Battlefield 3 thread - Server details in opening post -

Mr.E. · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:49

HazardO said:
Damm small print.

And its for 360 & PS3 only.

mrmimz · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:54

Getting really excited now, more so for the single player and co-op at the moment, the BETA gave me a good fix of the mp for the time being. :-D

WingZero30 · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:55

opethdisciple said:
Just over a week away!!!!

Still too far away

WingZero30 · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:56

Does anyone have any idea what is the minimum broadband size required to play multiplayer?

HaggisUK · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:57

WingZero30 said:
Does anyone have any idea what is the minimum broadband size required to play multiplayer?

Doubt it would be much tbh, most games like this do fine on even 512k net as long as they have decent ping.

Frapple · 20 Oct 2011 at 16:58

Typically any broadband will do, but 4-5mb+ with 512kb+ upload should result in a decent experience.

WingZero30 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:00

Frapple said:
Typically any broadband will do, but 4-5mb+ with 512kb+ upload should result in a decent experience.

So I guess since I have virgin 50MB broadband, I don't need to worry about lagging/bottlenecking etc

toString · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:05

Although, just because it's 50mb doesn't mean it's any better than a 10mb connection. Some shocking ISP's / Exchanges out there..

WILD9 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:06

WingZero30 said:
So I guess since I have virgin 50MB broadband, I don't need to worry about lagging/bottlenecking etc

No you need at least 2 x 50MB in SLI to run it on basic apparently

Muzy · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:06

WingZero30 said:
So I guess since I have virgin 50MB broadband, I don't need to worry about lagging/bottlenecking etc

you should, try to type ping www.bbc.oc.uk in cmd, i get 11ms min and 15ms max.

my interleave is set to False on my line.

Swifty55 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:08

Latency and Bandwidth are two different things.

domthecondom · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:09

I used to play Battlfield 2 on 512k connection

and battlefield bad company 2 on 2meg connection

crackerman · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:11

Frapple said:
Typically any broadband will do, but 4-5mb+ with 512kb+ upload should result in a decent experience.

Don't need even that, I have 512kb connection and the Beta ran with no lag at all.

On my network meter it used 10-15kbs download, hardly anything at all.

Not looking forward to downloading the patch though.

WingZero30 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:13

Swifty55 said:
Latency and Bandwidth are two different things.

True

I know just because it is 50MB doesn't mean I will get all the required available bandwith available to me.

Although I am not very much familiar with networking, afaik my broadband connection will also largerly depend on the servers which would potentially limit my speed and introduce latency.

Deific · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:17

Bobisuruncle54 said:
To be honest I would shove a Core 2 Quad Q8400 in there first, it's £120

Then I would upgrade the graphics card to something like a 6870 for £130

A Core 2 Duo E8400 outperforms the Q8400 on games by a fair bit and can be had for 35-45 quid on Members market, so that would be a really stupid thing to do (although I'd recommend a quad for this game, so recommend you try looking for a second hand i5 750 for around 60 quid). Same for the card, for around the same price could get himself a second hand 6950, or for around 100 a 5870 which performs better than the 6870.

Fr0dders · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:17

Yeah theres no way the origin servers are going to be giving you 50Mb when everybody is hammering them for pre load.

toString · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:18

No ones talking about pre-loading though, just playing the game.

Swifty55 · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:19

MrLOL said:
Yeah theres no way the origin servers are going to be giving you 50Mb when everybody is hammering them for pre load.

I got full 50Mbps on the Beta download.

Fr0dders · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:19

no idea how much bandwidth you'll actually need to play a game, don't imagine it will be much.

Swifty55 said:
I got full 50Mbps on the Beta download.

I suspect what download speed you will get will depend on what time of day it is.

Wonder if the UK has separate content servers, or if we have to pull it down off EA's servers in the US.

HaggisUK · 20 Oct 2011 at 17:19

MrLOL said:
Yeah theres no way the origin servers are going to be giving you 50Mb when everybody is hammering them for pre load.

Max i've had from Origin is around 4.6MB/s from re-downloading BFBC2 the other day. When the beta servers went up for BF3 it started out at 3.9MB/s and dropped down to around 3 ish, not bad when they were probably getting hammered then.