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November 18, 2013 10:18:54 AM

Hello TH Community! I've been browsing this place for years now and just now finally posting a problem I have. I feel with my hardware I should be getting much higher performance than what I am getting on Battlefield and other such games. Back in BF3 I couldn't run above 30 frames on Ultra, and now with BF4 even on low-medium I get 80 but it drops to 40 with just looking at the scenery.

I run EVGA Precision and CCP and I was wondering if maybe they conflict? I know they both allow overclocking. I use EVGA for fan control and CCP has overdrive enabled.

Here is a rundown of my specs, and I will post anything else that can help determine the problem, just ask! I really want to get to the bottom of this.

GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
HD6990
I7 930
12 gigs of ram (I can get specifics on this later, but it's ddr2)
Some nice SSD for main games.

I use hwcompare and it shows the 6990 being superior to most other things I compare it to, and yet even bf3 wasn't smooth.

Is there anything I can post or anything I'm overlook to help someone determine such a shoddy performance?

I've got my amd drivers updated each time a new one is dropped, ran the directx exe from windows and that was already uptodate...

Also COD:Ghosts is unplayable, but I'm pretty sure I can't do anything else for that. I followed all the forums and did the normal priority and exact aspect ratio and ran it windowed to disable crossfire and it still runs like COD3 on a phone.

Any help is greatly appreciated! I've been gaming since I was a child and I know I'm overlooking something, or maybe I'm retarded and this hardware can't run Bf3/4 on higher settings, but any help to determine the problem would be awesome, thanks!

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November 18, 2013 10:27:04 AM

2 GB of Ram is not nearly enough. Make sure your chipset drivers are also up to date.

Memory capability for your motherboard found here, I would have at least 6-12GB. http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Memory/mb_memory_g...

Something like this would work well. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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November 18, 2013 11:50:35 AM

I would agree you need more ram... ya in the area of at least 6GB and no more than 12-16GB of RAM I use 8GB in all my builds but my next one will have 16GB and bigger, faster RAID also a faster and better GPU....
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November 18, 2013 1:38:23 PM

I am so sorry Lol, that was a typo, I've got 12 gigs of ram, some DDR2, not sure the speed.
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November 18, 2013 10:24:54 PM

drizzintahl said:
I am so sorry Lol, that was a typo, I've got 12 gigs of ram, some DDR2, not sure the speed.


Battlefield games are known to be more CPU intensive than other FPS. Your cpu could be showing its age. You could try to overclock if your board allows. Also your ram should be all DDR3
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