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I can't really see why you would want to turn down the settings (if your rig can perform at a higher settings level) simply so that you can spot campers easily. If you don't want to get spotted whilst camping in long grass then don't camp.

You have been able to hack in this way since the early quake/CS days, but it's just so lame.
 
beh* said:
I can't really see why you would want to turn down the settings (if your rig can perform at a higher settings level) simply so that you can spot campers easily. If you don't want to get spotted whilst camping in long grass then don't camp.

You have been able to hack in this way since the early quake/CS days, but it's just so lame.
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Some people may do it to camp, but if you play this game properly.. at times you will need to use the cover to help you out, whether it be sneaking around the back or if you have been in a big firefight and need to reload, regroup or whatever.

If you dont get that chance because of someones settings, then how is that fair game.. IF they get it because you have a better machine?

What the developers should do is not remove the textures or whatever the graphics are, and just replace them with just a black image, so grass strands would just be empty black strands etc - might not look nice for them, but thats tough :D
 
beh* said:
I will definitely get another 480 for this if I can't run it maxed out at 1920X1200 :D
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Ill see how my current pair cope, if not ill upgrade. Though funds are a bit tight as im in the process of building another i7 x58 rig using secondhand parts, replacement for an ancient s939 rig.
 
Ive got to say my gtx260oc managed to play the alpha code quite well on medium settings tbh, if its a lot better optimised in the final release I wont be in a massive rush to upgrade my gfx card.


Who am I kidding im saving the pennies up for a better card already lol
 
I'm running a couple of 470's as well and I'm hoping they'll cope fine, not flush enough to upgrade 'em for a while yet.
 
creed said:
Be interesting to see where this ends up. I expect with a bit of bad publicity they'll have to limit it.
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My personal opinion is that EA probably don't have anything sinister in mind or planning anything companies like valve don't already do.

It's just a really poorly open endedvEULA which EA will no doubt have to amend and apologise for
 
More worried about eyefinity performance, i enjoy my eye candy :o , a 6970 might have to be yoinked out and flogged to partially finance a 6990 depending on how it performs.
 
mehuk said:
Some people may do it to camp, but if you play this game properly.. at times you will need to use the cover to help you out, whether it be sneaking around the back or if you have been in a big firefight and need to reload, regroup or whatever.

If you dont get that chance because of someones settings, then how is that fair game.. IF they get it because you have a better machine?

What the developers should do is not remove the textures or whatever the graphics are, and just replace them with just a black image, so grass strands would just be empty black strands etc - might not look nice for them, but thats tough :D
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I'm not on my home PC at the moment so can you show me an example of when this happens on BC2? The BF3 engine is allot closer to BC2 than it is to BF3 so we might be stressing over nothing.
 
chid76 said:
Have just added another 5770 in crossfire and am now getting 60ish fps on high outside, 90-100ish fps inside on high and auto was about 80-90 fps.

So all in all a very nice performance gain for little money :)
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Just quoting myself from when I was in the alpha, I think it should be a bit smoother for the full release. Thinking that you might need a 6990 to run it on high is a bit OTT. I know the game is going to be one of the best looking games made so far, but dice wouldn't sell that many units if they had a 6990 minimum spec to run it on high.

Stop panicing :p

edit: this should have been the original post that was quoted before I added the extra 5770:

i5 2500k at stock, 4gb ram & 1gb ati 5770 card and am getting about 35fps on high (1680x1050) but if I put it on auto I am running at 60+fps and it still looks good

edit 2: I fail at reading, just noticed that you are talking about eyefinity.
 
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chid76 said:
Just quoting myself from when I was in the alpha, I think it should be a bit smoother for the full release. Thinking that you might need a 6990 to run it on high is a bit OTT. I know the game is going to be one of the best looking games made so far, but dice wouldn't sell that many units if they had a 6990 minimum spec to run it on high.

Stop panicing :p

edit: this should have been the original post that was quoted before I added the extra 5770:

i5 2500k at stock, 4gb ram & 1gb ati 5770 card and am getting about 35fps on high (1680x1050) but if I put it on auto I am running at 60+fps and it still looks good

edit 2: I fail at reading, just noticed that you are talking about eyefinity.
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2500K at stock? It takes 5 mins to get that bad boy to 4.5Ghz, do it :)
 
toString said:
Same. I doubt he'll be able to produce a source.
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my gf works for ea in origin and general support, this is the line they are feeding people spamming them with questions.

Shes also on the minecraft server with us whilst shes at work tostring :p (im shaarpy on minecraft ocukserver shes c4t4y4)

I was asking her at the time people were spamming the thread about getting discount codes for the game by abusing ea online chat staff :p

She said dunno what they are wasting their time for alpha peeps will get invites automatically.

Also when she asked her boss about discount codes his reply was lol "i dont care what they pay as long as they buy the game thats all that matters" ha ha
 
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