FX-6300 Terrible FPS?

thomasd221

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Hello there! I have asked this question several times but to no avail. I have an AMD FX-6300 overclocked to 4.2GHz. When I'm playing Battlefield 4, I get FPS drops into the low 30's/high 20's - This is unacceptable and I want to know why it's doing this.

The task manager only reports a maximum of around 60% CPU usage when playing on a full 64 player server, why isn't it using more?

I don't think I'm being held back by my graphics, I have a £300 AMD Radeon R9 290.

I am running the AMD 13.30 drivers, please don't tell me to install "Mantle" with the 14.1 drivers as I already tried that and it resulted in system lockups and loading screen freezing.

System Specs:

AMD FX-6300 @4.2GHz
8GB Kingston HyperX Blu 1600MHz
Powercolor AMD Radeon R9 290
Corsair CX750M
Antec GX700
Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit
2x 500GB Western Digital SATA hard drives.

Battlefield 4 is installed the 64bit folder. Graphics settings are at the Ultra preset - which I thought my relatively powerful PC should be able to handle.

Any Ideas?

Thomas :)

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thomasd221

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I ran Open Hardware Monitor on a 64 player Paracel Storm server.

I got the following results:

CPU

Core1=93.8%
Core2=90.6%
Core3=100%
Core4=93.8%
Core5=93.8%
Core6=89.1%

GPU

GPU Core = 100%

This is bad as it indicates my GPU is maxing out - But it's a high end gaming card - Why is this happening?

Thanks,
Thomas :)
 

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I'm playing at 1920x1080. I am also playing at 100% resolution scale.

I thought my R9 290 would be able to handle Battlefield 4 on Ultra?

Thanks,
Thomas :)

 

thomasd221

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My CPU usage is 90% average, while my GPU maxes out (100%)

Shouldn't this be the other way round if I was having a bottleneck?

Thomas :)