Stuttering, Freezing, FPS drop - FIX

Battlefield 4 PC
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thanks

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people, please don’t try to " fix " a game that should be fixed by the company that manages it, you’re only making things worse for your computer trying to play this 1 game.

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I now updated to latest beta drivers and I can say it did not fix my freezing issue, however there is noticeable fps increase on my system especially if I play in 2560x1600 on high settings. This is really nice.

Chocolate Steve, this is a work around, its not a permanent fix, if people have same issue as me this will get them going until there is a real fix which only developers can provide.

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FPS increase has NOTHING to do with CPU\GPU spikes that cause STUTTERING. It will always happen, no matter your average FPS.

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works for me thx! might have to delete 1 or 2 times during a round, not bad at all!

4770k
win7 64bit
2x 660ti
8gb RAM

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For the person with the DirectX error this fixed it for me (I still crash but only rarely maybe 1 time in 4 hours). Also now I have ZERO STUTTERING.

Symptoms:

Crash/Freeze at least every 10 mins mostly with sound-loop or GetDeviceRmovedReason.
Severe lag/sound cutting out after 5 mins.
Generally terrible unacceptable performance.
Severe suck at BF4.

System (Desktop NOT a laptop):

i5 2500K
8GM RAM
MSI GTX 760 TF (Latest drivers + GeForce Experience)
On-board Realtek HD Audio
Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise
20mb/80mb Internet

Previously I tried with little success:

Clean install of audio + video drivers.
Switch to x86 mode in Origin launcher.
Voodoo magic of all kinds.
Change audio quality to 4 in profile (this made a big difference in audio problems).

Here is what actually made a HUGE difference - I mean from crash every game to 4 hours before my first crash (which was a CTD without error first time ever), Almost ZERO lag, no stuttering, no rubber banding:

Settings->Control Panel->System & Security->Power Options

Either set to ‘High Performance’, or..

Change Plan Settings->Change Advanced Power Settings->PCI Express->Link State Power Management->TURN OFF.

Great, now I can get back to listening to Clan F@Gs cry about “DMR Spam” QQ

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@LondonCitizen
Thanks a lot for sharing this
Very useful and interesting as well

@DICE/EA
You are lucky that i like your game too much because this is by far the worst game launch I experienced, very disappointed on that level
not to mention the 59 euro price tag that i had only seen on console and deluxe editions so far

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LOL Are you a F**king idiot?

The game is supposed to use the damned RAM to process the game, not a pagefile. Pagefiles are for ram overflow so the computer doesn’t lose all it’s packets.

You obviously know nothing about computers and SSD’s, so stop trying to give people shitty advice or troll posts.

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I agree , this guy is an idiot.

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Sure, as the others that pretend to solve a GAME PROBLEM\BUG\CODING MEMORY LEAK touching their systems\bios.

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This didn’t work for me, but thanks for sharing

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Thanks for what? *** up our systems in a TOTALLY USELESS way? They\we should blame DICE in stead of posting FAKE FAKE² FAKE³ fixes.

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hey guys I think I found a fix for the 98% memory usage leak, please read this reddit post and respond if it works.

this is fix for only windows 8/8.1 users possibly with realtek lan cards.

http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1r7hd6/windows_8_bf4_memory_leak_the_cause_and_the_fix/ [reddit.com]

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My problem seemed to be my gpu overheating during gameplay

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No way. The problem is the game.

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The actual fact that I could play for 10 minutes and then suddenly game stopped led to also to same conclusion. My CPU or GPU overheating however I made sure my CPU’s been running well with 30 - 40 degrees and GPU well around 50-60 degrees. Guess what I had still same problem. This game needs to be patched.

Now they said they give you pistol scope and double XP event which is worth of nothing if you can’t play. I still need to do this annoying fix where I reset memory all the time. I can now play but the game is still buggy, What about the players which can’t play at all, how they are going to use pistol scope or double XP.

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I’ve tried this reg modification:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
“EnableSuperfetch”=dword:00000000
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000000

This will disable Prefetcher and Superfetch services, can’t decide if it works or not… for the first time i think it solved the problem, there was always some % of free RAM according to RAMMAP’s measurements + as i see the standby memory cleared itself automatically. After some hour of testing i can’t decide works or not… there are still stuttering problems but maybe less… try it by yourself.

If you want to revert the modification write back the following to the registry keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
“EnableSuperfetch”=dword:00000003
“EnablePrefetcher”=dword:00000003

*EDIT: sorry reg keys missing, corrected. Also restart PC after the modification.

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True… But I would like to play NOW. Not in 2 weeks when they fix it. If they fix it.

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Bump so I can test it later.

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EXCELLENT work. I had verified a while ago that many of the crashes (especially between-map crashes) and certainly the lag has to do with exorbitant memory usage. This will help keep it under control, until a BF4 patch hopefully makes it better.

I have also found, FYI, that using the 32-bit exe helps in the memory management to some extent.