BF3 Beta FPS thread

elrasho · 5 Oct 2011 at 15:09

You went from 725 to 950 on the cores!? Did you up the clock speed at 10Mhz increments then run an intensive 3D program to see if it crashes? What method should I use to clock my reference 5850 and Saphire Extreme Edition 5850. I only have a 620Watt Corsair HX PSU, would that be stopping me?

wolvers · 5 Oct 2011 at 16:58

Hmm, yeah the PSU might limit the clocks you'll achieve but so might your ability to overvolt the non-reference card ie whether you can or not as I needed to up the core voltage to get 950 (I can get 1ghz but it needs more voltage than I'd like for lots of use). Probably worth seeing how far you can get on stock volts though, like you said go 10mhz at a time and test with something like unigine bench.

elrasho · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:10

Im running the auto tune from ccc and its taken 20mins and still running. Does it normally take this long?

I can overvolt the cards using afterburner 2.2 beta. I might try that if the auto tune doesnt work, its currently showing an orange striped screen with the amd logo in the bottom left and the fans are going crazy.

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opethdisciple · 5 Oct 2011 at 17:54

Not sure if this posted before.

But encouraging beta fps benchmarks.

Interesting conclusion, thats for sure. Also it seems most cards down to the 6870 can run the game at ultra @ 1920x1200...

elrasho · 5 Oct 2011 at 19:54

I download Trixxx and manged to change the voltage to 1.2 for both cards. Increased to 880/1200 and now getting 85fps outdoors and 130fps indoors average. So if I went up to 1080P at these clocks I'd, in theory, get 70fps outdoors and 100fps indoors which is what I was getting before the overclock.

My settings:

I noticed on Windows 7 I got some flickering but not in game so I returned back to stock clocks and saved it as a profile. Gonna run some benchmarks now...

elrasho · 5 Oct 2011 at 20:37

Im getting flickering at random time, but I think its when the cards are overclocked and automatically reduces clocks speeds to save power it happens then.

If Im at stock speed and the clocks are reduced automatically it doesn't flicker? What could be causing this? Is it the sudden drop from 880/1200 to 715/1000?

Anyway I dont want to hog this thread about my overclocking so please go to this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=20231950#post20231950

elrasho · 5 Oct 2011 at 23:57

Decided to put the stock voltage back on and reduced clock speeds to 775/1115. Played a game of Rush on High preset with AA 4X and Textures in Ultra:

Min Max Avg
68 124 92.302

Averaging 90.30 fps. Next up get that Asus 27 monitor and bump the resolution from 1680x1050 to 1080p

elrasho · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:09

Right wtf is going on here!? Game runs at average 80fps outdoors and 110fps indoors with these now Ultra settings and AF on 16X:

Are DICE secretly optimizing this game without telling us?

linaaslt · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:15

have you restarted the game after you changed settings? otherwise your previous settings will still be used instead of new ones.
if you installed new CAP's that might helped.

elrasho · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:17

linaaslt said:
have you restarted the game after you changed settings? otherwise your previous settings will still be used instead of new ones.
if you installed new CAP's that might helped.

Yep restarted the game and yes again to installing the new CAP.

BaDBoY_uK · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:31

So what is best?

11.9+CAP
11.10+CAP
11.10 without

elrasho · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:35

BaDBoY_uK said:
So what is best?

11.9+CAP
11.10+CAP
11.10 without

Im currently using 11.10+CAP, I think some people who are playing Rage have been told to stay away from the 11.10 due to that texture popping bug

Mr Krugga · 6 Oct 2011 at 22:54

BaDBoY_uK said:
So what is best?

11.9+CAP
11.10+CAP
11.10 without

I'm using 11.10 Preview with no CAP now, used them with 11.8 CAP5 before.

Didn't notice any significant difference.

JamesM · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:21

elrasho, do you know what load each of your GPUs is doing when in game?

Reason I ask is my 6950s currently only have about 55% load with crossfire enabled, yet with it disabled a single 6950 runs at 99% and I haven't got the foggiest why.

wolvers · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:27

Just been playing some Caspian and I'm getting it varying 85-95% usage on both gpus. If they can get it to use 100% then it'll run really well. I've disabled the in game MSAA and that has helped smooth it out, as chief barker suggested.

JamesM · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:29

What drivers are you using wolvers?

wolvers · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:38

11.10 preview, no CAPs.

JamesM · 7 Oct 2011 at 15:59

I think my CPU is limiting me

elrasho · 7 Oct 2011 at 16:24

JamesM said:
I think my CPU is limiting me

What you got?

dave_beast · 7 Oct 2011 at 16:36

11.10 preview on my single card 70 indoors around 62 outdoors, much better optimised driver.

AMD Catalyst 11.10 Preview driver:
· Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series for single GPU configurations
· Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing, and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on CrossFire configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 5000 Series