hey, just wanna thank you again for the beginning steps toward fixing my issue last night.  I'll probably call again tonight to continue the fixes for drivers and whatnot.
Thanks again

crazyg0od33


hey, just wanna thank you again for the beginning steps toward fixing my issue last night.  I'll probably call again tonight to continue the fixes for drivers and whatnot.
Thanks again

 
NP bro
 
Was a pleasure meeting you and I look forward to working with you again

Games running smooth now 
 
so many suicide bombers in the last game just got me so many assault points.  I think I got like 9 medic ribbons haha

Hi Maniac! I really need your help, my rig is:
Motherboard: ECS a740 gm-m
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 3,2 Ghz
RAM: 3gb DDR2 (NB Frequency: 1600 mhz, DRAM Frequendcy: 266 mhz)
HDD: 160 hb sata2 
Video card: EVGA GTX 460 SE
Display: Lg Flatron D2342 Res: 1920x1080
 
I get generally over 30 fps with your settings, i have exactly your settings, but it always drops to 20 and its unplayable, what can i do?
 
Hope u reply
 

Ignaliza


Hi Maniac! I really need your help, my rig is:
Motherboard: ECS a740 gm-m
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 3,2 Ghz
RAM: 3gb DDR2 (NB Frequency: 1600 mhz, DRAM Frequendcy: 266 mhz)
HDD: 160 hb sata2 
Video card: EVGA GTX 460 SE
Display: Lg Flatron D2342 Res: 1920x1080

I get generally over 30 fps with your settings, i have exactly your settings, but it always drops to 20 and its unplayable, what can i do?

Hope u reply

 
Just saw this... give me 4-5mins and I'll post up a fix for you
 
 
CPU: Athlon II X3 450 at 3.2 Ghz 
RAM: 3gb DDR2 400
This is whats causing the FPS drops... not really much you can do there.
 
I suggest that you -drop- some settings to free up more CPU for the game....
A little less eye candy and less frame drops

 
Also your config will really perform better in regular maps, as B2K and CQ map "destruction" will really tax your CPU...
Try and play in servers with lower player counts, as the more players there are the more CPU it takes to keep track of them, 24 players or below would work best....
 
Give those settings a try bro
 
Oh... and welcome to the EVGA forums
 
 
 

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Ignaliza


Hi Maniac! I really need your help, my rig is:
Motherboard: ECS a740 gm-m
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 450 3,2 Ghz
RAM: 3gb DDR2 (NB Frequency: 1600 mhz, DRAM Frequendcy: 266 mhz)
HDD: 160 hb sata2 
Video card: EVGA GTX 460 SE
Display: Lg Flatron D2342 Res: 1920x1080

I get generally over 30 fps with your settings, i have exactly your settings, but it always drops to 20 and its unplayable, what can i do?

Hope u reply

 
Reply posted above

Thanks men, what changes can i do to my rig? With like $ 300-400?

Ignaliza


Thanks men, what changes can i do to my rig? With like $ 300-400?

 
There is little if anything to throw money at with such a setup bro...... it just to old.
 
$400 is getting close to what you would need for a brand new MB/CPU and RAM.
I would keep saving money for a total new system upgrade
 
If you want you could also post a separate thread with your -exact- complete system specs...
And see what other users here could suggest 

Men ure a freakin god, now the game runs good over 30, sometimes 25 but playable, and still looks cool! damn, i thought that amd cpu triple core was good :/
 
Thanks dude

Ignaliza


Men ure a freakin god, now the game runs good over 30, sometimes 25 but playable, and still looks cool! damn, i thought that amd cpu triple core was good :/

Thanks dude

 
Your welcome
Its not that the CPU is so bad, its not... its just that BF3 asks alot of a CPU's horsepower....
 

all makes sense, thats why i can play campaign on ultra, no player controlled enemys, just simple npc

maniacvvv

gamernut78


OK i'm back to report something i didn't even know. My preset actually had NO AA on at all and SSAO on and Motion Blur was on. Weird? I didn't pay attention til i actually realized that. Textures are on ULTRA and everything else medium. So what i did now is set to custom and left everything on and AA is off and i set Motion Blur off and my AF was previously set x8 so i pushed it to x16 and NO ssao and hbao. Such a shame really cuz i like HBAO or SSAO. Shouldn't i be ok to play all ultra or some should be HIGH like shadows and Post Processing?

Choose the "High" preset, save changes and resume into the game...
Hit escape and bring up the Video options

Make sure "Texture Quality" is set to HIGH
Make sure "Deferred Antialising" is set to OFF
Make sure "Motion Blur" is set to OFF
Make sure "Ambiant Occlusion" is set to OFF

Save the changes, and resume the game.... then EXIT and QUIT the game completly.
Restart for the changes you made to take effect.

his
I know this is a old post of yours but i have a SSD now but does that affect anything i should change in my graphics or should i keep the same settings you recommended in the past?
 
i5 760 2.89ghz mild overclock due to memory tuning. I don't care if i wanna push it more and i don't intend to.
Corsair H70 cooler
8 gigs of ram 1600mhz Yes it's on XMP in bios.
Corsair 650 watts the yellow box version not the newest ones that came out.
1T Western Digital Black and a 80gb 320 intel SSD!<--This is my Primary OS and BF3 only :D
GTX 560 Ti Classified.
Sabretooth 55i motherboard.
ASUS V248H Monitor. Running HDMI.

gamernut78

maniacvvv

gamernut78


OK i'm back to report something i didn't even know. My preset actually had NO AA on at all and SSAO on and Motion Blur was on. Weird? I didn't pay attention til i actually realized that. Textures are on ULTRA and everything else medium. So what i did now is set to custom and left everything on and AA is off and i set Motion Blur off and my AF was previously set x8 so i pushed it to x16 and NO ssao and hbao. Such a shame really cuz i like HBAO or SSAO. Shouldn't i be ok to play all ultra or some should be HIGH like shadows and Post Processing?

Choose the "High" preset, save changes and resume into the game...
Hit escape and bring up the Video options

Make sure "Texture Quality" is set to HIGH
Make sure "Deferred Antialising" is set to OFF
Make sure "Motion Blur" is set to OFF
Make sure "Ambiant Occlusion" is set to OFF

Save the changes, and resume the game.... then EXIT and QUIT the game completly.
Restart for the changes you made to take effect.

his
I know this is a old post of yours but i have a SSD now but does that affect anything i should change in my graphics or should i keep the same settings you recommended in the past?

i5 760 2.89ghz mild overclock due to memory tuning. I don't care if i wanna push it more and i don't intend to.
Corsair H70 cooler
8 gigs of ram 1600mhz Yes it's on XMP in bios.
Corsair 650 watts the yellow box version not the newest ones that came out.
1T Western Digital Black and a 80gb 320 intel SSD!<--This is my Primary OS and BF3 only :D
GTX 560 Ti Classified.
Sabretooth 55i motherboard.
ASUS V248H Monitor. Running HDMI.

 
No changes are needed for using a SSD with BF3

Hi BF3 superhero jaja, do u know what else can I do? i still get many fps drops to -20 :/ 
Hope u reply :)

Hi maniacvvv, what can you say about the latest nvidia beta driver 304.48? Though you previously mentioned that the current best driver for BF3 is 301.42WHQL, I still need your personal opinion on the current beta.
 
This might be my first post on EVGA forum, but I frequently visit this thread for info regarding BF3.
 
Thanks!

Ignaliza


Hi BF3 superhero jaja, do u know what else can I do? i still get many fps drops to -20 :/ 
Hope u reply :)

 
With that CPU and only 3gigs of RAM.....
You would want to focus on making your "Boot to Desktop" as clean as possible
 
This means making sure that -nothing- loads at boot that is not needed.
Do a fresh boot to the desktop and open Task Manager

 
What you want to see, is the fewest processes and lowest memory footprint
*In my example above, its 37 total processes, zero percent CPU use and 14% of my installed ram
 
Now it gets alittle tricky... you have to know "what" is important and what is not.
Use the MSCONFIG (Startup Tab) and take a screenshot of everything that is Checked and host it, then post a link here with the www. part missing, and I can look it over and suggest things to turn off for testing

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Hi maniacvvv, what can you say about the latest nvidia beta driver 304.48? Though you previously mentioned that the current best driver for BF3 is 301.42WHQL, I still need your personal opinion on the current beta.

This might be my first post on EVGA forum, but I frequently visit this thread for info regarding BF3.

Thanks!

 
If your only playing BF3 and using a 500 series card, I still suggest 301.42
But that does not mean you cant try 304.48 and test it out, remember everyones config is unique and you might have better performance. My SLI 580's did not like the beta and I took it off after one map of BF3... 
-BUT- Its always worth testing Nvidia sets to see what works best for your config and installed games.

Thanks Maniac for the real help,
 there are 3 images, I don't know what from the 3 is the thing i must look for because im using windows 8 consumer preview 32 bit
 
hope u reply! :)

uhhh i forgot the pictures, here.. 

imageshack.us/g/109/servicemsconfig1.png/

Ignaliza


Thanks Maniac for the real help,
there are 3 images, I don't know what from the 3 is the thing i must look for because im using windows 8 consumer preview 32 bit

hope u reply! :)

 
Kill all of the processes listed with a RED K for startup....  should help ALOT

 
*some of those like MSM, Rocket dock, Systry and Facemoods are memory/cpu eaters and Hamachi should -never- be loaded at startup
 
Bro, you are running a 32bit OS with 3gigs of RAM.... You just cant be loading that kind of junk, you do NOT have the memory or horsepower.
 

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so I gotta install the release preview 64 bit version?

@Ignaliza
You mentioned before a $300-400 worth of upgrade. Judging from your current system I'd say upgrading your RAM is the cheapest and effective way to reduce sudden hiccups and frame drops. After that, a 64bit Windows 7 is needed to support that 4Gb and up memory size.
My 2nd system which only had 2Gb DDR2 of memory, upgraded to 4Gb DDR3 made great improvements in performance specially on large maps and 64/64.
 
@maniacvvv
Installed and currently using the latest 304.48BETA and spotted no noticeable difference in BF3 performance but Diablo 3 is performing better and smoother. Many thanks for your advice!

yeah, but my pc wont support ddr3 ram, it only supports the non gamer ddr2, does that affects? cuz there is a notable price difference 

DDR2 should be crazy cheap now.  And you dont NEED the 64 bit, but 32 bit cant handle more than 3GB of RAM, so you should probably install 64 bit anyway and up the RAM to 4GB+.
He was mainly saying (I had the same issue with all the running things as you) that you dont have enough RAM to be running all those things at startup to begin with

ok, thank you all, if i change the mb, cpu, ram and hdd, can i keep the gtx460? will the games run good?

Ignaliza


ok, thank you all, if i change the mb, cpu, ram and hdd, can i keep the gtx460? will the games run good?

 
If you upgrade all those items... you will probably want a better videocard and a new PSU.
 
There are some very nice deals on 1155 socket MBs, 2500K's are cheap and DDR3 ram costs next to nothing.
Like I said, $400 is a great start and would get you all the above... but then you would want a better videocard for a game like BF3 and would probably need a new PSU to power all that.
If I were you, I would save up another 300-$400 dollars and then you would have a great setup 

ok thanks

Lol, I just installed the 304.48BETA recently then suddenly nvidia released 304.79BETA... Oh well, I'll go on ahead and test this new BETA with their so called new feature, the TXAA. Hope this works well for BF3 cuz I still gettin that random hardlock while playing.

hi maniac, i was thinking and... can u post a ss about ur specs?
thanks!