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Bf3 minimum gpu

If he could settle for High settings then a second hand 5850/460/560Ti could be had for under £70 and it would run well.

IMO £400 is always going to be overkill when new cards will be out in less than a year and todays £400 card will be worth £150ish.
 
Rossi~ said:
Not in the slightest. 3930K @ 4.5GHz and 16Gb Sammy Green @ 2333MHz, nothing holding it back. It just took the beating. Had to upgrade from the GTX580 to play with decent fps and without frames dropping like mad.
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Strange because I didn't really have any issues either...
 
BF3 is very optimised to be fair. My machine aint great. Its basically a X6 @ 3.6Ghz, 8GB ram with a 6770 & 5770 Crossfired but manages between 70-120fps in BF3 @ 1080p everything low. Mostly happy around 90-100fps, but does depend on the map as some are optimised better than others. I have dabbled with everything mostly high with some AA and stuff but it ran a solid 50-60fps to be honest the graphics were not massively better imo and I like the smoothness.

It did struggle a little bit with a single 6770, probably about 50-90fps at 1080p, sometimes less on certain maps. Thankfully the 6770 cost £70 new, and I picked up the 5770 for £55 2nd hand including the crossfire cable and stuff so that alone saved me £10 :)

PS2 on the other hand runs like a dog, but I'm hoping they were optimise it at some stage!!
 
Can i just ask those who are having problems with bf3 stuttering/dropping frames and are running nvidia cards, did you guys update to the latest nvidia drivers, i know they released updated drivers aimed at new release games just before xmas, if not then try them, if you have updated and have problems since, try rolling em bk to prev driver
 
gregster said:
The simple answer is either a 7950 or a 670. Go for a reputable brand as well like EVGA/MSI/Gigabyte/KFA2.
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Running it on a gtx 670 wf, clocked at 1310/7586. Averaging 70fps ono, ultra preset, 2xmsaa, 16xaf, HBAO on at 1920x1200. A 7950 would be a great choice too and much cheaper.

Cpu wise, ive ran it with the above card and a 920 @4.2ghz and the current spec in sig. Felt a wee bit smoother on the older system, but then bf3 is known to like more cores wether physical or virtual.
 
BF3 uses up to and around 1.5gb vram in single player with everything turned on to the max with 4xFSAA.

According to Nvidia themselves from an article they posted it can use "considerably more when played on mutliplayer maps"

I posted the article over and over again to ram the point home. Once your card runs out of vram it then performs (what Nvidia have called it any how) "Texture Streaming".

Because this can not be done by your physical memory it resorts to using your page file on your hard drive. Because of this performance takes a serious hit and when texture streaming occurs it causes input lag between basically you and your screen. This makes sniping all but impossible and was why I sold off my GTX 470 (even though I was being told I was crazy and wrong) and replaced it with a 6970.

Oddly enough when I replaced it I was able to pass the stage I was stuck on with ease (in the shopping mall protecting the dying dude with a thermal sniper rifle).

So there you have it. Ripley's believe it ? or not ? up to you.

I'm sure if you look hard enough you will either find a post by me with the link in it or Google can find it for you.
 
ALXAndy said:
BF3 uses up to and around 1.5gb vram in single player with everything turned on to the max with 4xFSAA.

According to Nvidia themselves from an article they posted it can use "considerably more when played on mutliplayer maps"

I posted the article over and over again to ram the point home. Once your card runs out of vram it then performs (what Nvidia have called it any how) "Texture Streaming".

Because this can not be done by your physical memory it resorts to using your page file on your hard drive. Because of this performance takes a serious hit and when texture streaming occurs it causes input lag between basically you and your screen. This makes sniping all but impossible and was why I sold off my GTX 470 (even though I was being told I was crazy and wrong) and replaced it with a 6970.

Oddly enough when I replaced it I was able to pass the stage I was stuck on with ease (in the shopping mall protecting the dying dude with a thermal sniper rifle).

So there you have it. Ripley's believe it ? or not ? up to you.

I'm sure if you look hard enough you will either find a post by me with the link in it or Google can find it for you.
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Not buying it.

Your issues were more likely due to using a 470, not a VRAM issue.

2GB is enough for single monitor 1920x1200 or less resolutions.
 
BF3 uses about 1.3GB maxed out @ 1920 x 1080P on my 7870, which has more than enough GPU grunt to maintain 60+ FPS at the highest settings.

So a 7870 is plenty, and the 7950 is the best performance you will get for its money.

As for the CPU, the FX-4100 will bottleneck such a card. The FX-8350 will be plenty for any top of the range single GPU.

BF3 uses up to CPU 8 threads, it will love the FX83##
 
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