Battlefield 4 Recommended Requirements - 3GB Vram

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:19

Our 2gb brothers might be sacrificing image quality much sooner than expected by the '2gb will live forever crowd'.

May aswell post the graph ive been posting for a while and been getting slated every time ive posted it.

Relax 3gb+ users, its looking good for us vram wise.

Remains to be seen if single card will have the grunt to use up 2gb of vram and provide playable fps, but dual card definitely will and that is where the 2gb cards may fall short.

Cue nerd rage...

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:22

Recommended graphics card: 7870/660
Recommended graphics memory: 3GB

Eh?

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:24

Uncle Petey said:
Recommended graphics card: 7870/660
Recommended graphics memory: 3GB

Eh?

Recommended to run the game at a high detail no doubt. Not ultra with AA which is what uses large amounts of vram. Neither of those cards will have the grunt nor vram required for ultra with AA.

Martini1991 · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:26

Talk about moving the goal posts lol.

It may very well need over 2GB VRAM for Ultra, that doesn't change the fact that neither of the recommended GPU's at standard have over 2GB VRAM.

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:27

Neither will my 7970 apparently

Fulax · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:28

Uncle Petey said:
Recommended graphics card: 7870/660
Recommended graphics memory: 3GB

Eh?

My thoughts exactly.

Doomedspeed · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:28

At 1080p 2GB is enough then? From your graph?

A game with AMD input advising you to use AMD cards, never?

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:28

Uncle Petey said:
Neither will my 7970 apparently

We'll see. Its quite possible you might have to knock AA down to x2 but i expect that will be all.

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:29

Oh well, boo hoo for me

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:30

Doomedspeed said:
At 1080p 2GB is enough then? From your graph?

A game with AMD input advising you to use AMD cards, never?

Should be enough at 1080p. You might have to sacrifice AA.

shankly1985 · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:31

can't wait for bf4.
Recommended Os - windows 8 maybe bf4 will use some of dx11.2 features?

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:31

Uncle Petey said:
Oh well, boo hoo for me

Don't quote me on that. I'd expect performance to have increased a lot from those alpha benchmarks which were useless. They had no game or driver optimizations at all.

shankly1985 said:
can't wait for bf4.
Recommended Os - windows 8 maybe bf4 will use some of dx11.2 features?

You know it.

Windows 8 master race/os.

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:33

I'm not too bothered tbh.
I'm sure it'll look and play just fine either way.

Nocky24 · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:35

I'm going to remain cynical and put it down to good marketing and AMDs influence. Too early to tell with those alpha benchmarks what the performance will be come release. Yes I have a 2gb card, but I'm in the market for a new card (looking forward to AMDs new release) so I'm being completely impartial here.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:36

Nocky24 said:
I'm going to remain cynical and put it down to good marketing and AMDs influence. Too early to tell with those alpha benchmarks what the performance will be come release. Yes I have a 2gb card, but I'm in the market for a new card (looking forward to AMDs new release) so I'm being completely impartial here.

No harm in sitting on the fence.

whyscotty · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:36

LtMatt said:
Should be enough at 1080p as long as you sacrifice AA.

That will look pretty - NOT

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:37

whyscotty said:
That will look pretty - NOT

1080p peasants hey Scotty?

You can't beat a good 1440p/1660p.+ :cool:

Uncle Petey · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:38

You can if you kick it hard enough.

Mei · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:38

will be funny if they start using slightly more than 3gb and nvidia use the same marketing to advertise their 4gb cards

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:41

Uncle Petey said:
You can if you kick it hard enough.

Peasant.

Mei said:
will be funny if they start using slightly more than 3gb and nvidia use the same marketing to advertise their 4gb cards

3gb may not be enough at Eyefinity res if 1600p Ultra x4AA uses 2.7gb. :eek: