I've been having an issue the past few days where no matter what video settings I choose I get around 20 FPS constantly during gameplay. This happens with all settings set to low as well as ultra. No changes with the video settings help or worsen the FPS. The same issue happens when I try to play on CTE.So far I have reinstalled my drivers (clean install), they are up to date running on version 344.75. This did solve my issue for a little while but eventually it went back to the low fps issue. It's only happening when I'm playing BF4, all other games I've played work perfectly fine. Repairing the game found one issue with the Naval Strike DLC, fixed it, didn't help. Now I'm trying a reinstall to see if that helps my issue, will update this if it does.I've had my current setup for more than 6 months and this is the only serious issue I've ever had with BF4 or any game I own.Here are my specs:CPU: AMD FX-8350GPU: Geforce GTX 780 TiRAM: 12 GBMotherboard: ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0OS: Windows 8.1 x64I'm hoping someone could help me figure out what's going on. If I have a hardware issue or something was just broken in a recent update.

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 gameOrigin Cloud Storage turn it offOrigin, settings, GeneralMake Sure BF4 is set to 64bit if your windows is 64bit1- open origin and go to My Games2-Right click BF4 and go to Game Properties3-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 BF4Reboot PC test BF4Another 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 BF44- When done go test your game. If it fails reboot your PC and run repair game again and test BF4.

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 siteDownload 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 BF3http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.phpReboot PC test BF4 Also just to be safe update all this.. Latest version of DirectX see this pagehttp://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/confirmation.aspx?id=35Reinstall Microsoft C++http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=30679Update your Microsoft .NET framework.http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=30653Adobe Flash Player updatehttp://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/Reboot PC test BF4

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.

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.

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.

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2042isNotBF
11 years ago
I run BF4 on win8.1 with no issues but I also run this when I think windows may have a issue or after a format after all updates and drivers are done , also I find win8.1 way more stable then win 7. But I remove all apps I will never use and use a local account and I stay away from windows store as well as set up my win8.1 to boot up like win 7 :womanlol: Save this below for down the road as it can save you a format.

Test your windows for errors
This works in all windows O/S vista Win7, Win8 and Win8.1 windows system file checker :] Copy and past this to note pad and put it on your desktop. As open programs can give you errors when you run this.

...... sfc /scannow ..... ever hear of it if not your going to love this .... it will inspect all the important windows files as well as the windows DLL files. If windows system file checker finds any issues with the windows files and windows DLL files it will replace them. This little tool as well as the event viewer saved me and fully helped me fix my BF4 issues as well as saved my .... many a format since I found it. This is the best toy they ever put in windows :]

For win7 go to start left click in search type cmd and right click cmd pick run as admin

For win 8.1 right click start bottom left of screen and pick command prompt admin

1 - Open administrator command prompt and close web pages and programs like origin.

2 - Type or copy and paste in sfc /scannow and hit enter, This takes 5 min to 15 min SSD vs HD

3 - This can go one of a few ways ..... no errors ... it fixed some errors ..... could not fix all errors...... does not finish checking and errors out ....... and the last one could not fix errors at all :/

4 -After its done reboot and do it again even if you had no errors the first time or had errors, could not fix ... run sfc /scannow again and when its done a second time reboot. You need to do this a and get no errors 2 x in a row ...

5- So if you ran it 2x and no errors your safe you can stop now for now lol, If you had errors first time but not the second then run sfc /scannow again and when its done reboot. You need to get could not find any errors 2 x to be safe. If it still finds errors try and run it a few more times until it finds no errors 2x AND ALWAYS REBOOT BETWEEN RUNNING sfc /scannow

6 - If you get a message indicating that it can not be repaired and you ran sfc /scannow more then 3x in a row on win vista or 7 mm you need a format or try repair win 7 :/ But after format or repair and all updates are done run sfc /scannow to make sure your windows is stable same deal 2x error free reboot between them.

If your O/S is Win8 or Win 8,1 then you can run this next command / line in administrator command prompt. Sadly this does not work for win vista or 7 :/ It will restore the health of your PC and you dont lose anything and it will also fix errors in the registry :]

dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ------- ONLY works for windows 8 and 8.1

7 - When its done reboot
Anonymous
11 years ago
I'm having the exact same issues with fx 8350 oc to 4.3ghz, evga 780ti sc.
always running 20-70 FPS, huge spikes and completely unplayable, really disappointed. It's no different to when I had a amd r7 200 card in.
Im running windows 7, would upgrading to 8.1 make much difference?

Will try all the suggested when I get a chance.

I was expecting 100fps plus out of this rig but can't work out why its performing so low!

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