Battle Field 4 Fps Dips and dives.

Riley114

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You should be able to get my computer specs from my profile, but encase that is inconvenient il just lay them out.
FX-6300 3.5ghz
GTX 560 EVGA SC
750W Antec PSU
2x4g Gskill 1866 ram
ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0
250g 5400rpm laptop drive
500g 7200rpm Hitachi hdd Both drives i believe are 3g/s
So to my problem, my Fps seems good in game but while playing there a some big hiccups and dives. Il be playing at 80-90 fps on medium settings one moment and the next im down to 12 for 1 second then back tp 80-90. My card is pushed to the max as far as memory 1012/1024, but the usage reports as 70-99%, rarely 99%. My processor is normally pushed to 70% sometimes 80-89. I just dont understand why my fps drops because when it does neither CPU or GPU spike, they stay at their current usage. BF3 played flawlessly on this rig on high settings 40-60 fps.I really love playing this game but it is very annoying because it dives anytime it wants, even when im just sitting on a hill with a sniper looking at a rock. I would love to find a way to fix this issue, if anyone has input i would be very glad to hear it. If you need any more specific information let me know. Thanks
 
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My brother had a very similar issue with his Radeon HD 4870, and we tracked it down to a memory bottleneck. BF4 is a hog and 1GB GDDR5 is truly the minimum if you want playable conditions. Also consider turning off memory costly settles like lighting effects and Anti-Aliasing. He upgraded to a card with 2GB GDDR5 and his FPS went from dips down to 5-10FPS to dips in the ~30FPS range.

Heck my card has 3GB GDDR5 and the monster game STILL gobbles up all my VRAM!
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My brother had a very similar issue with his Radeon HD 4870, and we tracked it down to a memory bottleneck. BF4 is a hog and 1GB GDDR5 is truly the minimum if you want playable conditions. Also consider turning off memory costly settles like lighting effects and Anti-Aliasing. He upgraded to a card with 2GB GDDR5 and his FPS went from dips down to 5-10FPS to dips in the ~30FPS range.

Heck my card has 3GB GDDR5 and the monster game STILL gobbles up all my VRAM!
 
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I just don't see that as being possible because BF4 utilizes all 6 cores of my FX-6300 and never passes 80% usage.
 

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I had a similar issue on my i7 / GTX670 and it was due to core parking. Not sure if the FX-6300 suffers with the same issue. Once I turned of core parking in Win7 all was smooth.

To get a better idea what your experiencing check your system performance in game bring up a Console prompt by pressing the ~ key then......

For On Screen CPU – GPU Performance Graph Type In Console:
perfoverlay.drawgraph 1

1 to enable, Zero (0) to disable, don't forget to press enter.