Can my specs run BF4 and what would prob be the average settings to make it run smoothly?

I have an AMD A10 4600M APU with radeon HD 7660G and in the beta I could play it but ran into alot of lag/FPS issues. This has turned out to be a CPU bottleneck and bad DirectX optimizations for the beta. Hopefully it will be sorted out for the final release. I couldn't get a full test in due to this, but in the brief instances where I got playable framerates I tested my settings, high was playable but only just, medium was playable , and the same set up I had in BF3 (textures High,everything else low or off) gave me very playable frames. Your CPU is probably better than mine even though mine is clocked at 2.3Ghz and with turbo going 2.7 GHz (it's a quad core but an APU) and my GPU is only 512mb with up to 3Gb of shared memory. you could probably run it on med-high, though the reason I run the settings I do is to get all extra frames I can get for multiplayer while still trying for a goodlooking game. Make sure to update your drivers.

How can you run the game that well??? I have the same exact computer as it seems from your description, or at least the same same exact of what you listed, and in the beta I was only getting about 20 FPS on LOW settings! However on BF3 custom settings of high textures and medium/low shadows and whatnot I rarely dip below 30 FPS. What's going on?

It's the beta. It is not optimized yet at all. Don't sweat it too much as people with High-end PCs are getting similar performance issues. Whatever your video card is get the newest beta drivers for it. Mine is AMD ( http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-10WINBetaDriver.aspx ). Some people report better performance, others say it didn't help at all. As for the poor performance, it's a beta. That's the excuse everyone gives, and apparently due to whatever rules there are regarding software distribution, we don't even have the latest build from DICE yet. I swear I got an alpha build instead of the actual open beta build. So far I only got one update for it and it didn't fix the performance issues for me.

Sorry it took so long to reply, gmail put the notifications in a "promotions" folder.

Don't worry about reply time for me, I forget to check my email a lot :/ Unfortunately trying to install the new drivers gave me a big PC problem and caused a lot of time, effort, and thoughts of a new PC for me. Could you help with the installation? I thought it would be simple since, well, it usually is, but my computer crashed on my third attempt of doing it

If you're using AMD, you first need to run their uninstall utility ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/catalyst-uninstall-utility ). Now when you run it, it will uninstall ALL AMD drivers, that includes chipset drivers as well. You have to find out your chipset version, my PC is a Toshiba Satellite S875D-S7239, for me my chipset is A70M. You will have to get the tech specs for your computer and it should tell you your chipset. Download the drivers, and set them in a folder on your desktop for easy access. Now run the uninstall utility, restart your computer when prompted to. Go to the folder where you put the drivers. Install your chipset drivers if your computer uses them, I don't know what your PC is since you didn't give any specs, nor could I find the AMD chipset driver download page for a quick link, and restart your computer when prompted to do so. Now again go to that folder and install the latest graphics drivers, restart your computer when prompted to. That should pretty much cover it. The latest patch from DICE for BF4 made the game playable, though I had to run it on all low settings.

I am looking through the AMD forums for the chipset driver download page. The bookmarked address I have takes me to a search page now instead of the download page. And AMDs web page set-up/layout leaves a lot to be desired.

Thanks for the help, but I don't think that I really have the time nor patience to do all of that haha. In the end, it probably won't help the fact that my computer isn't all too great for gaming, and that I need better components to run this game well. As I said before 'I have the AMD A10-4600M APU just like you, and the Radeon HD 7660G video card, again, same as you. For other specs I have 6GB RAM and the HP Pavilion M6-1035dx laptop computer. I run Windows 7, 64 bit OS.

No Problem, though it isn't hard at all and takes next to no time to do. But do as you need to. That means your chipset drivers are the A70M like mine then.By using the AMD drivers instead of Toshibas, I saw a noticeable increase in performance. Crysis 1, for example, went from a stutterfest on medium with Toshibas drivers to very playable on high ( I actually use a hybrid custom mix of very high and medium now though). BF3, Skyrim, Crysis1,2&3, Batman Arkham City, all of them received noticeable performance increases. Though this isn't a gaming laptop at all, more like a laptop with some gaming capabilities, AMD impressed me enough that when I can build a gaming rig, I will go with AMD.The only issue I see for you doing this at the moment is the chipset drivers which I'm awaiting a reply on the AMD forums for confirmation that they are now included with the Graphics drivers installers. Though I have the chipset drivers on my HDD, I don't have a place to upload them.

Wow if you got that much of a performance boost it sounds like it really is worth it. Is it very time consuming, difficult, or dangerous in damaging/screwing up my computer? If you wouldn't mind it, I also don't know which drivers you mean and if I have the correct AMD ones installed, I have the 13.11 beta drivers for my graphics card but I'm not so sure that's what you mean. Any help is appreciated,

No it is not hard to do, it is somewhat time consuming, nor is it dangerous or damaging to your system.

First download the drivers you need.


I looked up your computer and can't for the life of me find what chipset you're using. I will figure being an AMD A10 APU like mine is that you are using the A70M chipset that I use. Unfortunately AMD no longer has the chipset driver download page. Fortunately I have the chipset drivers already and have created a mediafire account so you can download them.

( http://www.mediafire.com/?hzsu5w7w9kho9jq )

This executable has ALL of AMDs mobile chipsets and even some others as well so that base should be covered.

Now go to this page ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/download ) and scroll down till you see this on the right side of the screen. "AMD Mobility Radeon™ Notebook Drivers". Click on Windows 8.1 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 (64-bit) and scroll down to find LATEST BETA DRIVER and download it.

Once you have both of these files place them on your desktop for easy access.

Now follow these instructions ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/GPU57RemoveOldGraphicsDrivers.aspx#Win7 ) to uninstall AMD drivers ( it will uninstall ALL AMD drivers display,chipset,usb 3.0, etc. but don't worry those two files have all you need.). That means if you have a mouse going into the USB port then it won't work. Make sure your on board touchpad is on. Restart your computer.

Now run the chipset driver 13-9_win7_win8_32-64_sb.exe.Select express install when it appears and "Yes" to create folder then let it install to default location.Restart your computer.

!!! VERY IMPORTANT !!!
When you restart your computer here as it begins to fire up (the HP start up screen with F2 Setup etc.) be sure to keep pressing F8 to bring up the Windows 7 Advanced Start-up.
Use the arrow keys to go down to "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" and hit Enter.

You do this because as a beta driver it is not digitally signed for use, so the drivers won't install properly and you want the latest for your games. During the next step a window will pop up asking if you want to install the drivers, Check the box "Always trust drivers from AMD" and select Yes.

Now run the amd_catalyst_13.11_mobility_betav9.2.exe (unless by the time you read this it is a newer version, run that one) Select Express install follow the above instructions concerning the unsigned driver,....and restart your computer. That's it....done.....enjoy a better gaming experience all around.

Now mind you this DOES NOT turn the craptop into a gaming machine!!! It just gets better and smoother performance than the stock vendor drivers get.

Wow, thanks for doing all of that to help me out, I really appreciate it! I already downloaded the lastest AMD 13.11 Beta drivers, are the chipset drivers different and going to improve performance? Also, will the uninstaller remove that as well? Thanks!

You're Welcome. Always glad to help with what I can.
The chipset drivers are different but not by much that I have seen. The guy who helped me on this before said that it does help the performance.
Make sure to follow the instructions for uninstalling through the Start-Control Panel-Programs and Features instead of using the uninstaller though. I just had a Windows Start-up failure where I had to revert to Out-of-Box Factory Settings when I ran the uninstaller for the latest beta drivers. I'm not sure it was that that did it as I never had a problem with it before, but a quick Google search found that it can occasionally cause issues.