Battlefield 3 official performence/fps thread

[wand3r3r]

GTX 560 TI HAWK (~almost stock GTX 570)

Multiplayer, checked at the end of 3 different maps.

1680x1050 Ultimate settings but MSAA turned off.



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[Remobz]

I don't understand why people wait for each Call of Duty game with such anticipation. It's almost exactly the same multiplayer every time. I've never played a game quite like Battlefield 3 and I'm very happy with it. I was going to get MW3, but I don't see much of a point in spending $60 for essentially the same game again.

Well, I am waiting for the review of MW3 before I make my decision. I will only buy 1 game so why not wait for the reviews and gamer feedbacks before right?

 

[Smartazz]

Well, I am waiting for the review of MW3 before I make my decision. I will only buy 1 game so why not wait for the reviews and gamer feedbacks before right?

Yeah, I absolutely agree that you should wait until its out. I've never been one to preorder, but I did buy BF3 at midnight on release day. As for BF3 vs. MW3, I'm quite confident that the games will be considerably different. BF3 isn't quite like any game I've ever played whereas MW2 and Black Ops were pretty similar to CoD4. I'm thinking MW3 will be similar as well, but we'll see. Keep in mind that this is coming from someone who put a good 250 hours into the CoD series over the past few years. I'm not gonna lie, MW2 and Black Ops are so similar that Black Ops could have just been a mod.

Back to the topic, BF3 doesn't peg more than 75% of my Q6600 despite getting pretty choppy. Any ideas why?

 

[Termie]

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Back to the topic, BF3 doesn't peg more than 75% of my Q6600 despite getting pretty choppy. Any ideas why?

What are your rig specs?

 

[cmdrdredd]

lol I haven't even touched the single player since I bought it on launch day not even multiplayer co-op.

I've been in conquest 32 and 64 player maps only.

Don't waste your time trying to understand him. First he said he was never going to buy it and MW3 will destroy it and COD had the way better engine. Now he is saying BF3 has a good engine blah blah blah he just as bad as a chick on her rag.

I finished the Single player game in BF3 and it wasn't too bad. I found it more interesting than CoD overall, but I do understand it was never ment to be a good SP game. More like they tacked it on to give you something to do offline.

 

[nsdjoe]

Yeah, I absolutely agree that you should wait until its out. I've never been one to preorder, but I did buy BF3 at midnight on release day. As for BF3 vs. MW3, I'm quite confident that the games will be considerably different. BF3 isn't quite like any game I've ever played whereas MW2 and Black Ops were pretty similar to CoD4. I'm thinking MW3 will be similar as well, but we'll see. Keep in mind that this is coming from someone who put a good 250 hours into the CoD series over the past few years. I'm not gonna lie, MW2 and Black Ops are so similar that Black Ops could have just been a mod.

Back to the topic, BF3 doesn't peg more than 75% of my Q6600 despite getting pretty choppy. Any ideas why?

Hmm, not sure. My Q6600 got slaughtered by Caspian Border in the beta - near unplayable at times. I'm pretty sure the CPU was getting pegged.

 

[AtenRa]

What are you using to display FPS and GPU utilization in-game like that?

MSI AfterBurner

 

[DarkForceRising]

MSI AfterBurner

Does Punkbuster still cause the computer to lock up when run in conjunction with hardware monitoring software such as GPU-Z, or MSI Afterburner?

 

[Smartazz]

Does Punkbuster still cause the computer to lock up when run in conjunction with hardware monitoring software such as GPU-Z, or MSI Afterburner?

I use MSI Afterburner and have had no crashing issues.

 

[Termie]

MSI AfterBurner

I have to try that out - I do lots of task switching right now to view the Afterburner graphs.

 

[NTAC]

Back to the topic, BF3 doesn't peg more than 75% of my Q6600 despite getting pretty choppy. Any ideas why?

GPU bottleneck? What do you have and what settings and res you play at?

 

[NTAC]

I don't understand the fascination with MW...

Do people not like vehicles?!

 

[theattrox]

I just ordered a GTX 570 and after reading this thread I'm debating if should return it for a 6950 or 6970. What do you guys recommend?

 

[Makaveli]

I just ordered a GTX 570 and after reading this thread I'm debating if should return it for a 6950 or 6970. What do you guys recommend?

I think you will be fine with the 570 it gives performance similar to the 6970 and 580 in this game with the NV cards having the upper hand with msaa currently.

I would suggest you spend a night playing with the 570 then consider if you want to return it. I think you will be happy with your purchase depending on what you are using now.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I just ordered a GTX 570 and after reading this thread I'm debating if should return it for a 6950 or 6970. What do you guys recommend?

You'll be fine with the 570. I almost bought one, but decided to try my luck at unlocking a 6950 to 5970 and overclocking. Gonna do crossfire anyway.

 

[tweakboy]

I was just playing BF3 single player. All video settings untouched on Auto. which puts it on high.. and took motion blur slider all way down to 0. motion blur slows down stuff. Anyhow @ 1080p 8x CSAA 16x AF high quality, vsync on, triple buffer. ambient occlusion on, AA gamma on, multisample.

Used Fraps , and game was in 50's fps capping at 60's most of the time. This is throughout the first level. Oh and it used about 60 percent CPU power according to speedfan. so no bottleneck. Plus I got a monster OC. thx gg and gl

 

[toyota]

tweakboy, yes we know as you post the same thing over and over and over.

 

[cmdrdredd]

http://gameinfocenter.com/index.php?option=details&game=1299


Recommended system requirements:

OS: Windows 7 64-Bit
Processor: Quad-Core CPU
Memory: 4 GB
Hard Drive: 20 GB
Graphics Card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024 MB RAM (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 or ATI RADEON 6950)
Sound Card: DirectX compatible

Ok...but what are you saying?

 

[zerocool84]

I'd think that if you're hitting close to 1fps, something else must be wrong besides drivers. Maybe texture loading or hitting a memory limit? I'm using 6GB of system memory during MP matches, so I think your 4GB of ram might be an issue. I'd try to run a graph of memory use during the game to see what's happening there.

I haven't seen 1fps, but I've seen some slowdowns. In one round earlier today, I actually saw my CPU top out and my frames plummet - my GPUs weren't anywhere near max, but the 4 cores hit 100% a couple of times (I've since upped the speed by about 150MHz). Again, the recent professional benchmarks on single-player levels are really doing a disservice to people trying to buy hardware for BF3. A strong quad-core is really a necessity for high/ultra levels in multiplayer MP BF3. After investing in a second GPU, I'm now CPU-limited. That and VRAM limited (but I knew about that problem ahead of time).

Thanks, you were right. My 4GB was definitely holding me back. I picked up another 4GB today at Fry's and haven't had any huge sudden drops in fps. Plus new rounds/maps load up infinitely quicker as well. It seems like this games needs more than 4GB to run with everything turned up.

 

[Termie]

Thanks, you were right. My 4GB was definitely holding me back. I picked up another 4GB today at Fry's and haven't had any huge sudden drops in fps. Plus new rounds/maps load up infinitely quicker as well. It seems like this games needs more than 4GB to run with everything turned up.

Awesome. Glad to hear it. This game definitely requires a lot of hardware - luckily you only needed a couple sticks of ram. Will probably pay off in other ways as well.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Awesome. Glad to hear it. This game definitely requires a lot of hardware - luckily you only needed a couple sticks of ram. Will probably pay off in other ways as well.

I dont know if this still applies with the i7s but if I buy 2 more sticks (total to 8gb, 4 sticks) would it kill my overclocking potential?

 

[WMD]

This on Caspian border which I find the most demanding of all the maps

i5 2500K4.7Ghz + HD5850 @ 980Mhz.
All Ultra, no MSAA, post AA medium, 1680x1050:

 

[Termie]

I dont know if this still applies with the i7s but if I buy 2 more sticks (total to 8gb, 4 sticks) would it kill my overclocking potential?

In your case, I'd just go for 2x4GB, because DDR3 is so incredibly cheap. ZeroCool was in a different situation because he was buying DDR2, which is twice as expensive.

I had the same concern when I went to 8GB from 4GB, and for that very reason, I bought 8GB, knowing that in the worst case I'd have 8, in the best case I'd have 12.

I found two things:

(1) Going with all four slots populated required a bump in IMC voltage
(2) Either due to all four slots being populated or due to the mixed sizes, the 12GB setup, while stable originally, flat out did not work when I went crossfire - I basically couldn't even get into Windows. Maybe it was because voltages were thrown off, maybe it had something to do with shared memory allocation, but I wasn't going to find out. I pulled the extra sticks.

So long story short, while I haven't tried to hit 4GHz on my i7-860, I wouldn't count on all your settings working as they do right now at that speed. Just buy 8GB...

 

[nsdjoe]

So I've determined that two 6870's at stock are enough to bottleneck my 2500K @ 4.4GHz on full 64 player maps. My CPU is loaded to 95-100% while each GPU is sitting at only around 75%. At low settings and 1080P this translates to between 90 and 150 fps, but mostly sitting around 100. It seems kind of sad I can't guarantee 120fps with a 2500K, but there you have it.

 

[Termie]

So I've determined that two 6870's at stock are enough to bottleneck my 2500K @ 4.4GHz on full 64 player maps. My CPU is loaded to 95-100% while each GPU is sitting at only around 75%. At low settings and 1080P this translates to between 90 and 150 fps, but mostly sitting around 100. It seems kind of sad I can't guarantee 120fps with a 2500K, but there you have it.

No one but every single professional reviewer out there said that this wouldn't be a CPU-limited game with a modern high-end GPU setup.

Funny how that works out. Guess they helped push a lot of high-end GPU sales.