Battlefield 3 no XP support

Nightglow · 11 Jul 2011 at 13:58

Hasn't been confirmed yet, but rumour is no XP support for BF3.

http://fudzilla.com/games/item/23379-no-xp-support-for-battlefield-3

B@Th*nG · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:04

oh well

B@

ThundyCat · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:04

Does anyone still game on XP?

~>Dg<~ · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:05

yep i think majority of people no this but tbh i dont see why its not included they can include it and all the other games still

who does it benefit ?

they would get probably another 1 million sales if xp was included

think its more to do with support tbh

ThundyCat me lol and i prefer it !

Frapple · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:05

No 32bit support either is there?

Nymins · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:06

Good. Most games designed to run on DX10/11 seem to run pretty well. Just Cause 2 as an example.

Fenlock · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:06

Pretty good imo. Been on at a friend to upgrade his machine to Windows 7 for months and this weekend he finally did and wondered why he hadn't done it sooner.

Everyone i know who wants to play BF3 will be spending out on new hardware, graphics cards etc. to run it anyway - so no reason to not have Win7.

What's more interesting is that PC game devs still think people don't want to upgrade machines for the latest games.. bet OCUK's sales records suggest otherwise. When games have as much scope as BF3 who wouldn't want to spend out to run it at it's best if you are serious about playing it in all it's glory?

cainer · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:09

good, i dont want to play with poor people that cant afford to upgrade to win7

Frapple · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:09

cainer said:
good, i dont want to play with poor people that cant afford to upgrade to win7

Ignore list, hooooooooo!

Strife212 · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:10

This has been the case since the game was announced...

It is DX10/11 only so it physically can't be on XP.

Emlyn_Dewar · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:12

I imagine it wont support Win 3.1 as well...

I don't see a problem with XP not being supported, it was going to happen sooner or later.

Moothead2 · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:12

Good, I'm glad game desginers are starting to leave DX9 behind.

Bleek · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:13

I still run XP because it's never let me down, many years of solid service.

~>Dg<~ · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:13

haha at the low troll

i play on windows xp because it plays the majority of games and programs better than any other op its that simple i have three pcs and others have w7 on :rolleyes:

my gaming machine has xp and would stay xp as mentioned above.

dx11 what benefits does it offer over performance ? none basically.

check bad comany 2 or any other game all sales for other stuff tbh

but computer companies will loveeee the sales it brings

gropingmantis · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:25

About time really. Dx9 should be gone by now. Do you guys gaming on xp still use IDE HDDs? Its called progress.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:27

Could see this coming (that and its been known for months) but I switched to Win 7 from XP as in my opinion it seems better.

Lets hope the exclusion of XP allows the game to be better configured for DX10/11

Bleek · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:28

I can't be bothered to reinstall everything and migrate my data.

It's inevitable that I'll have to do it, but I'm holding off for as long as I can!

Utnac · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:33

I though this got confirmed AGES ago because it's dx10/11 only?

Davepen · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:34

This was already confirmed, old news.

Who the hell is on xp anyway? You have to move on sometime!

orderoftheflame · 11 Jul 2011 at 14:40

Good for progress, bad for the 1/3rd of gamers that still can't even run DX10.

I see no reason not to be on a modern 64bit OS now unless you're running ancient hardware that can't keep up.

XPs a decade old now, if people want to keep using it, good for them. Theres no need to hold things back because of that though.

Companies would have stopped supporting it a few years back if Vista hadn't been an abomination.