Battlefield 3 RETAIL Performance Thread

wolvers · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:31

elrasho said:
I wanna go home and try! Im hoping Ill be able to play with textures, shadows and mesh on Ultra everything else on high at above 60fps. Which forum did you read that from? And you dont need to install 11.10 Preview 3 again do you?

It's from the Hardocp forum.

Stick this one in your favourites as well;

If you want a reserved slot, let me know via PM.

mjones1 said:
1055t @3.3ghz
x2 5850 running caps 4.
No stutter at all in MP.
I play at 1920x1080, 90 FOV and gives me 58- mids 70's fps

mjones1 said:
I forgot to add that, on high.

I get much higher than that on the High preset, like 120-150fps. I don't use a 90 FOV though but I can't believe it would make that much difference. :confused:

Born_2_Kill_83 · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:31

What ATI Drivers are you successful users using, caps or no caps?

elrasho · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:36

mjones1 said:
I forgot to add that, on high.

Try it with Ultra on Texture, Shadow and Mesh. It looks a lot better than with everything on High.

wolvers said:
It's from the Hardocp forum.

Stick this one in your favourites as well;

If you want a reserved slot, let me know via PM.

PMs

How does it work, will your server see my Origin id and let me in even though the server might be full? Can I add a couple of mates too?

maddog · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:41

So its best to leave antialiasing def to off and put aa post on high for better performance and it gives just as good quality?i see some people have both on does one overwrite the other or work together?

JaffAWood · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:50

As far as i understand (cant remember where i read it) Def overrides Post..(?)

.... I think.

GraveYard · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:23

toxic said:
for all those debating x-fire...new cards etc. Single 580GTX play it pretty godam well.well pleased with purchasing one of those for this game.
Multiplayer at 1900x1200...4xAA, 16xAF, a mixture of high/ultra and I get 50-80fps all the time. (some high to keep frame rates high)
Single player, all maxed out 4xAA, 16xAF...plays easy. Minimum about 50fps.

o....and Afterburner has never shown to use more than 1300-1400 MB of VRAM, on 64man servers. Usually arround 12-1300MB.

wonder why im only getting 45 to 70 fps on a 580 with [email protected] and 8gb ram...

BriT · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:40

Getting 60 to 100+ depending on situation. 580 @ 950mhz all settings Ultra on 22" 1680x1050 res.

chid76 · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:46

Am getting 55-70fps all high in 64 player big maps with SSAO & 2xMSAA @ 1680x1050.

2x 5770 crossfire
i5 2500k @ stock
4GB DDR3 1600

I seem to have the fps to turn it all up higher, but I get mad fps spikes where it will drop from 50-60 to 3fps or something, making it unplayable (maybe running out of vram?).

All in all, am very pleased with the way these little cards scale in crossfire

LiE · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:57

Turn MSAA off and use AA Post set to high.

Rofflay · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:05

I see some pretty high frames rates for a single gtx 580......I thought DICE said BF3 would have a missing ultra mode and would need two 580 SLI on thier twitter feed :rolleyes:

terminator2k2 · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:13

didnt think reserved slots were working at the moment?

mjones1 · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:16

Rofflay said:
I see some pretty high frames rates for a single gtx 580......I thought DICE said BF3 would have a missing ultra mode and would need two 580 SLI on thier twitter feed

I think you would need 2 cards if you were running 2560x1400.

storm45 · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:21

ye 1 GTX 580 is good enough for me at 1080P, very impressed

CRUMPLYPORK · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:21

by reading some of these i hope my 560ti is up to playing this lol,
hope so anyway just bought the game and the graphics card for this reason

arc@css · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:22

CRUMPLYPORK said:
by reading some of these i hope my 560ti is up to playing this lol,
hope so anyway just bought the game and the graphics card for this reason

Return it under DSR if it doesn't do as expected, though I would expect it to be fine.

chief barker · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:22

The game won't unlock for me until midnight so I can't play :mad:

Deezo_M1 · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:35

hi my game is running fine except it keep minimizing to a window every min or so its driving me crazy .. anyone have an idea why this is?

elrasho · 27 Oct 2011 at 17:39

Installed CAP4 with already installed 11.10 Preview 3 and getting really bad stuttering:

This is worse than CAP3! I'm gonna uninstall all drivers and start from scratch (11.10 Pre3 then CAP4)

EDIT: Reinstalled 11.10 Pre3 and now its all good

Getting average 80fps on these settings:

VRAM hovers at around 1970MB though

chief barker · 27 Oct 2011 at 18:36

elrasho said:
VRAM hovers at around 1970MB though

Divide that by 2 as your'e running crossfire.

lewis2701 · 27 Oct 2011 at 19:41

1920x1080 - 1.2GB Gainward GTX 570 Phantom, do you think it will be enough vram ?