' I am always running AfterBurner in the background so I can monitor my GPU Usage/temps and framerate while gaming. I closed ab and everything and opened fraps to see fps. It then told me I was getting 20fps, it was really laggy. I then set all my settings and tested the overlay in borderlands 2. (I didn't touch any of the clock rates) I was trying to use it to have the overlay in my games. I enabled the perf overlay and the latency on both the cpu and gpu were booth pretty consistent, where as ussualy i would get weird cpu spikes every few seconds.' 'I was suprised yesterday when i accidentally booted BF 3 without them, and i noticed more smoother gameplay. Or on our forum']Battlefield 3 on our forum: What appears to be happening is the OSD (On Screen Display) part of those programs is conflicting with BF3, which in turn is causing your fps drops.' Well if you're like me you were probably using a 3rd party program that displayed your FPS on screen such as And how much its dropping and all that jazz. 'So after much testing today, i think ive pinpointed what was causing the FPS drops/cpu lag while playing BF3 after the CQ release.Īllot of you seem to be posting what your fps is etc. Click to expand.This is actually a well known issue in many games but I decided to bring it up since it was a topic explored again.

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