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SweeTooth8
14 years ago
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Pixelated and very low textures. UPDATED*

Dear EA I bought a new GPU this week and its working fine with other games. But with BF3 I'm getting low FPS only 65FPS and I should get 80+ comparing to other similar PCs. And about 25% of my gam...
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  • SweeTooth8's avatar
    SweeTooth8
    13 years ago

    Hej!

    I  fixed the FPS and FPS drop, and both they will fix the other problems.

    I installed Windows 8 and formatted my SSD low. Sure it took longer time but it helped.

    But I don't know what fixed it the windows 8 or the low formation. Anyways I think windows 7 had/have an recent update that screw things up.

    PS. I would like to know your system, if you dont mind.

    MVH

    Noooobody

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Anonymous
14 years ago

Hey Noooobody,

To me it seems like an issue with the static shadows for your GPU. As you are running BF3 with Dx11 or 10. Other games may not reflect the same issue as they will 99% run with DirectX9.0.

This is due to the shadows moving during your gameplay. rather than being burnt into the picture (IE: allways the same spot)

With a 7900 series GPU you should be able to ULTRA the heck out of BF3 without any issues.

One thing you can try now is to set your "Shadow Quality" to medium or low to see if it helps anything.

Otherwise try the following changes to your game settings:

Vertical sync: Off

Motion blur: disabled (move the bar all the way to the left)

Graphics Quality: Custom 

Texture quality: Ultra

Shadow quality: High, Medium or low (Try with all 3)

Effects Quality: Ultra

Mesh Quality: Ultra

Terrain Quality: Ultra

Antialiasing Deferred: Off

Antialiasing Post: Off

Motion Blur: Off

Anisotropic Filter: 1x or 4x

Ambient Occlusion: HBAO


- Could you list other games you tested just to confirm?

- Could you post a screenshot of your in-game settings? in the "Video" section.

- Can you let me know exactly which GPU you have? 7970, 7980 or 7850 are very different 🙂

- What Processor do you have?

- Youre running the game at 1440x900 resolution, this can also cause the problem. Try with 1280×720 on both your desktop and in the game itself.

ADDITONAL:

It could also be caused by background programs:

BitTorrent

Steam

Skype

All 3 are known to hog up your CPU as mad due to their constant refreshing.

Furthermore your monitor is refreshing at 75MHz, if your game is running at less than 60 FPS then that will be an issue too, you can usually change this in your monitors options.

  • SweeTooth8's avatar
    SweeTooth8
    14 years ago

    1. DX11(BF3 doesn't have dx9 😕mileyhappy:

    2. I have it as IE: (always the same spot) but the glichy thing changes shapes-

    3. Crysis 1 and 2. and other games like cod...

    4. Settings I have it in ultra (Def) but the blur is off.

    5. Sapphire 7970 OC

    6. I5 3,20

    7. (1280×720) I would like to do that but the screen would look so ugly. No thanks

    8 NAAAAHHH come on man that's old talk, programs don't use so much memory or/and CPU in this days.

    I have 8gb ram :D

    so basically I have gaming PC but

    Thanks for caring :heart:

    P.S. if you look closely you will see that the glichy thing is over the whole screen but the color of it is gray and most of the screen is black gray and that is why you can't see it. The thing is IM thinking... That its not from the GPU actually, its from the game. The glichy thing is not over the HUD its only in the game. (if you know what I mean, god I hope)

    • SweeTooth8's avatar
      SweeTooth8
      14 years ago

      I have now other problem ☹️

      Im having really low res textures and I have to restart my game sometimes to get it right.

      And my FPS is even more dropping Im having 30FPS or something and at that Im having little lag.

      Guys, please help me. I'm in need

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      14 years ago

      1. You never read what I said 🙂 I said OTHER games will run Dx9, I am fully aware that BF3 uses Dx11.

      2. This is because those speciffic spots have static textures (moving shadows) where as other places don't. (static shadows is your own shadow as it will move depending on where you are.)

      3. Crysis 1 + 2 and COD only uses DirectX9.0 unless you for Crysis 2 install the HD texture patch. Otherwise it's Dx9.0 so this does not exclude that your GPU is either damaged from fabrication or shipping.

      4. Thats good, can you try with the settings I posted above. All we need is 5-10 minute gameplay to see if it makes any improvements.

      5. Sapphire 7970 OC (seems fine, did you OC yourself or from fabric?)

      6. I5 3,20 (Seems fine)

      7. All we need is 5-10 minute gameplay to see if it makes any improvements.

      8. I stream at 1080p I am fully aware how big a difference some programs can make on the quality. As said above twice, try turning them off 5-10 minutes and see if it helps ^^

      @ 2nd problem.

      1. http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

      Stress test your GPU overnight and post the results.

      2. Set your monitor refresh rate to 60MHz instead of 75MHz (again 5-10 minutes is all we need)¨

      3. Is the problem there from the start or after a few minutes of playing?

      • SweeTooth8's avatar
        SweeTooth8
        14 years ago

        1. Sorry for that, 

        2. ...........

        3. I have my crysis on DX11 high textures.

        4. Its not about all we need is 5 to 10 min. The problem is not always there. Sometimes it happen to me. As I said "about 25% of my gaming time this week with BF3 it happen a glitchy/pixelated" 

        5. Its already OC not me. And it seems fine? XD you are funny. Its one of the best, and you say it seems XD come on man

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        1. Look really down!!

        2. Why? I don't think the problem is there.

        3. Yes when I start my game it was like that, ugly

        BTW today in the morning I reinstall my windows 7 64bit. To just see if there was a problem in the system registry or anything might causing this FPS drop problem.

        Thanks a lot for caring for my problem <3

        the burn in test resolts was the same as the benchmark.

        Benchmark:

        SCORE:2473 points (41 FPS, 60000 ms)

        Max GPU Temp: 74°C

        Resolution: 1280x720 (FS) - AA:8 samples

        FPS: min:42, max:43, avg:41 - OPTIONS: XB FX DynBkg

        AMD SI TAHITI XT (1002-6798)

        Catalyst 12.6 - 8.98-120611a-141402C-ATI (6-11-2012)

        core:950MHz, mem:1425MHz

        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         750  @ 3200 MHz

        8151 MB

        Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]

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