Getting low fps in battlefield 3

[catsup]

i just upgraded my motherboard and processor and am still getting low fps(30-40) while playing on medium settings.
windows 7 home premium
a880gz motherboard
amd athlon 2 x3 450 processor 3200 mhz 3 cores
4gb ram
gtx 460 1gb

so whats wrong?

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Your graphics card is low end...thats whats wrong.... new card time...

All the best Brett

 

[catsup]

Hi

Your graphics card is low end...thats whats wrong.... new card time...

All the best Brett

the gtx 460 is low end? i was under the impression that this card could run bf3 on high or ultra.

 

[Sunius]

Depends on your resolution. At 1920x1080 you are looking at 40-45 fps at high settings with that GPU.

Did you reinstall windows when you upgraded the CPU? If not, you should do that.

 

[Brett928S2]

the gtx 460 is low end? i was under the impression that this card could run bf3 on high or ultra.

Hi

Its an £80 card... a GOOD card is £500 plus...

No way that card will play BF3 on Ultra.. sorry...


All the best Brett

 

[Inductor]

Battlefield 3 requires a quad core and at least a GTX 560.

The 460 has a graphics clock of 675Mhz the 560 does 810-950 according to the website.

Even having a 560 is not going to allow you to fully enjoy the game with everything on ultra and a 1920x1080 resolution.

The x3 450 is dated so even if you buy a new card, you still will experience poor fps.

Use this link to compare cards and cpus

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/CPU/2

You can find good deals over at http://www.newegg.com/

Happy building

 

[voiidwulf]

Yeah, my cousin has a GTX 460. He gets similar FPS to you, there isn't anything you can do aside from upgrading your video card. It was good a few years ago, but its now low end.

 

[catsup]

so i should get both a new processor and graphics card? that sucks!! thanks for the answers anyway.

 

[catsup]

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