FPS dropping but GPU or CPU barely reach 80% Usage

[freexavier]

Looking at certain areas in BF4 my frames go down from 90 FPS to 40 FPS but my GPU and CPU barely reached 80% usage. As shown in the pictures. Also there are other areas like that in the pictures. Also I have the feeling its caused by my RAM's speed. Since BF4 is known for having better performance with RAM that have higher clocked frequency.

 

Specs:

CPU: i5-4570

GPU: Sapphire Dual-X R9 270x 2GB GDDR5

 Driver: ATI Catalyst 14.7 x64 BETA

RAM: 1x HyperX blue 4GB 1600Mhz 1x HyperX blue 8GB 1600Mhz = 12GB DDR3 1600Mhz

 RAM Timings: 8-9-8-19

 Channel: Dual

Motherboard: Asus H81M-C

HDD: 1x Hitachi HDS721050CLA660 500GB

PSU: FPS500 60APN 85+ 500W

OS: Win8.1 64bit

 Last time reseting OS: Match 2014

 

Game Settings:

API: DirectX

Res: 1600x900

All Ultra, No AA, 64bit

 

Things I tried:

Unparking Cores

Disabling Paging File

Installing DirectX from the Battlefield 4 folder.

Updating Punkbuster

Updating Windows

Updating Bios and Chipset

Uninstalled driver with Display Driver Uninstaller and reinstalled latest AMD driver

Removed all unnecessary programs running in the background like: Steam, web browser, and etc.

Don't have an Anti-Virus installed since forever.

Disabled Origin In-game

Disabling non needed programs in msconfig

and others I forgot

 

My Location: The Philippines

Server: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/servers/show/pc/4dcda530-5ae7-4672-a89c-f4a7d1aea38f/LOFR-Dragon-s-Teeth-Chain-Link-No-Mortar-UCAV-All-Welcome/

Amount of players: 64

Ping: 110ms

Gamemode: Chain Link

Task Manager at idle:

 

[AMICLG]

Sounds like your HDD is just slow so every time the game loads more of the map/textures it drops frames.

[freexavier]

Sounds like your HDD is just slow so every time the game loads more of the map/textures it drops frames.

I was planning to buy a SSD, but should I buy an SSD or Bitfex Phenom or maybe Prodigy

[Kevin Fletcher]

I was planning to buy a SSD, but should I buy an SSD or Bitfex Phenom or maybe Prodigy

 

I'd vote SSD. It's really worth it.

[AMICLG]

I was planning to buy a SSD, but should I buy an SSD or Bitfex Phenom or maybe Prodigy

An SSD make a Massive difference in almost everything so IMO go for an SSD first.

[freexavier]

I'd vote SSD. It's really worth it.

An SSD make a Massive difference in almost everything so IMO go for an SSD first.

Okay guys

[LogicalDrm]

As for your CPU. Its supposed to be at 80%. It means that its not being bottlenecked by GPU. My 4770K runs at 60% while in BF4.

[freexavier]

As for your CPU. Its supposed to be at 80%. It means that its not being bottlenecked by GPU. My 4770K runs at 60% while in BF4.

What do you mean when you said "It means that its not being bottlenecked by GPU."?

[Oradian]

You guys do realize these frames are completely normal. Ram speeds do affect fps but at the most 10fps. And second, ssd only helps loading the map. Once the map has loaded, doesn't matter. When playing bf4, ssd only helps in loading time, but gameplay. hdd = ssd fps. Your frames and are completely normal and there is NO NEED for an ssd for this game unless you want to join a game faster.

 

The reason why your fps dips to 40fps is because of explosions or gunfire or your cpu has to rendering more objects

 

Don't bother with an ssd unless you want quick loadtimes for everything, but as far as fps goes, stick with hdd cause you will gain no fps on most games.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7503/the-amd-radeon-r9-270x-270-review-feat-asus-his/8

 

The link is to a review anandtech posted of your card.

 

Your setup and game is completely normal and doesn't not require any changing.

[Oradian]

An SSD make a Massive difference in almost everything so IMO go for an SSD first.

 

Only for load times but most games, ssd doesn't not affect fps.

[duzy_wonsz]

Don't listen to Oradian. If SSD won't make a difference in BF it will make huge diff in everything else on your PC. You have no idea how much stuff is loading from your drive

[LogicalDrm]

What do you mean when you said "It means that its not being bottlenecked by GPU."?

 

Hmm... I don't know what I mean. Must been tired when wrote that. Anyway, its normal for CPU being under full %. If it stays stable.

[freexavier]

You guys do realize these frames are completely normal. Ram speeds do affect fps but at the most 10fps. And second, ssd only helps loading the map. Once the map has loaded, doesn't matter. When playing bf4, ssd only helps in loading time, but gameplay. hdd = ssd fps. Your frames and are completely normal and there is NO NEED for an ssd for this game unless you want to join a game faster.

 

The reason why your fps dips to 40fps is because of explosions or gunfire or your cpu has to rendering more objects

 

Don't bother with an ssd unless you want quick loadtimes for everything, but as far as fps goes, stick with hdd cause you will gain no fps on most games.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7503/the-amd-radeon-r9-270x-270-review-feat-asus-his/8

 

The link is to a review anandtech posted of your card.

 

Your setup and game is completely normal and doesn't not require any changing.

It doesn't drop and stay at a low FPS for a short period. It stays at 40 FPS when looking at that point constantly even in an empty server. So explotions and rendering time doesn't effect that drop of FPS. Even setting the graphics to low it the same story only that its around 50 to 60, but I prefer quality over FPS.

[Oradian]

Don't listen to Oradian. If SSD won't make a difference in BF it will make huge diff in everything else on your PC. You have no idea how much stuff is loading from your drive

 

Thats exactly what i said...

[Oradian]

And #13, it is rendering cause say if you look out at the ocean, what does it have to render, just water and mountains, but if you look into a certain direction, it has to render say dust particles floating, gunfire, explosions, tanks, people, etc.

 

I have tested the hdd and ssd with bf4 and got no fps difference.

 

I have not tested the ram fps but from reviews, you may recieve a bit of a performance boost.

 

Brief specs

 

i5 3570k @4.0

2x 7870

1600mhz 16gb

128gb ssd

1tb hdd

[Vrbas]

I put BF4 on my SSD and HDD only difference is loading times. No FPS difference at all.

[freexavier]

And #13, it is rendering cause say if you look out at the ocean, what does it have to render, just water and mountains, but if you look into a certain direction, it has to render say dust particles floating, gunfire, explosions, tanks, people, etc.

 

I have tested the hdd and ssd with bf4 and got no fps difference.

 

I have not tested the ram fps but from reviews, you may recieve a bit of a performance boost.

 

Brief specs

 

i5 3570k @4.0

2x 7870

1600mhz 16gb

128gb ssd

1tb hdd

I saw a benchmark some where that that the higher clocked RAM the better performance you get in BF4.

[freexavier]

Also what should I upgrade or fix to fix this issue?

[Vrbas]

Have you tried Mantle?

[ACatWithThumbs]

Why aren't you using Mantle?

[Oradian]

Oh ya, change to Mantle and make sure you restart the game.

 

And run memtest ok at least 3 times cause different size ram with possible different timings can cause a performance hit to bsod.

[freexavier]

I tried Mantle but the same results. Also I'm gonna try reseting my OS and start from the beginning.

[freexavier]

After reseting my computer and installed BF4 I got an extra FPS boost! Not sure if its was the reset of my PC or the uninstallation of BF4.

BTW here is before and after reseting my PC

 

Before:

132 FPS

 

After:

148 FPS

 

These FPS were taken at the same place and same direction. Basically in the Test Range when you Deploy.

[LOST TALE]

Bloat corruption ware spotted.