Battlefield 4 PC performance thread

There is full controller support, but the button prompts will still be the keyboard for some asinine reason I believe. Why does EA fail so hard on controller support?
 
ruxtpin said:
I asked this in the OT, forgot this thread, so here it is...

Aight PC guys - I downloaded BF4 last night and set everything to ultra. Used the console to show my fps, but that made me wonder... What should I be doing to figure out the best settings? I mean, I know more fps is better, but on my setup I noticed it going down to 25-30 in areas with a bunch of geometry or a lot of explosions on the screen. Should I be knocking my visual settings down in order to increase those dips? Or is it all a judgement call (I know the fps dropped, but it didn't bother me too much because I'm used to some stutter playing on the last gen consoles). When I was just walking/running around I was getting 40-60 fps. Any advice? Nothing is OC at the moment.

3770k 3.5
GTX 670 w/ 4gb
16gb of mem
1080p display
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Definitely a judgment call. I don't mind the occasional dips if movement is otherwise smooth. Some people demand constant 60 (which is obviously much more visually pleasing, just harder to achieve).
 
ruxtpin said:
I asked this in the OT, forgot this thread, so here it is...

Aight PC guys - I downloaded BF4 last night and set everything to ultra. Used the console to show my fps, but that made me wonder... What should I be doing to figure out the best settings? I mean, I know more fps is better, but on my setup I noticed it going down to 25-30 in areas with a bunch of geometry or a lot of explosions on the screen. Should I be knocking my visual settings down in order to increase those dips? Or is it all a judgement call (I know the fps dropped, but it didn't bother me too much because I'm used to some stutter playing on the last gen consoles). When I was just walking/running around I was getting 40-60 fps. Any advice? Nothing is OC at the moment.

3770k 3.5
GTX 670 w/ 4gb
16gb of mem
1080p display
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If you get rid of AA you should be at least 90fps on average. I have a very similar set up (3570K @ 3.8, GTX 770 w/2gb, and 8gb of RAM @1600hz.
 
Damian. said:
There is full controller support, but the button prompts will still be the keyboard for some asinine reason. Why does EA fail so hard on controller support?
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I'm still waiting on confirmation from someone about this, but on the BF4 forums it says there isn't full support:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955065670118247261/

Probably doesn't affect you quite so much though.

Single player - We need to be able to change loadouts of weapons/gadgets with the controller

Multiplayer - We need to be able to change squads and weapons loadouts with the controller.

General - We need to be able to exit from the options menu back to the game without having to press 'Esc'

These are such minor things and should be easy to patch. Everything else works fine with the controller
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If true you still need a keyboard & mouse for certain things. Can you confirm this?
 
Reckoner said:
7970 Twin Frozr OC BE and I5 4670K. 7970 is oc to 1125 gpu clock and 1565 memory clock. Still, I'm getting drops like this on open areas. Everything Ultra, 1080p.

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I guess this is normal on single player, right?
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I have an ASUS 280X OC'ed at 1125 core and 1700 memory, and the game was very choppy on the first level for some reason at. Going between 50-70 ftps, which is still very high (no idea why it chopped). However, the next level Shanghai was butter smooth even in rainy firefights in the open courtyard. I haven't gotten through the entire campaign yet, but so far only the first level was crap.
 
I don't mind prompts being keys but if its anything like BF3 pressing the relevant controller button (eg X on the pad for Use [E]) does nothing rendering SP unplayable with a controller.

I can handle changing loadouts with the kbam.
 
I ran some quick tests and found Win 8.1 greatly improved my SLI scaling (~20%), most likely because of the DX11.x CPU optimizations.

If you need the frames it'd be a compelling reason to upgrade or dual boot (what I do).
 
Was getting random frame drops on all settings. GTX 670, i7.

I updated the drivers to the one in the OP and now the frame drops aren't happening, but now the game is the sickest strobe light show I've ever seen. Everything's constantly flashing yellow, blue, and green. Gotta roll back and find out what's causing that.

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Are there any good tweak guides yet that show which settings have maximum framerate impacts with minimal visual degradation? In the official thread?

EDIT: I guess it should be here for performance related issues.
 
denshuu said:
Was getting random frame drops on all settings. GTX 670, i7.

I updated the drivers to the one in the OP and now the frame drops aren't happening, but now the game is the sickest strobe light show I've ever seen. Everything's constantly flashing yellow, blue, and green. Gotta roll back and find out what's causing that.
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Try a Clean Install of the new drivers.
 
ruxtpin said:
I asked this in the OT, forgot this thread, so here it is...

Aight PC guys - I downloaded BF4 last night and set everything to ultra. Used the console to show my fps, but that made me wonder... What should I be doing to figure out the best settings? I mean, I know more fps is better, but on my setup I noticed it going down to 25-30 in areas with a bunch of geometry or a lot of explosions on the screen. Should I be knocking my visual settings down in order to increase those dips? Or is it all a judgement call (I know the fps dropped, but it didn't bother me too much because I'm used to some stutter playing on the last gen consoles). When I was just walking/running around I was getting 40-60 fps. Any advice? Nothing is OC at the moment.

3770k 3.5
GTX 670 w/ 4gb
16gb of mem
1080p display
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OC and then turn AA down to 2xMSAA for a performance boost. Also try switching between SSAO/HBAO and see whichever you prefer based on how much it bogs your computer down.
 
Beta ran like shite for me, granted I was only playing for the first week of it. Not sure if they made fixes later on.
Any idea what to expect from the actual release at High to Ultra settings at 1920x1080 with the following?

i7 940 @ 2.93 (Stock)
GTX 590 (3GB, Stock)
6GB RAM
 
Core i5 2400 3.1 @ 3.6GHz
16GB DDR3 1600
2GB 7850 @ 1050/1400

Ultra with AA off, Post AA on Med, 1080p 50-60fps with dips into 40s.

I can live with that.
 
AMD 8350
Radeon 6850 - teh weak link
8GB DDR3 12800

Beta ran very well. Though I won't be able to push Ultra, I'm sure it will be fine. Hopefully there will be a healthy price cut on the 79XX series once the 290's have been out for a while.
 
JimPanzer said:
anyone with a gtx760? how's it running on this card?
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It's running beautifully for me at 1080p, all ultra stock settings except i dropped MSAA to 2x from the default 4x.

I'd say I average around 50fps, but I have not done a real test.

Mind you, my card is also OC'd rather nicely.
 
WonkyPanda said:
It's running beautifully for me at 1080p, all ultra stock settings except i dropped MSAA to 2x from the default 4x.

I'd say I average around 50fps, but I have not done a real test.

Mind you, my card is also OC'd rather nicely.
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What processor do you have?
 
Felix Lighter said:
Performance is great for me (mixture of high and ultra, 2x MSAA, 1920 x 1200), only occasional hitches bring the framerate into the 50s in 64 player servers. My i7 930 has proven to be an unstoppable beast!

HD 7970 1125/1575
8GB DDR3 1600
i7 930 @3.9 Ghz
Windows 7

I'm considering Windows 8.1 for the potential gains but the thing that seriously holds me back the most are the potential Dark Souls GFWL Windows 8 issues.
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That makes so happy to see the old Nehalem's performing well in the full version. I have my i7 920 D0 @4.2GHz so I should be good to go. :D

Oh and I'm running Dark Souls fine now on Windows 8.1. I thought 8/8.1 was the culprit for compatibility but it actually turned out to be an issue with MSI Afterburner since I didn't ready any of the FAQs on DSFix. You should be good to go if you manually install GFWL. Also people had suggested forcing compatibility of the .exe to Windows 7, but that didn't matter in the end on my setup.
 
wow.. performance is.. really disappointing :(

even with some stuff on high and not ultra

2 gig 680 and i5 2500k at 4.5ghz

guess i'll take any tips on what to tone down, damn
 
In my opinion, SMAA does diddly squat to BF4. But it's 1xSMAA. I guess it wouldn't hurt to use it but I just turn it off in SweetFX.
 
SalsaShark said:
wow.. performance is.. really disappointing :(

even with some stuff on high and not ultra

2 gig 680 and i5 2500k at 4.5ghz

guess i'll take any tips on what to tone down, damn
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You should have great performance at 1080P. Turn down the AA.

I've had 2 crashes so far on my nonOC'd machine. One was a server disconnect suddenly and the other was a CTD. My system is 100% stable (did Aida64 yesterday and memtest). Guessing it's just a game bug. will come back in a week or 2 after the first patch.
 
So it seems like Lighting Quality is killing performance on anything but Low. All settings can be set to Ultra and the game will run at 120 FPS but setting Lighting Quality to Medium and the frame rate instantly drops bellow 100 FPS.
 
Dunno if this is where this goes but I finally finished the download and installed the game and I get an error trying to start up both Multiplier and Singleplayer "Origin is not installed, and is required to play your game. Please reinstall Origin".


Does that mean I'll have to redownload BF4 as well?
 
RadioActiveLobster said:
Anyone have this happen to them yet?

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Also, how the fuck do you bring up the binoculars in SP?
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I have only had something like that happen in Ghost Recon Future Soldier, and another error code for BF3. Try and OC your GPU, that fixed the Device_Hung error for Ghost Recon. For BF3, the problem was something on Nvidias end and lasted for several months earlier this year for many people.
 
Tried a few setups with my rig (3570k @4.4Ghz, GTX660 2GB, 8GB DDR3 1333Mhz):

720p:
Ultra - 50-70 FPS

1440p:
Medium - 50-70 FPS
High - 30-45 FPS
High 75% scale - 50-70FPS
Ultra - 15-20 FPS
 
Hixx said:
Anyone with a 560 ti been able to play yet?

I've got a 2500k and the 560 ti but only 4 gigs of RAM and I'm having to put a lot of settings (plus reduce my resolution to 900p) on low to keep it playable but it still hangs and occassionally stutters. I'm hoping its the RAM that's bottlenecking me because doubling it is like £200 cheaper than getting a worthwhile GPU update :P
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It's most likely the ram. I don't have Battlefield 4, but I basically had the same rig as you and Battlefield 3 had stuttering issues for me until I got 8 gigs of ram. I'm not sure how well you will run it after upgrading your ram though. The beta had stuttering issues even after the patches on my computer.
 
maneil99 said:
WIndows 8 or 7? Newest Drivers?
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7, newest drivers

dont get me wrong I can get to some fluid 60 with everything on ultra and even downsampling from time to time but I get constant drops to 40s whenever something happens or when I look at a busy area, it aint really enjoyable
 
SalsaShark said:
7, newest drivers

dont get me wrong I can get to some fluid 60 with everything on ultra and even downsampling from time to time but I get constant drops to 40s whenever something happens or when I look at a busy area, it aint really enjoyable
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If you are willing to try W8 do it. :). Try disabling Vsync and HBAO/SSAO
 
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