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Big Fudge

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Battlefield 4 usually runs at about 50-60 fps on multiplayer with 64 players. It often dips to 30 and below and it is very frustrating. It seems to do this no matter what settings I put on it. I also downloaded the amd 14.1 beta drivers and now I can get about 70 fps but it dips to about 17 fps. The dips with 14.1 are frequent enough to make it unplayable. I have also tried overclocking the cpu and gpu to no success. This is my new and improved system and I am also playing in 1920x1080 for the first time. Is this normal performance or should I be expecting better?

My system
-amd fx-8350
-amd r9 280x
-sandisk ssd
8gb 1600mhz ram
 
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woltej1
go into control panel>uninstall a program>get rid of anything with amd or ATI in the name. restart and go to amd's website and get the latest drivers.

You will still get a display from the card, but it will be very pixelated and large until you get the driver.
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woltej1

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This is very frequent when people update drivers with this game, i can't even count how many posts start with "I updated my drivers and now BF4 runs like crap". Reinstalling BF4 can help, along with a driver reinstall, whichever one you want to try first is up to you.
 
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Big Fudge

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It has had this problem from the minute I have played on this pc. Using none beta drivers it still does this. Maybe I'm installing them wrong.
 
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I noticed something similar with my 7770s on the Star Swarm demo (don't have or play Battlefield, but needed to see if Mantle had any effect). Running the 14.1 drivers with Mantle yielded a slightly higher frame rate than in DirectX mode, but the frame rate was more consistent in DirectX mode.

I'm not sure if it is just because they are beta drivers, and the drivers are still better tuned for DirectX, or if something else is wrong.

The rest of my computer's specs are in my signature below.

Casey
 
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cklaubur

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Was that meant for me, or the OP?

If it was for me, yes I did remove the old drivers, then removed the new drivers and reinstalled them since the first time I installed them the computer would bluescreen after login.

Casey
 
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Big Fudge

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No I don't think I did. I never have done that before. Please excuse my noobieness and explain how that is done. Also, wouldn't uninstalling the display driver make it so I couldn't see anything since the fx 8350 doesn't have integrated video.
 
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go into control panel>uninstall a program>get rid of anything with amd or ATI in the name. restart and go to amd's website and get the latest drivers.

You will still get a display from the card, but it will be very pixelated and large until you get the driver.
 
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Big Fudge

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Wow that actually worked. I now have 60ish fps on ultra. It still dips, but only to about 45 fps. Thanks for the help woltej1!
 
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