Re: Tried everything - CPU/GPU spikes still making the game unplayable for me....

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@z1kje wrote:

same problem here: huge fps drops since new patch

I might try older AMD drivers, but I have no clue. Perhaps disable Mantle.

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Disabling Mantle often helps affected AMD owners who suffer poor frame rates.  My suggestion is to disable Mantle and when the next AMD driver set comes out try mantle again.  if Mantle is still bugged (it is still in Beta) then go back to direct X until Mantle is fixed.

Also if you guys have Origin in game enabled please disable it and see if that helps as it makes problems similar to what you describe.

To turn off Origin in game log into Origin, in the upper left hand corner click on the word "Origin" in the menu, and then click on "Application Settings".  Next go to the "Origin in game" tab and uncheck the "enable Origin in game" box.

No mantle here. Also, no origin in game here. I have tried every similar suggestion, and none worked. I'm facing a brick wall here

I'll be very specific, so there is a chance someone might know what's happening: my problem isn't exactly poor frame rate. I can achieve a stable 60fps in most settings, in most circunstances. It is the CPU/GPU spikes, that translate into mini-freezes all over the place. The first two, five at most, minutes of the game are usually more or less fine, even though there are some spikes here and there. After that, the game becomes utterly unplayable. I can't walk a street without the game breaking and advancing, breaking and advancing, every fraction of a second. The CPU/GPU graph gets spikes that go to the top of the screen. Perform an action, like zooming with a weapon, means a spike. Just being on the respawn screen, changing a class, equipment, etc, means loads and loads of spikes.

I've got other problems, which may or may not be related. Huge loading screens, for example. Also, don't know if it's normal or not, but the textures in the game take a lot of time to load. The first 10-20 seconds in a game, I feel like I'm playing a game like Counter Strike, with very poor textures. They eventually load fully, though.

I *might* have solved part of the problem by disabling origin in-game in the game proprieties. Which doesn't make ANY sense, since I had it disabled in the origin definitions first.....

I also changed one Nvidia definition, so it might be that too.

However, my problems aren't solved. Now, in fact, I'm having new ones. I'm usually crashing when on loading screens, and can't even join a level. When I am able to join a level, my character is invisible, most sounds are gone, and I can't use certain weapons/gadgets....

Still spikes all over. However, today I was able to play a full game smoothly. Still testing and trying to understand why

I repaired the game and reinstalled origin. That didn't work. Deactivated Anti Virus. That was not the first time I did it, and so I never really noticed any difference before, so why now? However, I opened task manager and ended a process named audiodg.exe. Nothing happened. A new round started. The game started playing very smoothly, at least much better than before. I reactivated the process, and the game continues to play smoothly.

So there might be something related to it. Or it might be totally unrelated, because truth is, I'm also playing with only 10-20 people max on small maps now. So it's either one thing or another. Or it might be neither of them and, in that case, I'm again not knowing what to do.

Can I get some help here?

Im increasing the map size and player number. I'm at Golmud Railway, Conquest Large, with 64 players, and my game is playing smoothly. I can't understand this. I don't know if it's related to that process, to something else, or if this whole thing is just random.

I AM still getting some spikes and frame drops, but now they are related to something happening to the game. Not getting them while standing still or looking at the menu screen, for no reason at all.

I have a mix of medium and high settings right now, with Vertical Sync and Motion Blur 50%, Res Scale 100%.

To the poster above: Yes, I've considered playing on a 32bit with a max of 3.25 ram as the cause of these spikes. But seeing as I can play the game more or less fine SOMETIMES, for some reason I can't understand, I can't see how it must be that. And I've heard of players who did change to 64bit but continued having the same problems, so I'm reluctant to do that

I need to to know exactly what is happening right now. If my game is playing fine, I need to know what caused it to run fine, so I can control it.

Whatever all says , i still belive that the problem is from the low RAM space.

because 4 GB is very low for the game , because my brother started to play with even 6 GB and he was having freezes after some muinits if starting play , and i told him to upgrade to 8GB and after he did that , there is no freezing any more.

And i think that if you tryed Siege of Shanghai you will have the biggest amount of freezes because this is a large files size map , which needs big size from RAM.

I am playing with Core i3 , GTX650 , 8GB Rams and there is no freezes at all , while your PC Specs is much better than me with the GPU and CPU and Even RAMs!

So the only different thing is the operating system , because when i play the game i can see that the RAM usage is near by 6 GB or some less , while all RAMs you have is 3.25 !

And did you tested the GPU and CPU temps while gaming?