Low GPU usage on BF3 caspin border ??

[Mr. May]

Hi I know there is a battlefeild 3 but trying to post in there and get heard is like trying to sign a lula bye in a rave... so heres my question...

Today i find out caspin border is open to play so iam straight on it and my relise my FPS are low compared to metro..

On Metro outside i get about 60-80 fps on my rig in sig and 98-99% gpu usage across all the three (these are all on high settings with textures on ultra)

But when i load up caspin border iam gettin around the 30-45 fps which feels horrible and choppy, so i drop the gfx settings to low and wait for the match to re start and still the same frame rate ?

So i look at my afterburner read out and see that iam only getting 35-47% usage on my gpus ????


Has anyone else experianced this or know of a solution to my problem ?

 

[Mr. May]

hmmm iam going to try rooling the drivers back if not ill try 2 way sli

i just find it kinda of strange one map works fine ni on 100% usgae and caspin is less the 50%

 

[Mr. May]

okay i've now rolled back the drivers but i have no HUD or menus ??

 

[Mr. May]

Ywe it now working on the old drivers gettin 70 fps at 2560x1440 but a couple of graphical issues like the back ground some times flashes but running a lot smoother now

 

[Mr. May]

Monitor your cpu usage as well, it wouldn't surprise me if you are cpu limited on some maps running tri-sli

I would off thought that at 1st but my cpu holds up great and got 100% scaling in metro so was just wondering if it was a issue with just the map ..

I think some people forget for powerful the i7 920's are @4ghz lol

 

[Mr. May]

The background flashing happens on all gpu's, ati or nv, just an issue in the game.

Thats good to know iam just goinng to leave it on the old drivers