theultimateeye :
You have definitely helped. The Sapphire 7970 came yesterday and i am very happy with this card. However i was expecting a little more performance in Battlefield 3. I'm only getting an average of around 43 fps on ultra settings at 1920x1080. It's even lower in Arkham City. I just can't understand how someone can pay over 500 bucks for a graphics card and it doesn't dominate games at 1080p (which is pretty damn standard nowadays). How would i find out how much cpu usage these games are using? My 2500k is still at stock speeds as is the graphics card. Not sure if this is holding me back or not.
I'm astonished to you only getting around 43 fps on ultra settings. I have a MSI 7970 at 1090/1375 and i'm getting around 50-80 fps on ULTRA (Depending on the map/player count - Also i dont consider looking at the wall to get 120+ fps as part of my fps observations - only in fights/open areas). My CPU is only clocked at 3.3 atm (Due to Summer ambient temps in my room, so i had to de-clock it for the time being).
Here are my current settings i
actually play with and my rationale for them. You may be interested in them to raise your FPS, or you may not.
Bear in mind, this is my personal choice so don't take it as a fact sheet.
Texture quality => ultra (get the finest detail possible for clarity)
Shadows => medium (high + ultra => more pretty but actually make it harder for me to play because of the additional eye candy + dark areas. Also i barely notice the difference when i'm actually focusing on playing the game and not "comparing" differences)
Effects => low (i dont really care about this lol but medium/high is good if u want explosions/better light emmissions etc)
Mesh => Ultra (i don't like things constantly "popping up" as i come closer to them, extremely distracting in competitive play).
Terrain quality => high (enough to stop terrain "changing" too much, so it doesnt get distracting (besides i dont even look at the terrain.. i focus on the enemy infront of me or where they potentiall could be)
Terrain decoration => high (same thing as above, dont want too many rocks/flowers popping out. Also higher settings => denser grass, could be a disadvantage because its harder to see enemies proning in the grass etc)
Motion blur => off (i personally love this.. makes the game look realistic, but it diminishes your peripheral vision/some lag for me while aiming so i turn it off)
FFXA => OFF (turning it on makes it look real once again, but its too blurry. dont like it).
MSAA => x2 (crispen's everything up reasonably well, i will explain why i dont
use x4 below).
HBAO => off (once again ,it makes the game more realistic, but also is bad eye candy for me. Some areas become dark etc, harder to see clearly).
Now with my above settings, i am able to maintain a
average 85 FPS (i cap my fps at 85 to eliminate massive fluctuations. Some maps like seine crossing DM, i get like 100fps + most of the time but i want 85avg across the board). There are SOME instances where i dip below to 65-75 (depending on the map/64 player TDM maps espeically) I choose these settings for extremely smooth gameplay - i'm sensitive to lower fps. As i want 85 fps avg, that is why i dont use MSAAx4 which will drop my fps by around 15% (another 8-18 fps).
Check this guide out more if you want to optimize bf3 to your personal liking but know how it will affect fps.
http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/battlefield-3-tweak-guide
Here is another VERY VERY good console command that will give you another...... 5-15 FPS and has
no visible effect to image.
Type "WorldRender.DxDeferredCSPathEnable 0".
And to reduce mouse input lag also use this console command
"RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0" <-- its on by default .
IF you create a "user.cfg" file and type those commands inside (open it with notepad) and place it in your directory Programfiles(x86)/Origin Games/Battelfield3 it should automatically apply those on start up.
Try that, with FRAPS or Render.DrawFps 1 on and see the impact it makes.
ALso there will be new drivers in the future to further increase fps, especially for bf3
i hope as its very popular and a benchmark favourite.
Hope this helps you regarding your
BF3 expectations
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