Battlefield 3 Constantly Freezes?

[BannedDPS]

Well I just got my new GPU, a GTX 460 v2 Superclocked. Whenever I try to play Battlefield 3, I get uneven and choppy framerates. The game runs smooth for about 10 seconds, then freezes for about 2 seconds. Then it goes back to normal, and freezes again. And just keeps repeating over and over. It's getting really annoying, I've re-installed Battlefield, restarted my computer, updated to the latest drivers, even tried out beta drivers, to no success. This didn't happen with my old card, a GT 430. Nothing I've tried works, so if someone could help that would be great.

Specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 @2.5 GHz
EVGA GTX 460 v2 Superclocked
4 GB DDR3 RAM
500 GB HDD
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

 

[chinuhark]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/121402-13-battlefield-vram-leak-solved
Apart from this, update to the 304 drivers which allow a new option called adaptive Vsync.

 

[venjhammet]

Are you running the game on default setting? Keep it on default, your PC can handle that BF3

 

[simon12]

Is the problem only in this game? do other games play OK? Which other games have you tried?

 

[BannedDPS]

Best answer selected by Banneddps.

 

[BannedDPS]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/121402-13-battlefield-vram-leak-solved
Apart from this, update to the 304 drivers which allow a new option called adaptive Vsync.

This solved it, I switched to "Adaptive Sync" and it ran perfectly.
Also, it wasn't just on BF3, it was also on NFS: The Run. I guess it was Frostbite 2 engine in general.