BF3 Beta FPS thread

Mr Krugga · 3 Oct 2011 at 11:50

Bobisuruncle54 said:
Puts up a pretty good fight at that res. Another 6950 should make that very playable once the drivers have been sorted out, maybe even with a few settings set to Ultra.

I'm quite happy with the fps as it is although having 45 minimum and 60 average would be preferable in this game.

Hopefully the new drivers will be able to improve the performance even further, with the game being pretty well optimised for high-end PCs.

There isn't much difference between the Ultra and High presets so I would prefer to have higher framerates in any case.

Bobisuruncle54 · 3 Oct 2011 at 11:57

Mr Krugga said:
I'm quite happy with the fps as it is although having 45 minimum and 60 average would be preferable in this game.

Hopefully the new drivers will be able to improve the performance even further, with the game being pretty well optimised for high-end PCs.

There isn't much difference between the Ultra and High presets so I would prefer to have higher framerates in any case.

I have decided (perhaps rather foolishly

) that I want my minimum fps to be around the 60 mark.

So my 6950 Toxics will be arriving soon.

Davepen · 3 Oct 2011 at 11:59

Mr Krugga said:
Radeon 6950 2GB @ 890/1350 MHz
Core i5 750 @ 3.8 GHz
Catalyst 11.10 Preview + 11.8 CAP5

2560x1440 - High Preset

You say high preset? Does that mean you are leaving AA on?

At the resolution turning AA off will yield a significant performance boost, and you probably wont be able to notice the jaggies too much

Mr Krugga · 3 Oct 2011 at 12:05

Davepen said:
You say high preset? Does that mean you are leaving AA on?

At the resolution turning AA off will yield a significant performance boost, and you probably wont be able to notice the jaggies too much

High preset means no multisampling but post processing AA effect which doesn't yield that much performance hit and is a must in any game.

old gamer · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:07

Anyone having xfire issues, i have 1 gpu with 99% useage and the other at only 15%

JamesM · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:23

Nope, only had a few mins running BF3 today with crossfired 6950s but both were at 99%.

toxic · 3 Oct 2011 at 17:31

JamesM said:
Nope, only had a few mins running BF3 today with crossfired 6950s but both were at 99%.

interested to see your results...thinkng about that setup myself.

Mr Krugga · 3 Oct 2011 at 18:54

Battlefield 3 Beta seems to be not that CPU demanding.

It only loads 3 out of 4 cores fully which means that you will get the most by overclocking your tri-core/quad-core CPU rather than investing in a hex core. (I've seen posts with people wondering whether to upgrade their CPU or not)

The importance of the CPU scaling is even lower when you up the resolution/AA as the game because severely GPU limited.

http://benchmark3d.com/battlefield-3-beta-performance-preview

Still trying to find more comments on CPU scaling with this game.

Art · 3 Oct 2011 at 19:17

Mr Krugga said:
Stuff

Hmm, thanks for that. I was consdering a combined CPU/GPU upgrade but knowing that I might try to get away with just the GPU.

Also interesting was this quote:

Acording to “Global Battlefield Community Manager at DICE” the beta build is well behind the retail build and most of the bugs are already fixed (source). So what is the real point of this beta if not to fix issues? Why not update it to the latest build and work from there? Apparently this is no beta, it’s a demo

I know people said that was probably the case, but really? You want to represent your flagship game with a version which you know is full of bugs that have already been fixed? They needed fixed for a reason. Yeesh.

old gamer · 3 Oct 2011 at 20:23

JamesM said:
Nope, only had a few mins running BF3 today with crossfired 6950s but both were at 99%.

installed cap3 rebooted and both gpu's are now running in the high 90's %

elrasho · 4 Oct 2011 at 08:49

Has the Beta been updated? I can now play at High preset with AA on High too and get 70fps outdoors and 100fps indoors with no stuttering/freezing. Checked MSI Afterburner and it shows both my 5850s are at 99% usage so crossfire is working.

Vir · 4 Oct 2011 at 08:52

I'm not sure they are auto updating it via origin...

Fury762 · 4 Oct 2011 at 10:13

Art said:
I know people said that was probably the case, but really? You want to represent your flagship game with a version which you know is full of bugs that have already been fixed? They needed fixed for a reason. Yeesh.

I'm pretty sure this is mostly a server stress test than anything, seeing how servers cope with 64 player Caspian border and 32 player Metro action. I've been dropped a couple of times randomly due to "timing out" but nothing major.

Also the huge FPS drop when using crossfire has dissapeared :confused:

I enabled both cards again and tested it for a good hour or more and no stuttering and super smooth gameplay. Weird. Massively looking forward to the final retail version, really enjoying this game.

Vir · 4 Oct 2011 at 11:44

I'm not sure if you guys have seen this Battlefield 3 Beta Performance Test?
http://www.techspot.com/review/448-battlefield-3-beta-performance/

I'm basically ****ed without SLI @ 2560x1444

Hopefully the final version will be a bit more optimized...

JamesM · 4 Oct 2011 at 11:59

Anyone else finding that graphics issues and crashes are less in BF3 compared to BC2 already?

Really pleased with my new 6950 crossfire setup and by the looks of things it can only get better with more mature drivers, etc.

PCM2 · 4 Oct 2011 at 12:01

Vir said:
I'm not sure if you guys have seen this Battlefield 3 Beta Performance Test?
http://www.techspot.com/review/448-battlefield-3-beta-performance/

I'm basically ****ed without SLI @ 2560x1444
Hopefully the final version will be a bit more optimized...

Interesting. I would have liked to see some testing at the increasingly common 16:9 resolutions such as 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440. Also perhaps some testing in their 'high' configuration but swtiching HBAO to SSAO (minimum visual impact compared to performance gain). At 1920 x 1080, using the 'high' preset, AA post 'high' and SSAO my overclocked 6950 very rarely slips below about 55fps. I would say a solid average of around 60fps which is what I was aiming for. This contrasts with the average 41fps in the review which for me isn't all that playable on this game. I wish I found it was because I get that kind of average frame rate with a AA deferred set to 2x. I certainly find the visuals nice enough with AA post on high and AA deferred off and can put up with some jaggies in places given the performance benefits. Even with MSAA on 4x there are jaggies in places (particularly the distance) anyway.

wolvers · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:37

elrasho said:
Has the Beta been updated? I can now play at High preset with AA on High too and get 70fps outdoors and 100fps indoors with no stuttering/freezing. Checked MSI Afterburner and it shows both my 5850s are at 99% usage so crossfire is working.

Fury762 said:
Also the huge FPS drop when using crossfire has dissapeared I enabled both cards again and tested it for a good hour or more and no stuttering and super smooth gameplay.

Which driver are you guys using?

wolvers · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:39

Mr Krugga said:
Catalyst 11.10 Preview + 11.8 CAP5

Catalystmaker tweeted the other day that the earlier CAPs shouldn't' be used with 11.0 preview, just on it's own until 11.10 CAPs are released.

elrasho · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:40

wolvers said:
Which driver are you guys using?

The ones that Origin recommends you to download when you login, think they are 11.10

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Catalyst-11.10-Preview-Win-Vista-7-32-and-64-bit-download-2795.html

Im gonna try playing the game again using the default settings of Textures Ultra and everything else on High and see if I get the stuttering/freezing in crossfire.

wolvers · 4 Oct 2011 at 15:43

OK, thanks. I have the 11.10 preview drivers installed at the mo but haven't played the beta since last week because of the fps drop outs on xfire. Going by what you two have said it's probably worth giving it a try now.