BF4 RAM Usage

[Colata]

Hello

 

When I play BF4, It has been extremely low with FPS.

I tried to experiment a bit, so I opened my task manager on my second monitor whilst playing to see if i was lacking something.

 

The results were interesting.

 

CPU (AVG- 50-60%)

RAM(75-85%)

Disk (60%)

 

So it turns out, that for some reason, my RAM is taking a beating, whilst me CPU is sitting back and going.. literally half-assed.

Is my CPU and GPU causing my RAM to bottleneck? if that's possible.. from lacking enough?

 

Specs:

CPU - FX-8320 (Stock) 

GPU - R7 260X

RAM - 4GB Corsair Vengence

500GB Hitachi Hard Drive (Running OS)

1TB Western Digital hard Drive (Games, etc.)

PSU - Corsair CX 550w

Motherboard - ASrock 980DE3

Avermedia Live Gamer HD Pro (Not running during the test)

TP-Link Wi-FI Card.

[ShadowCaptain]

@ Colata 4GB of ram is a bit low for a gaming system though you are not using it all so it might not matter

 

What settings are you running at and what fps are you getting?

[Wiff]

you need to have at least 5GB of Ram if you dont want your system to slow down, usually BF4 takes 1.2-1.6GB

[Vrbas]

Yeah add another 4gb of the same ram and you should see your performance increase.

By low fps how much do you mean.

[Wiff]

Yeah add another 4gb of the same ram and you should see your performance increase.

By low fps how much do you mean.

#sweg

[LogicalDrm]

I think recommended is 6gb. I'm impressed that it takes only 80% of ram. BF3 took almost 100% of my 4gb on old system.

[Colata]

@ Colata 4GB of ram is a bit low for a gaming system though you are not using it all so it might not matter

 

What settings are you running at and what fps are you getting?

-NOTE- 

I overclocked my RAM to 1600mhz (from 1330mhz)

I also overclocked my CPU to 3.8ghz (from 3.5ghz)

 

These increased stabilization and had a huge impact on screen, but kept the same usage profile.

 

On every setting my FPS does not change significantly, which is the main reason for the post.

 

 

Yes - There are graphical changes visible, which means that although the FPS does not increase, nor decrease, changing the settings does work.

(I have heard that some people say that they change the settings and it doesn't show visible changes, so i thought i'd point that out.) 

 

Low and Ultra, do not change too much, 60-80 on both, it fluctuates too much to draw an average. (even though I'm not suffering from CPU spikes.)

 

Does RAM prevent my CPU from using its full 80+% usage? 

I have a command for BF4 enabling the use of 6 cores (out of 8), should I increase the core amount to 8 and see if I get more usage out of my CPU if I do so, helping out my RAM?

 

 

 

[Colata]

#sweg

30-40, on LOW, which is not right, I see people with 2gb of RAM, a 2.1ghz Core 2 Duo and 3 year old GPU's getting better FPS than this. 

[Colata]

Yeah add another 4gb of the same ram and you should see your performance increase.

By low fps how much do you mean.

30-40, on LOW.

 

Look down the thread a bit, I fixed it a bit, but its still not right.

[Wiff]

30-40, on LOW, which is not right, I see people with 2gb of RAM, a 2.1ghz Core 2 Duo and 3 year old GPU's getting better FPS than this. 

it depends on the GPU, I get 30-40fps too in 1080p on low and my system is pretty new

[Colata]

it depends on the GPU, I get 30-40fps too in 1080p on low and my system is pretty new

But I've seen people with almost identical rigs, get 70+ fps on Ultra! 

[Wiff]

But I've seen people with almost identical rigs, get 70+ fps on Ultra!

not with a gt 750M

[LOST TALE]

Free up ram space via windows task manager.

 

If you disable caching and have enough ram, this means your have no ram quantity bottleneck

[Colata]

not with a gt 750M

 

I dont have a GT 750M..