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

BrianB

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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.
 
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.
 
well while you are in task manager look at resource monitor, see if there is lots hdd activity
also try a diff ati driver :p

tho um these things usually fixed faster with a re-install
 
My ideas

Chrome - has a massive memory leak anyway. get rid of it. or try firefox or even IE to see if it changes

GFX memory running out - 7970 2GB? BF3 can use 1.8GB easily that leaves 20MB for aero/startbar + other windows try reducing in game settings down a little to see if goes (if it works after you know why)

RAM: 4GB Ram as you said you using 2GB with minimizing BF3. so should be ok here.
 
Sounds very symptomatic of lack of memory - the slowdown is likely paged data being moved back in to memory.
Try tabbing out to check usage DURING gameplay rather than after.

As a rule of thumb I'd recommend at least 6GB system RAM for playing BF3 when running 2GB+ graphics cards.
 
I have exactly the same problem (and an almost identical system spec to you). I believe it's simply a lack of RAM - at some point I'll either get another 4GB or build an i5 system, or I might get an SSD as I expect that'll drastically improve things.
 
Up until last year I only had 2GB of RAM and I managed fine, and I largely put that down to having a solid state drive.
 
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!
 
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?
 
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