Constant low fps GTX 780 Ti

Try all of this ...

Run the game as Administrator:
Go to the Origin games folder (C:\Program Files (x64)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4) and find Bf4.exe. Right click it and go to PROPERTIES, then COMPATIBILITY and check the box next to RUN THIS PROGRAM AS ADMINISTRATOR.
Do the same with BF4_x86.exe as well.

Run Origin as Administrator:
Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin and right click on Origin.exe and go to properties. Then go to compatibility tab and check the box next to RUN AS ADMIN.

Disable Origin in game:
In Origin - Application settings - Origin in Game - disable Origin in game

Origin Cloud Storage turn it off
Origin, settings, General

Make Sure BF4 is set to 64bit if your windows is 64bit
1- open origin and go to My Games
2-Right click BF4 and go to Game Properties
3-Under when launching this game set it to x64 and check off disable origin in game.
4- Hit apply REBOOT your PC and then test your BF4

Reboot PC test BF4

Another thing that may be worth trying: run a Clean Boot: http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
This should ensure that no programs are interfering in the background.


Disable Mantle if you have it and try Direct X, Turn OFF Anti-Aliasing Deferred in video card settings in game. If you have page file turned off then turn it back on as this can make errors even with 32gigs ram.

Others have said if they uninstall MSI Afterburner issues / crashing is stopped. So if you have this installed remove program and test BF4. Also look at other programs as Razer synapse, Qualcomm Killer Service ,Fraps,EVGA Precision, Geforce experience, be sure to turn off the streaming function that is enabled by default ,Raptr, RivaTuner , ASRock eXtreme Tuner, Steam, Skype, aero ,Overwolf extra program in teamspeak and xfire are known to make issues as well. And I am sure more programs not in my list yet turn one off at a time and test BF4. Since last patch more programs now give issues :/

Uninstall the HD Audio Driver from the video card driver install add/remove programs. This silly thing makes issues in BF4 for some. Reboot then repair BF4 to be safe.


If all this fails to fix it then try this...

BF4 folder in my documents holds game configs and screen shots even if BF4 is installed on different drive. When you uninstall BF4 it does NOT remove this folder. So when you install the game again you can still have the same issues. Even if its not a new install it is still worth trying as the game cfg could be mucked up.

1- Go to my Documents and remove BF4 folder place it on your Desktop or trash.
2- Be warned you do have to set up your in game settings again.
3-Repair BF4
4- When done go test your game. If it fails reboot your PC and run repair game again and test BF4.

Thank you Zorlacc!

I think I'm getting closer to figuring out what's going on. The issue is happening in BF3 as well so I'm assuming it might be something wrong with the Origin overlay or something specific to both battlefields (punkbuster?).

So after reinstalling the game and having no luck with fixing the issue I followed your first few solutions with running the game as administrator, disabling the origin overlay and cloud services. None of these seemed to help until I restarted my computer.

Howerver, after a while the issue seems to have returned. So perhaps it's a conflict with another program I'm using, that for some reason didn't start up until a couple minutes after rebooting. I'm going to try a clean boot and see if I can figure it out from there.

Yes it could be a program so try the clean boot as well.Ok so for PB do this for both BF3 and BF4..

Go to Punk Buster site
Download PB then extract files to your desktop then open Punk Buster folder. Click on the PB setup and it will open.
Add your BF4 game to punk buster its at the top of Punk Buster.
Then update punk buster again at the top of Punk Buster.

Then do same steps for BF3

http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php

Reboot PC test BF4

Also just to be safe update all this..

Latest version of DirectX see this page
http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35

Reinstall Microsoft C++
http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30679

Update your Microsoft .NET framework.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=30653

Adobe Flash Player update
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/


Reboot PC test BF4

Just wanted to say that this is still happening. I've done everything you've told me to do and nothing has helped. Whenever it starts going to the low fps issue, simply restarting my computer is the only solution I have for now. It seems it doesn't pop back up until after about a day since the last restart. Really not sure what's going on.

I did have a problem where a windows service would use an unusual amount of processing power casuing the CPU usage to be pegged at a near constant 100%. This doesn't seem to be related to the low fps issue as far as I can tell since whenever that does happen the cpu usage is around 60% when I'm playing BF4.

I'm experiencing the very similar problem, and the CPU appears to be the bottleneck, while there is no obvious reason why it  should be (i7 4770K @ 4,6GHz for me). Reinstalled Win 8.1 64 last night and BF4 is currently loading, so I'll see if that does something since all the usual measures did not help at all. Thanks anyways Zorlacc for your help, but it seems there's something else causing the problem. What really bugs me is the fact, that I start out at the usual 140 - 150 fps and then it gradually slows down within 30 mins or so. Only solution: reboot the system. Something clutters up the system in the background...

Sys-Specs:

i7 4770K @ 4.6 GHz

2 x ASUS Geforce 780 GTX (SLi) with latest 344.75 Driver

16GB Corsair DDR3 RAM @ 1833MHz

MoBo ASUS Maximus Hero VII (current drivers)

Hello,

How much memory does battlefield use when it starts to lower its fps ? 

Only reason I can think of that either hardware problem or you need to reinstall battlefield 4 and origin.

For you Propell3rhead look in your bios and see if hypertreding is on or off and set it the other to see if this helps at all.

Okay, to give you guys an update:

First of all: I have the frames back! Bad news is, I don't know why. The BF4 installation is absolutely default, no user.cfg, Origin in game is on.

Re-Installed Win8.1 64 clean. So far only the latest system drivers have been inserted, no additional third party software is installed (such as audio drivers for the headset, mouse driver, etc.), the nVidia driver is NOT updated and is of revision 340.52 as it came with my Windows installation. As already mentioned, BF4 got a clean install from scratch, ran it, fps is back to normal - for now that is...

What's next? 

Will now step by step install drivers and tweak Battlefield as it has been configured before, and will then closely monitor if the fps-decrease occurs again, this might take some time but I am afraid that's the only way to pinpoint the problem.

@Zorlacc: Hyperthreading ON or OFF does not affect my systems performance under BF4 nor BF3 (it never has, also on my former rig), but this might be a factor for others and is worth a try.

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@Propell3rhead wrote:

Okay, to give you guys an update:

First of all: I have the frames back! Bad news is, I don't know why. The BF4 installation is absolutely default, no user.cfg, Origin in game is on.

Re-Installed Win8.1 64 clean. So far only the latest system drivers have been inserted, no additional third party software is installed (such as audio drivers for the headset, mouse driver, etc.), the nVidia driver is NOT updated and is of revision 340.52 as it came with my Windows installation. As already mentioned, BF4 got a clean install from scratch, ran it, fps is back to normal - for now that is...

What's next? 

Will now step by step install drivers and tweak Battlefield as it has been configured before, and will then closely monitor if the fps-decrease occurs again, this might take some time but I am afraid that's the only way to pinpoint the problem.

@2042isNotBF: Hyperthreading ON or OFF does not affect my systems performance under BF4 nor BF3 (it never has, also on my former rig), but this might be a factor for others and is worth a try.

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You said you're runing Win8.1, have you tried running BF4 in Win7 compatibility mode?  Some Win8 users have reported success with that course of action. 

Thing is, it worked for months smoothly under 8.1, and the sudden performance loss happened 4-5 weeks ago. I am not sure if it was some Windows-/driver-update that caused something to mess up. Right now it works flawlessly again with a fresh install of Windows 8.1 64bit. By now I have also upgraded to the latest Nvidia driver and also the peripheral driver (Razer Synapse 2.0) is again installed with no sideeffects.