BrightCandle
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- Mar 15, 2007
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I highly doubt this problem is hardware related. I would put this as one of two problems:
1) The drivers for whatever reason are reporting the wrong VRAM values to the game and its thus failing to initialise properly. But we have evidence this is not the case with other games fully utilising the VRAM.
2) There is a bug in BF3 that is causing the game to save settings that are wrong. Presumably in the settings file there is a saved VRAM value that is too low, caused by some bug in BF3 itself.
(2) seems far more likely than (1) and hardware fault sounds very unlikely for this.
What I would propose you do is look at the settings file, find anything that could be the VRAM size or related to it and mess around with the settings, then set the file to read only. That way the game can't overwrite the settings and you can toy with them by hand to find out what will fix the problem. Then you report to BF3 forums as a bug.
1) The drivers for whatever reason are reporting the wrong VRAM values to the game and its thus failing to initialise properly. But we have evidence this is not the case with other games fully utilising the VRAM.
2) There is a bug in BF3 that is causing the game to save settings that are wrong. Presumably in the settings file there is a saved VRAM value that is too low, caused by some bug in BF3 itself.
(2) seems far more likely than (1) and hardware fault sounds very unlikely for this.
What I would propose you do is look at the settings file, find anything that could be the VRAM size or related to it and mess around with the settings, then set the file to read only. That way the game can't overwrite the settings and you can toy with them by hand to find out what will fix the problem. Then you report to BF3 forums as a bug.