Thanks, but most of it is not gaming oriented, my windows runs fine and I do most of the things said there. Is there a program similar to Razor Game Booster? Or does anyone else experience Battlefield lagg so they know how to fix it?
Edit: I even close Windows Explorer while playing BF3
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+1 to gamebooster by I/Obit
i didnt realize that was already on the list here sorry
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perhaps because he's a part of this community and we post basically anything that comes to mind whenever we feel like it?
the question is far more steamgifts related than half of the crap we post
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It actually does help, if you're CPU bottlenecked. Won't do much if your CPU has power to spare.
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well, it seems your graphics card is causing most of the lag, as it only has 512mb ram. if possible, try and either obtain a card with 1gb ram, or lower your graphics settings.
i never played bf3, could never get it to work on my system. i would always get disconnected by the time i loaded.
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When VRAM is full, textures get swapped into and out of VRAM. It's similar to what happens when your RAM is full and you alt-tab between two programs that use a lot of RAM.
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That can be the problem. BF3 can go really hard on VGA, and it uses a lot of VRAM.
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The model number is important here, not the series.
A 4870HD might still give you reasonable frame rates in many modern games, particularly at low resolutions, but a low end one might barely run anything much more demanding than Notepad at non-slideshow speeds...
Assuming you're using ATI Catalyst drivers, you should be able to check the exact model so people have a better idea of your hardware.
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You have to know what kind of GPU you have. I use a 4890 and it's still a respectable card for modest 1080p gaming.
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The thing is u need a better grafic card. and shutdown the Explorer.exe in the Taskmanager when ure in game.
That will help a lot.
what else will maybe help if u shutdown everything that dont used in this time.
As well install the game on another HDD as the System will help a lot.
The minimum preferences arent right i think.
PS.
An grafic card with 1GB RAM is minimum i think.
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Replace your video card with a more recent card with at least 1GB video ram. Or disable AA, and if that doesn't help, lower resolution.
You can get a video card decent enough to play that game on less than max settings for under 150 USD.
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Well if your mother board is a AM3 or AM3+ you could upgrade to a X4 (since BF3 is true quad-core, below that some models dont even load/game bugs), and get a $100 graphics card...thats about all you need, have a friend running BF3 on high with a i5 2500; EVGA GTS 450; 4GB of RAM, 1400x900 at ~30-55fps.
Aside from that if you dont have such motherboard, you could 'rebuild' for about $300...Even less maybe. (Or just get a dedicated graphics card, but will still have some problems with the CPU.
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So I bought Battlefield 3 like 2 weeks back ( $25 ), the thing is that sometimes it laggs a lot and sometimes it runs very smooth.
Mostly laggs...
It is still playable but I'm not able to get as good scores as I would like to.
My PC configuration
AMD processor dual core 2.7GHz,
512MB ATI Radeon Graphics card,
6GB of Ram
I run everything on low and I think 1024x768, I also use Razor Game Booster which does help.
It would be really helpful if I didn't have to have Chrome open all the time.
No I dont have money for a new PC (My motherboard is old and basically upgrade is not an option, I'd have to get a new configuration), not everyone is wealthy
TL;DR
So please give me some tips to speed up my old PC.
Also some pointers for finding servers for BF3 (I dont really get how the filters work)
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