Battlefield 4 - Performance FIXES Thread (Good or Bad)

Admiral Huddy said:
I was an improvement.



I'm a little confused by this? Most people with i5 processors will be running with 4 units?
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Was saying I think CPUs with less than 8 execution units will hold this back as when I tried disabling HT on my laptop (4 cores/8 threads) so that I had the equivalent of just 4 cores/4threads it went from acceptable smoothness to quite a lot of stutter.

Neil79 said:
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!

BATTLEFIELD 4 is SUPER SUPER smooth on Windows 8, Ive just tested it myself and it's like a completely new game.

Windows 7 IS the cause.

Oh and I have Windows 8 looking like Windows 7 with Start Button :D
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Not convinced that its as simple as Windows 7 being poor for it - I'm running Windows 7 and its as smooth as any game, it could be that Windows 8 gets better performance out of the game if your on less than 8 cores or something though.
 
It's actually more thread/core dependent than bf3. I had an i5 3570k, low gpu use high cpu use in bf3. Switched to a 3770k. Much better. With bf4, disabling ht really drops performance.
 
Just couple of weeks ago people were saying that high clocked quads should be able to play next gen games without problem. With BF4 beta it seems the whole gaming cpus landscape has changed and performance boost requirement has suddenly shifted from quads to 6-8 cores/threads!!

If this trend continues, what would become of intel quad cores with no hyperthreading?
 
it hasnt its companies trying to get you to buy new gear use your heads lol :D

AMD (strengths cheaper cpu has 8 cores )

paid ea for bf4 promotion , the game is better suited towards 8 cores :p i wonder why they would say that when a less core intel beats it ? :D

same as the gpus coming new ati cards and titan for eg yet the 7990 or crossfired 7950s are the best bang for buck.

marketing men have to earn a crust just don't just believe crap cause reviews just happen to mention it. most are biased paid to put whatever company wants them to say anyway. they wont go against em as they wont get either no more back handers or no more exclusive stuff again.

actually stuns me people fall for the marketing every time :p
 
I have a Q9550 with a 6870 and Bf3 runs okay in multiplayer. About 50 FPS in low settings.

Bf4 on the other hand, runs awful, i haven´t used fraps, but i guess 25 fps tops. Graphics are very similar, so i don´t get how they did this.

I know it´s beta, but i don´t recall bf3 beta performance was this bad.

I like the people with last gen I7´s and 680 SLI when they say the game runs perfect.
We´d have a problem if it wouldn´t run perfect with such horsepower.
 
CPU: Phenom II 550 BE @ 3.6Ghz (Unlocked to a quad)
GPU: 480 GTX @ 800Mhz
RAM: 8GB DDR3
OS: Windows 8 Pro 64bit
Sound: X-Fi Elite (if it matters)
Drivers: Latest Beta drivers
Monitor: 1920x1200 @ 60hz

Had a longer play last night: Game seems to play fine in general, I'm running whatever settings it is as default (I've not looked for once lol). I am getting those weird lag/stuttering/pauses though for no apparent reason.

What's the command for displaying all the network and fps info please?
 
anikilator1980 said:
I have a Q9550 with a 6870 and Bf3 runs okay in multiplayer. About 50 FPS in low settings.

Bf4 on the other hand, runs awful, i haven´t used fraps, but i guess 25 fps tops. Graphics are very similar, so i don´t get how they did this.

I know it´s beta, but i don´t recall bf3 beta performance was this bad.

I like the people with last gen I7´s and 680 SLI when they say the game runs perfect.
We´d have a problem if it wouldn´t run perfect with such horsepower.
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I don't think, generally, people are bragging. Just stating that performance is there with these configurations. Win8 makes a difference by the sounds of it too.

nvidia have another month to get a set of drivers out, and then really another month before the world starts bitching at them. By then I'm sure that everyone will be enjoying this game on nvidia rigs.

I'm pleased that I'm getting close to 120fps...as I bought 2 680s and a 120hz monitor for this reason for BF3. So ,to keep my gear for another 2 years and not need to upgrade (not that I would) is great news.

I also think performance might be even better in BF4. As what held my cards back was always the CPU....CPU usage is much stronger although too early to say if its more efficient, which is what counts.
 
I have just fired this up.

Running this on an i5 2500k at 4.3ghz and two GTX 670's. Runs perfectly smooth at full ultra 1080p with 4xMSAA. I jumped straight into a full 64 player server and i am not getting any of these lag spikes that others are talking about.

HOWEVER, it is definitely i7 time sometime soon. My GPU usage never gets above 85% and looking at the MSI afterburner graph GPU usage fluctuates between 65-85 throughout the game on both cards. In task manager, it shows my i5 is maxed out 100% on all 4 cores :0. Gets nice and toasty at ~60 degrees as well. This game is super stressful CPU wise and clearly needs an 8 thread/8 core CPU to not bottleneck two cards.

Framerates hardly ever dipped below 60fps though which was nice and that was even in firefights/lots of players moving about in front of me. Less CPU intensive parts saw framerates in the 100's so I think with an i7 and my GPU usage maxed out framerates would easily average above 80. Thing is though as it stay above 60 everything is perfectly smooth and due to the GPU usage my graphics cards stay nice, and cool ( even if my cpu doesn't). This means i'm not in a huge rush to go and buy an i7 just yet.

Big thing is though, I am on Windows 8....
 
Runs like treacle for me at 1920x1080 on 'auto' settings. Using a FX6300 and 2GB 7850 (both stock). Using beta drivers and Windows 8.1 Preview.

2013-10-04 14:41:43 - bf4
Frames: 3628 - Time: 138329ms - Avg: 26.227 - Min: 0 - Max: 55
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~>Dg<~ said:
just gunna leave this here and laugh at all the 8 core guys and i7 must be better :D

http://www.hardwarepal.com/battlefield-4-cpu-gpu-benchmarks/#_

i5 seems to actually be a little quicker in most situations in bf4 :D in single card configs . dat 8 core amd optimization is massive ! :p
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Doesn't those benchmarks show with 4770k/4650k/8350fx are being bottlenecked by the GPUs ?

One can read into the AMD hype surrounding mantle, releasing something that could be called 3dnow 2 patch, It will be interesting to see if AMD 8 core and AMD gpus all of sudden sky rocket high with fps.... anything less would be flop so will see.
 
Tried the beta just now, high fps on auto config of ultra tho there is a bit of a weird movement in the game like its got smoothing on max or somit like its very slow to turn or move around but smooth with mouse movements kinda thing tho hard to explain, i bumped the mouse smoothing up which helped the speed of mouse movements in game but still feels really weird to play like.

I noticed some hickups in fps when turning kinda like when in games when you move your mouse to look around and you get a drop in fps cos its loading the textures or somit. I duno it seems like that. I did notice the 4 cores maxed out bug tho well not maxed per say but about 80-90% tho cant recall it being 100%. I hope they fix the bug where it uses high core usage on all 4 cores. As cant be right really no game does that to my knowlage and i doubt bf4 is that much better than 3 to warrant that cos it looks too much like 3 to me.

Vram usage on my 670 was about 1750mb so 2gb cards are fine with bf4 at 1080p on ultra :) Thats good to know.

Also i noticed my the bf4 process used about 2gb of ram. Tho being 64bit i thought it might have used a little more but still its a lot for a game considering its still rare for me at least to ever see a game use 2gb but then again most games are 32bit.

I think i was getting about 60fps ingame tho due to the issues with fps and the cpu going high bug i think which is causing my fps to have sharp drops to 30. I might not try it again till this gets fixed.

Gfx looked nice tho i suppose tho for the life of me i couldnt spot enemies very well and ended up dying most of the time i tried the beta tho to be honest it was just a 10 min go.

Oh and the loading... Damn that was taking ages. This is on a crucial 128gb ssd m4. Nuts aint it. Hope this also gets fixed.

Oh im using the latest whql nvidia drivers btw. Not bothering with latest betas cos its mainly for sli for bf4 as im sure others have said older drivers are fine and sometimes better than the betas for bf4. So not gona bother getting the betas.
 
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Runs like treacle for me at 1920x1080 on 'auto' settings. Using a FX6300 and 2GB 7850 (both stock). Using beta drivers and Windows 8.1 Preview.
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fozzybear said:
Even worse with everything on 'high'.
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Everything set to 'low'.

Frames: 12742 - Time: 407375ms - Avg: 31.278 - Min: 0 - Max: 51
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Runs like treacle whatever settings I have it on. Movement is jerky even with everything set on 'low'.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
just gunna leave this here and laugh at all the 8 core guys and i7 must be better :D

http://www.hardwarepal.com/battlefield-4-cpu-gpu-benchmarks/#_

i5 seems to actually be a little quicker in most situations in bf4 :D in single card configs . dat 8 core amd optimization is massive ! :p
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Those benchmarks seem to give wildy higher framerates than other benchmarks, and the two articles below are using hexacore extreme i7's...

http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/battlefield-4-beta-test-gpu.html

http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/17679-grafikprestanda-i-battlefield-4-beta/3#pagehead

wierd
 
AMD FX-8150 Eight-Core Processor 4.00GHz 16MB Cache
Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL9 DIMM
EVGA GeForce GTX 670 2048MB GDDR5
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

My system fared very well with BF3 on ultra @ 1080p. Here's hoping BF4 is actually playable. :rolleyes:
 
Jono8 said:
Those benchmarks seem to give wildy higher framerates than other benchmarks, and the two articles below are using hexacore extreme i7's...

http://gamegpu.ru/action-/-fps-/-tps/battlefield-4-beta-test-gpu.html

http://www.sweclockers.com/artikel/17679-grafikprestanda-i-battlefield-4-beta/3#pagehead

wierd
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i go with it as the fps from what i benched in game are within a couple of fps in each setting so pretty accurate to me. i did one minute timed runs with min max and avg.
 
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