Poor BF3 Performance Help

Faztastic · 14 Dec 2011 at 19:01

Okay bf3 came out a while ago, i installed played all on ultra it was fine!

Got fed up with the rubbish maps so uninstalled.

Back to Karkand came out i wanted to feel if it has the bf2 nostalgia, reinstalled today.

Installed amd cat 11:12 with latest caps, i go into game try wake island and im getting really bad stutter/lag/pauses when im playing on auto detect graphics setting.

So i think ahh okay maybe VRAM so i turn down the resolution from 1920 too 1680.

Still same problem, then i think what the hell i used to be able to play on this fine.... at settings higher than this.

So then i drop everything down to medium, it is slightly better but im still getting mega freezes now and then especially when flying jet/helicopter... its unplayable.

Try Low and everything works much better. i mean come on has back to karkand really made it that more demanding? my specs are as follows.

i7 2600k @ 4.6ghz
ati 5850 in crossfire
4 gig corsair xms3 ram @ 1600
xfx 750w powersupply
asrock extreme4 z68 motherboard
windows 7 64bit.

Now taskbar only thing running is microsoft security essentials.
lucid virtue which ive disabled
catalyst cc

also this has been installed on a recently reformatted windows.

Any ideas

StonedPenguin · 14 Dec 2011 at 19:03

I think theres a issue regarding performance of the B2K maps. I noticed it strait away, There's a huge difference compared to 64p cq on caspian or any other big map.

Theres quite a few having these issues if you look on the bf3 forums.

Faztastic · 14 Dec 2011 at 19:06

StonedPenguin said:
I think theres a issue regarding performance of the B2K maps. I noticed it strait away, There's a huge difference compared to 64p cq on caspian or any other big map.

Theres quite a few having these issues if you look on the bf3 forums.

Ill check now, i hope it is.

But its really bad this messing about i thought theyd of sorted it all out now. :/

sn0w8 · 15 Dec 2011 at 12:40

yep im getting huge performance problems on the new maps for bf3... such a shame

Faztastic · 15 Dec 2011 at 17:34

i am still playing on low.

No one seems to be having problems with graphics lag?

Just lower frame rates... i have both.

sn0w8 · 15 Dec 2011 at 18:51

I'm getting stuttering with crossfire 6950's even when the frame rate is reporting over 60 fps at times on low in eyefinity.

its frustrating but hey... what can you do? eyefinity rocks and u need crossfire for eyefinity in bf3...

I'm waiting for the 7 series to come out early next year.