Being told I should be getting better FPS

iSelfDefined · 4 Sep 2012 at 23:18

Hey guys, for the past year I have barely touched Skyrim & Battlefield 3 due to getting low FPS. I've tried updating my Graphics Card drivers, disabling Anti-Aliasing and so forth, to no avail.

It was only today when a friend mentioned that he downloaded new audio drivers, updated his BIOS and downloaded new Chipset drivers, and said that he was getting a 20FPS increase; that I've decided to make it my mission to try to squeeze the best performance out of my computer that I possibly can.

On Battlefield 3 & Skyrim, I'm barely receiving 60FPS on medium settings on both games. From what I've been told, I should be getting better FPS on even higher settings.

PC Specs:
ATI Radeon 7950 3GB
i5 2550k 3.4GHz
Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 Motherboard
12GB RAM
1920x1080
750W
Windows 7 64-bit

I would appreciate absolutely any advice. I'm not very technical, I can install/wipe drivers, but I wouldn't know where to download new Chipset drivers, hell.. I don't even really know what a Chipset is. If you guys could link me to any driver updates, I'd be infinitely grateful. I'm not being lazy, I just genuinely don't know what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance. You guys are literally my last hope.

[TW]Sponge · 4 Sep 2012 at 23:59

Hi and welcome to the forums

What resolution are you gaming at first of all? And have you got v-sync enabled in the games?

Also this should be posted in the 'Graphics Cards' section.

Martini1991 · 5 Sep 2012 at 00:08

[TW]Sponge;22705303 said:
Hi and welcome to the forums

What resolution are you gaming at first of all? And have you got v-sync enabled in the games?

Also this should be posted in the 'Graphics Cards' section.

It looks like a general gaming performance problem (Unless it's his GPU, it belongs in general), I'd assume he's gaming at the resolution he's given.

Sasahara · 5 Sep 2012 at 00:25

12 GB of Ram? What ram are you using?

[TW]Sponge · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:01

Martini1991 said:
It looks like a general gaming performance problem (Unless it's his GPU, it belongs in general), I'd assume he's gaming at the resolution he's given.

I would say it's more linked to gpu but hey. And whoopsie I didn't see the res.

Is 60fps in Battlefield 3 with that res that bad?

PapaLazaru · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:07

[TW]Sponge;22706155 said:
Is 60fps in Battlefield 3 with that res that bad?

My 5870 is getting around the same so I would say it looks a little low, if at all.

Nothing I would be personally concerned about anyway. I would hazard a guess that v-sync is on and the game is occasionally dropping below 60. That is to be expected.

Martini1991 · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:13

OP, put the setting on highest, do you get the same FPS?

Hagar · 5 Sep 2012 at 09:26

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3855#dl

Gunda · 5 Sep 2012 at 13:32

how do you have 12Gb of RAM? you should be running duel channel so 2x2 or 2x4 or 2x8 giving 4Gb, 8Gb or 16Gb ram. If you have 3 sticks of 4Gb in there i suggest taking one out since it will be forcing single channel operation i think...

Uncle Petey · 5 Sep 2012 at 14:23

Run GPU-Z and see if your bus interface is in X16 mode.

My 5870 is outperforming your 7950 and that's just wrong...

Uncle Petey · 6 Sep 2012 at 17:37

PapaLazaru said:
My 5870 is getting around the same so I would say it looks a little low, if at all.

Nothing I would be personally concerned about anyway. I would hazard a guess that v-sync is on and the game is occasionally dropping below 60. That is to be expected.

You're getting around 60fps at medium settings @1080p? If that's the case, try this:

I run these settings with the framerate limited to 59fps (it will go into 60-70's without the restriction, but it runs better this way) and it's mostly as smooth as you like with the occasional drop into the 40's on massive maps. Usually stays at 50-59fps.
No tearing or performance drop with V-sync on either.

nitram100 · 6 Sep 2012 at 18:53

You should definitely be getting higher, I run similar spec and run both games pretty much maxed and get over 60-70 frames most of the time.