Battlefield 4 Recommended Requirements - 3GB Vram

Krisali · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:44

stulid said:
My GTX670 with 2GB of RAM runs Crysis3 maxed out (apart from Anti Aliasing as you don't need so much at these resolutions) at 2560x1440 on my Asus PB278Q monitor.

It plays it ok and isn't a juddery mess.

I expect it will play BF4 just fine.

Yes I understood what you meant, was just surprised. That 670 must be a beast as my 780 can't maintain 60fps. What frames are you getting?

RetrogamerX · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:46

~>Dg<~ said:
so nothing to do with sales and cards being released just before it comes out ?

this is the only game worth upgrading a powerful card they going to go hard to try and get you to buy new cards for it as there is nothing else for 1 year !

sales brah all spin .

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2gb will be fine for many years to come. BF4 is just one game, Maybe in 2 years time it might make a difference. It doesn't matter to most that upgrade once a year. I'm looking for a powerful single card. Want to see what AMD bring, but tbh I think all the AMD talk is just that....all talk. Want to see what Nv do next too?

Suarez7 · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:49

Depends what he means by nothing else for one year, nvidia's next cards are due out Q1 2014 and I'm sure there'll be other games within the year that are pushing 2gb.

It all depends on whether you don't mind playing with some settings turned down anyway.

spixelspixel · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:50

Fred: Hey George, did you see the requirements for BF4? It needs at least 3GB

George: Yeah, gonna swap my gtx 670 for one of those more awesomer 3GB 7950's.

Fred: But maybe its all lies, I mean... AMD and EA are business partners afterall.

George: Not a chance, afteburner reports my vram usage at 2gb. I'm maxed out bro, need moar vram.

Fred: Hmmmm what about a 4GB Nvidia card.

George: Don't be silly, you think I'm gonna fall for that? I saw that AMD poster, it says it has to be 3GB. Smashed my 670 to bits with a hammer after seeing that and ordered a 7950 from OCUK. No going back now.

Fred: Hey George, look what I found

George: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

stulid · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:50

Krisali said:
Yes I understood what you meant, was just surprised. That 670 must be a beast as my 780 can't maintain 60fps. What frames are you getting?

No idea, but its good enough to play and doesn't fall apart when things get serious or outdoors

MrMarvelous · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:53

Bf3 takes around 1400Mb on my 7970 at 1080p with everything on Ultra and x16 aa/af, why the hell would Bf4 need 3Gb when it looks exactly the same is beyond me.

Uncle Petey · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:54

stulid said:
No idea, but its good enough to play and doesn't fall apart when things get serious or outdoors

Yeah, Crysis 3 seems to stay pretty smooth even when it hits the 40s.

Not that I see the 40's too often *ahem*

tommybhoy · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:54

scotsdragon said:
It is the card i have lol and have you ever seen a gamer on pc's thats sane we all spend loads on our pc's lol

Thought you were eyeing one up, I'm sure BF4 will roll it's sleeves up.

Silent_Scone · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:54

Battlefield 3 is quite VRAM intensive. As already said I think people are taking this a little too seriously, and not to mention the benchmarking is from an ALPHA release of the game. Thinking about it now, 2560x1440 would require more than 2GB (or as good as) in BF3. So it's no surprise.

Can't speak for AMD users but I know Nvidia's memory management is very good, I think 2GB cards will be able to play BF4 without too much of an issue, maybe with the sacrifice of MSAA.

~>Dg<~ · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:57

it wont basically amd have 3gb cards and a lot of the previous nvidia are 2gb cards just marketing bs.

if the game needed that much the specs would be higher . the specs are pretty much similar to bf3. cant wait for beta to start just sitting here laughing waiting

Suarez7 · 10 Sep 2013 at 13:59

I wish I had a quid for every time you mention marketing bs

teppic · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:08

MrMarvelous said:
Bf3 takes around 1400Mb on my 7970 at 1080p with everything on Ultra and x16 aa/af, why the hell would Bf4 need 3Gb when it looks exactly the same is beyond me.

BF4 has a new engine, and it's a new game. It's not just BF3 with new maps.

LtMatt · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:10

teppic said:
BF4 has a new engine, and it's a new game. It's not just BF3 with new maps.

Hopefully AMD have shoe horned in HDAO (DIRECTCOMPUTE ACCELERATED HIGH DEFINITION AMBIENT OCCLUSION) effects into the game. Much better than BF3's HBAO.

RetrogamerX · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:11

Suarez7 said:
I wish I had a quid for every time you mention marketing bs

He's right though.

P4Clock · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:11

it say recommended AMD is a 6 core, dose this mean it will use all 6 cores?
If so then this may be the game for all the i7 boys that was very say when the i5's performed better in a lot of games

VincentHanna · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:12

Well, they are calling it Frostbite 3.0 but no doubt it's an update of the old engine. They certainly haven't started from scratch!

But I agree as well, tech has moved on and this game is coming out 2 years after BF3, it's clearly going to have graphical advances and I do think 3GB will be needed to extract the maximum from the game with Anti-Aliasing.

Suarez7 · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:12

RetrogamerX said:
He's right though.

How can you say that when the game isn't even out? At 1440/1600p I'd place money on the game using over 2gb even with some settings lowered.

LtMatt · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:14

P4Clock said:
it say recommended AMD is a 6 core, dose this mean it will use all 6 cores?
If so then this may be the game for all the i7 boys that was very say when the i5's performed better in a lot of games

AMD did good with Crysis 3 cpu optimization so expect something similar for this. Will be great on 6-8 core/thread cpu's, AMD and Intel.

VincentHanna said:
Well, they are calling it Frostbite 3.0 but no doubt it's an update of the old engine. They certainly haven't started from scratch!

But I agree as well, tech has moved on and this game is coming out 2 years after BF3, it's clearly going to have graphical advances and I do think 3GB will be needed to extract the maximum from the game with Anti-Aliasing.

Agreed.

teppic · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:15

VincentHanna said:
Well, they are calling it Frostbite 3.0 but no doubt it's an update of the old engine. They certainly haven't started from scratch!

But I agree as well, tech has moved on and this game is coming out 2 years after BF3, it's clearly going to have graphical advances and I do think 3GB will be needed to extract the maximum from the game with Anti-Aliasing.

They haven't started from scratch, but a new engine (which is the first of several upcoming games to use it) is going to use the best available current tech for max settings. Not what was available two years ago, as you say.

RetrogamerX · 10 Sep 2013 at 14:16

VincentHanna said:
Well, they are calling it Frostbite 3.0 but no doubt it's an update of the old engine. They certainly haven't started from scratch!

But I agree as well, tech has moved on and this game is coming out 2 years after BF3, it's clearly going to have graphical advances and I do think 3GB will be needed to extract the maximum from the game with Anti-Aliasing.

I think with AMD cards it'll need 3gb. Like said a few posts up. Nvidia have much better memory management then AMD do. It doesn't matter to me. I'll change cards soon anyways either way