I used to be able to run BF3 at an easy 60fps at 1360x768 resolution on Ultra settings, but I took a break for a few months to play the newer Battlefield 4. On BF4 i can get an average of 30-40 fps ultra, regardless of whether or not it's multiplayer with 64 players or single player mode. So I know for a fact I can run BF3 easily. Then I upgraded from an AMD Phenom 965 BE to an FX 8320 to cope with the CPU-demanding BF4 online multiplayer, and for BF4, it works great. My fps improved and I had no problems, but since the upgrade, BF3 is absolutely unplayable. Whether it's single player or multiplayer, i get less than 1 frame per second. So, literally unplayable.
What I've already tried:
I went online to see if I could solve this myself, and ended up trying to disable half of my cores with the Windows Task Manager (I disabled all but core 0,1,2, and 3) but nothing happened. Then I tried disabling all but 4, 5, 6, and 7, but nothing happened. Then I tried overclocking my GPU; nothing. Overclocked CPU; nothing. Overclocked both at the same time; nothing.
BUT THEN
I completely uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. Then I went into single player to test it out, I got a solid 60fps on ultra again, but I had to go so I shut my computer off and left it, confident that it would be fine when I got back. WRONG. Now it just crashes when I try to join a game online.
My specs:
AMD FX 8320 3.4ghz
AMD Sapphire HD 7770 1gb ghz edition
8GB 1833hz RAM (dual channel)
1TB WD Blue HDD (only a year old so it should be fine)
Windows 7 64 bit
I just can't figure out why, and yet this is my favorite Battlefield game
Can anyone help?
What I've already tried:
I went online to see if I could solve this myself, and ended up trying to disable half of my cores with the Windows Task Manager (I disabled all but core 0,1,2, and 3) but nothing happened. Then I tried disabling all but 4, 5, 6, and 7, but nothing happened. Then I tried overclocking my GPU; nothing. Overclocked CPU; nothing. Overclocked both at the same time; nothing.
BUT THEN
I completely uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. Then I went into single player to test it out, I got a solid 60fps on ultra again, but I had to go so I shut my computer off and left it, confident that it would be fine when I got back. WRONG. Now it just crashes when I try to join a game online.
My specs:
AMD FX 8320 3.4ghz
AMD Sapphire HD 7770 1gb ghz edition
8GB 1833hz RAM (dual channel)
1TB WD Blue HDD (only a year old so it should be fine)
Windows 7 64 bit
I just can't figure out why, and yet this is my favorite Battlefield game
Can anyone help?