Battlefield 4 and GTX 770 4GB

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I recently picked up BF4, and I was kind of disappointed with my framerates. Now, I don't expect a constant 60+ FPS framerate on full 64 player servers with huge maps, but I'm currently averaging 30-40 FPS, even on smaller maps. The weird part is that, after monitoring usage, the GPU is only averaging about 70% load. My CPU (FX 8120 @ 4.0 GHz) doesn't appear to be bottlenecking. All 8 cores are averaging about 70% load as well, with no spikes. The GPU is about 65C after playing for 2 hours, and the CPU is about 40C after the same amount of time.

Does anyone have any clue about why I am seeing this kind of performance, and/or have any tips for increasing performance? Or perhaps this is normal?

Full specs:
Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB Windforce
AMD FX 8120 @ 4.0 GHz
ASRock 990fx Extreme3 Mobo
8 GB RAM @ 1666 MHz
Seasonic 620W Bronze PSU
Win7 x64 Ultimate
 

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Yeah... that seems to be the general consensus on the Internet. :/
 

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Out of curiosity, are you using Windows 7 or Windows 8?
 

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I am the OP. :p I was asking about the guy with the 780 getting comparable performance with me. A lot of people seem to be reporting that upgrading to Windows 8 gives them a huge boost in performance.
 

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I use windows 7 64bit. I don't see myself upgrading to windows 8/9 this year yet. Not buying a new OS for a game :p
 

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Yeah, I don't either. It's just that a lot of people have reported getting much better performance when using Windows 8.

 

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I have a 770 4GB i get almost constant 60 fps (i use Nvidia adaptive vsync) sometimes drop to 55 fps why am i getting better fps on a weaker card
 

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What you said with people reporting a huge increase in performance by switching from Windows 7 to Windows 8 or 8.1 is true.
I did it, and got a huge increase in performance.

I too got a 770 4GB, and I'm running everything at ultra (with an i7 4790k to support the GPU), and I'm getting about the 60 FPS, sometimes more, sometimes less, but it tends to stay around the 50 - 60 FPS range. But that is on a machine running Windows 8.1.

So yeah, I guess the bad performance you're having is just due to Windows 7 (or well, the devs not optimizing it for Windows 7...).