Every game has horrible FPS

devon285 · Aug 15, 2014

I got myself a PC after 4 years now (finally) and I am very disappointed. For example, when I'm playing BFBC2 ( a game that came out 4 YEARS ago) is dropping to 35 or 40 FPS no matter what settings I'm using.

Battlefield 3 also gets 29FPS when I'm in the middle of the map..
Battlefield 4 has sh*t frame rate with Directx enabled (FPS drops in busy areas to 30 or 25fps no matter what settings), I tried enabling mantle and the game was amazing (80fps and wouldn't drop below 60fps) but then the game stutters every 10 seconds. Its unplayable.

My specs are:
-Sapphire R7 260x 2GB DDR5
-Athlon II X4 750k @ 3.59Ghz
-4GB 1866Mhz RAM
-500GB WD BLUE 7200RPM HDD
-460w non-generic PSU
-Windows 7 64 bit

Is my PC really that bad, have I wasted my money on garbage pc that can't run anything at decent framerate?

I have latest (NON BETA) AMD CCC drivers and I play games @ 1440x900 resolution
I unparked CPU cores, tried beta drivers but nothing has changed..

thespaceduck · Aug 15, 2014

Don't know how to delete an answer...

Alex Kelly · Aug 15, 2014

Yeaaah, they aren't the greatest parts. Cheap GPU, cheap CPU, cheap RAM, idk what you were expecting.

cemerian · Aug 15, 2014

your best hope is mantle , also oc that athlon as far as you can, will help other than than enabling mantle where ever you can(bf4, thief think that was it lol) its gonna help alot with a weak cpu

thespaceduck · Aug 15, 2014

Ok guys, calm down.

According to this:

it should work better.
Something is up with your PC.

Alex Kelly · Aug 15, 2014

^ That's average frame rates, remember that.
He's talking about dips, I bet most of the time it's fine.

devon285 · Aug 15, 2014

@Alex Kelly my PC is a budget build, but it SHOULD run bad company 2 at 80fps without any dips at least.. I'm not playing at ultra settings nor am I running games at 1080p so something is obviously off. I'll try installing older gpu drivers and report back :/

I will OC that processor but won't invest in custom CPU cooler if I can't even run games at decent framerate..

Adroid · Aug 15, 2014

Well I would start with turning settings down. You are not running a high end PC. You are running a mid to low range PC. Try medium/low settings. It's not as bad as you might think. Make sure that anti aliasing and antistropic filtering etc is on very low settings or turned off completely.

From the looks of your PC, it's semi balanced for a mid-low end build. But on modern games you could be bottlenecked by the RAM, CPU, or GPU depending on the game.

Adroid · Aug 15, 2014

thespaceduck :

That graph was more than likely created with an i7 and 8GB of RAM. So that's the best case scenario for the 260x. For the OP's PC and RAM you should expect less...

devon285 · Aug 15, 2014

Then how would you explain FPS drops in Bad company 2? My pc is overkill for that game. Also like I already said, when enabling MANTLE, BF4 gets 80 fps and doesn't drop below 60FPS but then my game stutters every 10 seconds. What the hell am I supposed to do here

thespaceduck · Aug 15, 2014

Adroid :

Yes, they were created with a top CPU, so that it wouldn't cause any slowdowns. It should mean a 10-20% difference.
The values there are average, but if you have decent framerates, the deviation should be ~5 FPS,
On the other hand the settings are higher and they are using Fraps, which also should also mean a 10-20% difference,

devon285 · Aug 16, 2014

thespaceduck :

Ok I've tried older drivers but I've gotten the same low fps performance.
I've just installed latest (non beta) drivers, turned the mantle on and enabled in game BF4 cpu-gpu graph. When I'm in busy areas fps drops to 60 and CPU line (in graph) starts to jump like crazy, when it does my fps drops to 45fps in a second and reverts back to 60 (which causes the stutter issue). So I can confirm that my cpu causes stuttering, will OVERCLOCKING MY PROCESSOR RESOLVE MANTLE STUTTERING? Average fps with mantle is 80 and gpu line (in graph) is steady and stable..
IMPORTANT THING TO NOTE:
-when running BF4 without mantle I get 30fps (and below) in busy areas, graph shows that both of the cpu and gpu are causing "slowdowns" so theres no bottleneck?

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