- Feb 25, 2014
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I'm playing Battlefield 4 on a self-built PC that, at least in my opinion, should be able to handle it well enough. On medium graphics settings I barely reach 60 FPS. Sometimes the rate drops to 40 or even lower, especially when there's a lot to render on screen (tall buildings, fires, explosions etc). Playing with less than 60 FPS just doesn't seem comfortable to me, and overall the game just feels sluggish.
Here's what I'm running with:
AMD FX-8150
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 OC edition
16 GB of Kingston 1333 RAM
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX motherboard
500 GB standard hard drive
Corsair CX600 80 PLUS Bronze 600 W power supply
During gameplay I've looked at CPU and GPU load and temps with MSI afterburner. The strange thing is that the figures don't go anywhere near full capacity. Looking at individual cores, CPU usage is 50 to 70 %, and CPU temp stays at around 60 C. GPU usage is 50 to 60 %, and GPU temp is around 60 C maximum. RAM usage is at around 6 GB, so there should be plenty to go around.
Here's what I've done so far, based on solutions proposed in similar situations:
- Installed Windows 8.1 64-bit (A few months ago I had reinstalled Windows 7, and now upgraded to 8.1)
- Unparked my CPU cores
- Did a full system scan for viruses (nothing unusual found)
- Installed the latest stable version of AMD Catalyst. I also tried Mantle beta, but it caused terrible CPU spikes, stutter and general crappiness
- Got rid of dust inside the computer case
Battlefield 3 did run better on my computer, although I had to skimp on graphics quality, and the framerates were still occasionally less than great. Could I be dealing with a software issue, since at first glance there doesn't seem to be a hardware bottleneck?
I'd appreciate any help. I'm just bummed out because I spent money on my computer and BF4, but the gameplay experience is rather underwhelming.
Here's what I'm running with:
AMD FX-8150
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 OC edition
16 GB of Kingston 1333 RAM
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX motherboard
500 GB standard hard drive
Corsair CX600 80 PLUS Bronze 600 W power supply
During gameplay I've looked at CPU and GPU load and temps with MSI afterburner. The strange thing is that the figures don't go anywhere near full capacity. Looking at individual cores, CPU usage is 50 to 70 %, and CPU temp stays at around 60 C. GPU usage is 50 to 60 %, and GPU temp is around 60 C maximum. RAM usage is at around 6 GB, so there should be plenty to go around.
Here's what I've done so far, based on solutions proposed in similar situations:
- Installed Windows 8.1 64-bit (A few months ago I had reinstalled Windows 7, and now upgraded to 8.1)
- Unparked my CPU cores
- Did a full system scan for viruses (nothing unusual found)
- Installed the latest stable version of AMD Catalyst. I also tried Mantle beta, but it caused terrible CPU spikes, stutter and general crappiness
- Got rid of dust inside the computer case
Battlefield 3 did run better on my computer, although I had to skimp on graphics quality, and the framerates were still occasionally less than great. Could I be dealing with a software issue, since at first glance there doesn't seem to be a hardware bottleneck?
I'd appreciate any help. I'm just bummed out because I spent money on my computer and BF4, but the gameplay experience is rather underwhelming.
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