[age_ruler1]

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!

 

[eugenekrabs]

BF3 Uses more than 1gb vram at 1080p

 

[iCrap]

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

 

[age_ruler1]

Dang... :/

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

 

[eugenekrabs]

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

 

[iCrap]

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

 

[age_ruler1]

Thanks a lot! I'll try both things.

 

[NateST]

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.

 

[age_ruler1]

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+

 

[Anusha]

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.

 

[age_ruler1]

Yes... I really doubted it was the VRAM. But the "synthoms" points to lack of VRAM. I'm guessing one of my cards does not work at 100% I always had a bit of toruble running the old card. Now I'm running at ultra with no AA and MSAA