I have the game on PC, and try my hardest to get a solid 60fps. My setup includes:
AMD A-10 7850K Quad-Core CPU
PNY Nividia GTX 960 2GB
8GB RAM (6.7 Usable)
I don’t think the rest matters much at all, does it? But what I can tell, I’m either meeting or above the recommended specs for the game yet on Low settings at 720p, I only get an average of 47fps, often dipping to 30? What am I doing wrong?
Update chipset/gpu drivers. Disable raptr. Make sure you are displaying from the 960 and not the integrated graphics.
I have done all of the above alreade. I also have tried both with and without VSYNC, no change at all.
BF4 is an extremely CPU intensive game. Frame rate dips are CPU related with this game and I feel confident telling you that’s your issue based off your hardware. Your CPU is not the greatest no offense or anything. Make sure there’s no thermal throttling going on the card or CPU as well. If that 960 goes above 81C it will throttle down automatically. Run this utility to unpark your cores.. this prevents cores from ““going idle” if even for a split second and then having to start back up”. A lot of frame rate spikes come from that. Also what’s your Operating System and what kind of hard drive is the game installed on?
When you put settings to low you are offloading a lot of the work to the CPU, and in this case your CPU is severely mismatched with your GPU. I would try to run at 900p and up the settings a bit, see if you can get your GPU to shoulder more of the load. Also, make sure that ALL unnecessary background processes are off, especially origin and your browser/antivirus.
I actually gave this a try before trying anything iwtwe recommended and it actually worked. Doing nothing more than putting the game in 1080p yielded 100+fps usually with dips to 70 in intense action, much better than the 720p 47fps I was getting before. I’ll still probably look into upgrading my CPU, but for now I’m just glad it’s working well.
For future reference, I’m assuming an AMD FX 8350 would do well? Or should I spend the extra $50 on the 8370? I know the latter is both newer and slightly faster, and from what I have seen both are major upgrades over mine, so I’m not sure which would be the better bang for the buck. Do you or anyone else possibly know?
Good deal. I know it sounds counterintuitive (and why many people ignore it) but there you have it.
As for cpu’s. I personally wouldn’t buy an FX series CPU in 2016. The 8350 is from 2011 and isn’t THAT much stronger than yours, not in games anyway. I would hold off for Zen if you have to go amd, or get an i5. Even older i5s do better in CPU intensive games because Intel has so much better single core performance. Not hating on the FX line, had one and it was fine, but that was many years ago. Things have progressed much further. Zen is said to have much better ipc performance if you can wait, but no word on price or details yet.