Rei86

Having some BF3 issues here.

When I'm killed the screen will go completely black like its lost signal, and takes a good 15secs before the image reappears.

When I select my load out and deploy once again it takes around 15secs or so before my screen would appear. 

Thought at 1st it was the monitor (27Q Crossover) so I switched to my good old Asus VH242H and it does it with this one.

Thinking the DVI-D DL has gone bad so I switched out cables to another DVI-D DL and still the issue.

Thinking it might the drivers so went from 310.90 back to 306.97 and the issue is still there.

Didn't do it this morning when i was playing some BF3, I haven't changed any settings or added anything in respects to the hardware.  Just keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't the GPU as I don't want to go through the whole RMA process crap again.

So can anyone help on whats going?

ellibre

hey there maniacvvv. Happy new year and I hope everything is going good for you and others. I just wanted to know if the newest beta driver, 310.90 is ok to use? And I also wanted to know what my max prerendered frames should be set at for battlefield 3. I don't know if people change it for personal preferences, I just want to know what is safe for me. Im running an EVGA gtx 580 classified 3gb. Here are some pics to show you my settings and to see if anything should be changed. Thank you. PLEASE! FEEL free to ask me any questions that you have.

Other half

maniacvvv

ellibre

Hey thank you again for replying. So do you have any thoughts about the latest beta driver? should I keep away from it for now or just install it now.

I am currently using the 310.90 for BF3 on my GTX 580 SLI setup
I think its one of the very best BF3 drivers to date and I highly suggest that you try it out

nipnosis

Hi Maniacvvv, I understand you have helped people in the past with this issue but as I can't seem to follow the advice that was given for them I was wondering if you might be so kind to give me some advice for my current crashing to desktop. Here go's, hopefully I get all the required info for you-

Crash report -

DirectX function "GetDeviceRemovedReason" failed with DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: Device hung due to badly formed commands.. GPU: "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680", Driver 31090

System info-
Hardware-
ASUS VG278HE monitor @ 144Hz
i5 3570k @4.2
Ram 16Gb Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 9-10-9-27 stock speed
2xGTX 680 superclocked signature 2's @ 110% power target, +60MHz gpu clock offset, +200Mhz memory clock offset. 
Qpad MK85 mechanical keyboard
Cyborg RAT 9 mouse 
ASUS Spitfire USB sound card with ROG Orion Pro Head Set
No other USB devices and Internet connection via wired mobo port.

Software-
GPU drivers- 310.90, all nvidia cp settings at default, with SLI enabled.
No sound drivers/Software
No keyboard drivers/Software
no mouse drivers/Software
Win 8 OS

All BF3 settings set to max possible settings for each option.

I hope I haven't missed anything off for you to give me some advice but if I have I will add them as I can.

Any help will be most appreciated. 

Cheers 

Nick

maniacvvv

The 60-59hz issue is one of "reporting". This is NOT the cause of the delay....
Windows 8 is the cause on the "delay" when using Alt/Tab. This is because it has to load up up desktop.
At this time, thats just the way it is. I have no information if it will remain like this or if the behavior will change.

Such are the issues when running a brand new OS

BioHazardSperm

Maniacvv you should add a note/warning about Realmware or other programs to the first post as a possible cause to driver issues .And again thank you for your help,im almost back to normal ,but just haven't found the time to chat with you again to iron the rest out.

Methodical2

Update:  I uninstalled the 310.90 drive an went with an older version, but I keep getting the driver crashed, but recovered message - something about Windows Nvidia kernel stopped responding.  So it seems that no matter which driver I use it crashes.  Any ideas?

Thanks...Al

Methodical2

maniacvvv

Methodical2

Update:  I uninstalled the 310.90 drive an went with an older version, but I keep getting the driver crashed, but recovered message - something about Windows Nvidia kernel stopped responding.  So it seems that no matter which driver I use it crashes.  Any ideas?

Thanks...Al

 

Crash in BF3 only?

 

Hey Maniac, I can load the single campaign without issue if that makes any difference.  Also, I just tried Batman AC and it loaded without issue, so it seems to be BF3 online so far.  I'm going to try Crysis 2 to see what happens.

Thanks...Al

asleaker

Hey! It seems that this forumthread has the right competence:-) to anserw my questions. I recently got my new computer.  I got low GPU usage when I play at big BF3 maps when SLI is enabled. Gpu usage drops down to 50/50 at worst and is fluctating between 50 -80 on each gpu. When I am playing at smalll maps i got 70 - 100 GPU usage. When SLI disabled(one card only) I got 95-100 % all the time. I use HWinfo64 and it never reach more than 84% CPU usage in any of my 4 cores/8 threads. Therefore I have concluded that its not a CPU bottleneck. It has also been confirmed by my supplier, so I really hope not! 
I got these scores at Operation firestorm 64 maps(full server) with custom Ultra settings,  only mesh @ high and motion blur off, 4x MSAA and AA deferred high.
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
36692, 300000, 83, 200, 122.307
and same settings on 24 player scrapmetal Conquest domination
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
39774, 300000, 69, 201, 132.580
Should I expect more? I am not satisfied with minimum FPS as low as 69. 
setup:
< 60 degrees on both GPUS
< 70 degrees on CPU
solution; 1920 x 1080
Nvidia driver: 310.90
EVGA Precision for tuning - have tried framerate controll.
2 x MSI GTX 680 2GB "Lightning" @ 1202 mhz SLI (LN2 bios), MSI Z77 MPower , i7-3770K @ 4,2 ghz., HyperX Beast 16GB @ 2133 mhz ,120hz Asus VG236H 23" 2ms, 1920*1080, 120GB SSD Intel 330 Series , Corsair HX 1050W PSU , Corsair H50 Hydro Series CPU , Windows 7 Home Premium ENG, 64bit , Corsair Carbide 500R Midi Tower White

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asleaker

Thank you for these suggestions. I have been monitoring VRAM with afterburner and Hwinfo64 and I never use more than 1800mb when I am playing BF3, how can that be my limitations then? 

I tried to change driver from 310.90 to 306.97 and i did get an increased performance, and my GPU usage is higher.