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5/21/12 at 5:03pm

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Hello guys,

I recently added another 6950 to my rig... I tried playing crysis 2 at max settings with all the texs and tess and it plays very smoothly. But I tried BF3 and I get a lot of frames drop at ultra and high settings. I dissabled AA and it doesn't help much. My cards are the 1g version. I only play at 1080p so I choose the 1gb 'cuz I thought I didn't need more VRAM...

What could be causing the problem?

Thanks a lot!
Edited by age_ruler1 - 5/21/12 at 5:08pm

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5/21/12 at 5:05pm

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BF3 Uses more than 1gb vram at 1080p

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5/21/12 at 5:06pm

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Yea, i think the 1gb is holding you back in this case.. Mine uses 1.7gb at times in bf3.

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5/21/12 at 5:09pm

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Dang... :/

What settings should I lower? I have tried tweeking and still drops. I don't know what settings hold me back -.-

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5/21/12 at 5:15pm

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If you install msi afterburner, then enable the osd
Show memory usage
Then tweak the settings while watching memory usage

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5/21/12 at 5:16pm

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Probably the textures would be taking the most vram. you can try dissabling SSAO also as that seems to drop FPS.

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5/21/12 at 5:19pm

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Thanks a lot! I'll try both things.

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5/21/12 at 6:29pm

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I can run BF3 on high on my 6950 with my AMD 955 with no issues, maybe it's CAP profiles or something else I doubt it's just the VRAM holding back.

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5/21/12 at 6:39pm

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I think it was my card. I switched places on the cards and it worked. I don't have any frame drops... Thanks to everyone.. rep+

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1GB VRAM is fine for BF3 @1080p if you disable MSAA (for MP especially). I have two 1GB cards. You can lower texture quality as well btw.

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