Abysmal performance in all Frostbite 3 games over numerous years
So to start this off I've been trying to figure this out for a very long time now. It's been annoying me more and more and now its preventing me from playing Battlefield V so I'm fairly angry. I put together a relatively comprehensive post on /r/buildapc here a few months ago. No results. Before anyone comments, I'd like to clarify the performance I'm getting is completely invalid considering my specifications. I've had some people try to convince me its normal but its clearly not so please don't tell me it is. Also, please don't tell me my PC is technically medium end now because I don't care. It's a very capable system still.
GTX 970
i5 4590
8gb DDR3 RAM
550w Seasonic PSU
On the lowest possible settings in games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, Battlefront 2, etc I noticed pretty horrific performance. My PC under no circumstances should see the unstable framerates that I saw at those settings. On the lowest settings in Battlefield V I rarely exceeded 40fps on multiplayer. One thing that I noticed is that my framerate on all low vs high settings was weirdly similar. It saw almost no variance. I analyzed MSI afterburner closely for dozens of hours to try and figure out the cause. But the only unusual thing I noticed was an unusually large paging file which persisted in a new Windows installation. When I disabled the paging file my game refused to launch. When I set it to 400mb instead of its bloated need for up to 7gb of extra paging file memory it crashed soon after.
Please help!
I'm going to record a video of some gameplay and post it with MSI afterburner running.
@ExaBella wrote:
So to start this off I've been trying to figure this out for a very long time now. It's been annoying me more and more and now its preventing me from playing Battlefield V so I'm fairly angry. I put together a relatively comprehensive post on /r/buildapc here a few months ago. No results. Before anyone comments, I'd like to clarify the performance I'm getting is completely invalid considering my specifications. I've had some people try to convince me its normal but its clearly not so please don't tell me it is. Also, please don't tell me my PC is technically medium end now because I don't care. It's a very capable system still.
GTX 970
i5 4590
8gb DDR3 RAM
550w Seasonic PSU
On the lowest possible settings in games like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Battlefield 1, Battlefield V, Battlefront 2, etc I noticed pretty horrific performance. My PC under no circumstances should see the unstable framerates that I saw at those settings. On the lowest settings in Battlefield V I rarely exceeded 40fps on multiplayer. One thing that I noticed is that my framerate on all low vs high settings was weirdly similar. It saw almost no variance. I analyzed MSI afterburner closely for dozens of hours to try and figure out the cause. But the only unusual thing I noticed was an unusually large paging file which persisted in a new Windows installation. When I disabled the paging file my game refused to launch. When I set it to 400mb instead of its bloated need for up to 7gb of extra paging file memory it crashed soon after.
Please help!
I'm going to record a video of some gameplay and post it with MSI afterburner running.
I can't speak for single player Mass Effect but your PC specs are under the minimum required PC specs to Play Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 5 - specifically your CPU is under the minimu required specs. You can see how your CPU rates against the minimum required CPU here: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-6600K-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4590 The CPU is the most important part of this equation because BF1 and BF5 are hugely CPU intensive games, especially in the multiplayer department. Then your RAM is at the minimum required and performance really suffers online with RAM under 16GB. Your GPU is good to go to play BF1 and BF5.
EDIT: Regarding MSI Afterburner, that application has created performance issues with Battlefield titles since BF3, so if it's running disable it and see if your performance improves. If anything is overclocked Battlefield historically doesn't liked OC hardware so try reverting the clocks back to stock if you have anything OC'd.
MINIMUM SPECS
- OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10
- Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350
- Processor (Intel): Core i5 6600K
- Memory: 8GB RAM
- Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB
- Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce® GTX 660 2GB
- DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent
- Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection
- Hard-drive space: 50GB
RECOMMENDED SPECS
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later
- Processor (AMD): AMD FX 8350 Wraith
- Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7 4790 or equivalent
- Memory: 16GB RAM
- Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon™ RX 480 4GB
- Graphics card (NVIDIA): NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB
- DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent
- Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection
- Available Disk Space: 50GB
