Is BF3 as GFX card intensive as we were told
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Mine does to, but adding AA drops the framerates
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Is getting 40-60 fps at ultra settings really classed as struggling these days? As long as you don't have Deferred AA enabled and you're at 1080P or less a single 5870 is fine.
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I've upgraded to a GTX460 and thats plenty IMO, got a friend playing with an 8800GT and even that runs at a reasonable rate (mostly on low settings of course).
It is when you can see stuttering.
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Honestly can't say I've seen any stuttering, even on 64 player maps.
AHAHHA?
not for me it aint
1080p all on high 4x msaa HBAO and MB on! smooth as a babys bum! and looks amazing!
Just played again, and i get slow downs.
, no worry for me investing in a 580, i can afford it, and you're on high, we're discussing ultra.
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For what it's worth, I've got a 3870 along with a Q8200 & 4gb RAM.
Everything turned to minumum & the resolution cranked down and it sits around 30 or so, dropping to 20 in firefights.
Barely playable, and looks like carp too
(I dunno WTF they were thinking with the blue tint)
Not particularly impressed at present, going back to BF2 until things are patched out a bit.
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Everything turned to minumum & the resolution cranked down and it sits around 30 or so, dropping to 20 in firefights.
Barely playable, and looks like carp too
(I dunno WTF they were thinking with the blue tint)Not particularly impressed at present, going back to BF2 until things are patched out a bit.
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Well something amazing has happened.
Earlier today my performance was mediocre with medium/low settings, I have now nearly maxed out the game aside from no aa and its as smooth as silk.
Q6600 @ 3.4GHZ
4GB RAM
Ati 4870 512mb
My 4870 soldiers on!
Earlier today my performance was mediocre with medium/low settings, I have now nearly maxed out the game aside from no aa and its as smooth as silk.
Q6600 @ 3.4GHZ
4GB RAM
Ati 4870 512mb
My 4870 soldiers on!
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vram? are they 1gig or 2gig
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I doubt that very much, my vram is over 1.5gb used. You would never max it with those specs.
High settings are fine, smooth as I need, Ultra and it bogs down at the moment. Might drop the resolution and see what happens. Seeing the benchmarks on Anandtech it doesn't review Ultra and shows a single card runs high all round no problem at higher resolutions so seems odd.