Battlefield 3 lagging in Windows 8

TheUltimate8

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Now before anyone says that my GPU is the issue (usually it would be) when I was running Windows 7 with my GPU drivers all up to date I was able to run BF3 on low settings at 1024x768 (auto graphics settings says I can run it a bit higher though) with not much lag (in fact it ran better than the youtube video I saw that proved that BF3 can run on an Intel HD 3000) but now as I'm using Windows 8 also with my drivers up to date BF3 lags from the get go and some in the Battlefield forums seem to hint that it might be a Windows 8 problem. Has anyone experienced this issue and if it is an issue with Windows 8 is there an update or fix for the lag? BF3 along with Borderlands 2 and Tomb Raider are the only games that I currently own that show performance problems on my Windows 8 laptop (although Tomb Raider is more of a driver issue) and I don't want to go through the hassle of putting Windows 7 back on for 3 games (Installing Windows and uploading my games eats up so much of my time).
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8 Pro 64-bit & Fedora 18 64-bit
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio VPC-EG16FM
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2410m
    Memory
    8GB DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel HD Graphics 3000
    Monitor(s) Displays
    14" built-in laptop display + 23" Asus HD PC monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1633x768 (built-in monitor) & 1920x1080 (Asus monitor)
    Hard Drives
    1TB Western Digital Scorpio Blue internal notebook HDD + external 1TB Western Digital My Passport Essential SE
    Keyboard
    Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 Elite mechanical gaming keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech Wireless Gaming Mouse G700
For me and plenty other gamers, BF3 is running with higher frame-rates and the whole game-play is much smoother under Windows-8, but I don't know any gamers which are running BF3 without a proper dedicated GPU or even SLI.

:)
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows-10-Pro-Build-11099.rs1-x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom-Build
    CPU
    Intel Core i7 3770k @4800MHz
    Motherboard
    Asus P8Z77-V
    Memory
    G.Skill 16G(4*4G) DDR3-2400 Quad Channel [TDX] F3-2400C10Q-16GTX
    Graphics Card(s)
    2x Gigabyte GTX980-Ti-OC-STRIX-6GB in 2-Way-SLI (1408MHz | Boost: 1544MHz | Memory-Clock: 8000MHz)
    Sound Card
    OnBoard Realtek® ALC892 8-Channel High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus VE278Q 27" Wide Led Black Full HD 2ms | Dell S2409W 24" 5ms
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    - Intel 520S 240GB/SATA3/R 550MBs,W 520MBs/25nm/3.5"Kit/5yr
    - Samsung 840 EVO SATA3 500GB
    - Seagate Barracuda SATA3 1TB 7200RPM 64mb Cache
    - Seagate Barracuda SATA3 1TB 7200RPM 64mb Cache
    - Seagate Constellation SATA3 3TB 7200RPM 64mb Cache
    -
    PSU
    Corsair AX1200i
    Case
    Thermaltake Level-10 GT LCS
    Cooling
    EK H3O HFX 240mm Liquid Cooling Kit + 2x EK-480-Rads + GPU-Blocks + Gelid Extreme
    Keyboard
    Roccat Isku | Logitech G13 | XBox 360 Controller wired | Logitech Dual Action GamePad
    Mouse
    Roccat Pure Military Dessert Strike | Shogun Bros. Ballista MK-1 | Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Infection
    Internet Speed
    ADSL2+ ~15MBit/s DL | ~1MBit/s UL
    Browser
    Google Chrome
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
    - Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick
    - Plantronics GameCom Commander Headset
    - Logitech X-210 Speakers
    - Roccat Taito Mid-Size 5mm
    - PC-Master-Race MousePad (yellow)
You're managing to run that game on a laptop on-board graphics? Wow... I didn't know that would be possible, or reasonable. Apologies but this is "new" for me and I can't help really.

I suggest, you try to reduce the resolution (if possible) by one more tier to see if there are performance improvements.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Professional 64-bit
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-3570k
    Motherboard
    ASRock Intel Z77 Extreme4
    Memory
    8GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Cooling
    Hyper 212
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