Battlefield 4 Lagging On Decent PC

WhatTheWaffle · Jun 26, 2016

Hello people. I am running a GTX960 2GB and a AMD Athlon 860k overclocked to 4.3Ghz. I purchased Battlefield 4 Premium months ago and I have done absolutely everything to get my FPS out of the 20-40fps zone, I have done config tweaks, fiddled with the graphics - everything! I aren't usually one to ask but I really need help here!

Thanks...

MarkW · Jun 26, 2016

Turn off anything and everything that reduces jaggies. Reduce the long distance views some.

Close down all other programs when gaming.
How much memory does your computer have?
Which version of Windows are you running?

When it comes to video cards, x70 or xx70 is about where the mainstream gamer is at the time the graphics cards with those numbers are released. In your case, you bought a GTX 960. So that is one step down from the mainstream gamer, back at the time that card was released, a bit more than a year ago.

The we get to your CPU... Its an AMD CPU. That hurts you right off the bat. Even an 8 core AMD CPU will lag behind a 4 core Intel CPU. By a whole let. And you only have a 4 core AMD CPU. So I would rate your Athlon 860K as being roughly 1.5 Intel cores when it comes to gaming. And please don't think I am an Intel fanboy. I have purchased probably 20 CPU's in the past 25 years, and only my lest computer had an Intel CPU in it. The other 19 or so systems all had AMD CPU's in them. But the gap between AMD and Intel in games finally reached the point where I decided to get the best Gaming CPU that I could.

If you have less than 8GB of system memory, that will be part of your problem.

So from what little I know about your system so far, you have a very weak gaming CPU. You have a lower than average GPU. And a demanding game is dragging its butt in the mud... Sound about right?

WhatTheWaffle · Jun 26, 2016

MarkW :

Turn off anything and everything that reduces jaggies. Reduce the long distance views some.

Close down all other programs when gaming.
How much memory does your computer have?
Which version of Windows are you running?

When it comes to video cards, x70 or xx70 is about where the mainstream gamer is at the time the graphics cards with those numbers are released. In your case, you bought a GTX 960. So that is one step down from the mainstream gamer, back at the time that card was released, a bit more than a year ago.

The we get to your CPU... Its an AMD CPU. That hurts you right off the bat. Even an 8 core AMD CPU will lag behind a 4 core Intel CPU. By a whole let. And you only have a 4 core AMD CPU. So I would rate your Athlon 860K as being roughly 1.5 Intel cores when it comes to gaming. And please don't think I am an Intel fanboy. I have purchased probably 20 CPU's in the past 25 years, and only my lest computer had an Intel CPU in it. The other 19 or so systems all had AMD CPU's in them. But the gap between AMD and Intel in games finally reached the point where I decided to get the best Gaming CPU that I could.

If you have less than 8GB of system memory, that will be part of your problem.

So from what little I know about your system so far, you have a very weak gaming CPU. You have a lower than average GPU. And a demanding game is dragging its butt in the mud... Sound about right?

Yea, sorry about being a bit brief, I do have 8GB of RAM so we can eliminate that immediately. I do understand what your saying however surely this PC should be hitting more than 20fps on Lowest, hmm? Check this for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thW43rP1NOc And thats ULTRA...

MarkW · Jun 26, 2016

Never trust the YouTube claims. Battlefield 4 is a beast of a program. That is an impressive video, but something is fishy. GTX980 owners were complaning about not being able to stay above 60 FPS... So how can a GTX 960 do it?

WhatTheWaffle · Jun 29, 2016

So you are saying this is average for my setup?

MarkW · Jun 30, 2016

I took some time to read up on the GTX 960 benchmarks...

Most of the reviewers are using X99 based motherboards with Intel CPU's that have 6 or 8 cores. Right off the bat, that CPU they use makes your Athlon 860K look almost like its sitting still...

Even with the powerful CPU they used, in most of the reviews they only managed to get the FPS up to the upper 40's. You CPU is pushing data to the video card much slower than those beasts the reviewers used. What they use is intended to push data to the video card as fast as is possible so that we see the absolute maximum FPS numbers from the video card that can be generated.

I found one review here on Toms thag aisd the FPS numbera never went below 60 FPS. Then you see that they used tghe Asus Strix GTX 960 card. That card is probably overclocked to the absolute maximum speed plossible, and the people that buy those pay a very healthy premium for those cards. Most of the reviewers reported 40 to 48 FPS in Battlefield 4 with a GTX 960. But every last of them was running powerful Intel ($1000+) CPU's.

So I am left to believe that the bottleneck is your CPU. Even a 2 core Intel I3 CPU can often match or exceed an AMD 8 core CPU. So that should be the next thing you upgrade. Unfortunately, I consider this a bad time to upgrade CPU's. By the end of this year, both Intel and AMD are going to have new CPU's on the market, and both will have some very nice new upgrades in performance and new features to offer. But your CPU is so weak, that it might be worth upgrading to a FX 8350 if your current motherboard can use it.

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