What should I upgrade for BF4 etc...

[Jeramba]

Been playing BF4 in the last week. It's ok but slow and crashes a lot. What would be the best upgrades I could make ?.

I'm considering memory as the first and cheapest option ?

Thanks

J

 

[Jeramba]

I try and run it on med at 1920x1080 with AA off or lowest. It runs faster on low detail but flickers/ slow draw a lot and looks a mess.

Not tried lowering the res yet though....

My settings in Afterburner are...

Core voltage 1075 (bumped it up since getting a few crashes with other games as well)
Core Clock 860
Shader Clock 1720
Memory Clock 2048
Fan Speed (auto/max 40)


J

 

[Jeramba]

A new GPU would be a good move, something like an R9 280X would be ideal. (If you want to stick with nvidia then I wouldn't advise getting anything with less that 3Gb of Vram)

What OS are you using? Upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8 / 8.1 also give a good performance upgrade for systems that can make use of direct x 11.1

Win 7 64 bit.....

It seems I would prob need to spend about £200-£250 on a new GPU ?

I've heard AMD/Radeon is superior to Nvidia at least for BF4 ?

 

[Jeramba]

I seem to get Firefox crashes at the same time as well. I've set BF4 to 'high priority' which gave a noticable speed boost. Surely an I5 can cope with other programs at the same time.

I haven't monitored my CPU for temps. I wonder if I might need better cooling or something ?

I also haven't played it in single player yet, so I'll see if that's the same...

 

[Jeramba]

A core i5, 8gb ram and a 580. I think if he just used high settings instead of ultra (which he is obviously using for it to be "slow") he would be fine.

It's slow on high so I reduced it to med (which could be better). Maps Dawn breaker and Shanghai cause the most problems.....

 

[Jeramba]

Interestingly I'm about 3/4 through single player on Hard and only had a couple of crashes so far. Multiplayer seems so unstable

Thanks

J