Well, i spoke to someone more knowledgeable than me. And it turns out i was wrong, if you run out of VRAM, it'll just crash. No reallocation or something. Which would probably be the case if he ran BF4 at Ultra.
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Well, i spoke to someone more knowledgeable than me. And it turns out i was wrong, if you run out of VRAM, it'll just crash. No reallocation or something. Which would probably be the case if he ran BF4 at Ultra.
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Wont be the case even at Ultra settings 4xMSAA @1600p...as per user reviews on this very thread, it might change however come full release. Matt reckons full Ultra isn't being applied as you get no change in FPS.
If you run out of VRAM - this happens (Skip to like 7 mins)
Everything maxed out, 200% Resolution scale at 1080p. Everything on ultra, MSAA at 4. EVERYTHING MAXED. And do a small benchmark with fraps please 
. Show me your results!
2013-10-06 05:28:47 - bf4
Frames: 784 - Time: 30000ms - Avg: 26.133 - Min: 21 - Max: 30
670, 680 and 770 owners please.
. Show me your results!2013-10-06 05:28:47 - bf4
Frames: 784 - Time: 30000ms - Avg: 26.133 - Min: 21 - Max: 30
670, 680 and 770 owners please.
My friends 670 just crash.
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I'd ask for tips under the Overclocking & Cooling or 8Pack section. They should be able to give some better advise. If you can get it to 4.5/4.6, that should make some improvement.
79xx are beasts thanks to the supperior IPC and 384 bit bus bandwidth
Makes me feel better about swapping out my GTX660 for a MSI HD 7970 TFIII. The difference was amazing. All I need now is the final release of BF4 and maybe another 7970
3570k @4.3 . 7950 @1050 /1250 . 13.6 drivers on win 7 64 , conquest large 64 server
2013-10-06 07:18:50 - bf4 Auto settings preset mix of high/ultra
Frames: 27560 - Time: 435118ms - Avg: 63.339 - Min: 43 - Max: 111
2013-10-06 07:28:11 - bf4 Ultra settings preset
Frames: 19053 - Time: 441014ms - Avg: 43.203 - Min: 33 - Max: 71
2013-10-06 07:18:50 - bf4 Auto settings preset mix of high/ultra
Frames: 27560 - Time: 435118ms - Avg: 63.339 - Min: 43 - Max: 111
2013-10-06 07:28:11 - bf4 Ultra settings preset
Frames: 19053 - Time: 441014ms - Avg: 43.203 - Min: 33 - Max: 71
I think xfire 7950
2 of these and sell the games should come in at little over £300 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-065-HS
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Going by this beta version the best upgrade you can buy for BF4 is Windows 8.1. I would wait until the retail version hits then look at the benchmarks and then decide but at 1440 res I wouldn't want anything less then a 3gb card and Winows 8.1 assuming dice can't fix the performance issue for Windows 7 owners.
If bf4 is a sign of things to come then it would appear AMD's CPU's are going to enter a second golden era.
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That could mean that Intel have to up their game at producing affordable 6/8 core processors. Considering theirs are far superior, it'll be interesting to see how this pans out.
This. It can present itself in more ways than one. Unfortunately getting people to believe this here is nigh on impossible.
Actually Tone as previously stated, that's not always how it happens. I've been testing on a HD7770 and the side effects i noticed were big frame drops, but not always down to 1fps, extreme stuttering, or the game would crash with an out of memory error or something similar. Tested on Battlefield 3.
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There are many things that can happen when you run out of VRAM
- The game crashes
- The frame rate drops to single digits and the game becomes a stuttery mess due to having to texture thrash from main RAM
If you game on an SSD it can mask some of it due to higher transfer rates of the drive to stream textures effectively.
I maxed out a 1Gh HD 5850 with loads of texture packs and the end result was not nice....
As the BF series are built with consoles in mind the engine will have decent streaming capabilities to manage memory due having to run on the 480Mb memory the consoles have, this helps PC but streaming can only make up for so much.
- The game crashes
- The frame rate drops to single digits and the game becomes a stuttery mess due to having to texture thrash from main RAM
If you game on an SSD it can mask some of it due to higher transfer rates of the drive to stream textures effectively.
I maxed out a 1Gh HD 5850 with loads of texture packs and the end result was not nice....
As the BF series are built with consoles in mind the engine will have decent streaming capabilities to manage memory due having to run on the 480Mb memory the consoles have, this helps PC but streaming can only make up for so much.
Well said.
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morning folks, trying to have a go at the beta this morning and keep getting this, anyone else/ideas?
I want to build a small PC in something like a BitFenix Prodigy, so 2 cards isn't really an option with all the other stuff inside.
morning folks, trying to have a go at the beta this morning and keep getting this, anyone else/ideas?
Add more vcore.
I think an i7 and a decent overclocked 7950 is enough for this game and i have a video on youtube in the morning to prove it. With BF3 it was 'oh ur gona need 2x 580's to play this maxed out'. Now were getting similar comments for BF4 and this just isnt true. I'd question peoples system if it cant be played on similar hardware that others run BF4 fine on. Of course there is some bugs but thats to be expected. I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium and its running rather peachy for me
Btw i ran BF4 maxed out @ 3840x1080 earlier and it was using 2.6GB VRAM over about 10-15 minutes. Obviously not playable on 2 screen with crosshairs split between them but i just wanted to test it out. I was averaging around 30-40fps
It depends on your own definition of 'maxxed out', for some people that means Ultra 3840x1080@60fps with default FOV, for others (specifically ex-quakeworld players like me) it means Ultra (or custom settings) 1920x1080@144fps with maximum FOV and sub-5ms draw rate.
As i posed earlier in the thread, anything less than 3 cards and a 6 core CPU won't give the grunt necessary to do the latter.
Some of the benchmarks posted here represent 60hz gaming who play with the tanks, helicopters and recon, there are a whole section of players where 60hz is not playable at all as assault and never will be.
That is what makes battlefield so awesome though, is that it brings players together of all tastes and abilities, who can all contribute in their own way to a win or loss. A mix of players is required to win.
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I don't see any issues playing this game on Windows 7, I can only speak for myself obviously, but I get pretty much solid 60fps vsyncd ultra settings with 2xMSAA @ 1080p. I'm more than happy with that, and I'm sure once the full game comes out, it will be better optimized as well.