I'm currently at a .94kdr. I would imagine that it will creep up to a 1.3 like BF3 in time, but either way, I've been having fun.
I stopped caring. As long as it doesn't crash and I had fun.
It will certainly help. I have 680 SLI and i'm visiting triple digit FPS quite often with excellent scaling.
Its the cheapest and quickest way to go, but since neither my CPU or GPU is maxed I think something else is wrong.
Windows 7?
Yup. I dont want to upgrade if possible, but that thought has crossed my mind.
Its the cheapest and quickest way to go, but since neither my CPU or GPU is maxed I think something else is wrong.
I didn't either. I was trying to convince myself performance was "good enough" not to warrant an upgrade, but I also knew both my CPU and GPU scaling wasn't where it should be, and after so many Windows 8 success stories on BF4, I couldn't ignore it any longer. I upgraded to 8.1 and I'm glad I did. The performance difference really is night and day.
Childs - we have very similar systems. I'm seeing 99% GPU Usage most of the time, and probably around 50% CPU Usage (not all cores are equally loaded). My VRAM hits 1800MB at 1440p/High, closer to 1950MB at 1080p or 1440p Ultra. I'm on Win7.
If your GPU isn't maxing out in this game, there must be a setting that isn't right. It's not vsync, because the system will struggle to hold 60fps anyway. Do you routinely see 99% GPU Usage in other games or benchmarks? Maybe do a clean install of the drivers to knock out any settings that might be causing an issue.
I didn't either. I was trying to convince myself performance was "good enough" not to warrant an upgrade, but I also knew both my CPU and GPU scaling wasn't where it should be, and after so many Windows 8 success stories on BF4, I couldn't ignore it any longer. I upgraded to 8.1 and I'm glad I did. The performance difference really is night and day.
Childs - we have very similar systems. I'm seeing 99% GPU Usage most of the time, and probably around 50% CPU Usage (not all cores are equally loaded). My VRAM hits 1800MB at 1440p/High, closer to 1950MB at 1080p or 1440p Ultra. I'm on Win7.
If your GPU isn't maxing out in this game, there must be a setting that isn't right. It's not vsync, because the system will struggle to hold 60fps anyway. Do you routinely see 99% GPU Usage in other games or benchmarks? Maybe do a clean install of the drivers to knock out any settings that might be causing an issue.
Unfortunately 3 of the unlock weapons are from single player assignments...
I figured it out...its frickin Shadowplay! I turned it off and GPU usage is 99%. I guess video capture still aint free. Its too bad, because it recorded really nice.
I'm currently at a .94kdr. I would imagine that it will creep up to a 1.3 like BF3 in time, but either way, I've been having fun.
Glad you got it figured out. I was actually messing with Shadowplay for the first time today, also in BF3. It limits your ingame FPS to the shadowplay settings, mine was 60. Still a lot better than the FRAPS alternative which not only has that same limitation, but would never be able to capture 1080p @ 60fps in a game like BF4.
Shadowplay is supposed to allow for capture at 1080p 60fps without limiting your in game frame rate. For BF3 it seemed to work fine, as I was way above 60fps in game, and it felt like it never dropped. It could be that my frame rate did indeed drop, but it was higher enough that I didn't notice. Most of the time in BF4 it was in the 70-80s, but then it would drop to the 30-40s. Anyways, after a few 64 man games my frame rate is holding over 60fps easy. And thank god now my aim is back.
Dxtory lets you capture at any resolution and frame rate, and when you use H.264 there is almost no cpu hit. I really like the shadow recording feature of Shadowplay though. Something interesting happens, just record the last 5 min.
I might get the second 680 anyway. They are going for $300 used, and 680 SLi should be faster than a single 780ti. Sheesh, when I got the 680 it was with the expectation that I can just add another later, but the BF4 needing more than 2GB of VRAM thing kinda changes things. I dont even think there were 4GB versions when it was released.
Started of by going something obscene like 0-12, hating the kill cam that stays up forever, hints not going away, and just feeling off. Got a couple kills in a row, then game crashed lol. Got game up again, clicked quick join.. put me as the only player in a server. Got a few kills and was having fun, server crash.
Single player on hard is a joke. It's pretty boring so far. Like an action movie with a bad story. Only doing it to grab the weapon unlocks.
My top annoyances about the game:
1) Messed up key bindings. You just can't rebind gadget1 at all. B opens console (wtf?). The game only recognizes five mouse buttons - this is not a bug though (but it's 2013 ffs).
2) Battlelog is one big bug. Browser doesn't remember sorting of results. There is no queue functionality, which makes joining ANY game pain in the ass. It's impossible to add a server to favourites from its page, the only way to do this is from the browser. Various scrolling problems when looking at stats of guns/items.
3) Servers are crashing like Windows ME.