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OMG… cant belive it…
it IS because the bad pci-e multiplier… i checked with gpu-z, it said it is supporing x16, but running on x1… i said, its a false read, i can run the bf3 just fine… i started screwing around with bios update, chipset driver update (i have the latest ati gpu driver)… somehow i managed to raise this value up to x4 (i know, its still sucks, its not x16, but i tried the gw2… and its 40 fps from 15!…
But now, im kinda confused… i have only one pci-e slot, which is x16, and a pcie 3.0 x16 card in it, but it still runs only on x4…
anyway, im at least seeing the problem…Try taking out the GPU and putting it back in (when the computer is shutdown of course). As silly as that may sound, sometimes doing this can actually fix low-speed PCI-E speeds (it did for me a few times, and was reported a few other times by other people)
thanks, i tried to fully get out and replace, but it doesn’t worked… the problem was that in my PCI-E slot the contacts are a bit up, so when someone push a card into it correctly, its too “deep”, so you have to push back a little (around a millimeter) to get all the contacts working…
Anyway, i have all my x16 channels back
My Battlefield 3 FPS went up too, from 30-40fps in fullHD@medium@noAA@noAmbientOcclusion, to 35-50 fps in fullHD@high@noAA@withAmbientOcclusion…
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Im a software developer, a hc geek in the last 18-20 year… I put a lot of pc together… never happened me this before :P possibly its just some form of loose connection in the slot, or whatever
and yes, my last 2 or 3 mb was gigabyte too… i like them, i trust them And not so expensive
I choose 770-us3 because i had to use my 6 gigs of ddr2, didnt had money to complete ram change too (and ddr3 was quite expensive then)
^ Magnificat, do you know what brand motherboard you’re using? ASRock is known for that issue and occasionally Biostar.
As for the links further up, disabling Aero and desktop themes DOES help, I do it on my laptop which helps GW2 run better and I did it on my PC when playing SWTOR.
And yes it is quite odd how this game runs like crap on cutting edge hardware, I’m still using a motherboard that has PCI-e x16 1.1 (note 3.0 is out on the market now) and using DDR2 800MHz ram when there’s 1866MHz DDR3. The game runs like a champ for me, how strange. Under normal circumstances I’d keep up with cutting edge hardware like I have been since the mid 90’s but money issues has kept me from upgrading this almost 2 year old PC- maybe it’s a good thing this time.
Its Gigabyte MA770-US3 with X4 635… And I found the problem… My vga was simply pressed too deeply into the pci-e slot! pulled back about a mm, and it started to act as x16 2.0 So i got back my 30+ fps! cant imagine the bf3 now
well, to be honest, its not far over 30 (33-40) but still way playable than 12-15
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