BF3 FPS drop/freeze issues

[Vdubchaos]

I'm getting some horrible FPS drops/freezes within few sec of joining multiplayer. Basically, regardless what settings I have it set to it averages up high then within 2-5 min of playing the game it drops to 1-3FPS and freezes.

Noticed it does it in Menu/options as well (once it starts).

I did some search and noticed TONS of people having the same issue after that patch.

Kind of feels like the patch might have caused the issue for me as well.

My Computer played everything fine last week. My memory (4gb) went bad so now I am down to 4gb of ram (BUT when I monitored RAM usage in game it was about 70-80% so I don't think it's lack of ram).

I've tried adjusting the settings to Med/High....same thing. Averaging 100FPS + and drops to 5fps for few seconds.

My GPU usage is a graph that goes all the way up and down every few seconds (which is strange).

Anyone else experiencing this? It has made my game completely unplayable at this point.

 

[Capt Caveman]

What graphic drivers are you running?

 

[Vdubchaos]

what graphic drivers are you running?

285.62

NOTE: I've been on this driver since the release and it worked fine (before I reinstalled Windows and Patch).

 

[zerocool84]

I had that same problem but once I upgraded to 8GB RAM from 4, my sudden fps drops totally disappeared.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I had that same problem but once I upgraded to 8GB RAM from 4, my sudden fps drops totally disappeared.

I have a feeling that's it. One of my 4gb mem sticks is bad and game ran fine before.

What's weird though is that Mem Usage doesn't breech 80% when I monitor (with 4gb).

And the fact that my other PC plays just fine with 4gb.

But then again this is EA we are talking about.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Took a screenshot of MSI after a 5 min session. GPU usage starts off fine...then it just plummets... I just updated my Nvidia drivers to with Beta. No change.