Solved BF4

[N00berG00ber]

You'd get better performance and the game would look a bit better with weapon dof and motion blur off.

i like them on. i like that "realistic" feeling when u turn your eyes fast around.

 

[ganjiry]

You'd get better performance and the game would look a bit better with weapon dof and motion blur off.

i like them on. i like that "realistic" feeling when u turn your eyes fast around.

No worries! Everyone to thier own enit

 

[N00berG00ber]

You'd get better performance and the game would look a bit better with weapon dof and motion blur off.

i like them on. i like that "realistic" feeling when u turn your eyes fast around.

No worries! Everyone to thier own enit

i was just impressed with the 20% scaling rate. but i eneded up turning it back to 100%. on some maps, the fps dips below 50.

 

[ganjiry]

Yeah it will hit your fps hard but it does look nice

 

[N00berG00ber]

Yeah it will hit your fps hard but it does look nice

at 200% i get 30FPS. just for sh!ts and giggles lol

 

[ganjiry]

Yeah it will hit your fps hard but it does look nice

at 200% i get 30FPS. just for sh!ts and giggles lol

Lol that's a bit of a hit enit.
I used to get a mahooosive fps hit around C flag on siege of shanghai when the building had been bought down but disabling weapon dof solved that for me with no noticeable difference to the look of the game.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Yeah it will hit your fps hard but it does look nice

at 200% i get 30FPS. just for sh!ts and giggles lol

Lol that's a bit of a hit enit.
I used to get a mahooosive fps hit around C flag on siege of shanghai when the building had been bought down but disabling weapon dof solved that for me with no noticeable difference to the look of the game.

yea all that does is just blur the weapon when u aim down the sights. ill have to try that.

 

[ganjiry]

at 200% i get 30FPS. just for sh!ts and giggles lol

Lol that's a bit of a hit enit.
I used to get a mahooosive fps hit around C flag on siege of shanghai when the building had been bought down but disabling weapon dof solved that for me with no noticeable difference to the look of the game.

yea all that does is just blur the weapon when u aim down the sights. ill have to try that.

Yup I can't see the point in it myself.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Lol that's a bit of a hit enit.
I used to get a mahooosive fps hit around C flag on siege of shanghai when the building had been bought down but disabling weapon dof solved that for me with no noticeable difference to the look of the game.

yea all that does is just blur the weapon when u aim down the sights. ill have to try that.

Yup I can't see the point in it myself.

just looks cool imo.

 

[81sc]

Sorry if this belongs in either the video card thread or hardware thread, but I got BF4 for christmas and I'm wondering if I need to upgrade my pc? It ran ok on my system, but I'm getting some random slow downs and choppiness.

My pc:
XPS 9000 (dell)
i7-920
6gb RAM
HD 5870

Yeah, the system is a few years old now. Should I get more RAM or a new video card AND more RAM?

I didn't get a lot of time to mess with many of the settings. I tried it on ultra, high, then medium.

I also wasn't running the latest AMD drivers either, so I downloaded 13.12 and installed it, but didn't have time to see if it made a big difference.

I just read about unparking cores and that it might help with the framerate?

I don't need to run the game on ultra everything, I'd just like to get rid of the choppiness.

Thoughts?

 

[N00berG00ber]

Unpark the cores an upgrade the GPU.

 

[81sc]

Unpark the cores an upgrade the GPU.

Thanks, N00berG00ber. Any suggestions on a decently priced GPU? Should I get some more RAM along with it, or do you think a newer GPU should do the trick?

I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware GPU chart. Should I be looking at a 7870/GTX 580 or better?

My PSU is 475w. Not sure if I'd need to replace that as well.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Unpark the cores an upgrade the GPU.

Thanks, N00berG00ber. Any suggestions on a decently priced GPU? Should I get some more RAM along with it, or do you think a newer GPU should do the trick?

I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware GPU chart. Should I be looking at a 7870/GTX 580 or better?

My PSU is 475w. Not sure if I'd need to replace that as well.

6 GB of ramshould be fine. If u have extra u can get maybe 8gb of matching sticks. Whats ur max price cor a gpu? U can also OC your CPU a little too.

 

[81sc]

Unpark the cores an upgrade the GPU.

Thanks, N00berG00ber. Any suggestions on a decently priced GPU? Should I get some more RAM along with it, or do you think a newer GPU should do the trick?

I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware GPU chart. Should I be looking at a 7870/GTX 580 or better?

My PSU is 475w. Not sure if I'd need to replace that as well.

6 GB of ramshould be fine. If u have extra u can get maybe 8gb of matching sticks. Whats ur max price cor a gpu? U can also OC your CPU a little too.

I'd like to stay around 200 if I can. Oh, I thought Dell's were locked for OC'ing? I'll look into that, too.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Thanks, N00berG00ber. Any suggestions on a decently priced GPU? Should I get some more RAM along with it, or do you think a newer GPU should do the trick?

I'm looking at the Tom's Hardware GPU chart. Should I be looking at a 7870/GTX 580 or better?

My PSU is 475w. Not sure if I'd need to replace that as well.

6 GB of ramshould be fine. If u have extra u can get maybe 8gb of matching sticks. Whats ur max price cor a gpu? U can also OC your CPU a little too.

I'd like to stay around 200 if I can. Oh, I thought Dell's were locked for OC'ing? I'll look into that, too.

Ohh. Sorry I thought it was custom built. Yes its locked.

 

[N00berG00ber]

you can check out this card
Newegg.com - EVGA 02G-P4-3063-KR GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card w/ ACX Cooler

 

[81sc]

you can check out this card
Newegg.com - EVGA 02G-P4-3063-KR GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card w/ ACX Cooler

Thanks! I was just about to send you this one:
PNY VCGGTX660XPB GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com

Looks like the one you sent might stay a little cooler since it's not as enclosed as the PNY one?

I just googled the 660 and my XPS and it looks like I'd be alright not getting a bigger PSU?

 

[N00berG00ber]

you can check out this card
Newegg.com - EVGA 02G-P4-3063-KR GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card w/ ACX Cooler

Thanks! I was just about to send you this one:
PNY VCGGTX660XPB GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com

Looks like the one you sent might stay a little cooler since it's not as enclosed as the PNY one?

I just googled the 660 and my XPS and it looks like I'd be alright not getting a bigger PSU?

well, the minimum for that card is 450, and you have 475. so it comes to the question, how old is your PSU? PSU's degrade after some time, and they are something you DO NOT want to skimp on.

 

[81sc]

you can check out this card
Newegg.com - EVGA 02G-P4-3063-KR GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card w/ ACX Cooler

Thanks! I was just about to send you this one:
PNY VCGGTX660XPB GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com

Looks like the one you sent might stay a little cooler since it's not as enclosed as the PNY one?

I just googled the 660 and my XPS and it looks like I'd be alright not getting a bigger PSU?

well, the minimum for that card is 450, and you have 475. so it comes to the question, how old is your PSU? PSU's degrade after some time, and they are something you DO NOT want to skimp on.

It's about 3.5 years old. Bought the PC in June 2010.

 

[N00berG00ber]

Thanks! I was just about to send you this one:
PNY VCGGTX660XPB GeForce GTX 660 2GB 192-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com

Looks like the one you sent might stay a little cooler since it's not as enclosed as the PNY one?

I just googled the 660 and my XPS and it looks like I'd be alright not getting a bigger PSU?

well, the minimum for that card is 450, and you have 475. so it comes to the question, how old is your PSU? PSU's degrade after some time, and they are something you DO NOT want to skimp on.

It's about 3.5 years old. Bought the PC in June 2010.

i would definitely get a better PSU. the corsair CX500 is a good PSU


thats my 2 cents. maybe someone who knows more about PSUs will jump in....