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Battlefield 4 Recommended Requirements - 3GB Vram

BF4 will launch.

2GB will be fine, 3GB will be fine.

All will be okay in the world and silly threads like this will disappear. Only a fool would swap from a 2GB to a 3GB card _NOW_ based on wild speculation and marketing exercises.

Just wait for the bloody game and play it. React after the fact.
 
Sin_Chase said:
BF4 will launch.

2GB will be fine, 3GB will be fine.

All will be okay in the world and silly threads like this will disappear. Only a fool would swap from a 2GB to a 3GB card _NOW_ based on wild speculation and marketing exercises.

Just wait for the bloody game and play it. React after the fact.
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Anyone want to use two of their 3gb cards against my two 2gb cards to see who gets the highest fps maxed out.;):D

I hope no ones got two HD 7990s.:D
 
Aren't AMD partened with BF4? Of course they are going to 'recommend 3gb', just look at that advertisement. It makes no sense, they recommend a 660/7870 yet neither of those have 3gb vram. It's clearly a ploy to make people choose AMD's 7950/70 over the nvidia equivalent.

The benchmarks posted which show it using 2.2gb with 1920x1080 are both done using 3gb cards, this doesn't necessarily mean it needs this much. I've seen this first hand, had a 3gb 660ti that used much more vram at the same settings than my 2gb gtx 670 in BF3.
 
Suarez7 said:
LOL, with everything off/low and mesh on ultra I can push 200+fps but I'd rather play maxed out and just enjoy the game than worry about my K/D ratio. I don't know how people can enjoy doing the same thing over and over just to get 50-2 score or whatever every round.
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lol- used to be a running joke between us when playing Enemy Territory back in the day:

Doesn't matter if its in wireframe mode, as long as I get all zee kills
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:)
 
shankly1985 said:
Look up tile resources windows 8 now that is the future of textures in games :)
Will bf4 use this? Don't know but them listing windows 8 as the recommended Os it could be very well using dx11.2 features.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/directx...es-to-windows-8-1-and-the-xbox-one/41876.html
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Well, looking over the video from the article ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EswYdzsHKMc ), I suspect in this case (why 2GB card recommended, but 3GB vRAM needed), that Tile Resources is the main culprit. The difference in quality is huge and also on the amount of data that needs to be hold withing the graphic cards itself.
 
Sin_Chase said:
BF4 will launch.

2GB will be fine, 3GB will be fine.

All will be okay in the world and silly threads like this will disappear. Only a fool would swap from a 2GB to a 3GB card _NOW_ based on wild speculation and marketing exercises.

Just wait for the bloody game and play it. React after the fact.
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True, but my AMD 6870 1GB is nearly 3 years old and I was due an upgrade anyway so with the new AMD cards launching just in time for BF4, it makes sense for people like me to take this in to consideration.
 
spixelspixel said:
Aren't AMD partened with BF4? Of course they are going to 'recommend 3gb', just look at that advertisement. It makes no sense, they recommend a 660/7870 yet neither of those have 3gb vram. It's clearly a ploy to make people choose AMD's 7950/70 over the nvidia equivalent.

The benchmarks posted which show it using 2.2gb with 1920x1080 are both done using 3gb cards, this doesn't necessarily mean it needs this much. I've seen this first hand, had a 3gb 660ti that used much more vram at the same settings than my 2gb gtx 670 in BF3.
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I've seen this somewhere else too saying AMD cards use vram a little differently then nvidia 2gb cards. 2gb will work great. No need to worry people. It's the people that have less then 2gb that should worry.
 
spixelspixel said:
Aren't AMD partened with BF4? Of course they are going to 'recommend 3gb', just look at that advertisement. It makes no sense, they recommend a 660/7870 yet neither of those have 3gb vram. It's clearly a ploy to make people choose AMD's 7950/70 over the nvidia equivalent.

The benchmarks posted which show it using 2.2gb with 1920x1080 are both done using 3gb cards, this doesn't necessarily mean it needs this much. I've seen this first hand, had a 3gb 660ti that used much more vram at the same settings than my 2gb gtx 670 in BF3.
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Yeah I agree, BF4 is just BF3 with sprinkles on, it dose not look any different looking at the gameplay already shown. Simply put this is probably AMD having a say on the specs.
 
I'd love to know whether these "Requirements" are for 1 or 3 monitors, 60fps or 120fps, triple buffering or no, and at which memory clock and speed?

As far as I know, all of these affect the Vram. I don't know a damn thing about textures, but I do manage to "Max out" my 2gb Vram according to GPU-Z in several games... at 60hz 1080p. I don't think the readings are very accurate.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah I agree, BF4 is just BF3 with sprinkles on, it dose not look any different looking at the gameplay already shown. Simply put this is probably AMD having a say on the specs.
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you and me havent seen the same game videos or drawing the conclusions from the gameplay of those games. BF4 is vastly different from BF3 in the gameplay already shown and those playing it on those who plays a lot of BF3.
Nvidia cards with 2gb will be outdated on BF4.
its common knowledge...

Time to take Gibbo up on those 3gb amd card deals guys:D

The windows 8 64bit and 8gb ram points to a vastly different hardware and I guess we will see a PC stretch its legs a bit since the Crysis days.

Can your computer play BF4 ;)
 
tommybhoy said:
;)

There is more to just 'caching' the vram or running out.

Pcper showed the difference extra vram makes in regards to smoothness between 2Gb 4Gb 680's on BF3.

Frame Rating: BF3 High End GPUs Benchmarked at 4K Resolutions


http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphi...marked-4K-Resolutions/Battlefield-3-Single-GP
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Those tests were done at 3840x2160 which is 8294400 pixels compared to 6220800 with 5760x1080. Even then, the 2gb did fairly well.

Why didn't they do the test with resolutions people actually use? Also if you look at some of the other games tested such as crysis 3 there is practically no difference in performance between the 2gb/4gb 680's even in SLI.

If there's any problem with 2gb cards in bf4 at normal resolutions then its because the game is broken, not because 2gb isn't enough.
 
flopper said:
you and me havent seen the same game videos or drawing the conclusions from the gameplay of those games. BF4 is vastly different from BF3 in the gameplay already shown and those playing it on those who plays a lot of BF3.
Nvidia cards with 2gb will be outdated on BF4.
its common knowledge...

Time to take Gibbo up on those 3gb amd card deals guys:D

The windows 8 64bit and 8gb ram points to a vastly different hardware and I guess we will see a PC stretch its legs a bit since the Crysis days.

Can your computer play BF4 ;)
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Different in what way? you mean the commander roll you can play from your ipad? or the scripted events in game. lol

Fact is crysis 3 has already stretched PC legs and from a visuals perspective BF4 looks nowhere near it and I wouldn't expect it to online.

It's BF3 with a dumbed down commander roll and some scripted in game events. Hardly vastly different now is it.
 
spixelspixel said:
Those tests were done at 3840x2160 which is 8294400 pixels compared to 6220800 with 5760x1080. Even then, the 2gb did fairly well.

Why didn't they do the test with resolutions people actually use? Also if you look at some of the other games tested such as crysis 3 there is practically no difference in performance between the 2gb/4gb 680's even in SLI.

If there's any problem with 2gb cards in bf4 at normal resolutions then its because the game is broken, not because 2gb isn't enough.
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We'll see. The requirements haven't gone up because the game uses the same or less amount of vram than before that much is for sure.
 
Orangey said:
Can someone explain what tiled resources does that traditional LOD doesn't?
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Traditional LOD works by lowering the detail of objects in your view and outside your view the further it is away from you. Results are sometimes extremely ugly.

Tiled Resources works by only having the objects in your view in the video memory thereby in theory allowing for much higher fidelity without the need to use LOD or not as much as there are more resources available.

Sidenote and EDIT to other comments: I think the only reason to be picking up an AMD gfx for this title would be the use of the latest DirectX functions that according to dice allow for better CPU utilization. Besides that i cannot see why one would ditch their 680 or 670s. Sure it might run better out the gate on AMD hardware but Nvidia will eventually get access to the game code and be able to optimize.
 
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I doubt the game will have much of a problem at 1080p with 2GB of vram, due to vram limits alone.

Just because a game reports it uses X amount of vram doesn't mean there will be a material degradation in framerate for cards with less than that, the card will of course cache all loaded data even if it isn't required any more.
 
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