My experience with BF3 Beta FPS

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Hey guys

Downloaded BF3 Beta today and have played it for about an hour

Its awesome!

However I wasn't expecting my frame rate to be so low!
I was playing it maxed out (inc max AA) at 1080P with my sig rig and noticed outside I was getting roughly 55-80FPS and roughly 75-130 inside which is ok, but after a few rounds I noticed what I think I've read other people refer to as "lag spikes".

This happened most prominently when entering or exiting a building or going up flights of stairs, I can only think that when I enter a new area of the map/level loads of new textures have to be swapped or perhaps saved to my system RAM or HDD causing lag spikes.

The lag spikes are evident when looking at the FPS counter, seeing it quickly drop from 60 to 40ish FPS and then quickly recover.

2GB+ Cards advisable for BF3 I think

Anyone else noticed similar FPS drops?

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Am I missing something here? I'm running an I5-2500K @stock, 8GB DDR3, 6870 1gb @stock and I am running this at 60FPS with everything maxed out on Ultra.

What was with all this nonsense about needing two 580's?

Yet more evidence of people pushing BS around to justify their unecessary purchases.

I'm not "pushing BS" I wish I was getting more FPS and no lag spikes. Your HD6870 must be pretty special if it can match 2 x GTX570's OC'ed.

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

I'm making a video later to show my FPS and setup, I'm sorry but some people are telling porkies.

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Well there seems to be some confusion about the performance so I;ll post a vid, Just can't see how a HD6870 = GTX570 SLI OC'd in BF3 Beta.

I dont think its down to poor drivers/setup as I've monitored the GPU's usage and both are at 90-99% usage all of the time and running the correct clocks.

Maybe My vid will help other people to compare there system and judge roughly what performance they can expect.

@Azuse05 I didn't know that Ultra doesn't work.