10 years ago
Low FPS due to CPU?
Hi everyone, when playing BF4 my FPS sometimes drop to about 25-35. This happens regardless of what graphics settings I'm using (even on low). I think my CPU might be the bottleneck here but I ju...
Thanks for the tips! I'll definitely check that out.
So do you think I can get a decent framerate on high settings with my current setup?
really couldnt tell you one way tor another ... all depends on you hard drive, if its an older SATA being a spindle based drive you may or may not see a difference. dont know your current financial status but if you can afford to, go out and buy a 240GB SSD. you will see a difference with game load time as well as a few other improvements over the old spindle based drives. not saying throw away the old HDD (Hard Disc Drive). use it as a back up for other programs non-essential to your gaming such as MS Office or whatever. install Windows OS (Operating System) onto the SSD and Battlefield but use the SATA HDD for the other stuff ...
just don't overclock anything. OC'ing (Overclocking) will void your warranty unless it is factory OC'd.
I have to this day, never seen a huge difference in OC'ing hardware to non-OC'd hardware. and really don't care to void warranties just to get a if at all 3% increase in speed difference compared to purchasing hardware only to have it fail and NOT be covered under the manufacturers warranty ...
I had the AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE overclocked @ 3.2G Hz --> 3.5GHz and I also had issues with it dipping to low fps's when alot happened on the screen. Core unparking and an SSD helped getting the minimum FPS up but never was a stable 60FPS.
I already have an SSD (Samsung 850 Evo 250GB) but I still had the game on the HDD. I thought the hard drive only affected loading times but not FPS.
I moved BF4 to the SSD now and I'll check out some Core unlocking for the CPU. I'll see how much that helps and then report here
I'm about to post a link for FTP files I have collected that are directly related to hardware tweaking. I have to re-upload them as I didnt create the proper directories. am in the process of doing so now ...