[acoolguy77]

Guys I've tried every thing and it's really starting to piss me off. I used to run battlefield no problem what so ever till maybe 2 or 3 months ago. Now no matter what my settings are, what server, my ping, or how large the map I encounter the same issue. It just gets slightly choppy for like 1 second, every like 5 or 6 seconds. It can be played through, but it is really ruining the game for me. I'd like any suggestions or advice, as I really want to get back to rockin the battlefield. My setup is an AMD 955 quad core black edition, 8 gigs DDR3 (upgraded from 4 gigs hoping the would solve the problem, nope), GTX 570. Last time I updated the drivers (yesterday), I even did a clean install to no avail. anyone have any ideas?

Also, if it means anything, you can see the GPU usage change with the in game settings. The red box being ultra, yellow being high, and green being medium. Same issues each time. I've also eliminated overheating being the problem.

[Ford]

vertical sync on? Should be off... at least back in the DX 9 days.

[acoolguy77]

Off. I'm still stumped.

[Treghc]

It's something game/server-side. I've had the problem on and off a while back. Not exactly sure what it was that fixed it each time, but I just kept playing. Maybe a game update or something that might fix it.

I've had the problem without updating drivers or changing any video settings and it eventually just wen away.

[DayoftheGreek]

Mine did something very similar. Played with all kinds of settings and I honestly forget if I even fixed it because I eventually stopped playing.

This might sound crazy, but try turning off all your background programs. Close chrome/firefox. Getting rid of that server browser window helped me, I think.

[jcdenton69]

gpu usage 4294967296%

[Treghc]

Come to think of it, I remember now. My problem was caused by my CPU maxing out. Every time I'd get a stutter/choppy bit, my CPU was maxing out and unable to handle the load. This seemed to happen for a while, then after a few days, things would be fine.

What CPU are you using?

[dolan]

"amd 955 black edition" according to the op

[acoolguy77]

Tried closing everything in the backround, no dice.

And yeah, amd quad core 955 @ 3.2. Could it really be bottlenecking there? Unless my memory is ****ing with me, when I first got the game I never had this problem.

[General Muffinmann]

****s whack bro

replace everything

[acoolguy77]

****'s not whack though.

I swear.

[Treghc]

Originally Posted by acoolguy77

Tried closing everything in the backround, no dice.

And yeah, amd quad core 955 @ 3.2. Could it really be bottlenecking there? Unless my memory is ****ing with me, when I first got the game I never had this problem.

derp. My bad. Haha.

That could easily be it. When my CPU was maxing out/bottlenecking, it was my Q6600 that I had OC'd to 3.4 ghz. The clock speed means little compared to the overall architecture of the processor and yours is quite dated.

Do this:

Run your task manager and follow the performance tab as you play BF3. Once you get a few instances of stuttering, check your CPU usage and see if it gets random spikes to 100% that coincide with your experiences in the game.

I'm fairly certain it's your processor.

[acoolguy77]

I hate how fast **** becomes old technology. Thought my processor was still the ****.

I will try that and report back.

[acoolguy77]

Welp this is what the cpu says. Not really any "random" spikes to 100, rocks steady around 85-90 as you can see.

The thing is, I never had this problem in the past. It ran fine.