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pautreek
11 years ago

Variety of BF4 glitches

I'll start off by saying that about two months ago I was able to play BF4 on medium settings at ~60fps with an ASUS 7770, 8GB RAM and an ancient, I know, Phenom X4 965 @4GHz. I played less and less PC because I've just gotten a PS4 however I hopped back on BF4 and I had problems that I've been struggling to fix. All other games have stayed the same (DayZ, Minecraft, LoL, Homefront, Far Cry). I'll do my best to explain:

-I cant play in windowed or borderless mode and the game is stuck in Fullscreen regardless of what the menu says.

-Also, I have a dual monitor set-up and I can only ever play on one of the monitors because a) I cant drag the game to the other monitor b)the game either closes or minimizes completely when I click on the other screen.

-If I do try to change the monitor that the game is displayed on in the video settings then it completely ignores the change.

-I get best frame rates at Medium settings 30fps but whenever I lower the settings down, the FPS either doesnt change or gets worse, it is sometimes better to put it in High rather than Low.

-If I ever make any changes and select "Apply Video Settings" (or whichever settings really) the game goes black, flickers a few times, asks if i want to keep the settings *clicks yes/no*, goes black, flickers a few times, asks again if i want to save the settings *clicks yes/no*, goes black, flickers a few times and sometimes gets in a continuous loop of flickering and you can sometimes see multiple BF4 windows opening with each flicker.

-I get horrible lag spikes with Mantle but not DirectX however Mantle does occasionally let me put the game into windowed/borderless mode and change the monitor.

Here is what I've tried so far (as far as I can remember at the moment):
-Creating a User.cgf file
-Reinstalling DirectX
-Disabling a monitor
-Reinstalling punkbuster
-Decreasing overclocks
-Repairing game in origin
-Disabling Origin in Game
-Updating Drivers / Uninstalling drivers and reinstalling them

-Changing from 64bit to 86 bit and back

I'll keep the post updated with any new glitches or fixes.
Thanks in advance for any help provided.

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  • killerwhalsam's avatar
    killerwhalsam
    11 years ago
    @Nasturbate wrote:

    -I cant play in windowed or borderless mode and the game is stuck in Fullscreen regardless of what the menu says.

    -Also, I have a dual monitor set-up and I can only ever play on one of the monitors because a) I cant drag the game to the other monitor b)the game either closes or minimizes completely when I click on the other screen.

    -If I do try to change the monitor that the game is displayed on in the video settings then it completely ignores the change.

    -I get best frame rates at Medium settings 30fps but whenever I lower the settings down, the FPS either doesnt change or gets worse, it is sometimes better to put it in High rather than Low.

    -If I ever make any changes and select "Apply Video Settings" (or whichever settings really) the game goes black, flickers a few times, asks if i want to keep the settings *clicks yes/no*, goes black, flickers a few times, asks again if i want to save the settings *clicks yes/no*, goes black, flickers a few times and sometimes gets in a continuous loop of flickering and you can sometimes see multiple BF4 windows opening with each flicker.

    -I get horrible lag spikes with Mantle but not DirectX however Mantle does occasionally let me put the game into windowed/borderless mode and change the monitor.

    Firstly can you confirm you are running the game in 64-bit, if you are not run it using 64-bit, Origin > Right Click BF4 > Game Properties > "When Launching this game" > Set to Battlefield 4 (x64) > Hit Apply as in 32-bit mode settings cannot be changed, if you do have 32-bit make this change,

    Go to C:\Users\%username%\Documents\Battlefield 4\settings and open PROFSAVE_profile with wordpad or notepad++ 

Change this line: 

GstRender.OverallGraphicsQuality 5 

Most likely yours is set to 0 so change it to 5. 

You are then able to change every graphics setting in 32bit.
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  • pautreek's avatar
    pautreek
    11 years ago

    Hi, thanks for the reply, it seems as if hardly anyone wants to help me with this one...

    I already had it on 32bit and I checked the prosave file and the line was already set to 5. Any other suggestions?

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