bf3 low gpu usage, crashes, maximum 35fps

I too have been experiencing these kinds of issues when I first reinstalled the game. Battlefield 3 can sometimes not work properly when Origin is reinstalled. I recommend trying to repair the game if that doesn't work try reinstalling Origin and BF3. That would probably work. 

And then try to go to Nvidia Control Panel.

Try out these settings, they helped me.

Go over to Adjust Image Settings With Preview
Select Use Advanced 3D Image Settings and hit Apply 

Then go over to Manage 3D settings and change 

Global Program Settings:

Ambient Occulsion= Off
Anisotropic Filtering = Off
Antialiasing-FXAA= Off
Antialiasing Gamma Correction= On
Antialiasing-Mode= Application-controlled
Antialiasing-Setting= Application- controlled
Antialiasing- Transparency= Off
CUDA-GPUs= All 
DSR-Factors= 2.00x (if you can turn them off)
DSR-Smoothness= 35%
Maximum pre-rendered frames= 1
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA)= Off
OpenGL rendering GPU= Auto-select
Power management mode= Prefer Maximum Performance
Shader Cache= On
Texture filtering- Anisotropic sample option...= Off
Texture filtering- Negative LOD bias= Allow
Texture filtering- Quality= High Performance
Texture filtering- Trilinear optimization= On
Threaded optimization= On
Triple Buffering= Off
Vsync= Off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames= 1
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Program Settings: 
Anisotropic Filering= Off
Antialiasing-FXAA= Off
Antialiasing Gamma Correction= On
Antialiasing-Mode= Use Global Setting
Antialiasing- Transparency= Use Global Setting (Off)
CUDA-GPUs= All
Maximum pre-rendered frames= 1
Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA)= Off
OpenGL rendering GPU= Auto-select
Power management mode= Prefer Maximum Performance
Shader Cache= On
Texture filtering- Anisotropic sample option...= On
Texture filtering- Negative LOD bias= Clamp
Texture filtering- Quality= High Performance
Texture filtering- Trilinear optimization= On
Threaded optimization= On
Triple Buffering= Off
Vsync= Off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames= 1
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See if these work, notify if it works 🙂

I tried all these and still not working. The screen blinks black and msi afterburner overlay turns off everytime I change any video option. I think the game forces itself into borderless fullscreen.

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@SiNsOfThEDeViL wrote:

Have you tried going in Documents>Battlefield 3>settings>PROF_SAVE_profile

Try changing settings there. Also, I restarted my PC (recovery option) reinstalled Origin and BF3 and it was working fine. Try that

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@Mute1001010 

Did those steps help out?

@Mute1001010 

Marked this as solved for visibility purposes if others are looking for help with a similar issue. This will make it easier to find a workaround fix, but if you still need help we'll remove the accepted solution.

Thank you for playing Battlefield! 

I reinstalled origin and bf3 and now game runs over 100 fps, but options menu is still malfunctioning. resolution and refresh rate are undefined. but good the game finally works.