Need Help Running Battlefield 3

[ScoutMarine]

I want to run Battlefield 3 at 30+ fps

 Pc Specs:

Amd Athlon 64 X2 6000+ at 3.1ghz

Nvidia Gts 450 Overclocked to 900MHz Clock/ 1900MHz Mem

4GB ram

 

 

Getting Between 15-20fps on low settings, wondering if there is anything else I can do.

[Coombzy]

buying a new video card maybe an option although anything more and I guarantee a bottleneck perhaps upgrade that CPU first to something like a phenom x4 or x6 should help a lot the GTS 450 is a good little card if paired with the right cpu etc.

[Hirad123]

Time to upgrade

[Mdgtman91]

new hardware

[ScoutMarine]

Ya right now I'm saving up for a Athlon II x4 640, I was wondering if theres anything I can do Software side.

[Coombzy]

Ya right now I'm saving up for a Athlon II x4 640, I was wondering if theres anything I can do Software side.

not really except upgrade the drivers if you have not already.

[Dr3nz4r]

Create a "user.cfg" in your bf3 folder (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3)

, paste this in:

GameTime.MaxVariableFps 33.000000PostProcess.DynamicAOEnable 0Render.DeviceVSyncEnable 0Render.DrawFps 1Render.DrawScreenInfo 0Render.PerfOverlayEnable 0Render.PerfOverlayVisible 0RenderDevice.Dx11Enable 0RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0Screenshot.Format pngUI.DrawEnable 1WorldRender.DxDeferredCsPathEnable 1WorldRender.FxaaEnable 0WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0WorldRender.SpotLightShadowmapResolution 256

That improved my FPS on my old PC (Athlon II x2 250 2x 3GhZ, GT 430 Stock,2GB ram) from ~ 15ish to 30ish

 

You can change "GameTime.MaxVariableFps 33.000000" to other values but i prefer when having low framerates, then having at least somekind of stable low framerates.

 

Worth a Try anytime

 

PS: Put Meshquality ingame to high, hence it affects performence like zero

[ScoutMarine]

Thanks

[Dr3nz4r]

Report back what framerates you getting now.. you might consider upgrading your CPU first.. I've played a long time with my GT430.. yours is even faster :P

[upliftsleet1974]

Ya right now I'm saving up for a Athlon II x4 640, I was wondering if theres anything I can do Software side.

This will help a bit...

http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster

[ScoutMarine]

Will Do, and I am.

[Kerplex]

What resolution are you running BF3 at currently?

[LogicalDrm]

Lower resolution, boot before game session. Play servers that have 48 max players. More players = more work for gpu.