere, my loading times took a big drop and now it takes way longer to load in, and the FPS has also dropped significantly.

I used to load into West Coast USA in about a minute or so, now it takes good, 3 or so minutes for it to load in. But hey, loading time isn't that bad, it's annoying sure, but it's not that bad.

In game though, I used to have 80-90FPS depending where I am, with the lowest being high 60s.
Now I can barely get above 60FPS while in downtown.

I have updated my GPU drivers, deleted a bunch of mods, nothing worked.

These are my specs:

i5-8400
16GB Ram @ 2666MhZ
GTX 1070
The game is installed on a HDD. (I know this reduces loading speed and what not, but the game was always on my HDD)

I haven't noticed a performance drop in any other game except for Beam.

 

It's an old graphics card. It hampers performance to some extent. I recommend changing to GTX 1650 or 1660. (I have 1650 myself)

 

Maybe you need to change your graphics card to a new one.

 

The 1650 performs worse than the 1070 And the 1660 Is only slightly worse
The 1660TI/Super performs the same as a 1070 but with less Vram

If OP is gonna get a new graphics card it would be better to go with a 2060 or 3060

 

i myself have a rtx 2060 but my intel is sucks, I have a intel i5-9400f and I'm planning to upgrade to i5-9600kf. From my role, CPU matters the most, if u have a bad CPU like mine and ur graphics are set to normal and have about 5-6 ai cars spawned in traffic u would see yourself around 60 to 70 fps not the best not under 60 at least! So I would have upgraded your CPU if its bad like mine