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Battlefield 3 PC Performance thread
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What the flipping f*ck is going on!?! I played for hours last night, though I had the occasional crash back to desktop/had to kill it with task manager, but I could fire it up again and play, but that's probably 'cause I'm on 280.26 nVidia drivers, cause I had serious lag on the latest ones.
Anyway, today, I come home from work, start it up, and I get a hard freeze crash, can't do anything. Ok, restart PC - and now it happens all the goddamn time, tried five times!
How the hell can it go from working to this when I haven't done shit?
Anyway, today, I come home from work, start it up, and I get a hard freeze crash, can't do anything. Ok, restart PC - and now it happens all the goddamn time, tried five times!
How the hell can it go from working to this when I haven't done shit?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Just played a 64 player round of Caspian. Afterburner reports a max memory usage of 1248MB, so nearly the entire card, and max 99% GPU usage.
No stuttering during the match.
No stuttering during the match.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'm playing with Vsync off, by the way.
zephervack
Member
So finally managed to get Crossfire working on this, the scaling is AMAZING, went from ~50fps to ~90fps, difference is night and day during gameplay.
So how did i fix it?, well, turns out the game wont recognize crossfire half of the time, going back and forth between Fullscreen and windows (Alt+Enter) until i see the second GPU kick in is the fix, i use Afterburner to see the GPU usage.
So how did i fix it?, well, turns out the game wont recognize crossfire half of the time, going back and forth between Fullscreen and windows (Alt+Enter) until i see the second GPU kick in is the fix, i use Afterburner to see the GPU usage.
popsicle_sundays
Member
Effect said:
When do you crash? Is it when you are switching to a new map?
FuttBuck said:
It happens during the changing of maps or simply at random. It can be in the middle of a fire fight sometimes or me simply running. The game will freeze and my normal mouse cursor will appear. I'll then ctrl-alt-delete to get into task manager and have to force close the game. I've tried both full screen and window mode. My card isn't overheating and my PC itself doesn't freeze or slow down either after I close the game. It happens the most during Conquest matches. Happens during Rush too but less frequently. I had it happen for the first time during the campaign last night through. It was in the mission level
Rock and a Hard Place
Anton Sugar
Member
I'm still runnin the 11.9 drivers on my 6850. I'm really hesitant to try the BF3 drivers, because the game is running fine right now and I don't want to fuck anything up, but in the back of my head I keep thinking the performance could be better. How stable are the 11.10 drivers and do they give a noticeable performance boost?
popsicle_sundays
Member
Effect said:
Hmmm, and which card are you running and which drivers? I had to disable Windows Aero mode just so it would stop kicking me out of fullscreen mode and I choose to believe that helped crash my game. I had it crash on me twice 2 days ago during a map change and never again afterwards, also don't worry it's not your Hardware, it's just something with the game. What is your spec and what are you running it at?
zephervack
Member
Anton Sugar said:
I cant answer you question but i am paranoid just like you right now, i dont want to change ANYTHING in my computer as the game is finally running stable and fast for me, i usually play Single Player games with more aggressive settings than multi, but i dont want to touch anything right now, also doesnt help that my game sometimes freezes to death when i change anything in the Visual panel, including brightness.
Gully State
Member
So after about 2 hours of playing, I finally have a sense of what the game's framerate is running on my rig...
Q9550 Core 2 Quad@ 2.83 GHz (I really should just bite the bullet and overclock)
AMD 5850 1GB VRAM-stock speed
4 GB DDR2- 800
Settings
1920x1080
MSAA 2x
Everything on High (Shadows might be on medium- I'll double check when I get home)
AAF 16x
SSAO
FOV- 90
Vsync and Triple Buffering forced through D3Doverrider
Framerate- 35-37 FPS. Max Framerate 38-39 Min Framerate 31-33. This is on a full 64 player conquest map.
Q9550 Core 2 Quad@ 2.83 GHz (I really should just bite the bullet and overclock)
AMD 5850 1GB VRAM-stock speed
4 GB DDR2- 800
Settings
1920x1080
MSAA 2x
Everything on High (Shadows might be on medium- I'll double check when I get home)
AAF 16x
SSAO
FOV- 90
Vsync and Triple Buffering forced through D3Doverrider
Framerate- 35-37 FPS. Max Framerate 38-39 Min Framerate 31-33. This is on a full 64 player conquest map.
FuttBuck said:
I have a Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 (Fermi) 1GB and I'm using the latest drivers for it. Not beta ones though.
Windows Vista Home Pre 32bit
4GB Ram
AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz
1280x1024 60hz
Settings are defaulted at High. FOV is at 90. VSync is off.
I feel pretty sure it isn't my hardware. So there is that at least.
I have been getting a weird bug to describe.
On the top third of the screen or so a blotch appears, dark color. It retains the outline of the objects that are it the top part of the screen, the sky areas end up the most blotchy with the trees and buildings as cutouts. It stays on the screen until I close and reopen the game. I will post a screenshot once I catch it again, but hoping someone else has already posted about it or has seen it. When I alt-tab, the windowed game does not show the blotch, when I click and go back into fullscreen it is there. GTX 480, drivers posted in OP.
On the top third of the screen or so a blotch appears, dark color. It retains the outline of the objects that are it the top part of the screen, the sky areas end up the most blotchy with the trees and buildings as cutouts. It stays on the screen until I close and reopen the game. I will post a screenshot once I catch it again, but hoping someone else has already posted about it or has seen it. When I alt-tab, the windowed game does not show the blotch, when I click and go back into fullscreen it is there. GTX 480, drivers posted in OP.
About the 11.9's and 11.10's.
The other day, I had pc clean up and deleted/reinstalled my GPU drivers (AMD).
I went back to 11.9 then up to the BF3 11.10 drivers. I played a game or two when I was on the 11.9's. I dont have the numbers, but I'm pretty sure it felt like I was getting better performance on the 11.10s.
You could always try them out, and then roll back. Its not hard to do. Just takes a while to uninstall and reinstall.
I remember reading that the real 11.10's were supposed to be out today. So they should be not very far away. Maybe just wait for those.
The other day, I had pc clean up and deleted/reinstalled my GPU drivers (AMD).
I went back to 11.9 then up to the BF3 11.10 drivers. I played a game or two when I was on the 11.9's. I dont have the numbers, but I'm pretty sure it felt like I was getting better performance on the 11.10s.
You could always try them out, and then roll back. Its not hard to do. Just takes a while to uninstall and reinstall.
I remember reading that the real 11.10's were supposed to be out today. So they should be not very far away. Maybe just wait for those.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Same! Still on beta drivers though.TheExodu5 said:
Mr Nightman
Banned
games been running great for me on my main rig: Phenom 2 x4 at 3Ghz, 4GB DDR3 and a gtx 460 768mb.
But was wondering what kind of performance I could get on my second machine. Its an hp pavillion with these specs:
Athlon x2 4450 at 2.3Ghz
2GB DDR2
soon to be 9800gt with 512MB Vram
Could this run at 720p (1366x768) fine on low? I know that the cpu may be a bit of a bottleneck, but would be nice to have two rigs to put the game on
But was wondering what kind of performance I could get on my second machine. Its an hp pavillion with these specs:
Athlon x2 4450 at 2.3Ghz
2GB DDR2
soon to be 9800gt with 512MB Vram
Could this run at 720p (1366x768) fine on low? I know that the cpu may be a bit of a bottleneck, but would be nice to have two rigs to put the game on
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
I had to do redownload and install 3 times before I could play. I think it had something to do with W7's UAC and security settings, and the fact that I installed on an external HDD. The installer doesn't seem to get saved either. Then there were the AmBX crashes I had to troubleshoot. Now I'm working on some Crossfire weirdness (<60fps on 1080p / high settings)eznark said:
Still worth it though. Looks a lot better than it would on a console.
WonkyPanda
Member
if there is any macbook pro users, I have the Early '11 with the 6750M 1gb. I have it OC'd to 775/900 and I am pretty happy with the performance. You can run it at native with all medium settings, but I prefer to have it run at high settings with 1280x800 and I average around 50fps. I am running the 11.10 pre1 w/ Cap4
Tarin02543
Member
running fairly well on my old Core2Quad with a 9600GT, I'm surprised at this.
Beta ran like absolute garbage but retail is doing pretty good
Beta ran like absolute garbage but retail is doing pretty good
zephervack
Member
New Cap profile for Crossfire users: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/crossfirex-app-profiles.aspx
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Do you have a controller plugged in?dark10x said:
When i have my 360 controller plugged in my controls seem to jump back and forth between Pad and M/KB
I unplug the pad and the weird roughness which is very very subtle goes away.
i found it it was actually my 360 controllers left analog never being perfectly centered....
Also, Check VRam usage.
En-ou said:
Or use the screenshot command, but then you will also get the console displayed.
EatChildren said:
Shared memory.
Dedicated Video Memory + Whatever Shared Memory your system has = Total Available Graphics Memory
darthbob said:
Too all of you punks with 1.2 gig GTX570s running the game on ULTRA with MSAA at 1080 or higher......SCREW YOU AND YOUR LUCK!
I turn on MSAA and Vram usage jumps to 95% play for a while (40 mins or so) and theres the Vram stutter for a second.
I will figure out how to get this game to run perfectly on my poor 570...running out of Vram is such a bitch.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Been out of the loop for the last couple days. Interesting to hear that the vram usage is what's causing the stuttering for sure. So, is there anything that they can do about it patch wise or is that just how shit has to be? Funny since they flat out said Sli 560's could run it ultra at 60FPS which is bullshit with the stuttering.
Gah seriously what's up?
I'm getting stuttering on certain levels but not others.
Stutter : damavand peak, grand bazaar
No stutter : Firestorm, Caspian
And there's the problem of the green/red flashes. I only get them on a particular map, don't remember which one exactly but it's hella annoying. Granted I haven't tried to disable HT yet but I'd be damned surprised if that's the actual root of the problem.
Note : I'm talking about microstutter now that doesn't affect the framerate as opposed to vram stutter that pauses the game more or less.
I'm getting stuttering on certain levels but not others.
Stutter : damavand peak, grand bazaar
No stutter : Firestorm, Caspian
And there's the problem of the green/red flashes. I only get them on a particular map, don't remember which one exactly but it's hella annoying. Granted I haven't tried to disable HT yet but I'd be damned surprised if that's the actual root of the problem.
Note : I'm talking about microstutter now that doesn't affect the framerate as opposed to vram stutter that pauses the game more or less.
la flama blanca
Banned
I got a 580 with 3gb and get a bit of stuttering with everything on ultra, i cant imagine my limits is being reached. I also have turned of HT and HT on Nvidia settings.
la flama blanca
Banned
I think we're in the same boat, I also get the green flashes from time to time.Corky said:
Herpes Reasons
Banned
anyone have a stable OC settings for a gtx 580 asus 1.5gb?
the one im on keeps crashing after 30 mins. could be a driver issue though
the one im on keeps crashing after 30 mins. could be a driver issue though
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Like CPU OCing, every card is slightly different so one person's settings won't necessarily translate to someone else's.Ice Raven said:
Slackbladder
Member
Hmm. Just out of interest is there anyway to increase that? I've got 8GB and 2GB never seems to be used. I thought it might help with the games performance if I could increase it.Black_Stride said:
Apologies if it's a dumb question as I too have just noticed this!
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Slackbladder said:
Its usually automatically calculated based on the amount of RAM and Vram you have.
But it can be increased by editing a BIOS/UEFI setting.
Not sure if it will actually increase performance though...i never really experimented with this stuff......i might try it later tonight, but if you do it first come back and give us the results.
FlyinJ said:
We already know Ultra textures are eating Vram its been mentioned over the last 11 pages no less than 5 times.
And you have to reboot the game to see the texture settings take effect....sorry if ive broken the placebo effect you had.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
Tried reinstalling the latest drivers and uninstalling the RealTek audio drivers. Still crashing to desktop about 30-45 seconds into the game. Ugh.
Hey all, I was having the Battlefield 3 has stopped working issue that many of you have had. (Drops 10-15 min in multi, a little longer in SP)
Anyways, if you are using Windows 7 32bit with more then 2 GB of RAM this seems to be fixing for some people.
I tried it last night and got 3+ hours without a crash...
Worth a go if you have exhausted other solutions.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654489420350764/1/
Anyways, if you are using Windows 7 32bit with more then 2 GB of RAM this seems to be fixing for some people.
I tried it last night and got 3+ hours without a crash...
Worth a go if you have exhausted other solutions.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654489420350764/1/
I havent though that i5 2500k [stock!], 2x4gb 1600mhz DDR3 and GF 560 will be destroying BF 3 MP.
With all on High, without MSAA, HSAO [only SSAO] and motion blur i have constant 60fps with fraps recording! in 1280x1024.
First sample of 60fps footage [dunno if its already high, cause i wouldnt thought it will be stable with fraps on, so i at first lower most setting too medium and then go higher and higher ;p]
http://blip.tv/file/get/Kkrt00-bf3_60fps_test870.avi
With all on High, without MSAA, HSAO [only SSAO] and motion blur i have constant 60fps with fraps recording! in 1280x1024.
First sample of 60fps footage [dunno if its already high, cause i wouldnt thought it will be stable with fraps on, so i at first lower most setting too medium and then go higher and higher ;p]
http://blip.tv/file/get/Kkrt00-bf3_60fps_test870.avi
IllumiNate
Member
I'm gaming on a 120hz Asus monitor.
My specs are
i7 2600k Oc'd to 4.8
8 gigs of ram at 1333
2x 1gb GTX 460's in SLI both OC'd to 847mhz
In single player I'm getting 79-110 fps with it usually steady at 93 fps with the following settings
1920x1080
Vsync
GFX quality custom
Texture quality-Ultra
Shadow-High
Effects-Ultra
Mesh-Ultra
Terrain-Ultra
Terrain Dec-Ultra
Deferred-Off
Antialiasing post-High
Motion Blur-off
Anisotropic-16x
AO-HBAO
My specs are
i7 2600k Oc'd to 4.8
8 gigs of ram at 1333
2x 1gb GTX 460's in SLI both OC'd to 847mhz
In single player I'm getting 79-110 fps with it usually steady at 93 fps with the following settings
1920x1080
Vsync
GFX quality custom
Texture quality-Ultra
Shadow-High
Effects-Ultra
Mesh-Ultra
Terrain-Ultra
Terrain Dec-Ultra
Deferred-Off
Antialiasing post-High
Motion Blur-off
Anisotropic-16x
AO-HBAO
I can't get rid of my framerate stuttering no matter how hard I try. :/
Specs are:
i5 2500k 4.8 ghz
Crossfire 1gb 5850s @ 850/1100
16 Gbs DDR3 1600 mhz
Dual SSDs (raid 0)
I'm playing at 1080p with a mix of high and ultra. No AA, high post AA. Disabling AA gave me a huge performance boost but even with no AA and MEDIUM textures I get bad stuttering. Terrain and object detail is set to high. Effects and decoration set to ultra. Shadows on high.
The thing is, sometimes there is NO stuttering with high textures and sometimes it's really bad, even in the same level. I have a feeling there's some kind of memory leak that needs to be fixed.
Specs are:
i5 2500k 4.8 ghz
Crossfire 1gb 5850s @ 850/1100
16 Gbs DDR3 1600 mhz
Dual SSDs (raid 0)
I'm playing at 1080p with a mix of high and ultra. No AA, high post AA. Disabling AA gave me a huge performance boost but even with no AA and MEDIUM textures I get bad stuttering. Terrain and object detail is set to high. Effects and decoration set to ultra. Shadows on high.
The thing is, sometimes there is NO stuttering with high textures and sometimes it's really bad, even in the same level. I have a feeling there's some kind of memory leak that needs to be fixed.
IllumiNate
Member
Piggus said:
Try disabling Speedstep and Hyperthreading