Thread: New GPU Installed

I played the BF4 single player for about 30min last night, nice and smooth. I may get brave and jump into multiplayer late tonight after I get some more play time in single player.

I jumped into the training grounds for a bit last night too and farted around in an attack chopper; are they really that easy to fly?!

BF2 choppers weren't so stable (didn't play bf3, not enough emphasis on team playing.).

scout copter is my favorite. try that.

Single player complete...

That was a weak piece of crap.

Unfortunately it's far to late to jump into multiplayer. I'll have to figure that out tomorrow.

See you soon!

Got into multiplayer tonight. It's fun!

I had some issues with client side lag, I think my graphics are up to high so I'll try reconfiguring them tomorrow. And I reconfigured my audio and it was throwing me off.

All in all I got a little over 8k points in my first hour of multiplayer so I'm happy with that.

I look forward to playing with you all again soon!

Originally Posted by grayman

Got into multiplayer tonight. It's fun!

I had some issues with client side lag, I think my graphics are up to high so I'll try reconfiguring them tomorrow. And I reconfigured my audio and it was throwing me off.

All in all I got a little over 8k points in my first hour of multiplayer so I'm happy with that.

I look forward to playing with you all again soon!

What video card? Rhys has some tricks and settings with the video options.

Originally Posted by ZoranDaWicked

What video card? Rhys has some tricks and settings with the video options.

Yeah settings are crucial I went from 60fps average to 120 average because of some tweaks.

Sapphire Radeon 7870

Originally Posted by grayman

Sapphire Radeon 7870

Virtually the same card as me. I don't run Battlefield 4 with any special tweaks. With my 7870, I'm almost 100% of the time CPU limited. I get 60fps at all times unless there's a Levolution going on or an EXTREME amount of crap going on. Here are my settings:

Texture Quality: Ultra
Texture Filtering: Ultra
Lighting Quality: Medium
Effects Quality: Medium
Mesh Quality: Ultra (CPU-limited feature. Turn down if necessary)
Terrain Quality: Low
Terrain Decoration: Low (For the two terrain settings, I can't tell the difference between Low and Ultra, so I just assume Low is faster)
Antialiasing Deferred: 2x MSAA
Antialiasing Post: Off
Ambient Occlusion: SSAO (HBAO is very destructive to the 7870, so stick with SSAO)

You don't need to mess with Motion Blur settings because it doesn't activate until High in Post Process Quality. I run the game in Windowed Borderless, but Fullscreen works just fine too. I also play with Vertical Sync off, but with the frame limiter set to 60. Look up "BF4 Frame Limiter" to set up a user.cfg file to limit to 60.

Also, don't touch Resolution Scale. Upping that while having Antialiasing on causes some wierd behavior that completely crushes my 7870.

There's a video posted somewhere on our site that has a lot of video tweaks to get a lot of performance out of BF4. Unfortunately I can't find it.

The lighting effects, antialiasing and ambient occlusion are some of the biggest hits on performance.

Texture Quality: High
Texture Filtering: High
Lighting Quality: Medium
Effects Quality: Medium
Mesh Quality: High
Terrain Quality: High
Terrain Decoration: High
Antialiasing Deferred: Off
Antialiasing Post: Low
Ambient Occlusion: SSAO

I'm pretty happy with how the game looks and the FPS that I'm getting. I like to have a balance between graphics quality and performance. For me, the difference in quality between high and ultra isn't worth the extra performance hit so I'd rather take the few FPS boost.

Apparently, it's important to have mesh up as high as possible.

Graphics settings and how they affect FPS - Battlefield 4: General discussion - Symthic Forum

Explanation on all the settings but not sure if it's 100% accurate. The FPS changes mentioned should only be taken as a guide.