[Solved] HD 5770 Struggling with BF3

Hi, I am using 6770 = 5770. I am getting great performance with ultra high setting @ 1280x1024 without any problem. See my uploaded video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHuo3fXegys

So you should have get good performance with high setting @ 1920x1080. 5770 is a great card. Also see Tomshardware benchmark result:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 063-8.html

It seems 5770 can run the game @ 1920x 1080. So this isnt about 5770. Maybe there is something wrong. Update your video card driver, defragment drive, use disk clean up to remove junk files. Or may be you can re-install your os again. Your rig is good enough.

wiinippongamer, I must have missed your post! didn't see it earlier! I just got that program so will try it tomorrow. I had AMD Overdrive running and task manager and while BF3 was running i used alt+tab to switch instantly to amd overdrive. It showed that the GPU was at 100% and temp was 62 degrees celcius. CPU was up and down between 30-50 or thereabouts. I will record temps properly tomorrow with HWmonitor.

mubin, Thats a much lower resolution so i doubt just dropping the settings to high will be enough to go up to 1920x1080! It does look pretty cool on ultra tho!
DRIVER: I got the latest catalyst driver when i got bf3.
DISKS: Also i checked and the drive shouldn't need defragmentation (5%). And its two 500gig drives in raid0 so read/write speeds are doubled.

professorprofessorson, Yeah i would imagine it would be more demanding. there are more players so a lot more explosions and stuff.

PS: RAM usage dropped from around 3GB down to about 1.8GB

5770 is a lump of junk and whoever thinks they can get or say they are getting good game play at high settings with that card at high res must be smoking something or they don't own better cards so they can tell the difference.

somebody swat that bug will ya.........

The problem here isn't mantaining smooth framerates at high settings, it's the game crashing to window and stuttering even at low setting which it certainly shouldn't.

Im not so sure 5770 seems to be pulling average of 38 fps which is fine for single player.
it seems like I would simply drop down to 1366-768 or 1366x720 and try it out. It worked for me with crysis2

I get good game play at ultra setting. I posted my bf3 gameplay video's youtube link in my first post. So at high setting, 5770 will do great. There is no need to compare a lesser card with a high end card. 6990 will give very great performance, but why i compare with 5770. May be you have a high end card, just enjoy yourself. But dont compare. Each card has their own measuring scale. They should have compare with their scale to see if they are doing good and we are talking about 5770 performance scale which give 34.10 fps @ 1980x1080, its from tomshaware benchmark result.

@DeanM, if you are playing multiplayer, than 1.5GB video memory is needed for ultra setting. May be thats why windows gave the message to turn off windows aero for high video memory usages. Are you playing multiplayer?

You need 8GB of Ram (more than 4GB) for that 5770 to even contemplate playing BF3 at 1980x1080.

5770 is a very capable card even @ 1080p

I have it paired with a athlon x4, 4gigs value ram and i can run 30+ fps @ high settings with 2 AA in BF3 np, try re-seating the GPU perhaps (always do the easy small things first ). Check your CCC settings as well, maybe you put them all on max quality when you first got the card, if you did move the sliders back to the middle for a performance bump and leave it there.

Just throwing ideas out there.

Monsta, why would it need 8gig? it wasn't even using all of the 4gig I currently have installed! there was a gig unused! Are you sure about that? another 4gig would prob be cheap enough but i doubt that is the problem.

de5_roy, I have overclocked it before yes but I didn't leave it that way cos i didnt have time to fully test to make sure it was stable. clocked to 3.6GHz easy enough. and 3.8GHz but could crash if i was pushed. I just upped the multipliers! i didnt change voltages or anything! so as i said, it was just a non-permanent test. I have a Scythe Ninja 2 cpu heatsink. Haven't looked at that one you suggested but the one i have is pretty decent. I have been tempted to get watercooling but since i havent overclocked other than a quick test i havent needed to yet. I didn't apply the heat sink tho so maybe i should remove it and check the thermal paste. maybe even "lap" it! I just checked idle temps. closed everything except amd overdrive. left for 3 or 4 min and cpu temps hit 24.x degrees. while reopenin firefox it went back to 30degrees. and then fell back to 26-27. So idle temps look ok to me. I was running POVray once tho rendering 200 images at high resolution and the cpu was under full load and temps went up to over 60degrees. maybe 62-64 at which point it would crash! which is why i think checking the thermal past might be a good idea.

MicroGoliath, I think the fps is ok most of the time and drops now and then but the main problem is it crashes to window mode. I should probably monitor the fps and see what its like when running ok or when it crashes etc. might be useful information. Thaks for the suggestions. I just looked in CCC and it look like everything was on max. I looked in video settings and gaming > 3d settings.

Ya move those settings to the middle or just restore default. Moving those sliders is just asking for trouble and is best left @ default. You should see a pretty big boost in your min FPS.

As to the crashes, tbh I don't know. Could just be BF3 being stupid, the game is still a bit buggy with crashes being often.

Fraps is good and its free, just google and download it.

Havent played single player yet. Nope never happened before with any other games.

Cool, i'll get fraps and give that a try then.

@DeanM
is your windows a genuine copy? because non-genuine windows (aka RemoveWAT) has been known to crash with DICE games.

Metro 2033 on my rig does not take 4gb LOL you are mistaken and nether does BF3 LOL.

well if you want to spend more money instead of forcing developers to code better by way of not supporting them when they *** up like EA games then be my guest and the only reason that a game would need more ram than 4gb is piss poor buggy coding ala Metro 2033 and the sucked.

Damn thats wierd! I had Fraps running to to see how it was running and it only crashed to window mode once! but the fps did drop pretty low at that time. Otherwise it wasnt too bad really! was mostly over 30fps easily enough. going up to about 45-50fps. I set it to high settings and was getting like 35fps average.

HWmonitor says under the MSI>Cpu max temp was 60. Under AMD 965 it has individual cores and it says the max reached was 56.

For the GPU it says voltage went from min 0.95 to 1.13V and max temperature was 64.

Its odd it only crashed once tho! but maybe i was lucky. usually have the heating on but didnt this eve so its a fair bit colder in the room so if the cpu supposedly hit 60 when it was cold then it might have been going higher when when the room was warmer. Would the cpu overheating be a likely cause of a program crashing from fullscreen like that? even tho usage was not maxed?

Does it only happen when playing BF3? Tried the newest drivers already?

I know of no software that does exactly that but I'm sure someone else here will.


There's one easy thing you can do, download the free version of 3DMark11 and run a full test, it'll stress both your CPU and GPU to their max while making use of complex Direct3D features, if it doesn't crash with that, then the issue is definetly not on the hardware side.

I will put this straight for all of you idiots here who think a 5770 is capable of BF3 at 1920x1080.
My GTX 480 at 1920x1080 on ultra with 4xmsaa will get 45fps average and this card is overclocked 850/1700/2200.
My card pulls slightly higher numbers than a stock GTX 580 and it struggles in BF3 although smooth.

Turning off AA and putting to high gives me 60fps average..
If anyone thinks they can run this game at 1080p with a 5770 is a total fool and should be looking at 1366x768 as a maximum resolution.
I will not even mention the massive amount of memory 1920x1080 needs even on medium to high settings.

Source for my claims: my brother has a 5670 512mb with a B55 BE at 4.2ghz on a 790FX-GD70 Quad crossfire motherboard, and runs BF3 in DX11 on medium at 1366x768 with 30-70fps.

Cpu does make a difference in this game too but the OP has a decent quad so that is all good.

Lol..... well, you have to be able to get your hands on a HD5770 or even a HD 5750 as a matter of fact before calling everyone and idiot.
Don't you read??? Everyone has already played it on a HD5770/HD5750 and not had problems..... as a matter of fact at those resolutions and at High Settings.....

Ok and i have more than 2x the power of a 5770...
The reason for my post was to make sense of what people are spurting from their mouths.

All benchmarks are taken during singleplayer.
My results are on kharg island on multiplayer during massive fights with tanks ect.

Good luck with the 5770 maintaining above 25fps in that situation.

My framerates are much higher in singleplayer btw as the game is predictable unlike multiplayer.

P.S i have had a 5770 and several 4870's. I can gauge the capabilities of it.

If you are getting error messages of not enough memory then your card cannot hold the game data proficiently.
Also i would try to play at a lower resolution as i stated as your card should do high-ultra at 1366x768 going from my bros 5670 results

RECON-UK, i never mentioned any error messages, and not any to do with memory. The only time i mentioned memory was that it went from 3gig usage during game down to about 1.8 when game was closed. And i mentioned that the 4gig i had seemed fine. and yes, i think i'll try a lower res later this eve. i was just testing it last night while i had HWmonitor and fraps running.

alyoshka, but wouldnt that effect every game? I can def check it out when i get home tho! thanks.

Well, do all the games you play have the continuous tapping of keys in a sequence or continuously pressed key combinations? If so, yes it ought to happen in a few other games too and sometimes just in particular games.