The Star Wars: Battlefront Benchmarks Thread

whyscotty · 21 Nov 2015 at 20:48

If it's on Reddit - It must be true

Nexus18 · 21 Nov 2015 at 21:11

The alpha and beta ran superbly for me on my single 290. When first loading a game, there was stutter for a few seconds but after that, not a problem, I think nvidia users also have the same issue, not really an issue tbh anyway IMO. Generally games stutter for the first few seconds when you first load up anyway, at least on my pc and for some games i.e. GTA 5 and batman AK, I also have to alt tab out first to fix micro stutter.

modd1uk · 21 Nov 2015 at 21:16

I was really impressed with how the beta ran, friends on teamspeak played it with AMD cards and had no issues either.

pgi947 · 21 Nov 2015 at 21:34

whyscotty said:
If it's on Reddit - It must be true

Also EA helpdesk is hardly a hub of reliable information

Nexus18 said:
The alpha and beta ran superbly for me on my single 290. When first loading a game, there was stutter for a few seconds but after that, not a problem, I think nvidia users also have the same issue, not really an issue tbh anyway IMO. Generally games stutter for the first few seconds when you first load up anyway, at least on my pc and for some games i.e. GTA 5 and batman AK, I also have to alt tab out first to fix micro stutter.

Beta ran fine for me on Nvidia, no start up stutters, but if you're getting it on loads of games I'd be looking for the problem elsewhere, don't have your games on a mechanical HDD by chance do you?

Nexus18 · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:02

Those games are on SSD and the only games where I notice the startup stutter are on batman, BF 4 and the battlefront alpha/beta, maybe it could be down to my SSD being limited to SATA 2 speeds....

pgi947 · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:06

Not sure but you should certainly look into it a bit further, doesn't sound normal IMO anyhow

Rroff · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:08

Nexus18 said:
The alpha and beta ran superbly for me on my single 290. When first loading a game, there was stutter for a few seconds but after that, not a problem, I think nvidia users also have the same issue, not really an issue tbh anyway IMO. Generally games stutter for the first few seconds when you first load up anyway, at least on my pc and for some games i.e. GTA 5 and batman AK, I also have to alt tab out first to fix micro stutter.

0 loading stutter for me - straight in smooth as smooth.

Seems to be something related to the retail game as most people I've seen mention it also said it ran flawlessly in beta.

Nexus18 · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:43

pgi947 said:
Not sure but you should certainly look into it a bit further, doesn't sound normal IMO anyhow

yeah tbh I have a few annoying issues with my PC currently anyway, will hopefully be on a new system with a fresh install of windows this time next week....

Rroff said:
0 loading stutter for me - straight in smooth as smooth.

Seems to be something related to the retail game as most people I've seen mention it also said it ran flawlessly in beta.

Have you tried with gsync off? Maybe it could be covering up any stutter?

Well, assuming that it is indeed affecting most AMD users in the retail version, I'm sure it will be addressed quickly enough...

pgi947 · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:48

Even with GSync/Freesync on you'd notice a low frame stutter or bad microstutter, granted it will do what it can to smooth it out but you'd still notice it. Like Batman AK when released and I was on SLI 780's, stuttered and crawled its way through even with Gsync on.

What chipset are you moving to? Had some usage out of that 1156 setup

shankly1985 · 21 Nov 2015 at 22:58

Apart from the caching at the start of a map.. The game runs super smooth for me.. Very impressed how good looking this game is and performance 1440p ultra i7 3770k single 290 I stay above 60fps most of the time. Its normally around 70/80fps

Lokken86 · 21 Nov 2015 at 23:03

O.K so I still get the dumb sky flickering on hoth but not on every match but once or twice. And on one of the levels I was getting proper artifacts like the ones you get when you overclock too much but my card is running at stock:/ . Could this be a driver issue like the sky thing or my unlocked shaders. I also uninstalled sappire trix and it hasn't occurred yet. Ran fur mark for ages too and there was no artifacts.

Nexus18 · 21 Nov 2015 at 23:05

pgi947 said:
Even with GSync/Freesync on you'd notice a low frame stutter or bad microstutter, granted it will do what it can to smooth it out but you'd still notice it. Like Batman AK when released and I was on SLI 780's, stuttered and crawled its way through even with Gsync on.

What chipset are you moving to? Had some usage out of that 1156 setup

Not sure yet, depends entirely on what deals there are next week... My options are going to either be i7 DC or SL or x99, I don't really want to spend much more than £500 at the very most for CPU + MB + 16GB RAM though so unless gibbo can get some epic deals set up... it will most likely be i7 DC.

And yup, certainly got my moneys worth from it!

Honestly though, even now I still can't really fault it, I only have to reduce a few settings by a notch or 2 in the newest games for them to be playable and that is probably more down to my GPU just lacking the grunt for them.

shankly1985 · 21 Nov 2015 at 23:13

Rendering a quick recording of Battlefront now to show the issue when first load into a map...
I never once had stutter after map load... The stuttering from map caching also is 100% not only an AMD issue, I first got told about it when a friend on Teamspeak asked us do you get some stutter on map load and little after he running a 980. Am surprised just how well it runs on my system.
Using Action to record performance impact is around 10fps

Still Processing - Has you can see right at the start notice the stutter when I turn. After that smooth fm

JediFragger · 22 Nov 2015 at 00:52

Never had any stuttering Shanks, SLi Ti's (as you can see)

shankly1985 · 22 Nov 2015 at 01:30

JediFragger said:
Never had any stuttering Shanks, SLi Ti's (as you can see)

Guess not everyone is effected, out the guys I play with only two of us get it me AMD and he Nvidia 980 rest of the guys say they dont get it.

Its some sort of caching like loading map into RAM or Vram.. A couple games do this couple at top my head Bioshock infinite and both Resident Evil Rev when going into new chapters.

Anyways its not game breaking at all tbh it happens for a couple seconds loading level and very smooth afterwards.

JediFragger · 22 Nov 2015 at 01:32

shankly1985 said:
Guess not everyone is effected, out the guys I play with only two of us get it me AMD and he Nvidia 980 rest of the guys say they dont get it.

Its some sort of caching like loading map into RAM or Vram.. A couple games do this couple at top my head Bioshock infinite and both Resident Evil Rev when going into new chapters.

Anyways its not game breaking at all tbh it happens for a couple seconds loading level and very smooth afterwards.

Could possibly be affecting a particular platform. No doubt they'll fix it quick

shankly1985 · 22 Nov 2015 at 01:38

JediFragger said:
Could possibly be affecting a particular platform. No doubt they'll fix it quick

I not sure if its fixable it was there in the Beta.. I think its a method they using.. Not sure if you own the game but just take note how high res the textures are my max Vram usage is 3.3GB

Now I have a feeling upon map load the game is loading all textures into RAM or Vram.

Just look at these
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127089745@N02/with/22822772029/

Edit
Maybe reason you don't get is because 6GB Vram?

humbug · 22 Nov 2015 at 01:45

shankly1985 said:
Rendering a quick recording of Battlefront now to show the issue when first load into a map...
I never once had stutter after map load... The stuttering from map caching also is 100% not only an AMD issue, I first got told about it when a friend on Teamspeak asked us do you get some stutter on map load and little after he running a 980. Am surprised just how well it runs on my system.
Using Action to record performance impact is around 10fps

Still Processing - Has you can see right at the start notice the stutter when I turn. After that smooth fm

looks good Shanks

JediFragger · 22 Nov 2015 at 02:41

shankly1985 said:
I not sure if its fixable it was there in the Beta.. I think its a method they using.. Not sure if you own the game but just take note how high res the textures are my max Vram usage is 3.3GB

Now I have a feeling upon map load the game is loading all textures into RAM or Vram.

Just look at these
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127089745@N02/with/22822772029/

Edit
Maybe reason you don't get is because 6GB Vram?

I do own the game, and yes maybe the vRam increase may mitigate . I'll give it a good go tomorrow

setter · 22 Nov 2015 at 02:46

Game looks amazing and i see a single 980ti runs it with ease at 1440p. Still not sure wether to buy the premium version or a new 500gb ssd. It's one or the other.