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Battlefield 3 RETAIL Performance Thread

bhavv said:
So the benchmarks I have seen from reviews are really just BS due to poorly set up computers. People here with overclocked 2500k's and GTX 560 tis / 5970s / 6950s are playing the game very well.
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My 570GTX 2.5GB SLI Setup is getting the same FPS as your Benchmarked 580GTX SLI 1.5GB:D nice....

i'm guessing Barry & Dave (My 2 Cards) are showing what they made of:p

anyway bhavv he has probably turned off Motion Blur which can decrease your FPS BY Half from what i have seen @ 1920x1200p @ 2560x1600p
 
Is there any benchmarking that can be accessed via the console?

Is would be nice to see how my machine comes out compared to the i5, i7 setups.

I have a [email protected], 4gb RAM, EVGA 570 superclocked. I play at 2560x1440, Ultra with no AA, HBAO off. Average around 30-50fps
 
Well, I had a lot of issues getting stable frams on my xfire 5850's (maybe due to the 1gb vram) so changed to s couple of 6950's and getting 65-70 ave fps on ultra @ 1080p 4 x MSAA & 16 x AA.

Very happy now
 
bhavv said:
The write speed on my SSD has already been completely butchered by the page file. I had it running almost completely full for too long not knowing what to do to free up space until I posted in the hard drive section, then I figured out it was page file.

The read speeds are fine, but write speeds dropped to around 25-30 mb/s. Page file is simply bad for SSDs.
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lol no, my pagefile has been on my SSD since I installed windows, write speeds are exactly where they should be. Let me guess, you have some kind of Sandforce based SSD? Just because Sandforce drives end up with crappy writes after a while of using them normally, doesn't mean all SSDs share that flaw.

Also setting a 24GB page file when you have 24GB of RAM is completely retarded, I only have a 2GB page file with 6GB of RAM and I never get out of memory errors.
 
Broken Hope said:
lol no, my pagefile has been on my SSD since I installed windows, write speeds are exactly where they should be. Let me guess, you have some kind of Sandforce based SSD? Just because Sandforce drives end up with crappy writes after a while of using them normally, doesn't mean all SSDs share that flaw.

Also setting a 24GB page file when you have 24GB of RAM is completely retarded, I only have a 2GB page file with 6GB of RAM and I never get out of memory errors.
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I have a Marvel Crucial C300, and I didnt know how to set page file at that point and 24 Gb was assigned by default.

My SSD was wasted from being completely filled into the red from page file, with less than 100 mb left free.
 
i've got a 120gb ssd coming in my new rig next week...i've never used an ssd before,so all this is interesting reading...all this pagefile info is new to me...also slightly worrying...is there some tips for ssd newbies?..
 
ive gone sli with my 580 im now getting 75 to 95 fps fully maxed out.

ive turned hyperthreading off my 2600k abd the stuttering has more or less gone now still happens slightly but i think thats lag now...
 
billysielu said:
You should leave the pagefile on your SSD - if there's one file that benefits most from being on the SSD it's the pagefile.

Noob guides get on my nerves dishing out bad information.
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Totally agree,even microsoft say to leave your pagefile on an ssd.



Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.

In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
•Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
•Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
•Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.

In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.
 
Quick question.
I have 2 monitors connected to my 570, should I dislable the 2nd monitor when gaming to improve performance?
 
bhavv said:
^^

Wait until page file ruins your SSD and then say that.
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Another myth propagated by people who have no clue about how modern SSD technolog works, especially wear levelling techniques being used. Intel have shown that even under unusually high workloads, an SSD should last as long as a decent mechanical disk (over 5 years). Also the drive won't suddenly just die, the blocks that wear out can still be read from (data is not lost), so the drive controller simply reassigns that block to spare blocks kept in case of such a scenario.
 
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yes C:\ drive is my SSD but I've been told to move it to a mechanical drive (the first partition on the next drive) as the constant read/write will mess up my SSD.
 
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