BF3 is stuttering/skipping and freezing

[Arkaign]

Friend gave me this drive but looking up the model reveals a 3 year old 4 platter design with a 97mbps average read and 15.4 ms which i just verified...there's my slow loading time right there :awe:

Still love the space but 15.4 ms seek is terrible what kinda seek times are modern 1tb drives hosting?

The WD blue is WD's midrange 1TB, it looks pretty good really :

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_blue_1tb_review_wd10ealx

 

[skipsneeky2]

The WD blue is WD's midrange 1TB, it looks pretty good really :

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_blue_1tb_review_wd10ealx

People still review mechanical hard drives i would have never known...besides the new 3tb drives toms hardware refuses to review anything but ssd :awe:

ssd is the future but nice to know someone somewhere is reviewing these antiques still :biggrin:

Lord have mercy man with my head up my ass about ssd drives i didn't know till now they will release a 4tb drive soon...wow .

 

[Arkaign]

Hahaha yeah, the combination of $/mb, and the fact that they're more than fast enough for my needs leaves me not ready to invest in an SSD of yet. There are cheap ones out there, but they never seem all that well reviewed in comparison to the top-end $300-$1k+ models. And I've heard that their performance degrades over time as well, not sure if that's still as true as it was in earlier gens.

What I want in an SSD :

~500gb capacity, 500mb/sec read/write, will perform at at least 90% of original rated speeds even after being filled 90% full, and used for 5 years with lots of reads/writes, for ~$100.

We're probably still at least 2-3 years off from that, so good HDDs like WD Black will hold me over happily.

 

[zerocool84]

I think my long loading times are due to AMD drivers and not my Raid 0.

Like I said before, when I went from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, my studdering of frames disappeared plus my map load times dropped dramatically. With 4GB of RAM I never saw the timer to wait to play a new round after a new map loads up, now with 8GB I'm always one of the first to load a new map and have to wait for the timer to end in the beginning of a new map.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Like I said before, when I went from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, my studdering of frames disappeared plus my map load times dropped dramatically. With 4GB of RAM I never saw the timer to wait to play a new round after a new map loads up, now with 8GB I'm always one of the first to load a new map and have to wait for the timer to end in the beginning of a new map.

Perhaps it's time to get some 2x4gb sticks of ram when I order my 256gb M4.

 

[brokEN2]

Like I said before, when I went from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, my studdering of frames disappeared plus my map load times dropped dramatically. With 4GB of RAM I never saw the timer to wait to play a new round after a new map loads up, now with 8GB I'm always one of the first to load a new map and have to wait for the timer to end in the beginning of a new map.

Yea im upgrading my PC soon so Im gonna get 8gb of ddr3 at that time but it really seems as the problem in AA as when I turn it off nothing happens(no stuttering/freezing) so maybe that is a problem with the game or not well optimized drivers?

 

[Arkaign]

Yea im upgrading my PC soon so Im gonna get 8gb of ddr3 at that time but it really seems as the problem in AA as when I turn it off nothing happens(no stuttering/freezing) so maybe that is a problem with the game or not well optimized drivers?

AA might cause it to hit the 1GB VRAM limit from time to time, depending on various other settings.

 

[paperfist]

Runs great on my rig which is old, Intel C2D E8500, 4GB RAM and ATi 4800 1GB all on a fresh install of Win7.

Funny thing is when I first got BF3 I was ready to pound my monitor, it shook, shuddered, crashed and ran like a slide show. The problem? The PSU was shot and after replacing that the game plays like a dream. I was all ready to upgrade to an 8-core AMD, 16GB RAM and a ATi 6870, but now I don't have to!

 

[Arkaign]

Runs great on my rig which is old, Intel C2D E8500, 4GB RAM and ATi 4800 1GB all on a fresh install of Win7.

Funny thing is when I first got BF3 I was ready to pound my monitor, it shook, shuddered, crashed and ran like a slide show. The problem? The PSU was shot and after replacing that the game plays like a dream. I was all ready to upgrade to an 8-core AMD, 16GB RAM and a ATi 6870, but now I don't have to!

Hahaha what? That would be a strange and unbalanced setup. Better 2500k/2600k, 8GB Ram, and GTX570/2GB 6950.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Ram is ridiculously cheap these days...

I just upgraded to 8GB from 4 for 45 bucks (same ram I originally had timings/voltage/brand just bigger). I figured it was time since even my laptop has more ram than my gaming rig at home. My laptop with 8gb feels much more snappy than my desktop so perhaps this will be the difference maker.

I just really hope that my OC on my cpu remains stable after the new sticks go in.