Battlefield 3 Artifacts and Lag on Gaming PC

cyrofault

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Hello!

I bought BF3 a while ago, and I play it every now and then. Recently (I'd say last week), it takes longer than normal to load, and sometimes, visual artifacts are displayed on the loading screen. Also noteworthy is the issue that I also have a white screen when BF3 launches, or even that if it does successfully load, it is unplayable (1-3 FPS). I haven't had this issue before -- BF3 ran fine, and I can run BF4 on almost mainly high settings. What can I do to fix this?

Specs:
Sapphire R9 270X 2GB
AMD FX-8350 @4.0Ghz w/ Hyper 212 Evo
8 GB of RAM
Corsair CX500M (I mention this power supply because it gives me coil whine issues, and I found out that it's actually a crap power supply)
Asus M5A97 R2.0
 

Tradesman1

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That may well be the problem, most stay away from the CX line, it may not be putting out full power, do you have or could you borrow a different PSU to try with? Also could run a Malware check, a virus Scan, defrag your drives...they might help, but would guess PSU, it's about the min I would suggest for your build and it's sort of a weak one :(
 

cyrofault

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I found out what to look for in a good power supply. I'm very disappointed in Corsair. Anyway, I don't understand why the PSU is giving me issues now - BF3 worked fine before.