shovenose
Senior Member
11.9 + CAP 3 = Bad
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 3 = Bad
11.10 Rev 3 = Good
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 2 = Good
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 4 = Best performance
11.10 Official Release + CAP 4 Official Release = Best and most recommended
Current download links
CAP 4 released and 11.10 officially released, download and enjoy!
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx Official CAP 4 link for W7 64 Bit.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx Official 11.10 Link for W7/Vista 64 Bit.
Still having bad performance? Want to squeeze extra juice out of your system? Please try the following methods to reduce stutter and possibly increase FPS, or lower vram usage.
Tweak one; Let's focus on setting up the compatibility for the .exe
1. Right click on your Battlefield 3 exe on your desktop, and click properties
2. Click the "Compatibility" tab, make sure these boxes are checked, Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition, and Run this programs as an administrator
3. Click OK, and launch the .exe, your windows theme should turn into basic. This can result in roughly 200mb free.
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Tweak two; Once you've done that, we can work on the pagefile.
Click your windows start button and pull up control panel.
Once you have the control panel up we're going to want to go to System and Security, and from there System. On the left side of the system tab you should have "Control Panel Home" with 4 options. Device Manager, Remote Settings, System Protection, Advanced System Settings.
Click on Advanced System Settings. This should pull up a system properties box, if not already there, make sure you're on the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click settings. Click the advanced tab and "Change..." on virtual memory.
Once here, it should tell you at the bottom the minimum, recommended, and currently allocated virtual memory. Click the "Custom size" bullet, and in the Initial Size, and Maximum size enter the Recommended page file size, and click set, and then OK.
Your PC may ask you to restart, be sure to restart and try it out and report back.
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Tweak 3; I also recommend disabling ULPS via Regedit.
To do so follow these steps
1. Open the Regedit program, this can be done by using the start button search function
2. Once you have regedit opened, click edit, and then "Find"
3. Type Enableulps in the search bar
4. Double click enableulps and change the 1 to a 0, hit F3 to find all instances of enableulps, don't bother with enableulps_na
5. Exit regedit and restart
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INTEL USERS TWEAK SECTION!
Tweak one; For Intel I7 users : Try disabling hyper-threading to reduce stutter.
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The SERIOUSLY BRO I'M WILLING TO TRY ANYTHING! section.
Tweak one; Start a new power-cycle on your PC by completely shutting it down, and shutting off / unplugging your PSU. Restart the PC and [Possibly] enjoy your CF scaling as it should be!
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Tweak two; Go into options turn mouse sensitivity down to 25%
Turn Raw mouse input to ON
Turn solider look sensitivity all the way up to max, this can cause the game to play smoother, DICE has acknowledged this as an issue that will be fixed in the up-coming patch
Tweak three; When you start game, hit the Windows button to go in Windowed mode,then go back to full screen. You're second card SHOULD be kickstarted into full usage and you SHOULD get almost double the framerate. This can also help with intro crashes. I've personally had this issues, so ANYTHING is worth a shot, right?
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HELPFUL PROGRAMS AND DOWNLOAD LINKS
also known as the ;
Dude, got any helpful programs/I'm not a wizard, give me something easy! Regedit what? ULPS? Speak english! section.
Program 1; ATIMan is a helpful program for removing left-over registry entries and programs after MANUALLY uninstalling CAPs/Drivers. It's similar to Driversweeper only made for ATI.
Download and install ATIMan Uninstaller V.6 from the following link; http://www.mediafire.com/?76yfas13pwcnhq6
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 3 = Bad
11.10 Rev 3 = Good
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 2 = Good
11.10 Rev 3 + CAP 4 = Best performance
11.10 Official Release + CAP 4 Official Release = Best and most recommended
Current download links
CAP 4 released and 11.10 officially released, download and enjoy!
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx Official CAP 4 link for W7 64 Bit.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx Official 11.10 Link for W7/Vista 64 Bit.
Still having bad performance? Want to squeeze extra juice out of your system? Please try the following methods to reduce stutter and possibly increase FPS, or lower vram usage.
Tweak one; Let's focus on setting up the compatibility for the .exe
1. Right click on your Battlefield 3 exe on your desktop, and click properties
2. Click the "Compatibility" tab, make sure these boxes are checked, Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition, and Run this programs as an administrator
3. Click OK, and launch the .exe, your windows theme should turn into basic. This can result in roughly 200mb free.
----
Tweak two; Once you've done that, we can work on the pagefile.
Click your windows start button and pull up control panel.
Once you have the control panel up we're going to want to go to System and Security, and from there System. On the left side of the system tab you should have "Control Panel Home" with 4 options. Device Manager, Remote Settings, System Protection, Advanced System Settings.
Click on Advanced System Settings. This should pull up a system properties box, if not already there, make sure you're on the Advanced tab, and under Performance, click settings. Click the advanced tab and "Change..." on virtual memory.
Once here, it should tell you at the bottom the minimum, recommended, and currently allocated virtual memory. Click the "Custom size" bullet, and in the Initial Size, and Maximum size enter the Recommended page file size, and click set, and then OK.
Your PC may ask you to restart, be sure to restart and try it out and report back.
----
Tweak 3; I also recommend disabling ULPS via Regedit.
To do so follow these steps
1. Open the Regedit program, this can be done by using the start button search function
2. Once you have regedit opened, click edit, and then "Find"
3. Type Enableulps in the search bar
4. Double click enableulps and change the 1 to a 0, hit F3 to find all instances of enableulps, don't bother with enableulps_na
5. Exit regedit and restart
----
INTEL USERS TWEAK SECTION!
Tweak one; For Intel I7 users : Try disabling hyper-threading to reduce stutter.
----
The SERIOUSLY BRO I'M WILLING TO TRY ANYTHING! section.
Tweak one; Start a new power-cycle on your PC by completely shutting it down, and shutting off / unplugging your PSU. Restart the PC and [Possibly] enjoy your CF scaling as it should be!
----
Tweak two; Go into options turn mouse sensitivity down to 25%
Turn Raw mouse input to ON
Turn solider look sensitivity all the way up to max, this can cause the game to play smoother, DICE has acknowledged this as an issue that will be fixed in the up-coming patch
Tweak three; When you start game, hit the Windows button to go in Windowed mode,then go back to full screen. You're second card SHOULD be kickstarted into full usage and you SHOULD get almost double the framerate. This can also help with intro crashes. I've personally had this issues, so ANYTHING is worth a shot, right?
----
HELPFUL PROGRAMS AND DOWNLOAD LINKS
also known as the ;
Dude, got any helpful programs/I'm not a wizard, give me something easy! Regedit what? ULPS? Speak english! section.
Program 1; ATIMan is a helpful program for removing left-over registry entries and programs after MANUALLY uninstalling CAPs/Drivers. It's similar to Driversweeper only made for ATI.
Download and install ATIMan Uninstaller V.6 from the following link; http://www.mediafire.com/?76yfas13pwcnhq6