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Battlefield 3 RETAIL Performance Thread

if you want better performance help get this guys work noticed !!!

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1454675-better-sharper-custom-fxaa-injector.html

dice basically have dropped the ball and the msaa is the killer in bf3. its unoptimised and basically some guy has bettered it but dice wont take notice :rolleyes:

this makes the gamecleaner better fps and better looking yet what have dice done ?

warning this may get you kicks by pb if used but... this is the whole point as to getting this guys work noticed then maybe dice might fix optimise there broken game .
 
It's late, I'm unwinding after a long drive. Difficult to find a full server of capsian ... but I did.

Thought I'd try a single GTX560TI 2GB @ Ultra though with MSAA set to off.

I think the results speak for themselves, you only need a card better than the GTX560 if you want MSAA ....

Which doesn't seem to do all that much anyway

HardOCP_MSAA



UltranoMSAA.jpg
 
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i personally find fxaa too blurry, seeing as the entire conversation has been about the ultra preset which includes msaa you are now massively moving the goal posts

even hard ocp's pics show that details (like lamp posts) get completely removed by fxaa e.g. it will probably also remove other players in a similar situation
 
~>Dg<~ said:
if you want better performance help get this guys work noticed !!!

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1454675-better-sharper-custom-fxaa-injector.html

dice basically have dropped the ball and the msaa is the killer in bf3. its unoptimised and basically some guy has bettered it but dice wont take notice :rolleyes:

this makes the gamecleaner better fps and better looking yet what have dice done ?

warning this may get you kicks by pb if used but... this is the whole point as to getting this guys work noticed then maybe dice might fix optimise there broken game .
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No he has not got a better MSAA, he as a better shaper post processing AA than the post processing AA in BF3 already.
But from reading there are too many side effects. Dice just needs to add their own sharpen filter and job done.
 
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well sorry poorly written by me but the guy has bettered what dice has done himself in litterally a month but if dice were to optimise the graphics properly then it would be a lot better than what it is.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
well sorry poorly written by me but the guy has bettered what dice has done himself in litterally a month but if dice were to optimise the graphics properly then it would be a lot better than what it is.
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The thing is this in injected Post Processing which beside the sharpen filter is not better than what's in BF3 as it has allot of side affects.

Built in posts processing has no side effects like blurring text, colour tone shift, some light illumination missing...ect because its optimized for the game unlike injected posts processing.

Now if your saying that the injected post processing gives a smaller hit than the built in post processing which would be likely down to the fact that injected is more blanket than built in..
 
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I game at 1920x1200 Ultra settings on my GTX460 OC at the moment but has SSAO instead of HBAO enabled and no FSAA.

I get 50-60~ fps on average but with smoke on screen and C4 gayers everywhere the framerate does see the 20s during those parts so you can imagine it can be a bit annoying.

I've seen the EVGA Superclocked 570 for £257 and I can pick it up today. What kind of framerates are people getting on one of those? I'd up to HBAO with one and enable some FSAA as from looking at the spec of this card, it can handle it.

Reviews though only list BC2, not BF3 for this card.
 
Sooo, over the past months, ran a few benches with FRAPS to determine what a GTX 480 SLI Setup at 2560x1440 with all turned to Ultra except for MSAA and HBAO (set to SSAO) could do:


Min, Max, Avg
27, 104, 60.02
34, 84, 55.52
35, 119, 65.74
40, 132, 61.03
26, 90, 52.29
35, 127, 59.01
16, 190, 81.06
25, 66, 44.28
27, 101, 50.36
22, 71, 44.33
30, 86, 53.41
34, 123, 76.41
28, 83, 56.16

Average Min = 29.15 FPS

Average Max = 105.85 FPS

Average Overall = 58.43 FPS
 
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guys i would like some some settings advise, as i have a 120htz monitor and a GTX570 with a i7 2600k @4.4

currently just on auto. tips for a noob please
 
Settings im currently using.

bf3set-1.jpg


1920x1200, 290.53 driver revision. Average about 80fps, though sometimes ill run it with frame limiter set to 59. Helps keep the cards cooler and fan noise down. Also using the fxaa injector, as the default settings look dire.
 
elrasho said:
Anyone tried CC 12.2 drivers? I accidentally updated mine and my fps has dropped by around 5 on average :( back to 11.11c I go
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Uninstalled CCC and CAP. used driver sweeper to get rid of all traces. Installed 11.11c drivers then 11.11 CAP3 but now MSI Afterburner shows both cards only working at around 60%? What should I do?
 
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12.4 also for 6 series.

elrasho sell your 5850s seems like you had nothing but hassle with bf3. you seem to have tried more drivers than the whole ati team :p

get a single card. enjoy gaming.
 
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12.4 also for 6 series.

elrasho sell your 5850s seems like you had nothing but hassle with bf3. you seem to have tried more drivers than the whole ati team :p

get a single card. enjoy gaming.
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Only started having hassle now. I shouldn't have updated to 12.2 drivers. When I went back to 11.11c I was still get FPS drops, maybe becasue BF3 has been updated since then??? Anyway Im on 12.1a + latest CAP and my FPS seem to back to normal but MSI Afterburner shows both cards running at 70% ??
 
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Ran Uningen Heaven and both cards are being used at 99%, but in BF3 it hovers between 50% - 70%. Im using 12.1a with latest CAP, what can I do? This GPU usage issue is only with BF3, other games are fine.
 
kalyyy said:
ok thx but i have same fps (min-avg-max) with 1.5gb and no stutters or lag spikes and i max 1500mo of vram so it means that the extra of 300mo is useless because we have the same gameplay for the same settings (ultra 4*msaa on caspian map with 64 players)
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I saw 2046mb vram usage on Caspian border last night (1920x1200 ultra).
 
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