bad company 2 on 5970 low fps ?

Chances are your 5970 is bottlenecked by the CPU. BC2 has unbalanced loading so CPU will see a much higher load than the GPU, unless your GPU is really weak. Things you can do: -Lower sound quality -Enable Vsync (may help smooth FPS in-game, but it will lower your maximum FPS) -Further overclock your CPU -Try changing "RenderAheadLimit" to 0 or 3 (instead of default 2). This is located in a text document called 'settings.ini' in your documents->BFBC2 folderSwiftstrike5

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Chances are your 5970 is bottlenecked by the CPU. BC2 has unbalanced loading so CPU will see a much higher load than the GPU, unless your GPU is really weak. Things you can do: -Lower sound quality -Enable Vsync (may help smooth FPS in-game, but it will lower your maximum FPS) -Further overclock your CPU -Try changing "RenderAheadLimit" to 0 or 3 (instead of default 2). This is located in a text document called 'settings.ini' in your documents->BFBC2 folderSF_KiLLaMaN

Yeah, it's a bad port because his CPU bottlenecks the card. I never said anything about other games. The load balancing is poor for BFBC2. If his performance is decreasing, it's because of the CPU, not the GPU.

DO NOT overclock your CPU, god, who would recommend such a thing for a 3.8ghz Phenom that probably has a stock cooler, even if it isn't a stock one that recommendation is still outrageous, it's not the CPU it's more than enough for this game, actually it's nothing, that's how the game is, performance isn't constant most of the time, if you want to do something about it just lower the shadow quality, it doesn't affect the multiplayer experience, visually, imo.DanielDust

The game performance DECREASES because the poor coding clogs up the CPU (120 -> 60FPS is poor coding. It's not normal for a game to drop that much from a stable FPS). And it was a ****ing suggestion, jeez. He clearly knows the capabilities of his system if he's already hit 3.8Ghz.

WOW really you drop to 50-60fps?! That's an outrage its a console port its not optimized blah blah blah here we go again.

I think stock ghz 955 wont bottleneck you on BFBC2 . tho i did read somewhere that 5970 has problems with using its full power , drivers or something . Or maybe its just poor optimization as other say .

I should probably read all the other posts, but make sure your drivers at up to date

DO NOT overclock your CPU, god, who would recommend such a thing for a 3.8ghz Phenom that probably has a stock cooler, even if it isn't a stock one that recommendation is still outrageous, it's not the CPU it's more than enough for this game, actually it's nothing, that's how the game is, performance isn't constant most of the time, if you want to do something about it just lower the shadow quality, it doesn't affect the multiplayer experience, visually, imo.DanielDust

Then you shouldn't suggest things if you don't know what you're talking about, I don't know what kind of sane person, that actually bothered to read the OP, would suggest to overclock a 3.8ghz quad core even further for a game that doesn't even use half the power it already has. This suggestion of yours is as bad is the other guy with the Sector 8 avatar gsomethingclaw, when there's game problems, you should format....but at least that's a suggestion that wouldn't damage the PC for absolutely no reason, because a console port doesn't perform constantly at a certain frame rate...DanielDust

[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Then you shouldn't suggest things if you don't know what you're talking about, I don't know what kind of sane person, that actually bothered to read the OP, would suggest to overclock a 3.8ghz quad core even further for a game that doesn't even use half the power it already has. This suggestion of yours is as bad is the other guy with the Sector 8 avatar gsomethingclaw, when there's game problems, you should format....but at least that's a suggestion that wouldn't damage the PC for absolutely no reason, because a console port doesn't perform constantly at a certain frame rate...Swiftstrike5

He obviously wouldn't want to lower settings on the most powerful ATI card, but that's everything he can do, the game has some problems with ATI and it has even more problems for Crossfire and SLI, even drivers are bad for such configurations for both ATI and Nvidia.

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"][QUOTE="DanielDust"]Then you shouldn't suggest things if you don't know what you're talking about, I don't know what kind of sane person, that actually bothered to read the OP, would suggest to overclock a 3.8ghz quad core even further for a game that doesn't even use half the power it already has. This suggestion of yours is as bad is the other guy with the Sector 8 avatar gsomethingclaw, when there's game problems, you should format....but at least that's a suggestion that wouldn't damage the PC for absolutely no reason, because a console port doesn't perform constantly at a certain frame rate...DanielDust

He obviously wouldn't want to lower settings on the most powerful ATI card, but that's everything he can do, the game has some problems with ATI and it has even more problems for Crossfire and SLI, even drivers are bad for such configurations for both ATI and Nvidia.

If you should know anything about this game, it's that the GPU usage is fairly low and that CPU usage is fairly high. Making suggestions to lower graphical settings on one of the most powerful cards on the market is, well, poorly thought out. The proper suggestion would be to find a more compatible driver, but that's most likely not the case.

I don't think there is anything wrong but just to make sure, what resolution are you playing at?

Exactly guys thats correct. I dont wanna lower the settings because i have such a expensive card...so thats why i wounder i mean the fps drops to 55 and stil very playable but that is not the problem. The fact is that i get worried that it drop to 55 on such a good card. I mean my old 5850 had 55fps so its drops to the same as an older card that whats worries me.adde94

Even though the game is poorly optimized, he is having an issue. He should never drop below 60fps unless theirs a big explosion. I had a similar issue when the latest patch came out, but after a reboot the performance was back to normal.

Sound the alarm bells!

I play mine with everything on high, minus AA on an 8800GT, my FPS isn't perfect but I don't really mind it :P

How many times do I have to say this? NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR GRAPHICS CARD! The game is just terribly optimized and requires a lot more CPU than GPU. You are getting very good frame rates, why are you complaining?SF_KiLLaMaN

im actually going to be buying one of these cards (unless the flagship 6000 series comes out any time soon :)) and id say the reason its at 60% etc. is because the card doesnt need any more power to run the game fully so its not under full load; 55-60 fps is about the limit of smoothness that most people can actually discern in video games anyway. im going to say its just a badly optimized game because if there was something wrong with you're card you would not be running at such high fps anyway (probably like 15-20 fps) just hang on till dice eventually get around to patching the game or new drivers come out for the card

[QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"]How many times do I have to say this? NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR GRAPHICS CARD! The game is just terribly optimized and requires a lot more CPU than GPU. You are getting very good frame rates, why are you complaining?Cranler

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[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Chances are your 5970 is bottlenecked by the CPU. BC2 has unbalanced loading so CPU will see a much higher load than the GPU, unless your GPU is really weak. Things you can do: -Lower sound quality -Enable Vsync (may help smooth FPS in-game, but it will lower your maximum FPS) -Further overclock your CPU -Try changing "RenderAheadLimit" to 0 or 3 (instead of default 2). This is located in a text document called 'settings.ini' in your documents->BFBC2 foldermorrowindnic

Freaking fanboys..... ITS NOT A CONSOLE PORT! How many damn times do we have to say this?

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[QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"] There is no way a phenom 2 at 3.8GHz is bottlenecking that card. his CPU is VERY good. The game is just a bad console port. That's all there is to it.

SF_KiLLaMaN

Freaking fanboys..... ITS NOT A CONSOLE PORT! How many damn times do we have to say this?

Fanboy? Thinking that anything multiplatform that doesn't get 200fps is a port. The PC has MANY features that the console version doesn't have. It's a multiplatform game. The game runs GREAT for me. If you want a console port, go looks at MW2. Now that IS one.

Complaining about getting 55fps and not 60fps is REALLY retarded. Just because you have an awesome card, doesn;t mean it HAS to get 100fps. 55 or 60 fps wont make a difference if its the minimum.

Well..i just wanna know if its normal that is only uses 60% ...if not i trade it in for a new 1 and maybe it uses like 85% :) ?????adde94

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Freaking fanboys..... ITS NOT A CONSOLE PORT! How many damn times do we have to say this?

morrowindnic

Fanboy? Thinking that anything multiplatform that doesn't get 200fps is a port. The PC has MANY features that the console version doesn't have. It's a multiplatform game. The game runs GREAT for me. If you want a console port, go looks at MW2. Now that IS one.

Complaining about getting 55fps and not 60fps is REALLY retarded. Just because you have an awesome card, doesn;t mean it HAS to get 100fps. 55 or 60 fps wont make a difference if its the minimum.

[QUOTE="Swiftstrike5"]Chances are your 5970 is bottlenecked by the CPU. BC2 has unbalanced loading so CPU will see a much higher load than the GPU, unless your GPU is really weak. Things you can do: -Lower sound quality -Enable Vsync (may help smooth FPS in-game, but it will lower your maximum FPS) -Further overclock your CPU -Try changing "RenderAheadLimit" to 0 or 3 (instead of default 2). This is located in a text document called 'settings.ini' in your documents->BFBC2 folderSF_KiLLaMaN

yeah No phenom II at 2.6ghz (probably doesn't even need to be this high) or higher would bottleneck any graphics card out period.

[QUOTE="Cranler"][QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"]How many times do I have to say this? NOTHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR GRAPHICS CARD! The game is just terribly optimized and requires a lot more CPU than GPU. You are getting very good frame rates, why are you complaining?SF_KiLLaMaN

Just 1 thing... do you REALLY need 8x Anti Aliasing on a 1920x1200 resolution? Really? Try lowering your AA.

Other than that, I don't know if it still helps or not, but try forcing DX10.

C:\Users\[Username]\Documents\BFBC2

Open Settings and then chance DXVersion=Auto to DXVersion=10

Also, take a look here : http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/battlefield-bad-company-2_5.html#sect0

5970 is probably the weirdest card ever existed, mind you, you will get lower fps playing in lowest setting than highest setting, that card is designed to play everything at maximum resolution and settings, in most games 5970 benched, gaming at 2560x1680 max setting will get HIGHER fps than you playing at 1080p medium setting, (I'm totally serious)

so try to turn settings even higher to get fps increase, this game don't have alot graphic options, I suggest try AA16xQ or AA32xQ, at that AA, though you won't come close to the 85-120 fps I got with mine EVGA 480SLI 3G DDR5, but a solid 60-70 on your 5970 should be no problem

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[QUOTE="SF_KiLLaMaN"] How am I fanboy? I own the game and play it regularly. I figured it was a console port because it show all of the signs of a console port, being it requires a lot of CPU and little GPU. Frostbite is also originally a console engine.

SF_KiLLaMaN

Fanboy? Thinking that anything multiplatform that doesn't get 200fps is a port. The PC has MANY features that the console version doesn't have. It's a multiplatform game. The game runs GREAT for me. If you want a console port, go looks at MW2. Now that IS one.

Complaining about getting 55fps and not 60fps is REALLY retarded. Just because you have an awesome card, doesn;t mean it HAS to get 100fps. 55 or 60 fps wont make a difference if its the minimum.

I get 50-60fps in BC2 runs good for me.

The game was design with both consoles and PC in mind. A port is just that a port. The exact same game on multiple systems, but design for a certain system. BC2 is not the same on PC. It is better, and runs good.