Horrible FPS Drops

Battlefield 4 General Discussion
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So, I was just playing another round of BF4 when I suddenly had a massive FPS Drop to about 6FPS that stuck for several seconds before returning to normal. I could play for a good 10 - 15 seconds and then it happened again.
Luckily, I was running MSI Afterburner, so I saw that right before the drop, my GPU Usage was dropping down to about 30%, then to +80% during the “stuttering” (almost freezing) and then to 0%.
Not sure what caused all that. The games performance just seemed to drop after a while of playing. And no, graphics aren’t the cause. It worked fine a while ago even on higher settings. Now I’m running with everything on low and I still get shit like this.

  • GPU: R9 270X 4GB OC Edition (Stock Clock)
  • CPU: AMD FX-4300 (Stock Clock)
  • RAM: 16GB DDR3
    Currently running the latest AMD Beta drivers.
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Before anything else, go into Origin, look n your options, and turn off Enable Origin In Game. This is what was causing it for me (and a lot of other people).

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I think that just really helped. Played a good amount of OP Clusterf- uhh, OP Metro and didn’t have any more of the FPS Drops. But still, is it normal that I get a GPU Usage of about 30 - 40% on low settings?

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It’s a high-intensity game for your GPU. I’ve got a pretty decent rig and I’m usually running 60-80% at high, peaking near 100% leading to FPS drops in some situations (like the tower collapse on Shanghai).

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Its CPU bound for me, and I have 2 270s 2gb

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Yes, same here. I7-930.

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Dude, I never even get near 100%. The drops come when I’m running at around 30-40% of GPU load. Disabling Origin In-Game might’ve fixed that, tho.