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Battlefield 4 and the minimum hardware requirements

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June 12, 2014 9:19:22 AM

I have a intel celeron g1620 (which is approx. 2x more powerful than the minimum required one for BF4 according to CPU benchmark), windows 7, 4 GB of RAM and a EVGA 9800 GT video card.

I looked up online people running Battlefield 4 with a g1620 processor just fine, and there are handfuls of videos of people running BF4 with a 9800 GT on low smoothly (these were all multiplayer videos by the way, not single player)

But when I try to play it it runs awfully. I'm playing on bare minimum graphics settings, changing resolution does absolutely nothing to help my FPS.

My tempatures are nowhere near anything hot, all my hardware is running very cool. I don't have any background programs open other than the required ones such as Origin

Am I doing something wrong here? Battlefield 3 runs and even looks better than BF4 and all my techy friends I talked to said that I should be able to run BF4 on low just fine, and there are others running BF4 with the same hardware as mine that are getting by just fine.



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June 13, 2014 9:58:31 AM

Just some thoughts

To make sure, have you got the latest graphics drivers? Try running the game in the test range and see how it goes. There's a good chance it's ram or cpu related which it should still be playable so that's a bit weird. I know playing with 4gb that it is often almost unplayable as the game likes to use around 5gb+. Open task manager, play for a bit and then check the ram usage and I bet it'll be around 97-100%

The test range takes a lot of load off of the cpu and ram as you're the only one on the small map with limited "levelation". This means that if it runs smoothly that the issue is with your ram or cpu in the busier multiplayer games and it will prove that the 9800gt is running fine. If it doesn't work well then once again check your cpu and ram usage in the task manager, (USE THE TIME GRAPH THING) it should be lower than 100% (I get around 85-90% on 4gb in test range) if it is lower than 95-100% and you still have issues then it would likely mean that the cpu and ram are not related. Maybe a bad hdd or gpu.

EDIT: Is your windows 7 64-bit?
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