Just installed HD6950, and I am disappoint

You went from an nVidia card to an AMD card without reinstalling Windows. That's your issue right there.

I looked through three pages and can't believe none of the other clowns here caught on to that. I've never seen a card swap going between companies go smoothly. Even driver cleaners usually don't work. You absolutely have to reinstall windows or you will have bizarre performance problems. I've seen this exact issue many times before.

An i5, even a dual core i5 probably isn't going to be the bottleneck people here are thinking it is.

You went from an nVidia card to an AMD card without reinstalling Windows. That's your issue right there.

I looked through three pages and can't believe none of the other clowns here caught on to that. I've never seen a card swap going between companies go smoothly. Even driver cleaners usually don't work. You absolutely have to reinstall windows or you will have bizarre performance problems. I've seen this exact issue many times before.

An i5, even a dual core i5 probably isn't going to be the bottleneck people here are thinking it is.

bigfoot2045

Hah? I went from an 8800gt to a 4850 then to a gtx460 and now to a 6850 ( after my gtx 460 died ) and i never reinstalled Windows and i have no problems with the usual method of uninstall nvidia driver, reboot to safe mode run driver sweeper, clean nvidia remains, remove nvidia card, install AMD card, boot into safe mode and install new drivers Now if you need to reinstall Windows every time then you are doing something terribly wrong

As for BF3 all those CPU benchmarks you see are for single player. Try running a 64 player MP map with a dual core and see how big the difference is from a quad core. Infact BF3 scales well up to 8cores in MP

[QUOTE="bigfoot2045"]

You went from an nVidia card to an AMD card without reinstalling Windows. That's your issue right there.

I looked through three pages and can't believe none of the other clowns here caught on to that. I've never seen a card swap going between companies go smoothly. Even driver cleaners usually don't work. You absolutely have to reinstall windows or you will have bizarre performance problems. I've seen this exact issue many times before.

An i5, even a dual core i5 probably isn't going to be the bottleneck people here are thinking it is.

adamosmaki

Look at the graph here, it shows similar performance with many different CPUs, including a dual core Athlon 2 CPU and a dual core i3 2120: http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/page7.html Explanation? :Dyonyz

This comparison is useless, they tested the game in SP which is only demanding on the GPU.

The game will run much smoother for you with a better CPU. I know how annoying it can be to have 20 fps looking in one direction and 70 looking in the other.

[QUOTE="yonyz"]Look at the graph here, it shows similar performance with many different CPUs, including a dual core Athlon 2 CPU and a dual core i3 2120: http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/page7.html Explanation? :DBen-Buja

This comparison is useless, they tested the game in SP which is only demanding on the GPU.

The game will run much smoother for you with a better CPU. I know how annoying it can be to have 20 fps looking in one direction and 70 looking in the other.

Something is wrong with my system. Metro map, Rush mode, 20/32 players, both underground and outside, Medium settings and below (Shadows at Low, everything else Off or 1x), game runs terribly slow, maybe even slower than before, I don't know... Absolutely unplayable at these Medium to Low settings, with a GPU that I think should do more. I'm gonna try a complete reinstall of the driver as adamosmaki suggested.

Update:

Driver cleaning and reinstallation complete.

I noticed the game runs pretty much the same on Auto, High, Medium and Low. All slow at times, and all smooth at times. I also noticed the graphics doesn't really change, textures still look sharp despite being on Low.

I'm gonna go back to Win 7 64 Bit.

These ATI drivers are beta, and the game doesn't officially support Win 8. This is too important. :D

yonyz