Need Video Card Recommendation - Older System for BF3

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krumme

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Congrats i am sure it does. I have to say from subjective experience, i think BF3 is more GPU than CPU limited than presented in those forums. There is a lot of maps that is not so cpu limited and is the most popular, and you can leave the 64 person servers alone. We have a 3.7 core 2 with a 6850 and it plays bf3 very nice at high at 1600*900, unless you stress the cpu with big maps with many persons. Yes its cpu limited, but its limited above the 30fps limit, and the strong gfx gives it a fluent experience. Now playing with a quad sb laptop with a m555 oc, is a much worse experience, and you can not change it by changing server og numers of people. I would say there is a very high entry performance on the gfx side for BF3 to be nice to play, even at low and low res.

Ofcourse playing on ultra with some fast gear is a nice experience. I have been playing on the new IPS screen with ultra the last few days and the IPS really make ultra give the game an extra 3D like experience.