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playing BF4, WTF is bottlenecking!?!

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ok I have been fighting this battle for a long time now, I have done everything I could, OCed the CPU as far as the mobo could handle (any further and it would just have the screens go black and my keyboard and mouse would basically shut off, the computer just sits there, won't respond to the reset/power switch, half to shut off the power supply to get it to shut down) tried the BF4 CTE client (I have 350Kb/s [2.8Mbps] took 3 days to download) didn't help, I'm not going to reinstall the game, that is literal days of downloading and pissing off my family.

 

I have a duel boot to win7, but again, that is a long download time, and I don't think that is the issue.

 

I have noticed that the problem only occurs when I'm playing on a fully loaded 48-64p server, empty server's don't have this issue, and my network is only driving about 20-30Kb/s so, the only thing I can think of being an issue would be the CPU not pulling it's weight, yet it's only working about 75-85%, and overclocking didn't help any. and only being able to test on high player count servers makes It very hard to diagnose considering there is a lot more variables.

 

and it's only BF4, in the test range/empty server the GPU looks like any other game, 95-100% usage 24/7 and when BF4 is in that point when it's actually tolling my GPU, it's getting over 100FPS, but it often dips below 60, and sometimes to sub30 on a multiplayer populated server

 

V-V-V----Specs----V-V-V
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 [base clock @210 at the moment, problem occurs at stock clocks too]

AMD FX8350 @4.62

(2x4) G.Skill 1866

Gigabyte R9 290 [un-OCed at the time of screenshots, usually about 1180 Core 1450 Mem]

850w Rosewill [don't know the model]

256GB SSDwin8.1///2T HDD storage/// 500GB win7\8.1 bootable clone

 

the first screenshot is what it looks like in any other game and in BF4 test range/empty server the other 2 are in game, the in-game CPU/GPU graph moves a lot faster than MSI afterburner and the CPU gadget, those update every .5 seconds (and I have the game setup on ultra, full screen, mantle and DX11 have no difference, and AA turned off at the moment)

 

I am truly stumped, I have absolutely no idea what's bottlenecking, I think this is the most suitable place for this post, as it's not serious enough to go into troubleshooting nothing is really broken, but, mods feel free to move it...

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if you have framerate capped in any way, then you will see dips in usage when you hit that target framerate as your GPU won't work harder to push more frames when it's capped.

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That's pretty strange, I have an i5-2500 (at 3.8ghz) and a 280x and never get any drops below 60 fps in bf4 64-player multiplayer when using mantle, playing on high settings w/ 2xmsaa (I do get a cpu bottleneck with frequent drops below 60 with dx11 mode though. I've never seen mine go sub 30 even with dx11 though).

 

The CPU graph that you attached at the bottom seems to indicate cpu bottlebecking. When I play with mantle the yellow line is usually very close to the green one at all times.

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Pjtruslow, on 15 Aug 2014 - 12:39 PM, said:Pjtruslow, on 15 Aug 2014 - 12:39 PM, said:

are you pegging 60fps constant? if you have Vsync on it will work only as hard as it has to maintaining it's target framerate.

no I have the frame rate unlocked V-sync off, it just spends most of it's time around there

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bwat47, on 15 Aug 2014 - 12:40 PM, said:

That's pretty strange, I have an i5-2500 (at 3.8ghz) and a 280x and never get any drops below 60 fps in bf4 64-player multiplayer when using mantle, playing on high settings w/ 2xmsaa (I do get a cpu bottleneck with frequent drops below 60 with dx11 mode though).

 

The CPU graph that you attached at the bottom seems to indicate cpu bottlebecking. When I play with mantle the yellow line is usually very close to the green one at all times. Was that graph screenshot taken when using mantle or dx11?

I have no idea, I kept switching, there is no difference between the two

 

and my duel 6950s didn't have this issue, they gave hell, never dropped in usage

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What's your memory usage look like when playing? 8GB is enough, but users with 4GB suffer frame dips due to vram texture swapping. If you have a lot of memory taken up, this could be your problem. 

Edit- I'll  explain it this way-

If you don't have enough memory available to hold all of the textures in use, it has to pull from the HDD/SDD. Usually items that are not in the vram can be pulled from the ram very quickly. But if you don't have enough ram, it'll be stuck waiting for the texture from your drive before it rendered the offending frame. Anything longer than 16.6 milliseconds will cause a dip below 60 FPS, or a micro stutter in the very least. 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

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Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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Syntaxvgm, on 15 Aug 2014 - 12:46 PM, said:

What's your memory usage look like when playing? 8GB is enough, but users with 4GB suffer frame dips due to vram texture swapping. If you have a lot of memory taken up, this could be your problem. 

in the screenshots it's at 71 & 76%, I know 4Gigs isn't enough, I had to deal with that a while when my 450w PSU decided to die and take one of my 4gigabyte sticks with it, took me a while to figure out what it was randomly rebooting my PC after the new PSU came in

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in the screenshots it's at 71 & 76%, I know 4Gigs isn't enough, I had to deal with that a while when my 450w PSU decided to die and take one of my 4gigabyte sticks with it, took me a while to figure out what it was randomly rebooting my PC after the new PSU came in

Well that's probably not it I would assume. Hmm. 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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If your CPU's not getting up to 100% usage then overclocking's not going to help. An R9 290 isn't going to max this game out when you have 64 people running around a map. With a combination of your internet  being a bit slow and the fact that you have the game on ultra, it's easy to see how you're getting frame dips. Also, when the CPU and GPU have to render 64 people moving around a map with all of their actions then you're going to dip below 100 and possibly 60 even on a 780 ti. Your CPU is the same as mine and the FX series are about dead. BF4 is a CPU intensive game too, but you're not getting 100% usage so... It's probably a mixture of your internet and GPU.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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threadysparrow, on 15 Aug 2014 - 1:20 PM, said:

If your CPU's not getting up to 100% usage then overclocking's not going to help. An R9 290 isn't going to max this game out when you have 64 people running around a map. With a combination of your internet  being a bit slow and the fact that you have the game on ultra, it's easy to see how you're getting frame dips. Also, when the CPU and GPU have to render 64 people moving around a map with all of their actions then you're going to dip below 100 and possibly 60 even on a 780 ti. Your CPU is the same as mine and the FX series are about dead. BF4 is a CPU intensive game too, but you're not getting 100% usage so... It's probably a mixture of your internet and GPU.

right but my ping is good, the game isn't even taking a 10th of my bandwidth, my CPU isn't even near bottlenecking, and my GPU isn't even getting near top usage, I would believe it's the GPU if it was sitting at 100% usage all the time, but it constantly dips down and on certain maps it can spend most of it's time below 50% usage..., and it doesn't help OCing the GPU if it doesn't even make it to max usage...

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right but my ping is good, the game isn't even taking a 10th of my bandwidth, my CPU isn't even near bottlenecking, and my GPU isn't even getting near top usage, I would believe it's the GPU if it was sitting at 100% usage all the time, but it constantly dips down and on certain maps it can spend most of it's time below 50% usage..., and it doesn't help OCing the GPU if it doesn't even make it to max usage...

 

Well, it could be the new netcode in BF4. I've had problems since the last update when I try to run the game after having my PC on for a few hours. But a 290 isn't going to max the game at 100 frames when there are 64 people in the lobby.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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threadysparrow, on 15 Aug 2014 - 1:36 PM, said:

Well, it could be the new netcode in BF4. I've had problems since the last update when I try to run the game after having my PC on for a few hours. But a 290 isn't going to max the game at 100 frames when there are 64 people in the lobby.

I get that much, I don't care so much about the FPS, but I would like to see it actually using my GPU, even if the game is having issues with my connection, that shouldn't affect how it render's the map off of my SSD, it should be up at 95-100% usage regardless of my connection considering I completely unlocked my fps and turned off V-sync. and I thought it was just the currnet build of the game too, but then I saw people with the same GPU getting 80-120FPS constant on a 64p server, and my duel 6950s gave it full boar and actually I think they produced more frames on certain maps than the 290 (one of the 6950s died) and yes I did a complete driver wipe before installing the 290

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I get that much, I don't care so much about the FPS, but I would like to see it actually using my GPU, even if the game is having issues with my connection, that shouldn't affect how it render's the map off of my SSD, it should be up at 95-100% usage regardless of my connection considering I completely unlocked my fps and turned off V-sync. and I thought it was just the currnet build of the game too, but then I saw people with the same GPU getting 80-120FPS constant on a 64p server, and my duel 6950s gave it full boar and actually I think they produced more frames on certain maps than the 290 (one of the 6950s died) and yes I did a complete driver wipe before installing the 290

I don't know what to tell you in that situation then.

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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If your CPU's not getting up to 100% usage then overclocking's not going to help. An R9 290 isn't going to max this game out when you have 64 people running around a map. With a combination of your internet  being a bit slow and the fact that you have the game on ultra, it's easy to see how you're getting frame dips. Also, when the CPU and GPU have to render 64 people moving around a map with all of their actions then you're going to dip below 100 and possibly 60 even on a 780 ti. Your CPU is the same as mine and the FX series are about dead. BF4 is a CPU intensive game too, but you're not getting 100% usage so... It's probably a mixture of your internet and GPU.

A CPU doesnt have to be at 100% load to bottleneck, the cpu load isn't an indicator of bottlenecking. The gpu load is your only sign of bottlenecking, anything below 99% eg 80% youre held back by the CPU. I'm max'ing 2 780's out (99/99%) in a 64 map with a bunch of people spamming m320's. Internet doesnt have any relationship with your gaming performance, unplug your ethernet cable your fps remains the same.

@Op it's just the CPU thats holding you back, try getting rid of some background programs and go higher on the CPU clock.

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Faa, on 15 Aug 2014 - 3:29 PM, said:

A CPU doesnt have to be at 100% load to bottleneck, the cpu load isn't an indicator of bottlenecking. The gpu load is your only sign of bottlenecking, anything below 99% eg 80% youre held back by the CPU. I'm max'ing 2 780's out (99/99%) in a 64 map with a bunch of people spamming m320's. Internet doesnt have any relationship with your gaming performance, unplug your ethernet cable your fps remains the same.

@Op it's just the CPU thats holding you back, try getting rid of some background programs and go higher on the CPU clock.

I already pushed it as far is I can go, and when I OC the CPU usage just drops, it doesn't improve performance at all

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I already pushed it as far is I can go, and when I OC the CPU usage just drops, it doesn't improve performance at all

Did you check if your vrm is causing the CPU to throttle? It's normal that your cpu usage drops, game doesnt ever go above 72% load on a 8core chip.

Get me the model of your power supply.

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A CPU doesnt have to be at 100% load to bottleneck, the cpu load isn't an indicator of bottlenecking. The gpu load is your only sign of bottlenecking, anything below 99% eg 80% youre held back by the CPU. I'm max'ing 2 780's out (99/99%) in a 64 map with a bunch of people spamming m320's. Internet doesnt have any relationship with your gaming performance, unplug your ethernet cable your fps remains the same.

@Op it's just the CPU thats holding you back, try getting rid of some background programs and go higher on the CPU clock.

 

From everything I've ever read, a CPU bottlenecks when it gets to 100%. I didn't know it can bottleneck before it reaches 100%. I have the same CPU. That might be my problem after I've been working on my PC all day. I'm starting to get tired of AMD processors...  -_-

I get 60 frames at 1080p on a dual core APU. Ask me how.

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ok I have been fighting this battle for a long time now, I have done everything I could, OCed the CPU as far as the mobo could handle (any further and it would just have the screens go black and my keyboard and mouse would basically shut off, the computer just sits there, won't respond to the reset/power switch, half to shut off the power supply to get it to shut down) tried the BF4 CTE client (I have 350Kb/s [2.8Mbps] took 3 days to download) didn't help, I'm not going to reinstall the game, that is literal days of downloading and pissing off my family.

I have a duel boot to win7, but again, that is a long download time, and I don't think that is the issue.

I have noticed that the problem only occurs when I'm playing on a fully loaded 48-64p server, empty server's don't have this issue, and my network is only driving about 20-30Kb/s so, the only thing I can think of being an issue would be the CPU not pulling it's weight, yet it's only working about 75-85%, and overclocking didn't help any. and only being able to test on high player count servers makes It very hard to diagnose considering there is a lot more variables.

and it's only BF4, in the test range/empty server the GPU looks like any other game, 95-100% usage 24/7 and when BF4 is in that point when it's actually tolling my GPU, it's getting over 100FPS, but it often dips below 60, and sometimes to sub30 on a multiplayer populated server

V-V-V----Specs----V-V-V

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 [base clock @210 at the moment, problem occurs at stock clocks too]

AMD FX8350 @4.62

(2x4) G.Skill 1866

Gigabyte R9 290 [un-OCed at the time of screenshots, usually about 1180 Core 1450 Mem]

850w Rosewill [don't know the model]

256GB SSDwin8.1///2T HDD storage/// 500GB win7\8.1 bootable clone

the first screenshot is what it looks like in any other game and in BF4 test range/empty server the other 2 are in game, the in-game CPU/GPU graph moves a lot faster than MSI afterburner and the CPU gadget, those update every .5 seconds (and I have the game setup on ultra, full screen, mantle and DX11 have no difference, and AA turned off at the moment)

I am truly stumped, I have absolutely no idea what's bottlenecking, I think this is the most suitable place for this post, as it's not serious enough to go into troubleshooting nothing is really broken, but, mods feel free to move it...

hello. I see you have an AMD FX CPU. The FX series of CPUs are notorious for poor frame rates in BF3 64 multilayer maps. Have you tested the single player campaign to see if you have the same problem.
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Faa, on 15 Aug 2014 - 3:37 PM, said:

Did you check if your vrm is causing the CPU to throttle? It's normal that your cpu usage drops, game doesnt ever go above 72% load on a 8core chip.

Get me the model of your power supply.

the PSU is a Rosewill RX850-s-b, and I'm not sure about the VRM causing the CPU to throttle, I can push it pas 1.5V if I wanted, don't know how I would test that

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rcole134, on 15 Aug 2014 - 3:45 PM, said:

hello. I see you have an AMD FX CPU. The FX series of CPUs are notorious for poor frame rates in BF3 64 multilayer maps. Have you tested the single player campaign to see if you have the same problem.

not as bad but pretty much

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the PSU is a Rosewill RX850-s-b, and I'm not sure about the VRM causing the CPU to throttle, I can push it pas 1.5V if I wanted, don't know how I would test that

PSU is decent, if the VRM causes the CPU to throttle it's noticeable from the clock speed. Monitor it with a tool like hwinfo or cpu-z

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Faa, on 15 Aug 2014 - 5:01 PM, said:

PSU is decent, if the VRM causes the CPU to throttle it's noticeable from the clock speed. Monitor it with a tool like hwinfo or cpu-z

I have, it never lowers the clock speed unless it throttles by getting  past 70C, which clearly it hasn't, so that is a non-issue, I didn't mention that my mobo revision is revision 4, so it has that thicker heat pipe because the original version was having issues with overheating

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I have, it never lowers the clock speed unless it throttles by getting  past 70C, which clearly it hasn't, so that is a non-issue, I didn't mention that my mobo revision is revision 4, so it has that thicker heat pipe because the original version was having issues with overheating

Have you tried Mantle instead of DX? 

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Faa, on 15 Aug 2014 - 6:35 PM, said:Faa, on 15 Aug 2014 - 6:35 PM, said:

Have you tried Mantle instead of DX? 

they do the exact same thing, no differance

 

XTankSlayerX, on 15 Aug 2014 - 7:03 PM, said:

How many cores do you have on the CPU?

 

Also try turning the update frequency of BF4 CTE down to auto.

it's an FX8350, so 8 cores, and the update frequency makes no difference

 

Edit: at this point I'm thinking about throwing my Intel i5 2500k back together and see if I can get any better results, (that would make Digital Overload [my pc] out of commission as I would need a PSU, RAM, GPU [guess which one ;)] and a HDD)

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