Battlefield 3

[Ust]

Originally Posted by Litennörd

The terrain uses tessellation and a DX11 card is required for that

No "fix" possible unless Dice suddenly implements support for the HD3000/HD4000's tessellator unit

I thought this was only Ultra?

[Montyswe]

Downloading the game now. Before I start, any of you guys have any tips about what GFX-settings I should use for best visual and good performance (and what drivers is the best)? Maybe some specific setting that should be lowered or something.

Thank you in advance.

[Mangler]

Originally Posted by Montyswe

Downloading the game now. Before I start, any of you guys have any tips about what GFX-settings I should use for best visual and good performance (and what drivers is the best)? Maybe some specific setting that should be lowered or something.

Thank you in advance.

You could try everything on ultra with fxaa/sraa on high, with msaa turned off.

[**G.I.BRO**]

with my current specs im able to run everything on ultra but no AA, or MSAA or whatever its called, at all @ 1080p. 2x is ok but the performance hit is kind of annoying, 4x is far too much of a hit for me. Havent tried playing with other settings nor that i will i think, this game is pretty sexy with everything set to ultra. But i may fine tune it more this weekend.

[RicH(SAD)]

Originally Posted by Montyswe

Downloading the game now. Before I start, any of you guys have any tips about what GFX-settings I should use for best visual and good performance (and what drivers is the best)? Maybe some specific setting that should be lowered or something.

Thank you in advance.

Because you have 1GB of vram like me, your best bet would be to start with the game on high with no MSAA. I have tried Ultra with my GTX 560 ti in SLI although the framerate itself is good, there is a lot of stuttering/freezing when looking around. Last time I played, I set MSAA to 2x with FXAA to Medium to try to reduce the blurring and it seems to be working ok.

[shrike126]

We need a dedicated R3D server dammit.

[H001iGAN]

it was working pretty good yesterday, I had 2 crashes 1 with somethin with nvidia, played a couple of rounds this morning, and the game made the PC hardlock with a black screen needing a hard reset. happened 2 times anybody know what could be causing this?

[wc326]

i am still thinking, if i should get this game

[night]

need someone for tonight to join me if that server is empty.. just going in circles capping flags

Although, I've been doing a lot better after giving up on big servers. Was in a 16 player conquest server last night and got 9500 points, 200 behind mvp, in Bazaar. More fun and it feels like i am really helping the team. 64player cluster fcks aren't for me.

Very disappointed in the lack of self adjusting maps.

[shrike126]

I'm really thinking Bazaar is my favorite map so far. I like the natural choke points and how the combat gravitates to that alleyway with paths for flanking. It keeps the teams together and allows for more ability to use the class benefits like reviving and ammo supplying.

[shoman24v]

I was really hoping to see some old maps in this game.

Karkand - dunno status on that

Dragon Valley

Gulf of Oman

Wake!!?!?!

And where are the jungle levels like in BC2???

[night]

Just play Caspian and pretend you got your moneys worth

[twonha]

Finished the single player campaign!
It's pretty, it's fun, it's good, but I must say what I noticed most is how horribly designed the Hard difficulty is. It's ridiculously stupid how many times you'll die of scripted events, surprise kills, one shot deaths, and silly tricks. I'll probably replay the game on Easy through the weekend or something, just to have fun in the campaign!

(Wait, there's multiplayer as well? )

[Ristogod]

Originally Posted by FuryX

(Wait, there's singleplayer as well? )

fixed

[spindoctor]

Originally Posted by night

Just play Caspian and pretend you got your moneys worth

[_TiTaNiuM]

I really do hope we see some optimization in the coming days from both ATi and DICE.

I'm not sure why but sometimes the game reports 60fps and it's a little chunky, other times it reports 45 and is smooth as glass, sometimes 45 and herky jerky, it's very inconsistent in the actual performance of the game.

I think a lot of it has to do with netcode too, when servers start lagging it starts jerking around and gets a serious "low fps" feeling even though radeonpro tells me otherwise.

The game also has very strange dips down into the 20s and 30's when seemingly nothing very "intensive" happens, then a second later it streams right back up to 60fps and it's like it never happened.

Also of note, the leaked CAP4's didnt seem to do anything for me. If anything, they still stutter a bit like CAP3's do. I'm gonna uninstall them tonight and go 11.10b3 capless and see if I was crazy or not.

[Danny Nissan]

Long loading times anyone? AMD exclusive feature?

[Mangler]

I don't think so, my loading times are not exactly short.

[night]

I was thinking the long load times had to do with loading the game 5 times to get into a server..

[_TiTaNiuM]

Originally Posted by Danny Nissan

Long loading times anyone? AMD exclusive feature?

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.


Also, I am loving MLAA in this game. I am very impressed with it's performance and appearance. It manages to make everything look very smooth without blurring the entire image.

I'm not sure if that's because it was coded ground up with MLAA/FXAA in mind, but I would wager that has something to do with it's fantastic implementation.

[Spynole]

Originally Posted by shoman24v

I was really hoping to see some old maps in this game.

Karkand - dunno status on that

Dragon Valley

Gulf of Oman

Wake!!?!?!

And where are the jungle levels like in BC2???

Three out of the 4 you listed will be in the Back to Karkand expansion.

http://bf3blog.com/battlefield-3-back-to-karkand/

[Danny Nissan]

Originally Posted by Mangler

I don't think so, my loading times are not exactly short.

OK thanks!

Anyone figure out if you can change the renderahead option? I have slight mouselag but dont want to turn SSAO off (its so pretty xD).

[_TiTaNiuM]

I wish they would re-make el alamein. by far, my favorite bf map ever.... EVER

[RicH(SAD)]

Originally Posted by night

I was thinking the long load times had to do with loading the game 5 times to get into a server..

It seems to come and go in my case. I think it may be a memory leak issue, possibly even with Battlelog. I had the issue yesterday and looked at my task manager .. My Firefox was using 820Mb of RAM with like 5 tabs open and it said 81% of my 8GB of RAM was in use.

[1Bravo]

Originally Posted by _TiTaNiuM

I wish they would re-make el alamein. by far, my favorite bf map ever.... EVER

+1

[RSViper]

All of you are welcome on my clan's server.

Type in "=MGC=Servers Hacker Free" in the server search. It's a 64 person server out of Chicago. We are running all the large conquest maps. We are usually on it from 7pm-12 pm EST. We're an older (21-30+) group of guys who like clean gameplay and having fun. Act like a douche or cheat and you will be banned.

Our web page is www.mgcclan.com.

I'm "Wildweasle" in Origin and in game.

[daPhoenix]

Originally Posted by {0}Salamander{0}

I think you can safely lay the blame for a lot of the shortcomings at the fact that its a multiplatform release.

So this is the new "end to all arguments" excuse that PC gamers use nowadays?

"Waa waa, the game is buggy and untested - it's because of the consoles!11"

I guess the server browser is the fault of the consoles, seeing as its completely different.

Originally Posted by {0}Salamander{0}

As soon as the consoles were getting it, thats when I knew sacrifices were going to be made.

Let's list all the sacrifices that were made on the PC side for consoles?

Graphics? Nope. Sound? Nope. UI? Different.

Originally Posted by {0}Salamander{0}

From what I gather, consoles and PC have the exact same maps.

They're not. The PC version simply has flags pretty close to each other on certain maps.

[demo]

Originally Posted by _TiTaNiuM

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.


Also, I am loving MLAA in this game. I am very impressed with it's performance and appearance. It manages to make everything look very smooth without blurring the entire image.

I'm not sure if that's because it was coded ground up with MLAA/FXAA in mind, but I would wager that has something to do with it's fantastic implementation.

Looks like it blurs the image to me, just like FXAA in RO2.. I disable it and enable trSSAA.

[_TiTaNiuM]

Originally Posted by demo

Looks like it blurs the image to me, just like FXAA in RO2.. I disable it and enable trSSAA.

Well the ATi componant works really well IMO!
In RO2 it looked like it jhust blurred the hell out of the image. In BF3 it just smooths everything out and is still quite sharp!

You also have crazy tri-sli, I can't afford that. But MLAA is practically free and looks as good as 4x MSAA, at least.

[Danny Nissan]

Originally Posted by RicH(SAD)

It seems to come and go in my case. I think it may be a memory leak issue, possibly even with Battlelog. I had the issue yesterday and looked at my task manager .. My Firefox was using 820Mb of RAM with like 5 tabs open and it said 81% of my 8GB of RAM was in use.

My game just crashed, windows told me im out of memory and that i should close battlefield 3 =/ On top of that, catalyst control center crashed. Rebooted PC.