Best Graphical Settings for Battlefield 3

[phil-k]

What order is it best to adjust the settings for best graphics and decent fps
I don't really understand what all the settings do although if I don't get any tearing I should turn vsync off and motion blur could go off as well.

Starting with everything on Ultra what is the best order to try turning settings down or off

 

[phil-k]

I'd personally wack it all to ultra then decrease the things that were least important to me one by one. Motion blur and HDR / ambient occlusion / bloom I dislike for example.

I'd rather have a beautiful 40fps than a smooth 60fps personally, I know a lot of people would disagree with that.

That is what I would prefer as well, should be smooth enoough at 40fps for me

The setting I'm not sure about are
Antialaising Deffered
Antialaising Post
Anisotropic Filter
Ambient Occlusion

Which ones are better on higher settings over the others

 

[phil-k]

I don't get my retail BF3 until Friday hopefully, just wanted to be ready so I could get into gaming as quick as pos, lol
Thanks for all the advice, since I built my pc I usually just put all the settings of a game on the highest they will go, not really knowing what each does, now I have more idea
Cheers