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hyperthreading and bf3???

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im getting bad stuttering on bf3 and ive been reading its down to the hyperthreading on the 2600k.

is it safe to disable it?

will it effect my overclock?

cheers...
 
There should be a setting in your bios under CPU settings.

found it and disabled it cheers.

What's your full system spec? It could be your graphics card holding you back?

i7 [email protected] 8gb ram and gtx 580 SLI.

Interesting, I'm guessing it's because it's spreading everything to 8 threads, so 2 threads needs to share resources, where as 4 threads would be more beneficial as each thread can have a dedicated core working on it. Maybe they should have a patch to fix this?

needs a patch defo.

ive disabled it and its better but its still slightly there but much more smooth...
 
There are no problems with hyper threading and BF3.

I have a 2600k, with hyper threading enabled and Bf3 runs flawlessley.

you must be lucky with your chip then because theres loads of people out there with stuttering problems..

most seem to think its down to the hyperthreading now ive just disabled it and it has made a difference but its still slightly there.

i dont know what else it could be any ideas?

what gpu do you have mate?
 
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Well I dont know what to say.
If there was any problem with them it would be worse with a slower card like mine.

I've said in a different thread, I must be the odd one out as I've had no problems with BF3 what so ever.

probably mate.

dont get me wrong its not unplayable its just a tad annoying but its much better now still there tho.

hopefully there will be a patch out soon for it...
 
BF3 Operation Metro VRAM usage:
1st base - 1.5GB
2nd base - 1.6GB
3rd base - 1.6-1.7GB
4th base up to 2GB

1920x1080 all maximum settings, Ultra (not in beta)

So you're actually at the minimum with regards to Vram for certain parts of the game. as SLI doesnt mean x 2 memory.

what so with sli ive still only got 1.5gb of vram not 3???
 
cool i never knew that..

dont matter to me i never drop below 70fps in every map now so im well happy...

but good to know that, still kinda new to all this...
 
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it hasn't completely got rid of it for me i still slightly get it..

there's loads of peeps with this problem on the official bf3 forums through the battle log...
 
i wish they would hurry up and bring a patch or new drivers as this is doing my nut in..

ive got HT off and im still getting stuttering tried every fix im aware of now and its still doing it...
 
It was the first thing i tried... Fresh installed the new betas. then rebooted with hyper threading back on and jumped in a game and the stutter was there very noticeably. Rebooted with hyper threading back off and jumped in a game and smooth as butter. So it seems that the new beta nvidia drivers didn't do anything for the hyper threading issue. Or at least my i7 930 @ 4.0...... As for the drivers tho. They seem to work really well with my 280gtx sli tho... better performance and no more shadow bugs :)

yep there working well with HT off for me its now smooth with the new beta drivers..not tried with HT back on yet...
 
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