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R9 270X Stuttering in Battlefield 4

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June 20, 2014 2:08:25 PM

My friend just got an r9 270x graphics card and we installed it in his pc. It will run battlefield 4 fine for a few seconds, then drop to 20 fps, then run it fine for a few more seconds. This happens with the newest stable drivers and the newest beta drivers. His specs are as follows - CPU: Amd A10-6700, GPU: XFX AMD R9 270X, PSU: Thermaltake 600w, Motherboard:o ne of the newer ASUS ones. I was watching him play and this is a really fustrating issue, any help will be much appreciatted.

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June 20, 2014 2:11:28 PM

How much RAM is in the system, I had a similar problem with battlefield 3 when I had 4GB of ram, I upgraded to 8GB of ram and it fixed it. Then battlefield 4 came out, my friend with 4GB of ram experienced the same problem, upgraded to 8GB and it went away.
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June 20, 2014 2:12:39 PM

Oh ya, he has 8GB DDR3 ram
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June 20, 2014 2:18:59 PM

Do you have any kind of frame capping or vsync running?
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June 20, 2014 2:22:14 PM

He has v-sync on, and he did a console command to cap the game at 60 fps. This still doesn't stop stuttering.
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June 20, 2014 2:23:43 PM

take vsync and the fps cap off, I had a similar problem while capping at 61 FPS. I would constantly have drops to 40 for no reason. Uncapping fixed it.
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June 20, 2014 2:29:28 PM

He said it is still stuttering.
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June 20, 2014 2:30:16 PM

But I do recall that his CPU clock speed is not staying stable, it is fluxuating between 3.5 ghz to 4.2 ghz.
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June 20, 2014 2:35:42 PM

And I should mention this is an issue as far as we know is only in Battlefield 4 and Battlefield Hardline.
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June 20, 2014 2:42:24 PM

The A-series chips are what we call APUs. In simple, They rely on RAM clock speed to process graphics faster. You may have a dedicated GPU installed, but your system may not be using it to process graphics. I have not used an A-series chip, but you may need to find a way to turn off the integrated GPU on your chip to utilize your dedicated GPU to the fullest.

Adding ram is one way to fix it, but it is by far not the most effective way to do it. You're just increasing the buffer size for your APU to process textures and draw pixels.

So you can find a way to disable the integrated GPU in your APU, and do a clean dedicated GPU driver reinstall under safe mode to ensure your system boots with the driver as the default display pipe, or you can sell your GPU, buy the top quality RAM you can find, overclock your RAM, put heat spreaders and fans on it, and call it a day and let your APU do the work.

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