When it comes to these apparent frame drops... do you by any chance get packet loss when they happen? Have you experienced them on different servers?
About graphical bugs... at least from what I am aware, this kind of weird stuff usually is related to graphics card drivers. It seems that sometimes a version which is susceptible to these problems pops up (both AMD and Nvidia have a record of causing this kind of mess in the past, both in BF3 and 4). I remember having a notorious "Nvidia camo" at least once in the past myself. Have you tried to roll back to previous version of your driver? It might do the trick.
There are rare cases where it's caused by some sort of file corruption, but repairing installation (right-click on BF4 in Origin and select 'Repair installation' to do it) usually is enough if that's the case. Still, I would recommend you to do that first.
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I haven't tried the stuttering on a different server to see if it still happens and its relation to undiagnosed packet drops, but to test it against today I used the same server that I used yesterday, and though the stuttering disappeared, the textures are in some of the later stages of decomposition seen in the video.
I haven't updated drivers since upgrading to Windows 8 in early January, where I used the latest drivers for each component at the time. I'll see if I can update/downgrade the gpu drivers from amd, see if all of these various, multi-application graphics issues are still present, and report back. Some of them though, are pretty elusive and decide to appear at random, especially the 100x100 boxes of flickering stuff on the screen in any application.
Since this doesn't only happen in bf4, it might not be a file issue- but I'll try repairing it too. Thanks for all of these suggestions!
Okay, now that is f'ed up... was near first place going defib/combat medic only, and the game just closes after pausing for a moment. Not sure if the sound was looping since my headphones were off, but the game just froze for no reason while I'm walking, nothing graphically intensive. It closed itself afterwards. GPU was only at 60 degrees Celsius, nothing was overheating and no hardware was being maxed on resource usage. Wasn't kicked, either.
This is after I seemed to have fixed the issue by repairing the game, too. I didn't change the driver yet because I figured I was on the latest version.
EDIT: ...and it freezes the system for 30 seconds then closes itself again! This time the gpu was at a meager 50 degrees Celsius, cpu at 40 degrees, and cpu/ram usage remained stable throughout the ordeal, just like before.
EDIT 2: Error on battlelog was "Error: Client closed down connection. Check your network connection".
Damn, I guess my other issue that's been happening since Day 1 about closing the game using the QUIT button after a match ends still prevents me from joining another server is also not fixable? Battlelog just tells me bf4 has stopped responding, and use task manager to close it down- despite bf4's process having already been ended or not existent at all. This happens an excessive amount of time no matter how I end the game, and sometimes takes 10 minutes to rejoin.
