Battlefield 4 - Performance FIXES Thread (Good or Bad)

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 11:30

CPU : i5 2500K @ 4.6GHZ
MEMORY : 8GB Memory
SOUND : Creative Labs XFI (Latest Drivers)
GPU : Nvidia 660GTX MSI Twin Fan @ +60MHZ/+300MHZ (42C Max Load) - Latest Drivers!
OS : Windows 7 64BIT ( All drivers up to date )
PROBLEMS : Lots of tearing in game, frame rate all over the place, lots of stuttering and jerking, even had the odd stall and stutter completely unplayable!
SETTINGS : Tried Default Ultra all the way down to LOW

PLEASE POST LIKE THIS

CPU:
GPU:
RAM:
OS:
Drivers:
Problems: (If any)

So far these are the possible fixes and or causes!

FIXES?

1) Update your Punkbuster
2) Update to the latest Beta drivers ( Nvidia? ) ( Before installing the latest Beta Drivers, use this New (Unoffical) AMD/Nvidia Displayer Uninstaller : DDU)
3) Some have said running in windowed mode
4) High CPU usage + Low GPU Usage - Increase supersampling
5) "Still testing" Windows 8 appears to offer better performance than Windows 7
6) Closing Battlelog(browser) before you play

7) (Testing)
Make a user.cfg file and EDIT with these details, place in Documents/Battlefield 4 and in your origin/bf4 folder where the exe is.

PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 0
PerfOverlay.DrawFps 1
PostProcess.DofMethod 0
PostProcess.BlurMethod 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0
PostProcess.DynamicAOMethod 0
Render.VSyncFlashTestEnable 0
WorldRender.TransparencyShadowmapsEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
WorldRender.MotionForceOn 0
WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapEnable 0
WorldRender.SpotlightShadowmapResolution 256
WorldRender.LightTileCsPathEnable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0 ( 1 for enable DX11 )
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1Enable 0
RenderDevice.Dx11Dot1RuntimeEnable 0
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 0
RenderDevice.Dx9Enable 1 ( If you are using DX11 put 0 )

Put this line in, only if you want to
GameTime.MaxVariableFps 60 "120 for 120z monitors"

7B) Start BF4 than switch to your taskmanager and make priority of BF 4 to low, that will help ( Thanks ocuk )

8) EA have announced a fix/patch http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/news/view/welcome-to-the-open-battlefield-4-beta/

Low frame rate/stuttering
We believe we are close to fixing this too. We will release more info as we know more. Meanwhile, please make sure that you have the Beta drivers for your graphics card. Also, please try changing servers to see if your performance increases.

CAUSES?

1) Some have said that Windows 7 is a pretty big factor in the cause of peoples problems, while others disagree. If you have Windows 8 and it's fine, let us know!
2) "Raw input" seems to add input lag
3) If you have a black screen or long loading time, could be Punkbuster related

Thanks to the ocuk members for keeping this up to date

UPDATE :

Is your game stuttering? Then use this tool and post back the results
http://www.5group.com/wordpress/2012/07/14/gpu-mist-pre-release-1-0-rc1/

This was from a poster on GURU3D

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 11:38

~>Dg<~ said:
your card isn't strong enough for ultra unless you want subs of 30 fps.

you should be running high with either 2msaa or msaa of for decent play.

Neil79 said:
Settings : Tried Default Ultra all the way down to LOW

Sigh

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 11:48

I'm going to go back to the 327.24's and give those a try, no harm!

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 12:13

Frame rates are much better with the 327.24's however it's still a stuttery,juddery mess!

It feels as if I'm running Battlefield 4 on an old hard drive

EDIT : It isn't VRAM causing it as i'm only using 963MB

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 12:20

kablooey said:
3570K

Like the OP I'm having lots of performance issues...Major slowdown, lagging and stuttering. It looks like a memory leak in places, when it does work it's otherwise pretty decent.

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2955064762671949581/

Same here, I can play BF3 on High/Ultra on most maps, but on BF4 I get extremely low fps even on the lowest settings. I hope it gets fixed... soon.

same here cant play it with a i7 64 internal mem and run on ssd it looks like a bad slide show even with 14 ping !!!!

Same here. Practically unplayable. And my PC is no slouch. I know it's beta, but come on.

Horrible video lag. All settings on low, average 26fps with dips down to 3. Unplayable.....

This is still Alpha. Beta should be smooth as silk with this rig. Plenty of i5 and i7 guys complaining about the same thing!

Probably not driver related but game will need patching

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 12:35

CPU USAGE -

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 14:19

theone8181 said:
Hom much vram do you have? Im managing ok with gtx 780 and i7 2600k @4GHz, however afterburner isnt showing any framerate data for some reason. What are you guys using?

2GB VRAM but it's using under 1GB

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 18:45

Does seem to be a vast majority of people are running BF4 better on Windows 8

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 18:49

Interesting!

It seems that it has really something to do with Window 7 vs Windows 8 !

all of my friends are playing it on Windows 8 flaweless, now i have Win 7 64 bit Enterprise installed and it's lagging as hell !

Seems i'm not the only one to spot this ^

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 18:55

UPDATE :

Windows 8 fixed the issue I was having.

Think we MIGHT have found a possible cause

guys play on windows 8, using DX11.1. on 7 i have annoying stutters as well as my friend, on dx11.1 win 8 it super smooth besides some FPS drops...

More

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 19:28

http://www.gamepur.com/news/12283-b...windows-7-performance-no-shuttering-incr.html

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 20:15

Average Frame rate - 15-20fps
Lowest Frame Rate - 5fps
Highest Frame Rate - 60fps+

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:13

Which OS are you using?

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:21

Tone1979 said:
Go for the Beta drivers Admiral Huddy.

Erm, the Beta Drivers are not a fix all cure, they didn't work for me and about 60 other posters on battlefield 4

Though they may work for AH

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 21:31

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

My frame rates have shot up and no more stuttering after a SERVER RESTART?

Will keep testing

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 23:15

I can confirm Windows 8 is not stuttering like Windows 7 for BF4 beta

I installed Win7 2 days ago.. and Win8 yesterday with the sole purpose of playing the battlefield 4 beta.. Windows 7 was awful.. Windows 8 plays nice and smooth like BF3.

I'm going to do a Windows 8 install tomorrow for the lol's

Neil79 · 2 Oct 2013 at 23:24

~>Dg<~ said:
lol you fell for the microshaft speil no fps difference whatsoever from 7

i know i have both on

So you're a BiOSexual, anyway no harm in trying :eek:

Neil79 · 3 Oct 2013 at 11:25

BigChief said:
That other thread just seems to have people intent on arguing about semantics and you said this and I said that styled bickering.

Agreed it's also just a benchmark thread

I agree with you also regarding

CPU:
GPU:
RAM:
OS:
Drivers:

and what problems you are having, IF you are having them. Also Updating OP now

Neil79 · 3 Oct 2013 at 11:31

Cheers, have finished editing op as well

EDIT 2 : Have posted a tool for people to use!

Neil79 · 3 Oct 2013 at 11:35

using DX11.1 massively reduce the sturrering to 0 unlike on 7, u might try that

I will confirm this. I first tried on Win7 and it was a stutter fest and totally unplayable. Now playing it on Win 8 and it's totally playable now. Yeah. I get to play finally.