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Getting lower FPS than usual

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I have a Gigabyte HD Radeon 6870 Windforce Edition, and I'm getting low fps on Battlefield 3. I checked my device manager and for some reason, it says I have an Intel (R) HD Graphics Family driver along with the Gigabyte 6870 driver.

My friend has the same system specs and he is getting over 80FPS on Battlefield 3 and we even have the same user config for that game. He checked it and thinks that something is wrong with the drivers. I get like 30-40 fps.. :bounce: 

Please help me! :fou: 

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Try putting the clocks back to stock. My GTX 460 cut the performance exactly in half when OCed, but by rolling back clock speed and restarting, it ran fine. I have heard the same with other cards. Also, try setting your video card to only the hd6870.
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yea bud, i dont remember overclocking anything and when i click reset, nothing changes. Restarted the computer, went into battlefield 3 and im still getting bad FPS.

But I really love the afterburner's GUI ;D

Yes, but that is because you have not manually overclocked it before. Manually reduce it to lower clocks. If that doesn't work, I am not sure. What are the rest of your specs?

I did manually reset it, nothing happened.

Specs:
i5 3.4GHz
Radeon 6870
8GB Memory
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
500 GB HDD 7200RPM Western Digital Caviar Blue

That is really strange. I don't know what to tell you. I am not an expert, it just sounded like an issue I had, so I thought a may be able to help, but there is nothing bottlenecking your system. The on;ly thing I could think of is that your CPU may be getting too hot and it is thermal throttling.

HostileDonut said:
That is really strange. I don't know what to tell you. I am not an expert, it just sounded like an issue I had, so I thought a may be able to help, but there is nothing bottlenecking your system. The on;ly thing I could think of is that your CPU may be getting too hot and it is thermal throttling.


Nah.. temp. is around 30 all the time. I hope somebody else responds.. why only you?! xD

Same settings I assure you that. He also teamviewed me and I played on his computer at his house a couple times. Same settings man :/  All on ultra but v-sync and anti aliasing is off.

nickazzo123 said:
Same settings I assure you that. He also teamviewed me and I played on his computer at his house a couple times. Same settings man :/  All on ultra but v-sync and anti aliasing is off.

Wait, so you are telling me he runs without AA and V-Sync? If so, then that is the issue. If you run with V-sync and you cannot maintain 60FPS, then your machine will run at something lower that it can sustain such as 30-40. AA adds a lot of load by the way.

Oh, okay, I thought you said you were running v-sync and AA, but he wasn't. Man, I just don't know...... If everything is exactly the same in the hardware and settings, I have no clue. That is just weird.
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