Battlefield 3 RETAIL Performance Thread

[WU-TANG]GZA · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:50

amigafan2003 said:
I saw 2046mb vram usage on Caspian border last night (1920x1200 ultra).

That's so mad....

mrk · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:52

That's weird, I've not seen it use anywhere near as much VRAM on Caspian or any other map on Ultra, same res with 2xMSAA/16xAF and HBAO.

Maybe ATI cards do it differently...

The game does use a lot of system RAM though, around 2GB at times.

P3N9U1N · 20 Mar 2012 at 11:58

On average i get between 55 and 90fps on most maps (1920x1080 max everything).

although it does drop below that on caspian occasionally.

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 19:57

Gone back to 11.10 drivers and still only getting 50% GPU usage on each 5850, wtf has gone on!?

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 20:59

Is anyone with a crossfire setup seeing 99% gpu usage on both cards here? Im tempted to re-download the entire thing

edit: disable crossfire and GPU1 is now hitting 99% as expected so this is definantly a driver issue. I need ATI drivers that will give me 99% usage for both cards in Battlefield 3!!!

pgi947 · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:30

I get 99% on both cards all the time.

Still on 12.1a with the 8.95 drivers from the 24th Jan.

Vir · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:36

mrk said:
That's weird, I've not seen it use anywhere near as much VRAM on Caspian or any other map on Ultra, same res with 2xMSAA/16xAF and HBAO.

Maybe ATI cards do it differently...

The game does use a lot of system RAM though, around 2GB at times.

Proably because you have 1280Mb on the card and he has 2000Mb

or do you have the 2500mb version?

Btw with the latest nvidia drivers my watt from the wall is about 40/50watt less fduring bf3

mrk · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:40

I mean it's not even 1GB usage (VRAM).

setter · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:41

Seeing a bit less power draw as well here.

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:41

pgi947 said:
I get 99% on both cards all the time.

Still on 12.1a with the 8.95 drivers from the 24th Jan.

are you using any CAPs?

pgi947 · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:54

Just 11.11 CAP3 afaik.

Everything is running smoothly (all current games I'm playing) so no need to move to 12.2/12.3 with newer CAP's

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 21:58

pgi947 said:
Just 11.11 CAP3 afaik.

Everything is running smoothly (all current games I'm playing) so no need to move to 12.2/12.3 with newer CAP's

Those are the ones I had, foolishly put 12.2 on and BF3 fps plumited. Used driver sweeper to get rid of all traced of 12.2 and any CAPs then put 11.11 CAP3 back on but Im still only getting 50-70% usage on both cards

See:

V F · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:05

elrasho said:
Those are the ones I had, foolishly put 12.2 on and BF3 fps plumited. Used driver sweeper to get rid of all traced of 12.2 and any CAPs then put 11.11 CAP3 back on but Im still only getting 50-70% usage on both cards

I never could understand how some people swore by that app when you've just proven how useless it is.

elrasho · 20 Mar 2012 at 22:07

V F said:
I never could understand how some people swore by that app when you've just proven how useless it is.

So how do I get my performance back to how it was?

elrasho · 21 Mar 2012 at 01:00

12.1a + 8.95 Drivers + 12.1 CAP3 and still only getting around 50% GPU usage on each 5850. This has to be a Battlefield 3 issue, I'm going to uninstall and download it again tomorrow.

GTX680 is seeming more appealing by the day...

elrasho · 21 Mar 2012 at 11:24

Vsync is now off aswell as the framelimiter in Afterburner and still only seeing 50-70% GPU usage. As this is only in BF3 I've uninstalled it and downloading it again. Will report back with my findings.

pgi947 · 21 Mar 2012 at 12:32

Take it you had no joy as your cards are now up in the mm

elrasho · 21 Mar 2012 at 12:34

pgi947 said:
Take it you had no joy as your cards are now up in the mm

heh heh yeah I want a GTX680. BF3 has downloaded again will try it tonight.

elrasho · 21 Mar 2012 at 19:29

Having reinstalled Battlefied 3 (uninstalled in Win7, deleted all folders associated with it) I am now using 99% on both GPUs again

However when I switch on the MSI Afterburner framlimiter to 59 and VSYNC in game the GPU usage goes back to around 70%... is that normal? Logically it is because Im limited the FPS, without these two on I'm getting around 80fps but 99% GPU usage.

rob77 · 21 Mar 2012 at 21:06

elrasho said:
Having reinstalled Battlefied 3 (uninstalled in Win7, deleted all folders associated with it) I am now using 99% on both GPUs again However when I switch on the MSI Afterburner framlimiter to 59 and VSYNC in game the GPU usage goes back to around 70%... is that normal? Logically it is because Im limited the FPS, without these two on I'm getting around 80fps but 99% GPU usage.

Yes that's correct. I have a similar set up to you and enable vsync and cap my frames at 59 to make it smooth without the mouse lag. Your cards only have to work enough to provide 59fps so that's why you are seeing 70% usage on each card. Your cards will run cooler also as opposed to playing with both cards using 100% all the time