Why does battlefield 3 and 4 no longer play good on my pc?

The_Beast_Gamer

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Jul 12, 2014
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Ok so when i first started off i had battlefield 4 and a heavily overclocked and a8-5600k apu and 8gb of ram....well then at that tine battlefield 4 ran fine at about medium-ish settings with the intergraded graphics....then a couple weeks later....boom a 4gb stick of the 8gb of ram i had went bad....i couldn't rma the sticks because i had voided the warranty because i had to clip off some of the heat spreaders so they would fit under the heatsink i had at the time....so then battlefield 4 didn't play as well...i had to do medium/low compo if settings to get good fps...then i got bf3 when it was free on origin those couple days.....it played well...medium settings about 35 fps....by that time i had a water cooler to replace my heatsink for even better overclocking....then l, shortly after i decided i was going to upgrade my cpu,power supply, motherboard, and add a graphics card...well i had got a corsair 750w power supply...and bought a nvidia 9800gx2 for 65$ off ebay because it was the best thing i could get for the cheapest price due to money problems....so i had installed the ps and the graphics card...then battlefield 3 and 4 would play terrible! Low and random jumping like crazy fps....i would have about 60 just standing there then turn slightly...boom fps drops to like 20 and goes all over the place...that was on low settings....And fraps even said when paused it would be jumpy and in game was also freeze and stutter....so i turned off a gpu...better...But still no good...so i thought a (somehow) a cpu bottleneck or a driver problem....cpu and gpu temps were just fine....then i got an asus sabertooth 990fx and a amd 8350 cpu....i choose it because the, price high speed, and 8 cores.....Because i do gaming and emulating ex. pcsx2, ppsspp ect.....But it is still terrible after the motherboard and cpu upgrade.....i even overclocked the cpu.....i have tried everything....even disabling the second gpu and the pre renderd frams stuff.....what do I do? ...its only battlefield 3 and 4 that does this!
 

Superkoopatrooper

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Is the gpu working correctly? Download GPU-Z and post a picture of it after playing a round or 2. Does Nvidia still support that card with driver updates? How much Vram does the card have? It may say 1GB but its very likely to be 512mb per gpu. If thats the case, its not much you can do short of getting a new card. Also BF runs terrible with 4GB of ram under 64bit mode. Try changing it to 32bit within the origin settings.