BF3! System seems so slow almost unusable after closing or minimizing Battlefield 3.

BrianB · 28 Jul 2012 at 03:52

Hi all,

System really halts after playing BF3. It takes ages to minimize. After game it will close then start running like a pentium 2 with 256mb ram. I can't work out what it is but I'm suspecting either chrome or my hard drive as the culprit. When I can finally open task manager, it says 1.9GB being used, and no CPU being used but still system is almost at a standstill.

Game itself runs quite well, rarely ever have a problem, get the occasional FPS spike where its almost like the game has frozen for a second.

Anyone else that this problem?

Q6600 @3.2, 4GB Ram, 1TB F3, 7970 VTX, BeQuiet 600W PSU W7 64Bit.

BrianB · 28 Jul 2012 at 04:33

Well, nothing wrong with my hard drives. Tested them using Seatools for Windows. Maybe I need to tweak chrome or something else wrong? Frustrating when it happens lol.

BrianB · 28 Jul 2012 at 10:30

I'm also thinking it's not enough ram at 4GB for this game. It's 3GB 7970. Maybe I'll replace my 4Gb pair with an 8Gb pair

but I don't think my board can take 8Gb of DDR3...it takes 8Gb of DDR2 (meaning 4x2) and 4Gb of DDR3 but maybe they just wrote that when they released this board and nobody had 4gb sticks of ram, can't see why it wouldn't work.

DDR3:
2 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 4 GB of system memory
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory modules
DDR2:
4 x 1.8V DDR2 DIMM sockets supporting up to 8 GB of system memory(Note 1)
Dual channel memory architecture
Support for DDR2 1200 (O.C.)/1066/800/667 MHz memory modules

Anyway I'll check it when I'm running game next, thanks for the replies.

Isn't bothering me at the moment, game is like, never closed!

BrianB · 29 Jul 2012 at 02:27

My board can do what it wants to lol. It has 2 channels for DDR3 and 4 for DDR2. Just says that it cannot run 8Gb but I will try it anyway. Should work fine! I believe ram is my problem now because sometimes 3.56Gb of memory in use I'm assuming it can max it out too depending on what map I'm on.

Which 8Gb kit is best? I don't need novelty ram, just good solid stable reliable etc, no fancy heatsinks because I know they don't do anything but block my D14. Any point to this ram? http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-SA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517 steeper price but uses better 30nm components?