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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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:

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:42

Spikey said:
*Kisses 780*

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 18:44

Finners said:
New BETA soon so i guess we will have our answers, with the bargains lately i have been tempted to get a 7970 because of the 3gb Vram but keep telling myself to wait for the new cards.

You'd think so wouldn't you? Depends what map they include. For battlefield 3 beta they included the smallest map with the smallest vram footprint. Hopefully they at least include a full size map this time otherwise expectations might get raised more than they should.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:00

Suarez7 said:
Where can I pickup Windows 8 cheap?

You missed it brah. If you'd got it early doors like me n shanks you would have picked up a legite copy for £24.99. Best thing was you could use a dodgy WIN7 serial key to get it. LOL.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:04

whyscotty said:
Best £25 I've spent

Amen. My first legite copy of Windows as well. The best thing is i have it saved on USB so a reinstall of Win8 takes about 5 minutes. :cool:

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:08

Ahem. Lets get the thread back on topic lads before i get sent down again.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:11

Yikes.

It was such a good offer i ended up getting a copy for the other half as well. A legite copy using the same original code i might add.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:20

Lord_ZED said:
Well i am on Windows 8.1 RTM as of Friday activated and stuff. This windows should be BIG cause i LOVE IT !!!! And i was against 8.

Everything runs better on it. Might be cause of fresh install but I like it
Now just waiting for AMD to give me dx11.2 drivers :]

That's a good point. I'll need to upgrade my Windows 8 to 8.1 when its released. Does that mean ill need to do a complete reinstall ? I presume it means i will. It should be released a week or two before Battlefield 4 i think so that gives me plenty of time to get everything in order.

EDIT

Better backup my porn folder while i think of it.

shankly1985 said:
I got mine for 15quid students got it cheaper

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 19:28

shankly1985 said:
Nice choice of gif

That's how i feel.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:09

Phixsator said:
The win8 key is perfectly legit. You wont even need to touch win 7 ever again. You can even format the drive reboot and then choose to install and the only thing you have to do to be able to activate is search for MediaBootInstall in the registry and set it to 0 and them type slmgr /rearm in the command prompt.

Good shout Phix, never knew that. As i have an upgrade key ive been using an install key to install windows 8. Then i put in my own key in after its installed and it activates.

shankly1985 said:
Just done a fresh install, never needed to touch registry. Key just worked first time.

That's cos you must have a proper key. I have an upgrade key, but in essence it works the same. With an upgrade key all you need is an install key (which is free for 30 days) first before you can activate.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:12

shankly1985 said:
Mine is upgrade version matt? I never needed windows 7 to install 8. Fresh install on new ssd windows 8 pro upgrade worked first time.
You ever tried just installing?

Yes a couple of times. Maybe they've changed it since i last did it a few months back.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:14

Phixsator said:
Or because he is using UEFI secure boot i think its called. If you do that after Win8 has been activated you never need to do anything again no matter how many times you reinstall

Hmm could be good shout.

LtMatt · 9 Sep 2013 at 20:19

Uncle Petey said:
Stop cyberbullying me.
I've reported you.

And now you'll get suspended.