I am having the same issues. At first I thought it was due to the lack of VRAM, but im having my doubts now that I am reading this and people with 3GB VRAM are reporting the exact same issue.
My specs are:
- ASUS Nvidia Geforce GTX 590 graphics card
- ASUS P67 Rev3 1155 Sabertooth motherboard
- 12GB DDR 3 / 1600MHz Corsair Vengeance CL9 RAM
- Intel i7 2700K 1155 processor
- 120GB OCZ Vertex 3 SSD
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
These brief freezes are a real pain and it seriously affects the gameplay. The game goes from a solid 50-80fps on high settings to 30-40 fps, which causes the brief freeze. It doesn't matter whether I'm playing on low settings or on high-ultra.
In addition to my post above:
I have installed the DirectX files found in the battlefield 4 map and I have updated punkbuster. None of them have fixed the brief frame freezes.
Locking my framerate to my screen refresh rate through Nvidia Inspector gives no improvements either. I'm using the latest Nvidia drivers (non-beta).
It is indeed very likely that these short but constant frame freezes are being caused by the processor. Seems like DICE / EA still has a lot of work to do regarding the optimization of CPU usage.
I'm not sure about this, but rumor has is that EA forced DICE to rush the retail version of BF4 because they wanted the game to hit the shelves before Call of Duty. If this is true EA, you should be ashamed of yourselves. You choose to prefer money income above quality and therefore victimizing your own customer. I have paid €120 for this product. We expect some quality in return! Day-one patches are one thing, but we're soon entering the 3rd week of your "final" product and it's unplayable. Get your things straight and start prioritizing correctly, fix this mess!
