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ok.this may sound odd, but it seems that the settings config files in my
C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Battlefield 3\settings
are gone. did they change something in that last patch? or maybe imma high and dont know it.

They are still there
 

maniacvvv

diegorubeus

i just checked a video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96vBI1fOugs

that's what i'm talking about.
this is what the guy says:
"just realized it's the antialiasing messing up that's causing the glitch. fxaa injector fixes it, msaa sucks."
is it related to that??
should i try that mod?
just let me know.
what about turning off MSAA?
i have it at 2x i think and i will try off too see if it keeps happening.

Yep, its your in-game settings
You are running your settings -above- what a 1.5gig 580 can do--> without creating issues, like you are reporting.

The fix is easy!
Please use -ALL- the settings exactly as shown below (for testing)

*Remember after changing the settings and saving them, you must close the game completely and restart it for the settings to take effect and the shaders to rebuild under the changes you have made. 

The game will look great, play much better and run at much higher framerates!
"The way its ment to be played"

**Now that its setup correctly, my guess is you will double your KDR

 
ok ima try those settings. maybe i'll ;eave texture quality on ultra and everything else as you suggested.
but is there going to be any difference in FPS with vsync on?
i have it on since it stops the tearing. without vsync it will give me those horrible horizontal lines.
with vsyn on everything on ultra or highest it will go but antialiasing deferred at 2x FSAA it will
stay at a constant 50/60 fps and sometimes will lower to 38/45 on huge explosions or some parts of the maps (just some parts where the is a lot going on) but is still really playable and there are no slow downs in fps.
lowwest i've seen the FPS is 32fps on a huge explosion with a tank and c4 .
it will stay at a constant 60fps right??
ima try the BF3 FXAA injector also. they say it fixes that issue.

*And changing "Maximum pre-rendered frames" from the default value of (3) to the value of (2). *more on this later 
 
 
On the guide you state that it should be set to (2), mine is set to (3) by default.
 
Should I be changing it to (2)? I'm on a 3-Way GTX580 by the way.
 
Also, would you recommend me to play with HT on or OFF on my i7 2600k?
 
I don't know what's wrong with Gulf of Oman but that map is really bad optimized, it drops into 30fps while GPU usage is not even at 40%-50% and the CPU usage is not above 50% with HT ON, if I take HT OFF I went into Gulf of Oman and it didn't drop below 60fps at all even though CPU usage was at 80%-90% many of t he times on all 4 cores.
 
Could this have been a server issue? I see no reason as to why Hyperthreading would hurt performance so badly!
 
 
Edit:
 
I enabled Hyperthreading again and performance was good too, so I believe this could have been a specific server issue.
 
But I have to say Gulf of Oman is the worst optimized map from Battlefield 3, even Strike at Karkand and Sharki Peninsula which have a lot more destruction, they perform much better to me. :P

maniacvvv

diegorubeus

maniacvvv

diegorubeus

i just checked a video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96vBI1fOugs

that's what i'm talking about.
this is what the guy says:
"just realized it's the antialiasing messing up that's causing the glitch. fxaa injector fixes it, msaa sucks."
is it related to that??
should i try that mod?
just let me know.
what about turning off MSAA?
i have it at 2x i think and i will try off too see if it keeps happening.

Yep, its your in-game settings
You are running your settings -above- what a 1.5gig 580 can do--> without creating issues, like you are reporting.

The fix is easy!
Please use -ALL- the settings exactly as shown below (for testing)

*Remember after changing the settings and saving them, you must close the game completely and restart it for the settings to take effect and the shaders to rebuild under the changes you have made. 

The game will look great, play much better and run at much higher framerates!
"The way its ment to be played"

**Now that its setup correctly, my guess is you will double your KDR

ok ima try those settings. maybe i'll ;eave texture quality on ultra and everything else as you suggested.
but is there going to be any difference in FPS with vsync on?
i have it on since it stops the tearing. without vsync it will give me those horrible horizontal lines.
with vsyn on everything on ultra or highest it will go but antialiasing deferred at 2x FSAA it will
stay at a constant 50/60 fps and sometimes will lower to 38/45 on huge explosions or some parts of the maps (just some parts where the is a lot going on) but is still really playable and there are no slow downs in fps.
lowwest i've seen the FPS is 32fps on a huge explosion with a tank and c4 .
it will stay at a constant 60fps right??
ima try the BF3 FXAA injector also. they say it fixes that issue.

Try the settings -exactly- (all of them) as I posted up for your config.... 
*do not set Texture quality to Ultra (its NOT lowering quality, its lowering the texture pool size) this is important to free up VRAM for other settings and streaming
Dont use the FXAA injector until you have tested performance with the suggested settings first.

 
ok so i decided to test it with the same exact settings you told me and i did like it.
still looks good and i do get lower temps and FPs because the card is not being used that much as before.
the only thing i don't like is that sometimes far objects will not look as they used to look with everything on ultra.
after a few hours playing i didn't noticed that much (maybe because you just start to enjoy the game aftr a while).
should i try the FXAA injector later on??
thanks

Hey are you planning on a new review now since the WHQL has been released? I have consideration of trying the new drivers.

Personally I rolled back to 285.62 WHQL as I noticed really low GPU usage randomly. For example in Metro Conquest I could be at 99% and then 10 minutes later it would drop to 40% usage and get stuck there. :(
 
I may give it another try and use renderaheadlimit to something lower instead.

I tried the 295.73 WHQL again today and I must say yesterday they must had installed incorrectly, because today the work amazingly well smooth at +60fps all the time including Back to Karkand maps on heavy explosions and destruction! :D
 
As of now I'm playing on the following settings;
 

 
 
The most intensive Vram map there is I think is Kharg Island at Conquest 64 players, and the max I saw was 1190MB of Vram used according to MSI Afterburner.
 
Maniac, do you think I should bump the Textures to Ultra? Or instead try MSAAx2? Which one would be a better option? :)
 
Thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

Whoah that's a huge difference, before I wouldn't hit above 1180MB of VRAM at Kharg Island with textures on High, now I hot 1420MB of VRAM.
 
Is that still OKAY?

Well that was 1450MB of VRAM in Strike at Karkand, that was so far the highest I've seen of all maps. :P

Dont bother with the new PhysX, just use the version that comes with whatever driver you are installing.
 
Remember BF3 does not use PhysX
 
As for changing settings with this new driverset, I would certainly "try" going from Ultra from high and then test. I personaly am sticking with High Texture Quality

Well i have always been using HIGH instead of Ultra cuz Ultra would be pointless since It's almost quite the same only a few differences in fps.  But as for physx, i play Batman Arkham Aslyum. How can you say BF3 does not use physx? There is a reason we have destruction in dx11?

We have destruction in Battlefield 3 (And Bad Company 2) because of the Frostbite engine, it has NOTHING to do with Physx, it is made by their own at DICE.
 
 

Fiko0

Before the WHQL driver my card was always running on 99% gpu usage in battlefield 3. After installing two times correctly the latest WHQL driver, i do get problems with gpu usage. It dont stay stable anymore at 99% but plays around the 70-99 that causes fps drops.. :S 

Anybody knows maybe why? 

 
Is it a single GTX580? Or SLI?
 
I did get low GP usage issues at first install, installed them again and all gone.
 
Also I made a user.cfg file in the Battlefield 3 folder and wrote the following inside;
 
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 0
 
 
Now I'm at a steady +60fps all the time with 3 cards at 2560x1440 and usage is at 99% most of the time on all cards, not sure if that would help you, but it did help me quite a lot and now these WHQL run flawlessly! 
 

I use a single gtx 580 and also tried a second clean install did not work. 

I'm still testing these drivers. Haven't bothered to revert back but i might. Gonna give it a few more days to see how it tides over. It works just dandy on AVP but i did see weird Alien glitches like they were sliding over the ground. I hope the drivers didn't make the game funny. However i have been meaning to test Batman Arkham City but i have NO idea what limit install nbr i am on now and i'm worried if i delete it and i couldn't install it again! I hate Windows Live. I wish i can NEVER use that to login. I remember in the old days i could bypass that with a small patch for GTA IV but i have no idea if it'll work for Batman but what can i do about the saved games. That's a dilemma. Anyhow.. i swear to god i thought these new drivers caused my internet problem but that's not the case. I plan on a lot of testing with BF3 again to see if there are any hiccups. Do most of you guys even use AUTO fan monitoring on EVGA precision or you just manual crank the fan to 60% or up? I have a GTX 560Ti Classified and i wonder if i should manually set the fan percentage a little higher than relying on fan monitoring automatic system? Advice?