Game Performance

[Norv952]

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?

[Bazer_Punk]

Definitively the gpu that gets it, just tried it for 30 mins yesterday, get 45-60fps in high setting with 2xmsaa 1650x1050, got an i7 k2600, 8gb ram and a 2gb ati 6970, cpu and ram is on 40-50% load, gpu 95+

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[Bazer_Punk]

Got loads of texture faults though, going to check it out later on

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[Chaosphere]

For me it runs better than bf3. I'm on a laptop with a 2gb 7970m, and in bf3 it could max everything apart from the MSAA, which required more vram than the card had, so produced weird stuttering. Bf4 however runs with it maxed out too, with steady framerates. Now sure these are in the low 30s and mid to high 20s,but it's certainly playable like that, and looks gorgeous. This is at 2560x1440

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[Norv952]

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.

[Gone_Away]

I must say that a solid GPU will really enhance game performance. My upgrade from my supplier (Lionheart!) has eliminated 95% of the lag I was experiencing.

[Norv952]

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.