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Anonymous
9 years ago

Battlefield 1 Performance

So, I've run into quite a few problems with being able to get some good consistent performance out of Battlefield 1 on my laptop. I have an Alienware15 laptop, with an Intel I7-4710HQ CPU at 2.50 GHz, a GTX 970M graphics card, and 8 GB of RAM. Now when I initially began playing Battlefield 1, I was having a lot of issues so naturally I looked for a way to improve my games performance, more specifically the FPS. I was getting from 10 to 30 FPS, depending on the map. When I pulled up the in-game performance graph, I noticed my Extra Offset value was fluctuating frequently, and was also very high. The answer I came to was disabling most non-windows services, which did help improve my performance slightly. This was about a month ago. Flash forward to roughly a week and a half ago, I suddenly was experiencing a smooth 50 to 60 FPS every game. At this point I was running on a mix of medium to low graphic settings, with V-sync and memory restriction off. DX12 just made things worse, so that was also off. I had no idea what had changed, but the extra offset was fluctuating much less now. About 4 days ago however, I stopped getting such good FPS. I hadn't touched any of the settings, and at this point I'm out of ideas of what I can do.

Any ideas?

Note: Upgrading is currently not a choice.

Edit: I went ahead and was able to swap out my current RAM. I now have 16 GB of RAM, but Im still encountering issues. Currently experimenting with overclocking my cpu.

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  • LilTraumaLlama's avatar
    LilTraumaLlama
    9 years ago

    This is difficult to diagnose as there could be many possible causes. I personally had some problems awhile back due to a nvidia driver that has since been patched. I noticed your post is a bit older so I am curious if the driver update helped you as well? I often run a program by NZXT called CAM it is free for all and works very well, it will allow you to monitor the load on your cpu, graphics card, ram, and temps for all of those devices. Laptops tend to run warm and this can cause thermal throttling which would greatly reduce your frames per second. I would recommend downloading CAM or a comparable software and see what the system temps are. If your temps are the problem you can try getting a laptop cooler which is basically fans that your laptop sit on.  If you notice that the load on your graphics card, ram, or cpu are maxed that is likely the problem. In that case you want to close any programs or background processes that you can before playing. That should help. If you continue to have these problems respond back with the load levels, fps, and temps of your components and I'll try to help as best as possible. Also if temps are running high I would be cautious about overclocking as that can add quiet a bit of heat.

    This is a link to the NXZT software that I use for monitoring. Feel free to use something different though.

    https://www.nzxt.com/camapp

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