# Stuttering, Freezing, FPS drop - FIX **URL:** \ **Category:** PC\ **Created:** [November 17, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785 "2013-11-17T17:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/101 "2013-12-01T23:33:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _WarriorWolf76 said:_ > > > [@](#): > > > > _Zlobakin said:_ > > Guys, enough with this bullshit fix. > > > > It’s from the game and DICE need to fix it, stop touching stuff. It’s not from our computers, it’s their fault. > > True… But I would like to play NOW. Not in 2 weeks when they fix it. If they fix it. So far looking at client patch notes, there is nothing mentioned about any soft of fix which does anything about memory or resource management. It is hard to believe that this is being overlooked. ---
**Author:** ![WoodroweBones](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/94ad74/32.png) [@WoodroweBones](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/WoodroweBones)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/102 "2013-12-01T23:39:00Z")
[http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield\_4/comments/1r7hd6/windows\_8\_bf4\_memory\_leak\_the\_cause\_and\_the\_fix/](http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1r7hd6/windows_8_bf4_memory_leak_the_cause_and_the_fix/) [[reddit.com](http://reddit.com)] This is a potential fix to avoid the leak altogether though its not 100% confirmed working for everyone. For me personally it has allowed me to play for long periods without the issue (previously I’d get the issue almost every map change or sooner) ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/103 "2013-12-03T23:19:00Z")
Interesting, I use Intel card not the Broadcom as suggested in article. I might give it a try. > [@](#): > > _WoodroweBones said:_ > [http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield\_4/comments/1r7hd6/windows\_8\_bf4\_memory\_leak\_the\_cause\_and\_the\_fix/](http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1r7hd6/windows_8_bf4_memory_leak_the_cause_and_the_fix/) [[reddit.com](http://reddit.com)]This is a potential fix to avoid the leak altogether though its not 100% confirmed working for everyone. For me personally it has allowed me to play for long periods without the issue (previously I’d get the issue almost every map change or sooner) ---
**Author:** ![HavokMR2](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HavokMR2](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HavokMR2)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/104 "2013-12-03T23:25:00Z")
Sounds like a neat fix, but honestly… I don’t think anyone who paid money for this game should have to go through such great lengths to play the game with out incident. This is definitely something DICE should look into though. As a consumer, I just want to install the game and play it. I don’t want to have to go into my registry or download a 3rd party app just to get the game not to have any FPS stutter or lag. ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/105 "2013-12-03T23:29:00Z")
Yep and it gets worse, 2nd patch now is not addressing this problem and there is no indication whether this will be ever fixed. If I would be relying on DICE to fix this I would still not be able to play. Problem must be evident with so many players reporting same thing. Also its probably not a rocket science to figure this one out for developers. Its just that nobody cares. > [@](#): > > _SEC9-HAVOKMR2 said:_ > Sounds like a neat fix, but honestly… I don’t think anyone who paid money for this game should have to go through such great lengths to play the game with out incident. This is definitely something DICE should look into though. As a consumer, I just want to install the game and play it. I don’t want to have to go into my registry or download a 3rd party app just to get the game not to have any FPS stutter or lag. ---
**Author:** ![Cassius1988](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@Cassius1988](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Cassius1988)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/106 "2013-12-03T23:30:00Z")
Commenting to save this on my feed. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![HavokMR2](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@HavokMR2](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/HavokMR2)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/107 "2013-12-03T23:37:00Z")
I truly believe that the guys over at DICE are struggling. They’ve come out with 2 or so patches that address the same problems, yet there they still have not resolved the issue for many. And their plate is full with the StarWars game that’s out now too. I bet the developers working on BF4 are new to DICE. ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/108 "2013-12-03T23:44:00Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if this game was produced by Chinese outsourced team under DICE label. ---
**Author:** ![Elmonk\_teh\_Lock](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ad7895/32.png) [@Elmonk\_teh\_Lock](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Elmonk_teh_Lock)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/109 "2013-12-04T00:04:00Z")
Fixed the stuttering effect. Had to unpark the cores and go back a driver on my nvidia card. GUESS WHAT?!?! China Rising comes out and the stuttering comes back! AMAZING. Utterly utterly amazing. Is this some sort of bizarre punishment for not having Premium? FIX THE STUTTER. It’s making the game unplayable ---
**Author:** ![Naliker](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Naliker](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Naliker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 12:15am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/110 "2013-12-04T00:15:00Z")
There will always be stutter no matter what. Heavy relies on storage solution. Mechanical Hard Drive is the biggest bottleneck these days due to slow access time, compared to Solid State Drive and Volatile Memory. SSD can greatly minimize Stutter because Access Time is measured less than 1ms whereas Volatile Memory (or RAM) is measured in Nanosecond and it gives you much more speed; however, it can retain data until power source is gone, and therefore, all data are lost! ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/111 "2013-12-04T20:31:00Z")
I understand if you run out of memory you get stutter if you max out disk usage. You should not see any stutter at all. Whole game is about 24GB, now if you have 8 or 12, 16GB you can surely load whole map and all assets into the memory. Why there is still need to cache or page content? It should all be in the RAM no need to access anything. This is bizarre I get stutter no matter what SSD or HDD does not make difference, I’m not even paging now and get the stutter, its just amazing experience. > [@](#): > > _Surrjoh said:_ > There will always be stutter no matter what. Heavy relies on storage solution. Mechanical Hard Drive is the biggest bottleneck these days due to slow access time, compared to Solid State Drive and Volatile Memory. > > SSD can greatly minimize Stutter because Access Time is measured less than 1ms whereas Volatile Memory (or RAM) is measured in Nanosecond and it gives you much more speed; however, it can retain data until power source is gone, and therefore, all data are lost! ---
**Author:** ![explosivediarrhe](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/9fc348/32.png) [@explosivediarrhe](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/explosivediarrhe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/112 "2013-12-07T03:54:00Z")
Tried it, didn’t help and made everything load much longer, but thank you for taking the effort to do this.. I’m literally at my wits end, been battling on and off with BF4 since beta… ---
**Author:** ![MrAndersonTG](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@MrAndersonTG](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/MrAndersonTG)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/113 "2013-12-07T04:21:00Z")
I tried all the steps too, still crashes, doesn’t recover. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/114 "2013-12-07T23:38:00Z")
Sorry guys that this didn’t work. Please set your settings back to original. > [@](#): > > _MrAndersonTG said:_ > I tried all the steps too, still crashes, doesn’t recover. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Rotty119](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@Rotty119](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Rotty119)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/115 "2013-12-12T04:39:00Z")
buy more RAM. bf4 uses around 12gb with standby certain maps ---
**Author:** ![LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/a88e4f/32.png) [@LondonCitizen](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/LondonCitizen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:37am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/116 "2013-12-23T01:37:00Z")
That’s right. based on the feedback from other post users with 16GB RAM does not have this problem, do not need to clear off standby memory, disabling page file is enough to stop all the stutter. > [@](#): > > _SgtRotty said:_ > buy more RAM. bf4 uses around 12gb with standby certain maps ---
**Author:** ![I\_PROCaterslym](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/f6c823/32.png) [@I\_PROCaterslym](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/I_PROCaterslym)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/117 "2013-12-23T01:46:00Z")
its THE GAME NOT UR PC that’s causing the shutteres ---
**Author:** ![StealthymavericK](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@StealthymavericK](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/StealthymavericK)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/118 "2014-01-22T14:41:00Z")
Having the same problem, what’s really weird is that the stuttering started during gameplay, and haven’t stopped since then ---
**Author:** ![Ultram0r0n](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Ultram0r0n](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Ultram0r0n)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/119 "2014-03-08T21:04:00Z")
Is anyone else having extreme framerate drops after the latest patch? ---
**Author:** ![RowgerThat](https://battlefieldforum.co/user_avatar/battlefieldforum.co/rowgerthat/32/105990_2.png) [@RowgerThat](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/RowgerThat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/stuttering-freezing-fps-drop-fix/151785/120 "2014-03-23T10:01:00Z")
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