Two video cards?

[nickazzo123]

Hello,

I have a ATI HD Radeon 6870 OC edition, same as my friend and he gets 80-100 FPS on Battlefield 3 with the same specs and settings as me. I get 30-40FPS which is really worrying me.

I go into device settings and I see something strange.

1. I see my radeon 6870 card.
2. Below that, I see Intel (R) HD Graphics Family

Why is the intel r showing up? My friend has the SAME specs and he doesnt have the intel r. Anyways, i think that intel r is bottlenecking my radeon 6870. Do you think it's safe to uninstall the driver?

Also, here are my specs:

ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB
8GB RAM 1600
ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i5 2500k 3.3 GHz
500GB HDD WD 7200 RPM

SOLVED:

Actually, for all of you saying I can't get 60 FPS on ultra with no AA.. I got it. Here is what I did. I set everything to Ultra with no v-sync and AA. Went into catalyst control center and turned down things to performance under the gaming tab and wala! im getting 60-70 fps on ultra and 80-90 on high.

I also used this file which helps a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uHhIDAYMI

 

[Koolg223]

Your friend is a liar. I have a 2 GB XFX 6870 (2 actually) and an identical processor. I'm not sure what your settings are, but I get around the FPS you mentioned playing BF3 at max 1080p. The Intel integrated you mentioned are the integrated graphics that come with your processor, I see them too. They're not an issue. Ask your friend what his settings are, or in what part of the game he gets 80 - 100 FPS.

 

[nickazzo123]

No he isn't a liar. We are on the same settings and I played at his house a lot with BF3. He gets a lot of FPS. He even gave me the user.cfg file that improves the FPS but that only helped me by 5. Btw, v-sync and AA is off but everything else is ultra.

 

[Earnie]

a 6870 will not get 80-100 FPS on all ultra settings.

check the BF3 charts in this link.:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5314/xfxs-radeon-hd-7970-black-edition-double-dissipation-the-first-semicustom-7970

 

[Koolg223]

No he isn't a liar. We are on the same settings and I played at his house a lot with BF3. He gets a lot of FPS. He even gave me the user.cfg file that improves the FPS but that only helped me by 5. Btw, v-sync and AA is off but everything else is ultra.

Sorry, didn't mean to insult the guy. I'm sure he's not lying, but he's the one with the issue. I can't get those FPS with 6870 crossfire. No single GPU card, not even top of the line cards like a GTX 580 could. Look at any benchmarks. Idk if his user config file in someway disabled some important post effects or something, but he's not ACTUALLY running the game at ultra settings. Like I said, probably disabled stuff without releasing it or has some corrupted game files. Either way, you don't have an issue.

 

[nickazzo123]

Well then I don't know how he's getting that much fps. He is using the ingame ctrl + alt + s to check the fps and so am i. He doesn't lag at all on the back 2 karkand map pack and I do.

 

[Earnie]

and even in toms :

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063-12.html

your system is fine.

 

[Koolg223]

Use fraps to make sure its accurate. Either way, think of it this way. He's certainly not actually running the game at ultra. If you want his FPS, just turn the settings down. Also crossfiring your 6870s would practically double your FPS.

 

[swifty_morgan]

check his resolution against yours. Maybe he's playing at 1024x768 and you're playing at 1080p.

is this on line..... connections make a difference.

check you refresh rate.

...... and a 6870 isn't that good inre to BF3. especially at said setting.

 

[nickazzo123]

Yes he is playing 1080p. Btw, doesn't connection change ping instead of FPS?

 

[Koolg223]

Yes he is playing 1080p. Btw, doesn't connection change ping instead of FPS?

Yeah, connection shouldn't effect FPS.

 

[spentshells]

1080P with a 6870 ultra no AA at 60 is no possible

 

[nickazzo123]

Actually, for all of you saying I can't get 60 FPS on ultra with no AA.. I got it. Here is what I did. I set everything to Ultra with no v-sync and AA. Went into catalyst control center and turned down things to performance under the gaming tab and wala! im getting 60-70 fps on ultra and 80-90 on high.

I also used this file which helps a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uHhIDAYMI

 

[Koolg223]

Actually, for all of you saying I can't get 60 FPS on ultra with no AA.. I got it. Here is what I did. I set everything to Ultra with no v-sync and AA. Went into catalyst control center and turned down things to performance under the gaming tab and wala! im getting 60-70 fps on ultra and 80-90 on high.

I also used this file which helps a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uHhIDAYMI

It runs great because you're not actually running it at ultra. All you're doing is forcing your display drivers to not actually render at the quality the game wants. So you're really running the game at medium or low. There's obviously no point in that, sure it says "ultra settings" in the settings, but it's not actually running at ultra because you disabled most of the effects.

 

[spentshells]

Heheh a config file that did not affect visual quality. How do you suppose it does this ? have you read the .cfg you are running ? Cool but i'm not beleiving it doesn't affect visual quality. I would take a link to the file if you will share.

 

[Koolg223]

Heheh a config file that did not affect visual quality. How do you suppose it does this ? have you read the .cfg you are running ? Cool but i'm not beleiving it doesn't affect visual quality. I would take a link to the file if you will share.

Yeah and forcing AA, AF, tesselation, and other texture stuff off through Catalyst would certainly degrade quality. What's the obsession with having your settings say "ultra" just because the game says that doesn't mean it is.