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OIOI, just found the server, see you on it soon

Ok here's my two pence worth,

Graphics card is almost always going to be the best upgrade but whacking a 780Ti in your current rig would mean the card was unable to operate to its full potential because it would be hugely bottle necked by your CPU
Without knowing your exact budget there's a few ways you could go:

•   Motherboard Gigabyte H81M-DS2, £45.00
•   Ram 8gb (2x4) Teamgroup elite black, 1600MHz DDR 3, £60.00

that's a good start for a budget gaming system, you could spend 10x that on a motherboard but I'm going to assume your not overclocking the living daylights out of it and this board will be fine for running at stock speeds.
Now, CPU, if you have the funds go for the I5, if not the G3220 is a solid CPU that wont hold back a modern card too much and can be easily upgraded later down the line.

•   Intel G3220 Haswell, 3.0 GHz dual core £48.00
or
•   Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz  quad core £186.00


And for graphics you can really spend a fortune but i would be thinking:

•   KFA2 Geforce GTX 770 EX OC 2048MB, £255.00 will be enough to max the game out at 1080p, Ultra settings and maintain 50 + FPS (possibly 45+ with the G3220)
or
•   VTX3D HD 7870 X-Edition 2048MB, £140.00 will give you 35+ FPS at 1080p on Ultra (possibly 30+ FPS from the G3220)

If you know how much you want to spend I can look into exact options for you.

Yes a decent GPU is a must, dice say with 3GB of Vram or above but mine never uses more than 1.7GB on ultra at 1080p so you would be fine with 2GB unless going for a super HD resolution or multi monitor setup.

I was considering a second card but the games running ok for me now and I have abandoned monitoring FPS and just enjoying the action now.

Well last weeks patch seems to have solved some issues but not all, the sound is still buggy on a few maps, and still get the BF4.exe has stopped working which appears to be a memory leak, i have removed the overclock from my gpu and its slightly more stable but still not great, also netcode seems slicker now and not as frustrating but still not as good as bf3, looking forward to next patch.

Ayup Dods,

Welcome to the crew, hope you have fun and enjoy wasting insurgents, are we on for a big session on friday? I've not really had a chance to spread my wings yet with work and decorating and drinking copious amounts of beer I always seem to be on alone.

Evening all,

Anyone on later?:norty:

Awesome news, getting back into it a bit now, still cant hit the side of a barn @ 40 paces but improving slowly.

Hi Folks,

I thought I would start a thread for discussing performance:

The game is clearly heavier on the system than BF3 but from what I can see its quite well optimized, I normally run EVGA Precision X and HWInfo  to monitor cpu load and system ram usage whilst in game but they wont load with  BF4x64.exe , I will report back with some results after I setup some logging in the background.

The inbuilt performance benchmark in the BF4 menu will not give me any results for any of its tests, it comes back with a score of "0" and suggests lowering graphics settings, is anyone else having this problem with the inbuilt benchmark?, has anyone had any success with it?

lots of info on the internet suggests that the game is very cpu dependent but so far I have found the opposite, in my system my 670 4gb is clearly the bottleneck, there is no difference in performance running the cpu at stock or OC'd to 5ghz, I think an i5 would be plenty to run the game at a smooth frame rate without bottle necking even a pair of decent GPU's in SLI or Crossfire.

here are my results so far, if anyone wants to post there performance figures it would be interesting to see how others are fairing.

Win 8.1 x64
i7 2700k @5.00GHz
8Gb DDR3, 2133
Galaxy GTX670 EXOC 4Gb @ 1250 MHz boost
1920x1080p
ultra setting
4xmsaa
high post processing

In 64 player maps with Vsync I sit mainly at the 60 FPS cap with occasional drops to 50 FPS and  rare drops to 45 FPS.

without v sync the FPS can spike into the late 70s  but the drops remain the same, also lots of tearing.

The game is more than playable at this level but I would like to get rid of some of the FPS drops, so far I have come to the conclusion that a second 670 would be the most sensible upgrade at the minute. no amount of system tweaking or pushing the overclock will make any difference at this point.

Anyone have anything to share?

Hi Folks,

I'm back after a huge gap and just installing BF4, is there a new try out process? I'm hoping to get stuck into some games again with everyone if possible and have a firend, Dodsy who would like to come and have a few games too,  looking forward to getting blown to pieces with you lot again so ill see you (or parts of you)in the game as soon as its installed.

are there any performance tweaks anyone has found or issues that can be avoided?

Hi all,

Ive been gone a while and appologize for not seeing you online, I will try and be on the server asap.

I tried to get a few games in on my new rig and everythings gettin really laggy with ctd and freezing, all other games and 3d mark tests etc run fine, anyone else having issues, ?

is friday still dMw v the world?

Just creating acc now, not sure what sides classes etc never mind a name, brb

real temp is as accurate as your going to get without drilling a hole in your cpu, sounds ok now, 53 ish in game is fone nothing to worry about, I wish I could see whats stopping that clip going in, my advice: keep an eye on your temps for a while, if everything seems ok it probably is, 15's are quite robust chips (all intels are) i doubt you will break it, it will shut down if it needs to.

Get well soon matey, you never think about your heart ever letting you down (at least i dont), Have a good birthday and stay positive, look forward to seeing you in game soon.

Odd DD, I noticed higher vram usage on the new maps but nothing more than 100mb or so, they shouldnt be too much of a drain compared to the old, do  you have an intel hyper threaded cpu?

If so try dissabling the hyper threading in the bios, when I first got the game I hadbad stuttering until i dissabled hyper threading.

I have it renabled now and the stuttering seems to have gone since the patch but everyones having different results.

Also try dissabling origin in game, this can be responsible for stutter, go to origin options and choose settings, then  "ingame" and untick enable origin in game

The giveaway for me that something was wrong came when I lowered all settings to low and still had the stuttering,  also try turning off v sync and tripple buffering, you can also force max frames to render ahead to 0 which may help, I have created a txt file in my bf3 folder called user.cfg and added the following lines:

RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 0

Good luck

Ill be on, got a friend comin over to use the other pc as well, hes a Mw3 PS3 player so well have to show him  how the propper blokes roll