I only play in first person, I haven't tried to shoot in third person.

also tried this with a bipod attached and extended, still hit dirt in prone facing down a hill

win8 isn't my problem. I got win8 cause bf4 says works best with win8, problem is bf4 doesn't work best with anything, I totally got suckered into buying bf4, as I played the beta, only the beta worked much better than released bf4.
also win7 home allows only 16g of ram, I had to either upgrade or get win8 as I have 32gig of ram. but win8 has loads of problems aswell but that's to do with hardware not ingame issues. there is a problem with the ballistic vector path in prone mode.