Problems running BF3

schecterguy · 10 Jan 2013 at 12:56

I bought Battlefield 3 yesterday but it seems to run like toilet and I can't figure out why. I had a look at my specs and the specs needed to run it and I'm inbetween the minimum and recommended specs.

Minimum requirements for Battlefield 3
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
RAM: 2GB
Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
Graphics card memory: 512 MB

Now what I'm running is:

Windows 7 64 bit
AMD Athlon II X4 3.0Ghz Quad
Nvdia GTX 550 TI 1Ghz
4Gb RAM
M3N-HT DELUXE Mobo

I read around and the common denominator seems to be CPU as it is a very intensive game, but surely my CPU destroys at least the minimum?

In contrast I can run games like Metro 2033, Gotham City Imposters and Super Monday Night Combat at high/max settings no problems.

This is bugging me because I dropped £45 on it and I don't particularly want to feel like I just wasted that.

Any help would be appreciated!

MORE SPEED · 10 Jan 2013 at 12:58

What resolution and settings are you trying to run it at?

zakblood · 10 Jan 2013 at 12:59

for me both needed upgrading

lower the settings and res for a start, what size screen etc?

Rofflay · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:01

Find out which component by playing for 20 mins while running afterburner and ctrl alt del performance manager open.

If your GPU sits at 90% usage u know its probably that and vice versa with cpu load.

schecterguy · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:06

MORE SPEED said:
What resolution and settings are you trying to run it at?

Lowest settings, with FOV on 60 at 1366x768res. I was trying to run at 1920x1080 (Which is what I run all my other games at) and obviously it just wasn't working.

JonSmith · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:15

How much VRAM on that 550ti btw? I remember it running "ok" on the lowest with a PII x4 955 at 3.7 and a HD4850 with 512MB VRAM @ 1280x1024.

honosuseri · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:17

The athlon isn't a great gaming CPU and the 550Ti isn't great either to be honest. Definately try overclocking the GPU with MSI afterburner, if you haven't done this already.

BF3 is a fickle mistress. THIS might be an interesting read for you

schecterguy · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:23

JonSmith said:
How much VRAM on that 550ti btw? I remember it running "ok" on the lowest with a PII x4 955 at 3.7 and a HD4850 with 512MB VRAM @ 1280x1024.

1024mb I believe.

kristmace · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:39

schecterguy said:
Lowest settings, with FOV on 60 at 1366x768res. I was trying to run at 1920x1080 (Which is what I run all my other games at) and obviously it just wasn't working.

It should be running better than that. My brother runs bf3 on a [email protected] and a 460SE. He plays it comfortably on High settings at 1440x900.

MORE SPEED · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:44

Quick scout around on youtube came up with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3-vmHiR0JQ

Are all of your motherboard and graphics card drivers up to date?

schecterguy · 10 Jan 2013 at 15:55

MORE SPEED said:
Quick scout around on youtube came up with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3-vmHiR0JQ

Are all of your motherboard and graphics card drivers up to date?

Graphics drivers were updated before I ran BF3, and downloading chipset drivers currently.

xpygmy · 10 Jan 2013 at 18:55

Are you on a 64 player server, if so that could be it, try something like a 24 player server also some maps like the ones in the new aftermath dlc seem to be quite demanding compared to the vanilla maps.