Cant play BF3 at 60+ FPS

Tyrone Friskie

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Oct 2, 2013
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Hello all. Recently i built a gaming PC earlier this month. I have been playing mostly BF4 but as of the last patch they messed up the performance causing big CPU spikes which lead me to dropping from 60 FPS down to 40-50 quite a bit. So for the time being i decided to go back and play some BF3, now a 2 year old game. When i play 64p matches i will drop down to 50's and 40's similar to BF4 when my hardware is completely capable of easily playing 60 FPS all the time.

My specs are as follows:
i5 4670k
8GB Ram
Asus R9 280x

All are at stock clocks and im currently running the latest beta drivers. I had been running the 13.12 drivers and noticed this, i downgraded to see if that would help it but to no avail. Any tips?