290 xfire - Battlefield 4 stuttering

Sacrifice · 14 Jun 2014 at 17:49

This is really annoying me, on 14.6 drivers. Have frame pacing method to 0 or 1 doesn't cure it, nor does changing v sync settings, nor does switching between mantle and dx11. Here is what the graph looks like:

Well, anyone have any ideas?

BaDBoY_uK · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:00

renderaheadlimit 1?

LtMatt · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:03

Sacrifice said:
This is really annoying me, on 14.6 drivers. Have frame pacing method to 0 or 1 doesn't cure it, nor does changing v sync settings, nor does switching between mantle and dx11. Here is what the graph looks like:

Well, anyone have any ideas?

That's not normal. I've never seen gpu spikes like that. How does your setup run other games? Was it always like this or just started happening?

BaDBoY_uK said:
renderaheadlimit 1?

Retro BF3 fix not applicable with Mantle. Lowering it just hurts fps in BF4 in DX or Mantle.

Sacrifice · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:09

It was never like this, I haven't played it for several driver updates and patches, and I haven't had time for gaming recently, but it runs fine in dota 2, which I can always make time for

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I will monitor ram usage, as I am using 4 gigs with only 2 chrome tabs open, and a youtube video playing.

LtMatt · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:23

Sacrifice said:
It was never like this, I haven't played it for several driver updates and patches, and I haven't had time for gaming recently, but it runs fine in dota 2, which I can always make time for .

I will monitor ram usage, as I am using 4 gigs with only 2 chrome tabs open, and a youtube video playing.

Are you running full screen mode? Try repairing game files and updating punkbuster using pbsetup.

shankly1985 · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:26

That's how mine looked when I had one gpu running pci 2.0 4x
Do you know what your cards are running at? Pci

Sacrifice · 14 Jun 2014 at 18:56

shankly1985 said:
That's how mine looked when I had one gpu running pci 2.0 4x
Do you know what your cards are running at? Pci

8x 2.0

shankly1985 · 14 Jun 2014 at 19:09

You changed any setting in the battlefield user.cfg?

BaDBoY_uK · 14 Jun 2014 at 20:01

LtMatt said:
Retro BF3 fix not applicable with Mantle. Lowering it just hurts fps in BF4 in DX or Mantle.

Fair enough. That command is still burnt into my brain after spending hours trying to fix it in BF3

Annihilation · 7 Jul 2014 at 00:32

I get lots of stutter on my GPUs too trifire 290s @ 4K - I have tried everything I can think of to fix it.

- 14.4 drivers
- 14.6 Beta and RC
- Over and underclocks
- CPU, memory
- Game settings

Nothing seems to help...

oldestgregg · 7 Jul 2014 at 00:35

Core parking? Try unparking cores on the CPU to see if it helps. Those spikes look a lot like pre-frame pacing fix

Rroff · 7 Jul 2014 at 00:42

LtMatt said:
Retro BF3 fix not applicable with Mantle. Lowering it just hurts fps in BF4 in DX or Mantle.

You do (or did) need to adjust this in BF4 atleast with DX with multi-GPU setups or you'd get stutter (try circle strafing around the monument on the firing range map about at the point of the A spawn and watch the vegetation while changing it from -1 through to 3) unfortunately it can drop about 5% off your FPS with the right setting to fix the stutter but is needed in some cases with both SLI and CF.

Can't remember exactly what settings worked best now though.

However its probably not that as it didn't result in spikes like on the graph in the screenshots was more like bad microstutter. Those spikes look more like something outside the game is impacting performance i.e. just for illustration anti-virus.

Annihilation · 9 Jul 2014 at 20:21

So I played around with this a bit more and I found that if I ran with medium settings I get stutter with trifire. If I run with high or ultra I get no stutter.

With 2 card crossfire I have no issues at any setting...

This is very weird.

LtMatt · 9 Jul 2014 at 20:24

Have you tried the game since the update? Dice patched the game a few days ago and that was to fix a bug similar to this. Do you play at Ultra or Medium settings?

Jordan777 · 10 Jul 2014 at 11:40

i have the same issue but i have the below every 10secs stutters really bad goes from 80-100 fps to 30fps then back up (running x fire 2x 290x. i got the below specs and i have tried everything etc new drivers under clocking if you find a fix let me know

LtMatt · 10 Jul 2014 at 11:58

Jordan777 said:
i have the same issue but i have the below every 10secs stutters really bad goes from 80-100 fps to 30fps then back up (running x fire 2x 290x. i got the below specs and i have tried everything etc new drivers under clocking if you find a fix let me know

Can you take a screenshot in game with all the overlays enabled so we can take a look? The UI Info overlay should let us know how much vram you're using. Also what settings and resolution are you using? Are you using a custom User.Cfg file? Are you playing in proper Full Screen Mode and not Borderless Mode?

Here is an example screenshot with the relevant info.

Annihilation · 12 Jul 2014 at 12:28

Here is mine, odd thing is that it doesn't show VRAM.

With DirectX I get CPU and GPU spikes, with Mantle only CPU spikes. Additionally if I have HT off I get 100% CPU utilisation, with HT on I get 25-40% and one of the HTs is maxed.

I have tried:
- 1, 2 or 3 cards
- Resolutions
- Graphics levels
- Drivers
- Fresh reinstalls
- RAM
- SDD
- Over and under clocks

This call started 2ish weeks ago and before that the same setup was fine.

LtMatt · 12 Jul 2014 at 12:37

Annihilation said:
Here is mine, odd thing is that it doesn't show VRAM.

With DirectX I get CPU and GPU spikes, with Mantle only CPU spikes. Additionally if I have HT off I get 100% CPU utilisation, with HT on I get 25-40% and one of the HTs is maxed.

I have tried:
- 1, 2 or 3 cards
- Resolutions
- Graphics levels
- Drivers
- Fresh reinstalls
- RAM
- SDD
- Over and under clocks

This call started 2ish weeks ago and before that the same setup was fine.

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Annihilation · 12 Jul 2014 at 12:47

Is it working now? Had some issues.

Annihilation · 12 Jul 2014 at 17:10

Tried 14.7RC:

Trifire = A mess

Crossfire = Not as much of a mess, playable but not smooth

Single = Seems OK - Few spikes

All in all no change IMHO.