Post your bf3 "perfgraph" here

hedgey · 29 Oct 2011 at 03:54

I want to get an idea of how cpu bound this game really is. Green(gpu) should be above yellow(cpu). This is mine with e8400 at 3.8ghz and 6950@6970. The graph is in ms/frame, ie time taken to render a frame. Spikes indicate unstable performance.

drop the console down and type Render.Perfoverlayvisible 1

uv · 29 Oct 2011 at 09:01

hedgey said:
This is mine with e8400 at 3.8ghz and 6950@6970.

You're definitely CPU bottlenecked. It's the same engine base as BC2, and in BC2 I ran tests comparing a 4.3 E8500 with a 3.3 Q6600 - the lower clocked quad completely trounced the higher clocked dual. This engine absolutely loves cpu cores!

NeoReloaded · 29 Oct 2011 at 12:19

That looks like BF2 not BF3 are you sure you haven't posted wrong ss op?

Teaf · 29 Oct 2011 at 12:30

E8400, 1GB 5850, 4GB DDR2 all stock.

Scougar · 29 Oct 2011 at 15:06

That graph is horrendous lol. I get the occasional spike but not like that. Generally speaking my GPU line I barely even see, as it's the CPU that is overdrawing it. (GPU line is rather smooth.)