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Battlefield 3 PC Performance thread
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Not really, I can't tell the difference to be honest. I'd say I average around 45FPS and it goes as low as 40 fps. Some spots I get 60 FPS but the fluctuation isn't distracting whatsoever. Game is so gorgeous and the fact that a midrange PC can run it so well is a great feelingKylehimself said:
Fixed2BeBroken
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Everdred said:
Hey, I figured something out just now. I tried cleaning the "laser" area with a cotton swap...and that fixed everything, I can play on a mouse pad now and it's fine. I realized that in other games, there was a simlar issue but just nowhere near the degree that it was in BF3 so I never really noticed it before.
try that, it might fix your situation too.
AngryChinchilla
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ColonialRaptor said:
I got mine uninstalled. Went into safe mode and wiped all ATI stuff with driver sweeper. Then I booted back to normal and control panel let me remove them without any fuss.
fuuuck, im still getting bsod and freezing. This is fucking crazy, I cant play mp for more than 10 min. Memtest passed fine, I have the newest drivers and this is the only game that has these symptoms. I wasnt getting this during the beta either and it doesnt happen during SP. WTF!? This is fucking annoying, I cant believe Im going to have to wait for a patch, which MIGHT fix this. Also, I know im not the only person experiencing this, but I do believe we're in the minority here. This is fucked up.
BoobPhysics101
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knitoe said:
Might be doing sum of both.
2.7 GB/2 = 1.35 GB of VRAM usage for each card. You only have an effective 2 GB of VRAM in CF, and Afterburner probably counts the total usage or something.
AngryChinchilla
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Low and behold, getting rid of that CAP (once it let me) completely fixed my stuttering.
Foxtastical
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Playing around with stuff in-game. Now I'm noticing the random huge shutter. Could be part of a laggy server, but sometimes it seems to take place at the moment of an explosion.
Had to wipe and reinstall the game earlier, repair wouldn't fix jack.
My one other friend got three bsod's and the last time it wrecked windows on him. Now he's stuck reformatting/reinstalling everything, so it's worse for him.
Quality control is just out the window with this game.
My one other friend got three bsod's and the last time it wrecked windows on him. Now he's stuck reformatting/reinstalling everything, so it's worse for him.
Quality control is just out the window with this game.
Universaldamps
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If people have used RemoveWAT for pirated versions of Windows 7, BF3 will freeze with a buzzing sound loop/BSOD after about 10 or so minutes of play. I installed a genuine copy of Windows just today which fixed the problem. Yes, I was using a cracked version of windows, only because I hadn't been bothered to install the proper copy I had on my desk 
ColonialRaptor
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How do people get the game to work with Radeon Pro?
Every time I try it just opens another browser window instead of opening the game... frustrating.
Every time I try it just opens another browser window instead of opening the game... frustrating.
mercenar1e
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i have an Intel i5 2500K, 8 GB RAM and EVGA GeForce GTX460 SSC+
After playing a round or two something appears on the screen.. sort of like a black directional arrow sometimes its a lot larger.. on Caspian the roads turned blue and the sky was a swirl of purple.. i don't know what's going on?
After playing a round or two something appears on the screen.. sort of like a black directional arrow sometimes its a lot larger.. on Caspian the roads turned blue and the sky was a swirl of purple.. i don't know what's going on?
I have issues, maybe someone kind and knowledgeable can shine som light on it?
My specs are:
i5 @ 4Ghz
2x GTX 460 1GB SLI OC'd (latest drivers,downloaded yesterday)
4Gb 1600Mhz RAM
Playing from a 7200RPM S-ATA disk with 90 or so gigs free
All settings that can be set to Ultra are set to that, AA is set to 2x, and the Post Processing AA is set to Medium. I've tried both SSAO and HBAO. Both V-sync on and off, doesn't help.
The things is that it runs smoothly/fine at 60 FPS most of the time, sometimes down to 50, and at times 40-ish. But the problem is that as I move through the level (I'm talking only SP now, haven't tried MP yet) I get drops, from time to time, to 20 FPS, sometimes even lower (as low as 3-4), but only for about half a/one second.. then it's fine again. Once or twice it even stopped completely for about 2 seconds, continued to stutter for another 2 secs, then fine again - same scene and situation, so t's not because of that specific part of the level? I t doesn't even seem to be dependent on what's going on onscreen - I can have 55-60 FPS when there's a lot going on, and then get a drop for half a second in a corridor..
MSI Afterburner shows both GPUs maxing out at arount 75% usage, and the temps aren't very high either.
My specs are:
i5 @ 4Ghz
2x GTX 460 1GB SLI OC'd (latest drivers,downloaded yesterday)
4Gb 1600Mhz RAM
Playing from a 7200RPM S-ATA disk with 90 or so gigs free
All settings that can be set to Ultra are set to that, AA is set to 2x, and the Post Processing AA is set to Medium. I've tried both SSAO and HBAO. Both V-sync on and off, doesn't help.
The things is that it runs smoothly/fine at 60 FPS most of the time, sometimes down to 50, and at times 40-ish. But the problem is that as I move through the level (I'm talking only SP now, haven't tried MP yet) I get drops, from time to time, to 20 FPS, sometimes even lower (as low as 3-4), but only for about half a/one second.. then it's fine again. Once or twice it even stopped completely for about 2 seconds, continued to stutter for another 2 secs, then fine again - same scene and situation, so t's not because of that specific part of the level? I t doesn't even seem to be dependent on what's going on onscreen - I can have 55-60 FPS when there's a lot going on, and then get a drop for half a second in a corridor..
MSI Afterburner shows both GPUs maxing out at arount 75% usage, and the temps aren't very high either.
Are 4 gigs of 1333 DDR3 enough for this game? I heard it uses up to 4 gigs of RAM.
Rest of the system:
i5 2500k (soon to be overclocked)
2x6950 at stock
stuff
I´m European and waiting for my copies to arrive, so I can´t check myself. With RAM being cheaper than when I built this rig there´d still be time to upgrade before the game arrives.
Rest of the system:
i5 2500k (soon to be overclocked)
2x6950 at stock
stuff
I´m European and waiting for my copies to arrive, so I can´t check myself. With RAM being cheaper than when I built this rig there´d still be time to upgrade before the game arrives.
We had issues yesterday on one of the test PCs at work, where after a few seconds of gameplay the display driver would crash.
This was until now a perfectly stable PC, used for hours every day. Well, turns out that the GF 560 inside was a pre-overclocked model, and that it simply was unstable at that (default) speed. We put it back to stock speed, and no problem now.
It looks like BF3 pushes GPUs much more than any other game so far (no surprise I guess) and speeds thought to be stable actually aren't anymore.
This was until now a perfectly stable PC, used for hours every day. Well, turns out that the GF 560 inside was a pre-overclocked model, and that it simply was unstable at that (default) speed. We put it back to stock speed, and no problem now.
It looks like BF3 pushes GPUs much more than any other game so far (no surprise I guess) and speeds thought to be stable actually aren't anymore.
mercenar1e
Member
yeah i never had any problems with this graphics card on any other game.. maybe DICE didn't optimize it the way it should be?
specialguy
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Blimblim said:
This only seems to be an issue with Nvidia cards though IIRC?
Seems at least in this game it's the reverse of Rage, where AMD is looking good and the problems are more on Nvidia side.
Anyways, my rig is a Q6600 overclocked to 2.8, 4GB's of DDR2, and a 1GB HD4890 factory overclocked to 950. It (so far) runs the campaign on all ultra settings, no MSAA, high Post AA, and of course medium terrain (since it wont let me go higher than medium I assume that's a DX 11 lock) at around 30 FPS (which is perfectly playable by my preferences). Oh and SSAO instead of HBAO or whatever.
I'm doubting if DX 11 has any major effect on the visuals in this, would like to see a screen comparison. So far DX 11 improvements has been a big bag of nothing in every game I've seen. I'm surprised I can even select ultra settings with my 4890, but I can.
mercenar1e
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specialguy said:
to me DX 11 reduces the block like shape of anything round... the Witcher 2 for example looks like it can be a dx 13 game
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I have SLI GTX580 OC'd, you are worrying me Blim. My PC crashed once during the beta, I hope I don't have to revert them back to their stock speeds.Blimblim said:
@ColonialRaptor (or anyone getting bsod with ati cards)
restart your computer press F8 to get into windows boot selection then disable driver signing enforcement. then install the latest 11.10v3 drivers. something i had to figure out on my own. hopefully it works too.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/catalyst_11.10_preview/amd_catalyst_11.10_preview3_win7_vista.exe (11.10v3 drivers for win7/vista)
restart your computer press F8 to get into windows boot selection then disable driver signing enforcement. then install the latest 11.10v3 drivers. something i had to figure out on my own. hopefully it works too.
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/catalyst_11.10_preview/amd_catalyst_11.10_preview3_win7_vista.exe (11.10v3 drivers for win7/vista)
bloodforge
Member
Pandoracell said:If anyone is interested in capping their framerate (due to mouse lag or performance issues) i've found a program that will work with DX 10/11 games, called Dxtory, which you can find here.
-Download it and head over to the tab that looks like a pcb board (computer chip)
-Towards the bottom of the tab you'll see processing threads. Select the amount of cores your cpu has.
-Beneath that you'll see limit video fps. Check it, and enter in the framerate you want your game capped at.
The program needs to be running in order for your fps to be capped. It appears to not be free, but you can run the trial as many times as you would like(?).
I've limited myself to 30 fps and I can basically max out everything now except for MSAA, which induces stuttering, due to I assume running out of vram on my 1GB 460. I'm not fully sold on the art direction but i've gotta say that the game looks stunning with everything at ultra. I only wish I could see it at 60 fps instead of 30
This works great, can run it basically on "ultra" now with no framerate drops.
José Mourinho
cocknose
I've noticed this in SP and MP. Would like to hear some feedback on it too.squared said:
Metalmurphy
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AngryChinchilla said:
What CAP? My game is stuttering like mad some times.
I was only able to play for a bit last night after getting home late. I am on the beta drivers, specs earlier in the thread. The first level on the train I didn't go below 55 FPS, second level I think I went into the high 40's a few times but mostly stayed around 55-60. Playing with custom settings, mostly everything on high, shadows medium, effects medium, motion blur off, using SSAO, MSAA at 8x. Looks fucking amazing, I'm really happy.
blahblah...blah
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Is it fair to say that the following setup will let me get 60fps at 1080p on mainly high settings? Thanks.
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Sandybridge overclocked to 4.40GHz
- RAM: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Graphics Card: GTX 570
- CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz Sandybridge overclocked to 4.40GHz
- RAM: 4GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Graphics Card: GTX 570
GhostRidah
Member
Any idea why when I don't want fullscreen it shrinks the screen to a small window, and I have to resize the window every time I load the game up? Really annoying.
blahblah...blah
Member
spk said:
Nice one, thanks!
dragonelite
Member
So did ati released a new driver for bf3 release?
Further to my previous post, I disabled Hyperthreading in the BIOS, as well as AA, Motion Blur and HBAO in-game. For a little while I thought it was fixed, but then it just started stuttering again.
It's incredibly annoying because the first few minutes of each round run great and then the game just deteriorates in to patches of 60fps followed by slideshow which includes models and characters disappearing and popping in and out of the world.
It's incredibly annoying because the first few minutes of each round run great and then the game just deteriorates in to patches of 60fps followed by slideshow which includes models and characters disappearing and popping in and out of the world.