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Battlefield 3 official performence/fps thread

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All I know is this...I've played in 3 systems. Mine in my sig, a friends with an i7 920 at stock clocks and a GTX 580 (he won't overclock), and an i5-750 @ 4.2Ghz and a GTX 570.

My system can run everything on high at 1920x1200 and AA off and be fine. Multiplayer or SP. The GTX 570 can max everything to ultra and drop the MSAA off and play fine at the same resolution. The GTX 580 can run it on ultra and 4x MSAA.

These settings are 100% playable with no noticable slowdown in any situation I have come across.

No sense arguing about huge resolutions and all that unless you are using that resolution. Theoretical nonsense you guys are throwing around is irrelevant if you are not going to be playing with 3 monitors or on a 30" monitor. I'd guess that more than 99% of the people playing right now are not using anything close to that.
 
It doesn't matter if the games uses all of your VRAM. It's probably programmed to use as much VRAM as possible. Because it uses up to ~1.5gb doesn't mean it NEEDS that much to run perfectly stable and smoothly.

People always overlook this when discussing VRAM requirements.
 
You can run everything on ultra but disable deferred MSAA and most cards will run this game fine. MSAA cause texture blur in this engine, its a bad feature to enable and being deferred rendering, MSAA does not remove jaggies from a lot of objects. All that for a huge perf penalty. Good for benchmarking or to claim how nasty BF3 is on GPUs, but totally unrealistic.
 
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1.5GB and up is relevant for 2560x1600 4xMSAA and multi gpu. Otherwise its pretty useless for any single GPU at the moment because you simply don't play this game at 2560x1600 Ultra with 4XAA with a single gpu. Even a gtx580 is too slow at this setting.
 
All I know is that my setup slaughters the game at Ultra settings, including 4x MSAA and Medium Post AA.

2048x1152, doesn't go below 50fps, most of the time it's above 60-70fps.

4.1Ghz 2600k.
2x 6950 2GB crossfire.

The AMD cards are not lacking in performance. Considering the lowest price you can get a GTX 580 (1.5GB version, no less) is £360, compared to 2 6950 2GBs for £400, it's a no brainer.

Posting benchmarks of the single player is a joke.

Oh yes, FOV set to 90 as well, none of this 70 console crap.
 
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I bet your crossfire setup stutters. Hardocp did a write up amd noted extreme stutter with crossfire.

Plus benchmarking single player is totallu relevant amd the ONLY way to get a 100% reliable and repeatable test. Mp changes every time.
 
cmdrdredd said:
I bet your crossfire setup stutters. Hardocp did a write up amd noted extreme stutter with crossfire.

Plus benchmarking single player is totallu relevant amd the ONLY way to get a 100% reliable and repeatable test. Mp changes every time.
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perhaps you should look at that review again because they told you what the issue was and how to fix it.
 
toyota said:
perhaps you should look at that review again because they told you what the issue was and how to fix it.
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Don't matter. The driver package should never have left the door with broken parts.

It's more "oh we're working on it, just uninstall this part" that's BS
 
cmdrdredd said:
Don't matter. The driver package should never have left the door with broken parts.

It's more "oh we're working on it, just uninstall this part" that's BS
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well yeah but the point is as they were doing the article it was it was figured out. bottom line is that stutter issue does not have to be experienced at all now.
 
toyota said:
well yeah but the point is as they were doing the article it was it was figured out. bottom line is that stutter issue does not have to be experienced at all now.
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My point is, and I'm sure you understand the following...

Guy A doesn't read much tech stuff. He has a pair of 6950 cards in crossfire cause a bud of his told him to do it and get performance better than a more expensive single card. He installs new drivers for new game per recommendations. New drivers cause issues. He doesn't know how to fix it.

Guy B reads a lot on tech forums. He knows all about the "fix" and makes sure he does it.

Should always think that everyone is like guy A and wouldn't know how to troubleshoot problems.

They should just install and work. Maybe it's too much to expect lol.

NBD for us though
 
well if guy A is playing pc games and has a problem then as long as he knows how to use google he is fine. almost every game has some type of issue or compatibility problem on release so sitting around like a Katrina victim does not solve anything.
 
I can report on my 3GB gtx580 card the game topped out at 2066MB vram usage: 19x12, 2x msaa, no blur, everything else max. Not saying it needs that much to run smoothly but it might prevent the occasional stutter while swapping out textures. So far performance has been good. I think its a step up from beta. I'd say my frame rate is mainly in the 50s with occasional drops into the upper 40s. I have not noticed a dip into the 30s as of yet. Overall 45-70 probably covers 99% of the playing time. I'm hoping to add a 2nd 580 soon...
 
cmdrdredd said:
My point is, and I'm sure you understand the following...

Guy A doesn't read much tech stuff. He has a pair of 6950 cards in crossfire cause a bud of his told him to do it and get performance better than a more expensive single card. He installs new drivers for new game per recommendations. New drivers cause issues. He doesn't know how to fix it.

Guy B reads a lot on tech forums. He knows all about the "fix" and makes sure he does it.

Should always think that everyone is like guy A and wouldn't know how to troubleshoot problems.

They should just install and work. Maybe it's too much to expect lol.

NBD for us though
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And this has also happened with Nvidia drivers and hardware to far worse affects. What's your point? It's not as if Nvidia has a clean sheet.
 
Give it another few weeks and further driver tuning, optimizations and I think we will have a clearer picture.
 
I'm not sure if i'm bottle necked or what. Its been a while since i've done any hardware research. But i'm running the game on 1920x1200, all settings at high except shadows and draw which are at medium. HABO is on, motion blur is off. AA is off and MSAA is at 1x, I'm averaging 55-65 FPS. Not sure if my CPU is holding me back or my video card is or if the game just isn't optimized yet. Anyone want to chime in and give me some suggestions.
 
JE78 said:
I'm not sure if i'm bottle necked or what. Its been a while since i've done any hardware research. But i'm running the game on 1920x1200, all settings at high except shadows and draw which are at medium. HABO is on, motion blur is off. AA is off and MSAA is at 1x, I'm averaging 55-65 FPS. Not sure if my CPU is holding me back or my video card is or if the game just isn't optimized yet. Anyone want to chime in and give me some suggestions.
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That's exactly where you should be with those settings. I'd say it's pretty optimized for the graphical quality. I'd shut off MSAA if I were you though (actually 1xAA might be "off" technically), and bump up shadows to high.
 
Termie said:
That's exactly where you should be with those settings. I'd say it's pretty optimized for the graphical quality. I'd shut off MSAA if I were you though (actually 1xAA might be "off" technically), and bump up shadows to high.
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Thanks, was also thinking of bumping up to 6950 and maybe some more RAM.
 
Silverforce11 said:
Bloody hell what is this, can't troubleshoot hardware problems??

Guy A should stick to consoles.
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You shouldn't have to troubleshoot. That's my point. I don't have to, haven't in years honestly.


Bobisuruncle54 said:
And this has also happened with Nvidia drivers and hardware to far worse affects. What's your point? It's not as if Nvidia has a clean sheet.
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This is a Battlefield 3 conversation and Nvidia drivers worked as expected on Day one without having to tinker. That's the point. So I will go ahead and recommend Nvidia cards as a result.
 
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cmdrdredd said:
You shouldn't have to troubleshoot. That's my point. I don't have to, haven't in years honestly.





This is a Battlefield 3 conversation and Nvidia drivers worked as expected on Day one without having to tinker. That's the point. So I will go ahead and recommend Nvidia cards as a result.
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A naive and ill informed recommendation in the grand scope of things, in other words.

CAPS 4, the latest version, works fine.
 
cmdrdredd said:
Nice try...this forum is full of ridiculous people.

They did NOT have a working version on day 1. I am stating my point for the 3rd time!
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and you are making yourself look foolish for the 3rd time. it was resolved right after it was discovered and we could go back and forth all day about certain drivers from both sides having certain issues with certain games especially on release so grow up.
 
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