Battlefield Crazy mouse lag Fix
by Agent[31] on Nov.08, 2011, under Gaming, News
I’ve finally had a chance to play Battlefield 3 for a few days and it’s been given me mixed emotions. On one side, I really enjoy the teamwork based combat that I get to experience playing with my friends and brother. Unfortunately, and this has tainted my experience thus far, I am one of the players encountering a severe (some would say extreme) input lag that is occurs at the most in-opportune times. I decided that this couldn’t possibly be normal and began my google trawl to investigate further.
One comment on a forum post mentioned they disabled Origin ingame for battlefield 3
Before I show you my research I’ll give my system specs so you know what case scenario this represents. I’m running an unoverclocked Intel Quad Core Q6600 paired with a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT. Nothing fancy, but it will play battlefield 3 according to the minimum specs. Of course, that means playing at low settings, although I am doing a resolution of 1680×1050.
The first solution offered to me was to lower the render ahead limit to 1. However this did little to stop my issue.
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After this I was able to correlate the issue down to the fact that whenever my cpu was hitting 97%+ or so, this was when the problems occurred. Now I knew what was causing it. Now to isolate why. I read through a multitude of forums, all suggesting different fixes. From removing usb controllers (joysticks or gamepads), neither of which I had plugged in, to overclocking the CPU. One thing is for certain however: BF3 is CPU intensive and less GPU intensive.
I decided to try the Beta drivers, which was 1 version down from the official released by NVIDIA. It lessened the times the mouse input lag occurred, but did not eliminate.
One comment on a forum post mentioned they disabled Origin ingame for battlefield 3 and that did the trick for them. So I tried it. A simple fix really. Now the game runs silky smooth, and feels just like battlefield 2 bad company before it.
Click the gear Icon in Origin, then click settings. Go to the ingame tab and disable ingame either entirely, or for Battlefield 3.
Let me know if this solves it for you with this specific hardware, or with other hardware.
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November 9th, 2011 on 12:24 pm
Macbook Pro 15″ 2.something I7, Improved a lot, not 100% gone, but playable.
November 12th, 2011 on 6:03 am
ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
intel core 2 duo 3.16, ghz
4 gig ram
Its a more than 3 year old computer. The fix worked great! now i only have ordinary lag, which is easier to live with.
thanks =)
November 12th, 2011 on 9:40 am
Glad to hear it’s working for you guys too! The regular laggyness is still something we have to deal with unfortunately, but at least we can game without throwing our mice at the monitor in frustration
November 23rd, 2011 on 5:11 pm
I have a nvidia 9800Gt quad core 2.33ghz 2.33ghz
I seem to be running at 20-30 fps and unable to have a smooth game play.
Anything you can suggest?
From the sounds of it, you make it sound like the 9800 should run it.
So would this be my processer? My comp can run badcompany 2 and etc…
Any suggestions would be appreciated to get this game running smoothly
November 23rd, 2011 on 6:47 pm
I can’t absolutely say that by having a 9800gt you will be able to run the game perfectly. However from what I’ve seen with my system I am able to play fairly smoothly. There are times when I do notice slowdowns, and that’s usually during a lot of action onscreen, especially when the physics gets itself involved. You won’t see a perfectly stable framerate, even with the lowest settings, but you might be able to improve it with what you have. The first thing to do would be to disable any programs that overlay or hook into battlefield. This could be anything from xfire, steam, origin, or even teamspeak. Second, try to limit your open programs. Even firefox sucks up a lot of resources, so the best thing to do is to only have 1 browser window open for battlelog; and only a single tab as well. From what I’ve seen so far this game seems particularly processor heavy, but I don’t know if that’s due to the older graphics card or not and I am not currently budgeted to test otherwise.
In the end, remember that our specs are for the minimum recommmendation, and by no means should we expect any stellar performance. Hopefully some of this is helpful to you. Send a shoutback and let me know how this may or may not have been helpful to you.