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What GFX card and settings do you use on BF3?

Gregster

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Hey guys.

Just to see what card you use for BF3 and what settings you have. Also Skyrim is a GPU intensive game, so that would also be usefull.

I used to have a Gigabyte 560TI 1GB which I used to have my settings on 1080P with ultra settings and AA off. I did use the fx injector also, which made the game look AA enabled.

I was also running on a Q8400 @ 3.2 with 4GB of DDR2 ram. Frames were around 45 average on that system.

With my new system, I get around 75 fps and this is 1080P with FULL ultra settings.

It would be great to know what card and what frames you get?
 
6950

Ultra
No AA
HBAO/SSAO turned off
FXAA injector

i dont know how many fps i get but i do know what it looks fantastic and runs perfectly fine

edit: getting around 70fps
 
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Tonester0011 said:
I play with high presets @1080 and generally get on average 100-150fps (map dependent, metro is the highest ofc)

HD7970 @1125/1575
1100t @stock
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i don't really see the point in that high a refresh? Surely with a card like that you should be running Ultra??:confused:

Myself, Spec in sig, 45-55fps on most maps, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less, but generally runs OK.
 
4870 512mb + stock 2500k + 8gb + 1080p


for bf8 everything set to Low, no aa, no hbao/ssao
for skyrim medium preset
fps were around 40-50ish but very playable :D
 
Nvidia do a fantastic guide that explains in great depth what it takes to run the game on each individual setting. Including ultra, which needs 1.5gb to store the textures and stop it from streaming from your paging file.

At the Low setting, 150MB is allocated to the texture pool; Medium = 200MB; High = 300MB; and Ultra = 500MB. Keep in mind however that your VRAM also stores a range of other game information, and that an average multiplayer level in BF3 can have 1.5GB or more of textures, so it can't all be stored on your GPU at once. Thus setting this option too high may result in stuttering or visible texture streaming. The Ultra Texture Quality setting for example is designed specifically for GPUs with 1.5GB or more of VRAM.

http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/Guides/battlefield-3-tweak-guide/#5

Very interesting and informative I thought. Certainly explains away the vram limitations.

Nice to finally put it to bed.
 
MAK360 said:
So basically more is better, i don`t see what the problem is for people to actually grasp that.
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More is deffo better. It is nice to see as low as a 512MB card copes still with a very good frame rate.

From a different thread a guy stated that 1GB VRAM cards would not be able to run it.
 
Max everything, full AA @ 1920 x 1080, get About 80 -100fps most of the time

does drop to about 55fps on maps like Caspian and Kharg Island
 
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I'm going to post minimums as that was the main thing I was looking at when I tried the following options (all at 1080p)

560ti 1GB = mixed high / ultra, no MSAA, FXAA High, 40+FPS
560ti 1GB SLI = Ultra = unplayable. Same settings as non SLI = 60+FPS

570 1.25GB = ultra = laggy, stutter, FPS drops. Ultra, no AA = 45+FPS

580 1.5GB = ultra = 45+FPS with occaisional stutter (I noticed it, if other people have this card and don't notice it then that is great for you, but it annoyed me to the point that I returned the card rather than put up with it)

580 3GB @900mhz = ultra = 50+FPS, no stutter (I will take another trace tonight as this seems out of step with other people's findings)

580 3GB SLI = Ultra = ridiculous, don't even remember, it was so fast my eyes bled

okay that might be an exageration - SLI was giving me heat issues and the 2nd card I bought was a) overkill and b) a bit glitchy, so I returned it to wait for 580 prices to drop before I go back to that and watercool them
 
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HD7850 @ 1050/1450 - Ultra - No MSAA - High FXAA - ~45fps min, 55-60+ 95% of the time.
 
BF3 Ultra preset, 2xAA @ 1920x1080 - 45-70 fps. No stutter, some slowdown in smoke on some maps but infrequent, not enough to justify reducing settings ;)

GTX 570 @ stock
Q9550 @ 3.6GHz
8GB DDR2

EDIT: SSAO on.
 
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Whilst we are here showing our fps, what do peeps take as acceptable?

On my 120hz monitor, I love to see it go into the 90's/100's but in honesty, anything over 45fps I am happy with.
 
i5 2500k @ Stock (:eek:)
HD7970 @ 1125/6600

3560x1920 (Portrait Eyefinity) - Ultra settings, no MSAA - 45-55fps
3560x1920 (Portrait Eyefinity) - High settings*, no MSAA - 50-62+fps

*Shadows on medium

One thing that does surprise me is how little the framerate fluctuates during normal gaming. My minimums hold up very well.

I am totally GPU bound at this resolution so there is little point in clocking my cpu.
 
kmax86 said:
4870 512mb + stock 2500k + 8gb + 1080p


for bf8 everything set to Low, no aa, no hbao/ssao
for skyrim medium preset
fps were around 40-50ish but very playable :D
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I can go one step lower:-

4850 512mb + oc 2500k (4.5ish) + 8gb + 1080p Asus P8z68VPro
BF3 30-45 everything on low:) again, very playable. Put my sons 5850 1gb in a few weeks ago and the quality is like night and day, can use high settings, can't remember specific fps for that. Will be upgrading to a 7850/70 soon.
 
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