Battlefield 4 - Performance FIXES Thread (Good or Bad)

[Neil79]

I can confirm Windows 8 is not stuttering like Windows 7 for BF4 beta

I installed Win7 2 days ago.. and Win8 yesterday with the sole purpose of playing the battlefield 4 beta.. Windows 7 was awful.. Windows 8 plays nice and smooth like BF3.

I'm going to do a Windows 8 install tomorrow for the lol's

 

[~>Dg<~]

lol you fell for the microshaft speil no fps difference whatsoever from 7

i know i have both on

 

[Neil79]

lol you fell for the microshaft speil no fps difference whatsoever from 7

i know i have both on

So you're a BiOSexual, anyway no harm in trying

 

[Jono8]

No it's the system ram I am talking about, not vram. Plus I have only single 7950

ah my mistake, sorry

 

[Chrisbes]

Any chance of the OP being edited to keep tabs on the tips and fixes?

High CPU usage + Low GPU Usage - Increase supersampling

"Raw input" seems to add input lag

Windows 8 appears to offer better performance than Windows 7

Nvidia BETA Drivers made quite a difference for me (and a few other people) - Not sure about AMD drivers; Can anybody confirm or deny a difference?

 

[mp260767]

Not sure about AMD drivers; Can anybody confirm or deny a difference?

yup, for me windows 7 + 13.10 betas have helped improve things.

also, had problems trying to get the game to load was just stuck on loading screen, in the other thread DG mentioned PunkBuster update, did that and it sorted it, so any games issues might be worth running a pb check.

 

[Kurisu Makise]

updating punkbuster for bf4 fixed all my problems

6850 latest beta drivers

 

[Diggzi]

i5 4670K @4.4
Win 7 64 bit
GTX 780 WF3X
8GB RAM

LOW settings

Averaging frames of 60-70 (although It doesn't look like it). Maybe it's because i'm used to 150+. It drops to 30-40 fairly regularly depending on how much is going on around me. It also occasionally drops to sub 10 :O (some form of throttling?)

Noticed my CPU seems to be constantly maxed out while playing.

 

[Jackaby]

Running on the auto Ultra with some High thrown in, motion blur off + vysnc on. Haven't noticed a single drop below 60 FPS yet which I'm very happy with...might try some custom settings later but for now I'll stick with auto

Specs:

I7 2600k @4.6Ghz
8GB Corsair Dominator 1600Mhz
GTX 690
Windows 8

 

[realscot]

2500K @ 4.4ghz
8GB Ram
680 GTX EVGA - Tried the beta ones but were bad on 320.49 and much better
Win 7 x64

It was real bad yesterday with the beta drivers but upon switching it's playable now. Currently playing with preset option of High.

Getting between 40-60 on high with drops sometimes into the 20's and loads of stuttering at times. It'll be fine one second stutter and drop to 20 then instantly go back to 60 and other times stutter for anything up to 5-10 seconds.

Similar spec :
2600k @ 4.8
16gb ram
EVGA 680 - drivers before new beta (dont remember number)
Win 8 64

Perfectly smooth gameplay on ultra pretty much maxed out, getting 60+ fps. No slowdowns or tearing etc. Didn't even realise there was an issue till finding this thread.

 

[VincentHanna]

It would be funny if Battlefield 4 led to an upsurge in Windows 8 sales.

 

[~>Dg<~]

bf4/EA have done well out of the game already ! microshaft would have gave them millions to hype win8 sales / AMD have gave them 5-8 million not bad

 

[kinger8938]

Only had a quick try last night

2x 2gb 6950's
i52500K
8gb ram

I first tried it on whatever drivers i had (maybe 2 months old) and my frames werent great, not like unplayable, but certainly noticable

So i installed the latest amd beta drivers and it runs loads better

At 1080p and whatever settings it chose for me it was a mixture of high and ultra and i had fov at 90 and it wasnt bad at all

I will check actual fps and settings tonight

 

[setter]

CPU: i7 4770k @4.5ghz
GPU: gtx 670 wf x3 sli @stock
RAM: 8gb samsung green @2133mhz, 9-10-10-21 1T cmd rate
OS: win 7 64 hp
Drivers: 331.40 beta's

Running very nicely, averaging 70fps on ultra x4 msaa @1920x1200.
Cpu use of 65% max, 65c on cpu. Gpu's at 71 and 55c.

The only issues ive had were getting stuck on the loading screen and loss of audio briefly. Updating punkbuster solved theese. And off course the usual server disconnects, but being a dice game theese are pretty common.

 

[StonedPenguin]

You have any issues with SLI Setter? If I try with it enabled it plays like a dog @ 10-20 fps, Disabling SLI gives really smooth gameplay with 60-100 fps.

 

[BigChief]

Please can we have a standard in here when posting your details and the associated performance.

CPU:
GPU:
RAM:
OS:
Drivers:

Thank you x

 

[~>Dg<~]

just go to the proper thread in the graphics card section.

this is a couple of pgs there is a lot of info in there all this is is just reporting stuff.

link here

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18545528

hehe just noticed you posted in that thread

 

[setter]

You have any issues with SLI Setter? If I try with it enabled it plays like a dog @ 10-20 fps, Disabling SLI gives really smooth gameplay with 60-100 fps.

None at all mate, both cards running very well. Using the latest beta drivers.

 

[BigChief]

just go to the proper thread in the graphics card section.

this is a couple of pgs there is a lot of info in there all this is is just reporting stuff.

link here

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18545528

hehe just noticed you posted in that thread

That other thread just seems to have people intent on arguing about semantics and you said this and I said that styled bickering.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

he has close to my spec, seems a logical choice to try them out!

I was an improvement.

My guess is the CPU - game doesn't seem to like it when you have less than 8 execution units whether real cores or HT - atleast on my laptop the game goes from fairly smooth with HT on to a stuttery mess with it off.

I'm a little confused by this? Most people with i5 processors will be running with 4 units?