I was having cuntugly problems, reinstall drivers, turn off motion blur with the cfg, install special nvidia thing in the root dir, punkbuster update, update bios made my game run 90% smoother.


special emphasis on punkbuster. It's what worked for me

Have used BF4 settings editor to put everything on lowest
Generally manually update PB each time before I play

Over the past month I have tried every setup with the gear I have to get it to run better
win7, win 8, win 8.1 few different catalyst drivers, diff HDDs 3"5 1tb sata , 2"5 120gb sata and 3"5 IDE 320gb

Surprisingly the IDE HDD had a load time of only 45sec before it decided to die on me.

Quote from Sgt: February 02, 2014, 02:17:36 am

Q6600 @ 3.6
2xhd5770
6gb ddr2 800
1tb sata hdd
Win 8.1
1920x1080@60hz
All settings low
25-60fps
3-4 min loads on some maps

Semi playable, some 64p maps run extremely bad, China rising maps run best/load fastest.

Flogging this dead horse all I can, can't justify spending $$ on PC gear

throw an SSD in that puppy and you'll feel better.... Here is my video showing the difference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxUmCs1flI

Know there is prob a particular section for this but....

Have conned the mrs into letting me do a cheap upgrade to my PC 
To be more precise  she we decided to spend a whole lot on her so we I decided to spend a wee bit on myself.

***sighs and remembers a simpler time when he was the master of his own universe***

Anyway....

Currently my CPU is the main bottleneck running at 99% while using only 70% of my Ram and my 2xHD5770's are only using 50-60% of the GPU and 75% of their Ram.
Am I correct to assume that in my case an SSD would make a negligible difference?

Am considering getting the items below

AMD FX8350 $274.55
8gb Gkill ripjaw DDR3 1600  $108
Asus Sabertooth Motherboard $290.50

$673.05 plus $20 to courier to Sth Island

Will upgrade vid card in near future and then SSD