M17x - Battlefield 3 Discussion Thread

How would you recommend installing the AMD drivers?

Some on the forum here say just installing them over your current one is ok and causes no issues?

What would you guys recommend?

 

every time I install the new driver, I do it through clean install, first delete drivers in the device manager, then reboot in safe mode, performing driver sweeper, ccleaner, then I reboot in normal mode and install the new driver.

nayilalien, did you monitor temps while gaming? How hot is your card?in case you have CAP installed, delete it.

 

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, I have CAP 4, dual 5870's (Non OC. w/ latest drive) 6 gigs of ram and a i7 740. I CANNOT PLAY THIS GAME, lol. AT a 1920 1200 resolution with everything down I still can't play optimally I'll have to reduce to 1440 something. Any suggestions? I made my pagefile 15 gigs, lower all sound files, turned off windows AERO. I'm trying to everything and anything, haha... BUt I can say that it runs smooth at a console resolution

 

darkloki, have you checked GPU utilization? it can utilize one card for some reason, after alt+tab out/in it utilizes both

 

I've been doing that but the micro stutters still occur, particularly on the map Caspian Border. The worst thing that happens to me is the stuttering while trying to make a knife kill I've been cutting out the throats of alot of people as I already have 30 of them, but I could have at least 15-20 more if not for lag

 

does it happen in single player?

 

no SP is flawless looks great and runs smooth, but who care about SP can't personally slit throats in SP with personal satisfaction like you can in MP. I mean my victims have to watch helplessly as I flank them and grab 'em and give them the business.

 

Lol, Don't feel bad I was taking off in a FA-18 and I forgot up arrow is to point the nose down went right off the ship into the water. lol

 

then the only thing I suspect is network/server lag

 

Ever since the Beta, I see that a few people get this kind of issue where the ground is "see-through". Anyone know how to fix this? It happens in the campaign as well as the multiplayer. Here's what I meant: Image - TinyPic - Free Image Hosting, Photo Sharing & Video Hosting My video card is a 460m and it runs the game perfectly smooth.

 

How do you uninstall caps? Temps are fine...max is 73 deg C

 

I think this is an in-game bug, not a gfx card issue. I've seen it on reviews like here:

? Battlefield 3 - BF3 Beta Gameplay - Caspian Border, ft. SideStrafe! - WAY? - YouTube

I think you'll have to wait for a game patch.

 

in Control Panel, Programs and Features. Look if Catalyst Application Profiles present there, uninstall and reboot.

forgot to say: if you experience this stutter only in multiplayer, then most probably it is network lag

 

noo it's happening on SP as well

Edit: CAPS isn't there

Max GPU load is 81%...shouldn't it be 100% when the game is on?

 

Which system should I play BF3 on? Base don the systems in my sigs? Thanks. Obviously the desktop but what about which laptop?

 

it should be utilized at 99-100% almost all the time, both mine are. And your driver, was it clean install?

The most powerful as possible

I don't know, R2 or R3.. you should know better which has more GPU power, as you have both

 

I'm using GPU-z to monitor the temps and the usage....should I give hwinfo a try?

I'm not 100% sure if I clean installed the Driver ...

 

I use HWinfo64 for monitoring temps and other stuff. Also I have GPU Meter windows gadget, it shows utilization graphically

And to be sure, I woul clean the driver and reinstall

 

I might have fixed my laptop, I'm not sure why it happened or what it did but it works and it helped. Basically I went into device manger off of control pannel and updated my video drivers and it downloaded and installed something and it is working better now. I didn't do windows update I did update driver off the 5870 display driver.

 

Any consensus on the best settings for a 580m?

So far I've been using all high except ultra textures, 4x AA. This gets 40-49fps. I tried all ultra, but that resulted in 28fps, which isn't too safe I'd say, of you want to kill your enemies.

 

Update till the newest drivers from Nvidia (With the BF3 optimization), if you allready have those, or if the problem still occour, its a texture bug. Nothing you can do, wait for a patch.

- Scott.

 

darkloki, good to hear you finally solve your problem, I have tried MP, and it is damn good!
Regarding the FPS, the worse that I got is about 30 or upper 20s, but that only happen during heavy explosion on really large map with many players.

Overall it is playable at all ultra, aa deferred off, averaging 35 to upper 40s FPS.

BTW, what is the name of NBR platoon?
Can't seem to find it.

 

M17xr3/ i7 2630QM 2.00GHz/ 6gb ram/geforce gtx 460m

Ive put about 60 min in bf3 already and have yet to finish a game whether from getting d/c'd or it keeps freezing, what can i do about this freezing? im running at about 70deg C while im playing, is it getting too hot? should i get a cooling pad maybe?

 

Its probably the game, not your cards. 70 degrees is not dangerous at all.

A check-question?;
- Have you updated to the latest Nvidia drivers that have the Battlefield 3 Optimization?

If you haven't done that, do it. It COULD solve a bit of the issue, but the game itself is really buggy and a lot of people is reporting disconnection from the servers. They're currently working on optimizing it, the battlelog is kind of "overloaded". (Wrote somewhere that they had about 3 million people TRYING to connect at the same time, on the release day.)

- Scott.

 

yea ive updated all my drivers thats what i was thinking being overpopulated but i have friends that are not freezing and i have better specs than them

 

Yeah.. Well, when you crash, open up Battlelog, and see if the gamelauncher tab (on the bottom bar) sais "You were disconnected from the server". If thats so, then it is because of a bug.


The last thing i would advice you to do then, is to update Punkbuster.

- Download this File (PBsetup.Exe, its the updater client for Punkbuster software, which is used to manage players / protect servers from cheaters in BF3.)
- Launch the app, it will install and check for updates. Let it update!
- Add Battlefield 3 to the list by using the interface.
- Press "Check for update". Let it update!
- It will probably make it a bit better. (At least did for me!)


Other factors that could strike in is location, internet connection, etc.

I'm pretty shure its not your computer

- Scott.

 

ok, you can try the official forum for bugs....

Battlefield 3 PC Discussion : EA Forums

 

I just did a clean driver install. Seems like it has improved Crysis 2 performance apart from mouse's lateral movement stuttering (very light stutterring). BF3 has improved (but could be better) with stock Dell Drivers. 11.9 does not clean install on my machine.

 

why 11.9 does not install? what happens, error during installation, or error after installation?

 

I've OC'd my card to 810/1800 and I use all ultra with no deferred AA but High AA post. Deferred AA kills the frame rates but post has a minimal impact. Yes it isn't as good picture but when you're worried about not getting shot... Anyways those give me smooth and very good frame rates. Definitely higher than 40fps constant.

 

bsod and I lose CCC....while installing.

Then I come back after restart and then the installation goes fine, but games micro-stutter even at high fps (40-50 fps).

 

Well, these cards don't accept the drivers from nvidia and only dell and they didn't update.

 

Is it just me-- or is killing someone with the equipped knife extremely satisfying for some reason?

 

There is a work around for using nvidia drivers.

 

when I went from 11.9 preview to official 11.9, I got install manager error but installation continued, after reboot there were some WMI data errors or something and CCC was not present in the right click menu. I deleted driver again, then ran driver sweeper and two programs to search registry for errors, one is CCleaner the other is TuneUpUtilities, so with both these programs I checked registry for errors and fixed them (there were numerous wrong registry links related to AMD) until both said that everything was OK. Then I installed driver and everythig is good.

Your system is diferent and behaves a bit different, but maybe this approach could help to install the driver properly. Try that again, if you have patience

doing that at 50-60FPS in dx11 satisfies especially

 

First of all, if you have a Mobillity card, you'll need to find the mobillity-class driver for your card. It should be available through Nvidia's webpage.
If you can't find it, find the "full-specced" driver, well, the driver for the non-mobillity version of your card, and extract it to a folder on your PC.

Then, go to;
NVIDIA & Laptop News | Latest NVIDIA drivers and related news | laptopvideo2go.com
There, you can download a INF (? not shure about the extension) file, that you replace in the directory where you extracted the Nvidia driver. This will allow the driver to install on your card.





EDIT : Here is the mobile version of the driver for you;
http://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windo...ok-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe
Should install fine on the 460m.
EDITFINISH.

Good luck,
- Scott.

 

Whats the best AMD 6990m driver for playing this on max settings?
and is the any recommended guide how to reinstall the graphic driver?
thanks!

 

I use 11.9 cap4. All ultra and no aa.

 

CAP4??? Do you install that?

 

Why does the game crash in multiplayer? When I first loaded it I could play for 2-3 hours and then it wouldn't play again. Same message every time "battlefield has stopped working". I repaired and later reloaded the game, updated to A08, and 285.62. Played for 3 hours yesterday and today same issues again... Anyone else having issues with multiplayer? Campaign works just fine.

What about "battlefield has stopped working errors" just before game lauch after connecting to servers? It works after a fresh install for 2-3 hours then *bang* no more battlefield....

 

Game works fine as of this moment. Can't really complain.

 

I have 11.10 preview version installed right now.
Do i need to uninstall 11.10 from device manager first, install 11.9 then at last over the 11.9 cap4?

 

i cant be bothered scouring this entire thread for my system......in my sig...will it run? what sort of detail levels / resolutions will i need to run it at? thanks!

 

I can't be bothered responding to your thread. I am too busy.

Later





Seriously though.... Download Fraps, run it, set everything to medium, then play and add or subtract details until you get around 40-50fps average.

 

ok so I'm kinda worried now I don't know what my PC did but I believe it reverted on it's own in terms of divers. What I mean is when I went into Device Manager and told it to find a driver it found one and installed it. I say older driver because I noticed my Crossfire Symbol while in game use to be silver and just Crossfire, now it says ATI Crossfire . With that being it runs smoother so yeah I'm happier, but I have a flierking problem now, lol. But the previous drivers were so bad that I'll take smooth and flickering over micro-stutter... I just can't win... When I check my Catalyst under the software section it says 11.9 and I installed CAP 4. But like I said it says ATI crossfire and ATI is no longer a company so I definitely went backwards right?

 

Hmm, it says its not compatible.
Edit: Nevermind I found separate download links for the INF files

 

CAP is for multi-GPU systems for proper crossfire functioning

 

Doctor Magneto, what settings do you use for MP and SP?

 

can't say about MP.., I'll start it after I train myself enough in SP

The Campaign I play at native resolution, everything ultra except shadows I turned to low, AA off, and SSAO instead of HBAO (could call them wrong), that gives me 60FPS almost all the time in SP

 

No need fir fraps. Bf3 has a built in fps counter. Hit the ~ then type "render.DrawFPS TRUE" and the game will tell you your FPS in the top right.