Battlefiled 3, what am I doing wrong?

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 21:47

Hello all,
I just spent 45 quid on BF3 premium edition, as I was a huge fan of it on the PS3, but just haven't quite had the money to spend on buying it for the PC. Well today I did, waited an age for it to download, then finally figured how to make it actually work and join a server. I have an AMD FX4170 processor running at 4.2 GHz, an EVGA GTX 660 Superclocked and 8GB of RAM. Now the first thing I did was do a bit of messing about in the settings. I found that even running on the lowest settings I get massive framerate drops for no apparent reason. I'm running along and it's running at 70fps, then nothing happens and I'm still running, no explosions or anything, and it'll go to around 10-20, then back up to 70. It seems to repeat this process about once every 5 seconds or so. Anyway, the main point is that I must be doing something wrong? My PS3 was smoother than my PC and my PC is way more powerful? And yes Vsync is off and so is post processing and anti-ailiasing etc etc. I mean, I know BF3 is demanding and I wasn't exactly expecting to play it on ultra but not even on low settings? C'mon...

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 21:59

Patched up? You mean latest drivers? Yes. Well I guess I do have the other DLC's downloading on origin, but I didn't think that would do much. Apart from that, nothing really

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:11

I will have to wait until tomorrow for the DLCs to finish, they take years! I still don't thing that it being finished will make much of a difference if I'm honest. Who knows maybe it will.

I am running at 1080p-1920x1080

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:12

RedDanDoc said:
Well your setup is better than mine I only have a 460 and it runs like silk on medium.

Maybe you should wait till you've downloaded all the DLC's and then see how it runs.

Then again, what is your CPU? I know BF3 is very CPU incentive and I know mine isn't the best out there

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:16

I would but I need it for my Logitech G930 headset. It gives me the 7.1 surround sound

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:27

Well soon I should be upgrading to an i5 3570k and a 7950 so if it isn't the downloads causing the problem then I guess that will solve it

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:30

But the servers aren't all that great and nobody seems to play it. Starting to regret this purchase

Da_epic_ninja · 19 May 2013 at 22:48

I do have a couple, but none of my really close friends. Cheers that's very kind of you, I am a bit crap at the moment so you'll have to bear with me when I do

Da_epic_ninja · 20 May 2013 at 22:49

Good evening all! Thank you for all the responses!
After waiting for the DLC's to download I found that I was proven wrong and it runs fine even on the auto setting (somewhere between medium and high) at around 60-80 FPS. I cannot play on 64 player servers without going to around 40 FPS even on low settings, but that was to be expected. I can now finally appreciate Frostbite 2's unrivaled beauty and there has been a couple of moments already where something has happened and I've just sat back and thought, wow