Battlefield 3 upgrade?

Buchanan0204 · 6 Nov 2011 at 02:34

I got it this evening and realised I was only getting 20FPS on Ultra over 5760x1080. If I dropped it down to high, I got 30FPS.

Would adding another 6950/70 give me a respectable 50-60FPS with everything on ultra?

Cheers.

Has anyone done on eyefinity benchmarks for this game?

Cupra · 6 Nov 2011 at 03:10

install msi afterburner and check your not running out of vram like i suspect you are, if you are running out of vram addding more cards wont help you would need a card with more vram

Buchanan0204 · 6 Nov 2011 at 03:47

Cupra said:
install msi afterburner and check your not running out of vram like i suspect you are, if you are running out of vram addding more cards wont help you would need a card with more vram

It's a 2GB card. I thought this was considered pretty high?

sedmonds · 6 Nov 2011 at 04:14

2GB is a decent amount, but so is the resolution you're running at, also depends on the amount of AA you have set in your configuration. As Cupra says, worth just installing the latest Afterburner Beta and check your VRAM usage just in case, although I suspect with the resolution you're running and the settings you've selected its probably normal.

Buchanan0204 · 6 Nov 2011 at 04:30

Installed afterburner and I don't have a tab for memory usage. It's supposed to be under "memory clock," right?

mathwat · 6 Nov 2011 at 07:17

iirc gpu-z has memory usage or is that just in xfire.

Buchanan0204 · 6 Nov 2011 at 07:37

mathwat said:
iirc gpu-z has memory usage or is that just in xfire.

I'll check.

Buchanan0204 · 6 Nov 2011 at 07:39

I'm getting between 40-50FPS on one screen using a genuine HD6970. (1920x1080) on Ultra settings.

What's impressing me most is that it's all on a 5 year old processor. Just goes to show you don't need a crazy overclocked sandybridge to play games.

I think I'll give up on eyefinity for this one. Stick to one screen. Maybe when/if I buy another 6950/70 I'll turn on the other two screens

mathwat · 6 Nov 2011 at 07:51

Buchanan0204 said:
I'm getting between 40-50FPS on one screen using a genuine HD6970. (1920x1080) on Ultra settings.

What's impressing me most is that it's all on a 5 year old processor. Just goes to show you don't need a crazy overclocked sandybridge to play games.

I think I'll give up on eyefinity for this one. Stick to one screen. Maybe when/if I buy another 6950/70 I'll turn on the other two screens

Well i play bf3 fine with a [email protected] and 6870 in xfire..Just the drivers are a bit of a pain at the moment.

p.s and bf3 use's all six cores about 50% on each.

Cupra · 6 Nov 2011 at 08:47

Buchanan0204 said:
It's a 2GB card. I thought this was considered pretty high?

i play 2560x1600 on sli 1.5gb cards and my vram is maxxed out
ive set it so aero is disabled as the game starts to give me 200mb extra