rMBP 15-inch bootcamp gaming: I have very good frame rates in BF4, but still experience stutter

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Sis_VK Author

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rMBP 15-inch bootcamp gaming: I have very good frame rates in BF4, but still experience stutter

Hi all,

I bought the latest rMBP with the GF 750M 2048MB videocard.

The machine works great, and despite all critics, even games run very well. Except some minor issue.

When running high demand games like Battlefield 3 and 4, the fps indicates between 50 and 75 which is very good.

Although, there is this unexplainable stutter or jitter.... This isn't represented in the fps though.

Does anyone else experience this?

Is there a solution?

My setup:

Bootcamp Windows 7 with all original Apple drivers except NVIDIA. I had to update these to be able to start BF4.

Best Regards

Sis

MacBook Pro with Retina display, Windows 7

Posted on Nov 5, 2013 5:32 AM

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aihowes

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Nov 5, 2013 12:38 PM in response to Sis_VK

Weird, I can't seem to play battlefield 4 at all. FPS is just insanely low for me - I'm using the same latest mbpro 15''

Could you let me know what drivers ur running, like what version - if you can.

Thanks

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Sis_VK Author

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Nov 5, 2013 2:16 PM in response to aihowes

I have downloaded the latest 331.65 from NVIDIA and extracted them to C:/

Then I have modified the nvao.inf located in the folder Display.Driver (The one I just extracted)

I have changed the last two lines of the section below: (Bold text)

[Version]

Signature = "$Windows NT$"

Provider = %NVIDIA%

ClassGUID = {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Class = Display

DriverVer = 10/23/2013, 9.18.13.3165

CatalogFile = nv_disp.cat

Then I went to Device Manager and manually updated the Graphics Driver.

Make sure you select the nvao.inf manually.

This should give you decent framerates, but probably also the glitches that I experience.

Regards

Sis

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aihowes

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Nov 5, 2013 3:32 PM in response to Sis_VK

what did you change in those bold lines, they seem to be exactly the same as what is already there (minus caps of nv_disp.cat)

Are you on windows 7?

How did you get device manager to manually update from the file itself - it seems to only want to select folders?

Many thanks!

Alex

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Sis_VK Author

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Nov 6, 2013 12:23 AM in response to aihowes

Hi, that would be impossible, because I explained incorrect :-)

Yes, I run Win7.

To select the nvao.inf as your driver, you have to choose "I want to choose from a list..." instead of searching in folders.

But first:

You have to take the nvao.inf file from the bootcamp drivers directory, because it does not excist in the original NVIDIA directory.

In that file you change:

[Version]

Signature = "$Windows NT$"

Provider = %NVIDIA%

ClassGUID = {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Class = Display

DriverVer = 09/07/2013, 9.18.13.2716

CatalogFile = nvao.CAT

To:

[Version]

Signature = "$Windows NT$"

Provider = %NVIDIA%

ClassGUID = {4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Class = Display

DriverVer = 10/23/2013, 9.18.13.3165

CatalogFile = nv_disp.cat

Message was edited by: Sis_VK

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Answer 5

aihowes

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Nov 6, 2013 10:49 AM in response to Sis_VK

WOOOO it fixed it!
Thanks mate!

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Answer 6

Sis_VK Author

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Nov 7, 2013 3:46 AM in response to aihowes

Glad it helped you.

But do you also get the screen lag?

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aihowes

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Nov 7, 2013 3:49 AM in response to Sis_VK

Only played 2 games but haven;t really experienced any more lag, and i don't run an FPS widget to test how many frames I get

Have you tried download NVIDIA Experience? It should change the graphic settings to produce the best settings for the most amount of FPS

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Sis_VK Author

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Nov 7, 2013 4:55 AM in response to aihowes

Thanks for the tip. I need to give that a try.

So you play BF4 and you're happy with the performance?

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Answer 9

aihowes

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Nov 7, 2013 5:01 AM in response to Sis_VK

Yeah, I don't feel im getting any fps problems - any jittering I have is likely to be my connection or maybe me having graphics too high

Although I haven't had any issues as of yet.

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Answer 10

Nov 15, 2013 8:58 AM in response to Sis_VK

Sis, I wonder if you are still in this post, but I still failed to install the latest driver 331.65 after installing the modified nvao.inf. I'm desperate for some assistance. Hope you can still read this. ;(

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aihowes

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Nov 15, 2013 9:10 AM in response to MattSunNy

I made a document explaning how I've fixed it using Sis_VK's method.

View it here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19766609/battlefield4-fix.pdf

Other people in other posts have been able to fix it using the doc.

Hope this helps 🙂

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Answer 12

TamasK

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Nov 16, 2013 11:48 AM in response to aihowes

Thank you guys! Thanks aihowes!

This solved my problem! Now my beast rMBP can play BF4 beautifuly in medium high - high settings on a very reasonable 50+ frame rate!

Wooohooooo!

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Sis_VK Author

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Nov 21, 2013 4:38 AM in response to Sis_VK

I just updated to 331.82 (released 19th Nov) and the stutter is absolutely gone.

Major improvement.

Now let's see how high we can go with the quality settings....

:-)

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Menno06

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Jan 15, 2014 7:20 AM in response to aihowes

I can not find the file nvao.inf on my memory stick after getting the latest Boot Camp assistant software.

I only have NVidiaHDAudio64.exe in the map.

Who can help me ?

I want to play BF4 on my MacBook too....

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Answer 15

gmerewet

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Mar 29, 2015 1:12 PM in response to Menno06

Try looking in the Display.Driver folder inside the NVidiaGraphics64 folder.

So the whole path is (if your flash drive is named WININSTALL):

/Volumes/WININSTALL/BootCamp/Drivers/NVidia/NVidiaGraphics64/Display.Driver/nvao .inf

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