Radeon r9 290 - low fps on BF4? how could this be?

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

Getting fps far below 60 while according to the review I read I should be getting at least 50-60 on ultra.

What could be causing this?

I have a amd phenom x6 processor and 8 gig ram.. windows 7 64b

I'm looking around for possible causes... But if you can point me in the right direction I'd be most grateful!

Novuake · Nov 26, 2013

What resolution are you gaming at?
WHEN is your FPS so low? In single player?
What are your FULL specs? In detail? Power supply aswell. EXACT MODELS.

Are your temps fine? Check them.

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

Thanks for your reply. My temps are ok.. nothing abnormal. Im playing in 1920x multiplayer.. havent tried single player yet.
my psu is a rosewill 600w
im in the middle of a dota game now so i can't post full specs.. but i have a gigabit motherboard that i bought 2 years ago.. should be good.. will find out the exact model when i have time

Novuake · Nov 26, 2013

OK I will wait for full models on everything... And other questions to be answered.

coozie7 · Nov 26, 2013

Some of the point raised in this thread my be of help: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1860960/poor-battlefield-performance-gtx660.html

azzazel_99 · Nov 26, 2013

processor bottlenecking?

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

Im thinkgin it might be a bottleneck issue. I've never encountered this before so I don't know much about it. In the thread you have linked that person solved his problems by moving his game to program files instead of program files x86.. thats very strange to me. I might end up trying that though.

currently i have no idea what causes or solves bottleneck issues

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

motherboard: MB GIGABYTE|GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ R

SSD 120G|OCZ VTX3-25SAT3-120G R

CPU AMD|PH II X6 1100T 3.3G AM3 RT $189.99

ram MEM 4Gx2|GSKILL F3-10666CL9D-8GBRL

and i have a 1 tb drive as well

Jared133 · Nov 26, 2013

kunjabihari :

Is there a way to move the game to program files without uninstalling bf4?

azzazel_99 · Nov 26, 2013

its going to be your cpu bottleneck i think. That processor is slightly old is it not? Bf4 is processor heavy

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

My cpu is running between 60-75 percent and my ram usage is around 65 percent as well.. so it doesn't seem like those are lacking? Anyone have any ideas?

Extasis · Nov 26, 2013

It might be your psu actually. It is recommended to have a 750w psu for the R9 290. (look under System Requirements. http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?pid=2044# )

qbsinfo · Nov 26, 2013

check the clock speed on the 290, it might be throttling if the fan is too low:
Retail Radeon R9 290X Frequency Variance Issues Still Present

coozie7 · Nov 26, 2013

Did you bother reading the thread and its solution at all?
And no, you can't move an installed program, you MUST uninstall and then reinstall it.

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

Ok. So I've ordered a 750w psu and 16g of ram... hoping this might fix it. Next thing I'm going to look into is my hard drive speed.

Also, I have a 125g ssd and a 2tb hd. The 2tb drive has 3g/s speed.. perhaps this is too slow? I have installed bf4 on that drive

perhaps having 2 drives is causing stuttering or issues with ram since maybe the data is coming in at different speeds?

leeb2013 · Nov 26, 2013

Jared133 :

To answer the above questions, it's easy to move BF4 (and other games) if installed under Origin.

The op issue sounds like a bottleneck, but your CPU is not at 100%, how about your GPU?

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

my gpu isn't at 100 percent either..

coozie I read that thread and my bf4 is not installed in program files x86 anyway

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

I am downloading bf4 again so I haven't been able to test with it. However I have similar stuttering in almost every game. It's the same pattern. Like 4-5 seconds fluid 60+ fps then 3-4 seconds 20-25 fps.. then back to 60

So I just changed the cpu core affinity for skyrim from 6 to 4 cores and the priority to low and the stuttering is gone?!

I don't understand what this means but I'm sure somebody here knows?

I will try this with bf4 as soon as I have it downloaded.

kunjabihari · Nov 26, 2013

strange.. the stuttering in skyrim was gone for about 15 minutes and then came back

kunjabihari · Nov 27, 2013

What I have done so far is set the fan speed manually so the gpu doesn't overheat. I def need more wattage and my friend keeps telling me I just need more ram. I doubt that ram is the issue but I'm getting some for good measure. I also noticed my cpu runs hot.. idle at 60c .. so I've ordered a replacement fan and some thermal paste to address that. I ran checks on my hd's and they seem to be ok. That's about all I can think of right now. So I gotta wait for my new hardware to arrive. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.

kibagami · Dec 2, 2013

kunjabihari :

Hi, I'm still trying to figure out a solution on this too. I have the same card and I want to get at least consistent something above 60.

ohaydan · Dec 3, 2013

go into your bios and disable thermal throttling and stuff like that. I had the same problem with my radeon r9 290. and I didn't buy an extra cooler so I manually set the fan to 100% when playing games and battlefield runs flawlessly on ultra for me

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