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Battlefield 3 PC Performance thread
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IcyBlueStrawberry
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Is your CF working correctly?unpurposed said:
odin toelust
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DennisK4 said:
most likely not
Danne-Danger
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Not above 24fps.DennisK4 said:
Hero_of_the_Day
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J-Rzez said:
First level I'd say I averaged 48-50 FPS with absolutely everything maxed. Probably not the best place to gauge though.
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EDIT: And now in the first real open section I'm rocking a solid 12FPS suddenly. Awesome.
RibbedHero
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dark10x said:If it were me, I'd take out one of those GTX580s as it destroys visual fluidity of just about everything. SLI is a joke.
If you only care about benchmark numbers and taking screenshots, though, SLI might be worth your money.
Really? I struggle to notice microstutter, even when I'm specifically looking for it (this on Crossfired 6850s).
unpurposed
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IcyBlueStrawberry said:
What do you mean?
SapientWolf
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You shouldn't be getting microstutter at 60fps.unpurposed said:
soulassssns
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My display only goes to 1680 x 1050 anyway so I can run it just fine.Danne-Danger said:
Hero_of_the_Day
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Yeah, obviously something funky going on there. Post back after I do some messing around.J-Rzez said:
EDIT: Also, the load times are fuck awful for me. And unskippable logos piss me off.
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IcyBlueStrawberry said:
Same here, amazing how AMD can't seem to get a working driver out in time for some of the biggest pc releases in years. Rage, Deus EX and BF3 have all been a pain in my ass.
GamePnoy74
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What's the verdict on this game for someone running a single 1GB HD5850 at 1080p...? Thanks for any info...
Hero_of_the_Day
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Alright. Sli 560ti are running like dick with Sli enabled. Frame rate goes all over the place from 20FPS to 80FPS, I mean constantly. Disable sli and was rocking a very solid 35ish FPS with everything still maxed. So something is fucked with my sli drivers for this game. Going to uninstall and try out the beta drivers and see how that goes.
EDIT: should add that the multiplayer beta was playing much more solid for me then this single player is. A lot of variables in there, I know. Someone else needs to jump in here with 560ti's so I know if it's something fucked with my computer or nvidias drivers.
EDIT: should add that the multiplayer beta was playing much more solid for me then this single player is. A lot of variables in there, I know. Someone else needs to jump in here with 560ti's so I know if it's something fucked with my computer or nvidias drivers.
GamePnoy74 said:
This graph:
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph4260/36559.png
Shows that your card is similar to the 6870. That card is on this graph:
http://i56.tinypic.com/2vnfn78.png
From the OP.
unpurposed
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I'm getting +60 fps on my Crossfire setup. But I'm really fucking tired of dealing with ATI. Nvidia all the way next upgrade. Microstutter is still there.
Felix Lighter
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New cards aren't coming until near the end of Q1 next year, right?
Hero_of_the_Day
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At the earliest.Felix Lighter said:
IcyBlueStrawberry
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How did you get CF to work?unpurposed said:
I'll take 60 FPS with stutter over 30-40 with stutter.
SapientWolf
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You have to use vsync or you will get the stutter. And that's a known multi GPU issue that affects SLI setups as well.unpurposed said:
unpurposed
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SapientWolf said:
Yeah, I did that and it fixed it. But it reduces mouse sensitivity, you know what I mean? Like it glides a little. Is there a way to fix that?
SapientWolf
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You can try to find a program that caps your FPS instead. Or we can hope that DICE will add a console command to accomplish that.unpurposed said:
IcyBlueStrawberry
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For some reason enabling vsync got crossfire to work for me, but now it stutters more than ever lol.SapientWolf said:
I have yet to try retail, but there was surprisingly no microstutter on 2x GTX 570 in the beta, even with vsync off. Aside from the flickering (which I hope is fixed by now), SLI worked pretty nicely in the beta.
If you're vsynced at a locked 60fps, there won't be any microstutter. If one GPU fails to produce a frame in time, then your framerate would drop below 60fps.
Of course, if you can't maintain 60fps, then the microstutter can come back.
Really, microstutter depends a lot on the game. Crysis was unplayable without vsync. Battlefield 3, on the other hand, is very smooth with SLI.
edit: actually, as I recall, the issue with Crysis wasn't microstutter. Both GPUs render a different part of the frame in that game, which resulted in 2 or 3 tear lines.
Fine, as long as you have 8GB RAM or less.
dark10x said:
If you're vsynced at a locked 60fps, there won't be any microstutter. If one GPU fails to produce a frame in time, then your framerate would drop below 60fps.
Of course, if you can't maintain 60fps, then the microstutter can come back.
Really, microstutter depends a lot on the game. Crysis was unplayable without vsync. Battlefield 3, on the other hand, is very smooth with SLI.
edit: actually, as I recall, the issue with Crysis wasn't microstutter. Both GPUs render a different part of the frame in that game, which resulted in 2 or 3 tear lines.
DennisK4 said:
Fine, as long as you have 8GB RAM or less.
The Stealth Fox
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DennisK4 said:
No, the only game it could handle is Mass Effect 1 (especially with colorful Feros). But that's all you need, right?
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Saren is Bad said:
excellent!
Hero_of_the_Day
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Sli 560ti's. Beta drivers work wayyyy better then new ones. Still having issues though. I'll pretty well stay at 55ish FPS, but it'll jump down to 30FPS also at weird times. Blew up the building with the rocket launcher, big explosion, smoke whatnot and it stayed solid. Then guys start talking and shit jumps down to 30 for a couple seconds. Weird.
Think I'm just going to enjoy some multiplayer (which I haven't touched yet) and check out the single player when they have some shit ironed out.
Edit: multiplayer is way more solid. Ultra is a constant 60FPS with HBAO off. With it on, it'll jump down to 30 like if I'm outside in the rain or something.
Think I'm just going to enjoy some multiplayer (which I haven't touched yet) and check out the single player when they have some shit ironed out.
Edit: multiplayer is way more solid. Ultra is a constant 60FPS with HBAO off. With it on, it'll jump down to 30 like if I'm outside in the rain or something.
BoobPhysics101
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goodfella said:
No. It's when your frames drop or aren't at 60+ that microstutter is apparent.
goodfella said:
No. It's when your framerate varies a lot from frame to frame. This happens because one card might produce a frame very quickly, and the next one more slowly (for some reason that escapes me). Instead of the framerate being relatively smooth, it has a lot of highs and lows, which creates microstutter. If you cap it, and your framerate is vsynced and constant, then there's no variance in the framerate, and therefore no microstutter.
BoobPhysics101 said:
Even with a framerate above 60fps, if you're not vsynced, you might experience microstutter. Depends entirely on how well SLI behaves with the game. Many games have framerate caps (regardless of vsync) that will alleviate this as well.
I couldn't feel microstutter at all in the BF3 beta with vsync off, though I was generally getting 60-90fps.