Dear TR-forum members,
I'd like to ask all of you, who have more or less experience with Battlefield 3, for your advises.
I've been playing the game's multiplayer for over a a year without having a hiccup. Then I got somewhat bored of it, after some 50-something hrs of gameplay. I have a full-time job, a family, so I think playing over 50hrs in a year is not that bad. I wouldn't compare my skills to those youngsters who had over 50hrs of multi-gameplay in 3 days after the game was released...Anyways, after seeing the BF4 trailers, I thought I play a couple rounds so I got back online just to get annoyed in minutes.
The formerly fluid gameplay was completely destroyed by the stuttering I haven't experienced before. It's driving me nuts. I googled the hell out of the internetz but I still don't know what to do, every reasonable idea I found turned out useless. Where else to turn in such cases when not to the TR-forums?
I've got a i5 2500k, 2x2GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz, a factory OC-d GTX 560Ti from Gigabyte, and a samsung 840 evo (I got this recently), and win7 ultimate. Before the SSD my main harddrive was a plain Samsung 300GB HDD with 7200rpm. I have a creative SB Xfi as well.
I used to play on high settings, on a 22" screen with 1680x1050.
After installing the latest nvidia drivers, the gameplay just s..ks, it's unenjoyable. Interestingly enough, it used to work fine with the drivers up to...31x.xx I think. With 320.xx and after, it's just plain bad.
I tried to revert to 317 and below, but it didn't help either.
I tried tweaking the config files of the game, the settings in nvidia's controll panel, I overclocked the CPU, turned off Aero, and so on. By the way, it's funny that the new SSD gave me a boost of ca. 8-10 FPS in average, but it didn't help the stuttering.
So, does anybody have any idea, what to do, where to check,etc?
on the side note: it's just exactly the same what happened to me with BFBC2. Fine for a good while, and then -after an unidentified point- pathetic. I thought it must be some sort of cheap conspiracy,in which nvidia tries to force its customers to buy new hardware by releasing drivers that practically cripple graphics cards. Or they just don't give a damn at simply kill off some software's support.
thanks for your comments!