BF4 Need an upgrade :(

Komsomolitz

Hiya lads and ladies, After 3 years I think I finally need an upgrade since purchasing BF4 and having an atrocious amount of performance lag.

I'll post my setup below but basically I'm curious about whether I can upgrade one or two things on the cheap or whether I need to build a new PC full stop. It's served me very well these past few years as I only really played eve online and natural selection 1/2.

But overall I'd love to future proof it a little bit and at least play BF4 without any issues. Any thoughts? Greatly appreciated.

3.5ghz Intel i7920 Quad core processor
Windows Vista 64bit
Foxconn Bloodrage Motherboard
250GB Solid State Drive G-Skill Titan
2*500GB internal hard drives both Hitachi
6GB DDR3 Ram G-Skill 12800
Crossfired 2*4890 ATI Radeon HD graphics cards
Cosmos-S Case (Black) & fully professionally water cooled


http://www.adverts.ie/desktops-and-monitors/gaming-pc-with-desk-monitor-and-leather-chair/261464

BloodBath

Urghhh Vista. Upgrade to windows 8 for a start. That should give you a 10-20% boost in bf4 alone with a new graphics card that supports dx 11.1. (Not including the cards performance boost)

That processor should be more than up to the task of bf4. You should overclock it more. It should go to 4ghz easily enough. Is 3.5ghz the highest you could get?

Replace the cards with an R9 280x.

Did you update your graphics drivers and crossfire profiles for bf4?

What's your budget?

SterlingArcher

Yep apart from the outdated vista. And maybe a card upgrade should be running Bf 4 well. Sell your two cards and invest in a new one.

creep

Graphics cards are fairly outdated. Single 7950 would do the trick and overclock the processor a bit more

cherryghost

4890 in crossfire is more than enough for BF4. Mate had them for BF3 and got about 70FPS on mostly high settings. BF4 isn't that more taxing. The problem is crossfire. There's a lot of users who are having framerate issues with BF4 and crossfire, no matter what generation they have.

I think your setup is fine, the problem is the crossfire support which they are currently addressing (AMD).

creep

cherryghost wrote: »

4890 in crossfire is more than enough for BF4. Mate had them for BF3 and got about 70FPS on mostly high settings. BF4 isn't that more taxing. The problem is crossfire. There's a lot of users who are having framerate issues with BF4 and crossfire, no matter what generation they have.

I think your setup is fine, the problem is the crossfire support which they are currently addressing (AMD).

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+4890

There not great cards at all. A 7750 for 70 euro is better than one of those cards on there own. He was looking to future proof the PC so his processor is still grand. A 7950 or a R9 280x would have huge huge gains over a 4890 in crossfire Also replace Vista with Windows 8.

Could go with cheaper cards as well.

marco_polo

cherryghost wrote: »

4890 in crossfire is more than enough for BF4. Mate had them for BF3 and got about 70FPS on mostly high settings. BF4 isn't that more taxing. The problem is crossfire. There's a lot of users who are having framerate issues with BF4 and crossfire, no matter what generation they have.

I think your setup is fine, the problem is the crossfire support which they are currently addressing (AMD).

I think the HD 4xxx cards are in the AMD legacy driver bundle now (As best I can recall, got rid of my HD4870 about a year ago), could be wrong but not sure that driver improvements are a given if thats the case.

Komsomolitz

Some good advice there guys thanks.

I'll upgrade to windows 8 when I can, thats a simple and obvious improvement i wouldn't have thought of.

I have updated the gfx drivers for BF4, it actually prompted me to when installing BF4, said it needed 13.9 minimum.

Glad to hear the processor is still decent, 3.5 was the highest i could overclock it in the past without issues, ill mess around with it again sure.

Do I have enough ram as well for modern games? I see a lot of setups now a days with 8gig standard?

I'll take a look at the gfx cards suggested, I have no real budget, cheap as possible overall though. I have a friend working in the Ukraine who said he can get me dirt cheap cards so i may not necessarily have to settle for something mediocre.

I'm sick and tired of crossfire issues overall yeah, BF4 definitly isnt the first game ive played that hates crossfire! I'm kinda sick of AMD as a whole truth be told, I know nvidia are generally a bit more expensive but ive never had issues with any of their cards in the past.