Battlefield 3 RETAIL Performance Thread

chief barker · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:33

I hope so mate.

Still waiting for GAME to ship the bloody game.

Damien. · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:36

elrasho said:
The first type of stuttering is not a VRAM issue. This stuttering went away after a week into the Beta and I hadn't changed anything. Its something else.

Are you sure.

I have upgraded from crossfire 5870's as bf3 was hammering my vram. Another game I noticed it in was Crysis 2, whilst the high rez textures were applied. Now that I have crossfire 6970's (on the same drivers), the stutter I was getting before is non existent, no matter how much is happening.

Now I am getting a very minor stutter in BF3 only. Can be reduced by enabling vsync.

chrisxuk · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:36

i5 2500k @ 3.3, 4850 512MB, 1920x1080 & all settings to low, been getting around 30 FPS online. It's fine for now, but I think I'll be getting a new graphics card soon.

Even on low though, the game still looks rather good.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:36

wolvers said:
Yo Elrasho, are you getting full usage on both gpus with the 11.10s?

I think I'm going to need to do a frametime graph for this.

I didn't actually check this, but I will tonight when I get home from work. Im going to leave 11.10 Preview 3 and CAP3 and see what the GPU usage is and report back.

Damien. said:
Are you sure.

I have upgraded from crossfire 5870's as bf3 was hammering my vram. Another game I noticed it in was Crysis 2, whilst the high rez textures were applied. Now that I have crossfire 6970's (on the same drivers), the stutter I was getting before is non existent, no matter how much is happening.

Now I am getting a very minor stutter in BF3 only. Can be reduced by enabling vsync.

Im positive but Ill try again tonight mind you I'm only playing at 1080P with everything on High and no SBAO/AA. Are yo playing at a higher resolution?

Macro · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:39

Athanor said:
On a 5970, removed CAP3 and dropped back to 11.9, still getting massive stuttering in some games (i.e. freezing for a second every 10 seconds).

Makes jets/choppers unplayable...

reapplied 11.10 pre 3 without Caps and seems ok again...

Also discovered I'm not bad at flying a chopper but can't shoot for ****

Damien. · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:47

elrasho said:
Im positive but Ill try again tonight mind you I'm only playing at 1080P with everything on High and no SBAO/AA. Are yo playing at a higher resolution?

1920x1080.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:50

Damien. said:
1920x1080.

Same as me. I'll be on in a couple of hours, I'll take a screenshot of my graphics settings menu and upload it here together with GPU usage after a round on Caspian Borders. I didn't get any stuttering last night, MSI Afterburner showed I was suing 1300MB VRAM (So thats actually 650MB as VRAM is mirrored on both cards).

chief barker · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:51

I think what we need to establish here is what GFX settings are appropriate to peoples VRAM to stop it stuttering.

Sadly I can't test the game yet as I haven't got my copy yet.

Would be a shame If I couldn't max the game with my cards 5970+5870 due lack of VRAM.

In fact it would be a tragedy.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 15:58

chief barker said:
I think what we need to establish here is what GFX settings are appropriate to peoples VRAM to stop it stuttering.

Sadly I can't test the game yet as I haven't got my copy yet.

Would be a shame If I couldn't max the game with my cards 5970+5870 due lack of VRAM.

In fact it would be a tragedy.

I agree. Will let you guys know how I get on later today, but as long as I can play with everything on High at around 60fps I'm happy. I suppose it all depends on what your personal preference is. For me its playing at 60 fps minimum with everything on High.

I wonder what DICE have to say about VRAM? There was a image going round showing a presentation that had 560ti as the recommended card to play the game on High settings. 560ti cards are 1GB cards like the 5850.....

Muzy · 25 Oct 2011 at 16:42

So guys, whats the best FOV @ 1080p with 580GTX everything set to Ultra ?

currently i m using 70, is 85 a good FOV for 1080p ?

chief barker · 25 Oct 2011 at 16:45

Muzy said:
So guys, whats the best FOV @ 1080p with 580GTX everything set to Ultra ?

currently i m using 70, is 85 a good FOV for 1080p ?

Personal preference TBH I have set mine to 75 in BC2. and will probably set it to that in 3.

DazQ87 · 25 Oct 2011 at 17:31

I will be happy with everything on high with 2xAA if thats going to net me 60fps (50+ is acceptable).

Problem is that due to a £300 bonus at work I am very tempted to sell my 5850s and get a geforce 580, I know it would only be a side grade (or even a downgrade) but Im getting the GFX upgrade itch.
If only thoes dam 7xxx series would hurry up

Domi · 25 Oct 2011 at 17:37

Only currently tried single player but of course I set everything to Ultra and was stunned to see the game ran perfectly playable and frankly looks better than I would ever have believed.

Thats on a stock I7 860 with a single 5850.

Guess its gonna be a pleasure to play on my new rig at 4.5 and GTX580.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 17:55

OK just played two full rounds on Seine Crossing 64 player map with these settings:

Averaging 75fps and never drops below 60fps

MSI shows both GPUs at 99% usage and VRAM 1600MB. I'm happy with this but having seen my cards only reach temperatures of 59C under load I'm tempted to overclock them and see if I can push a few Ultra settings in there. Oh and no stuttering at all, it was silky smooth

opethdisciple · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:00

Will the game auto configure best graphics settings?

Nymins · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:05

I'm always wary about auto configs in games, but it seems about right for BF3. With the 5870, you could go to Ultra and turn off MSAA and HBAO/SSAO and still get good fps.

With my 6950, it auto'd to all High apart from one Ultra option. I custom configed it and put it all on Ultra, but took of MSAA, HBAO/SSAO, Motion blur and turned the Post processing AA to medium. Game runs great, but I'm sure if I stayed with the auto config it would be constant 60fps. With my config, its pretty much 60fps most of the time, with it dipping into the 40's in very heavy action.

For multiplayer, I'll probably go Auto.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:06

opethdisciple said:
Will the game auto configure best graphics settings?

It does, but the default FOV is 70. Once you change that to something better like 90 you'll need to lower the graphics settings a bit as there will be more displayed on screen.

kablooey · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:06

I was using 11.10 preview 3 + 11.9 cap3 and getting terrible stutter, deleting cap3 has massively reduced stuttering.

elrasho · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:26

kablooey said:
I was using 11.10 preview 3 + 11.9 cap3 and getting terrible stutter, deleting cap3 has massively reduced stuttering.

Thats strange coz I have the save drivers with CAP 3 and I get no stuttering, could this be server based?

Nvidiot · 25 Oct 2011 at 18:37

Hi guys

Hardocp have got a new BF3 test up with the newer drivers,
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/10/25/battlefield_3_preview_performance/1

Very telling that the card with the least Vram has a higher minimum and/or average fps

Plus SLI works better

We experienced stuttering and jerky behavior with Radeon HD 6970 CrossFireX. I wouldn't say that it is "MicroStutter," it is outright "stutter" or a "jerky" feeling as you play. As you move through the map you can see and feel that it is not smooth, not consistent, and you can visually see this as you are walking. There is a lot of straight line walking during the first few minutes of the map, and it is very easy to identify and breaks the immersion of the gameplay. We started with the GTX 580 SLI and experienced smooth gameplay, and then when we installed HD 6970 CFX to compare performance the constantly laggy experience was immediately noticeable.