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I think your 280 is the Bottleneck. From what I am reading the CPU is not that important in this. Any quad core will do.
By the way, what are you using to get the graph on screen like that?
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BF3 is an ok shooter with really good graphics, pretty much sums it up, its always the nerdy live in your moms basement types that hype these type of games up beyond what they are.
I thought that would be a good thing.
Naah, BFBC2 was all skirt & no knickers imo, BF3 seems to be BFBC2's visuals - greatly improved - but with more BF2 style gameplay. (Crawling prone along craggy rocks, which you could rarely do in BF2 for example) seems to me, so far, to be everything I'd hoped for.
That said, due to my pathetic non-upgrading fellow clan members, I still spent 5 hours on BF2 last night....
I unlocked Air Radar (Despite jets being total trash I still have unlocks) and I finally thought "HURRAY, something to get an edge" but it's for show only. Literally.
The Air Radar is SO zoomed in with such a short range when someone is on you it's nigh on impossible to work out which direction to go in and when they are not near you they do not appear on the air radar at all.
The only thing you can tell is that they are around you.....somewhere :/
The control mechanisms differ so massively between input methods it's just not balanced. I play best with KB/Mouse but it disadvantages you versus people who can somehow stop dead in mid air and spin their aircraft on a penny piece to shoot you. Even if I put my mouse DPI/Sens up to LOLSTUPID amounts the plane still will not turn quicker even combined with the retarded holding S method.
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Just been on the TFU server for the first time...Had some fun with the C4 
BOOM!
BOOM!Are for me too and im on virgin 50mb
was just on ocuk's server and that was laggy.
Only options i can see are leave squad and find squad. find squad just puts me back in the squad i left. Doesn't make any difference if i highlight a different squad, it just dumps me back.
AAAAH finally found it. Would be too obvious to put it with the other options eh?
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They seriously need to remove the IRNV scopes from this, or severely nerf them -- taken to using nothing but those and I feel like I'm hacking
Loved them in the BETA but I haven't unlocked it yet
am I the only one that can't even start the game? Played for two hours on Friday and that has been it. I keep getting the same crash every time I try to start the game, multiplayer, co-op or single player. I have noticed in the Battlog forums that a lot of people are complaining about the same problem but I haven't seen anyone here mentioning it. I have tried reinstalling, playing with one card, reinstalling drivers, CAPs, you name it. I think I'll just wait for the patch.
This is the thing that gets on my goat - running 400 yards/meters or whatever measurement is used only to get there and get killed. Only having to spend 2 minutes running back again.
I play on the PS3 and I think overall it's pretty good (I normally play COD). Although the following are my other issues:
1. Hit reg - the number of times you shoot a player and get killed first only to find out your bullets only took 20% health away is quite annoying; although I bet you benefit from this sometimes also.
2. It seems to disconnect from the server on every first game I get into (not that much of a biggy).
3. The "weapons/loadout" page is a bit rubbish - COD's is far easier to use/navigate.
Overall well worth the 38 quid I paid for it, may even not bother with COD now.
*edit* also had a couple of occasions where I've died and not been been able to deploy and had to quit, that's rather annoying too.
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Canals (Rush) and Seine Crossing are good maps imo.
How come it takes so long to get into the MP game after you click join? Would be nice if they could get this down to just 10 seconds.
Im now considering a larger monitor, my 19" does not do it justice.
Ive been playing completely on the microsoft gamepad and perform much better than M&KB. Finally up to Rank 5. Must take hours to get up to the high rank numbers.
How come it takes so long to get into the MP game after you click join? Would be nice if they could get this down to just 10 seconds.
Im now considering a larger monitor, my 19" does not do it justice.
Ive been playing completely on the microsoft gamepad and perform much better than M&KB. Finally up to Rank 5. Must take hours to get up to the high rank numbers.
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