Battlefield 3 on M18x - Discussion Thread

[24usedtorock]

All I know is I'm taking my dual 460M GTX and Ultra'ing the f*ck out of BF3.

It should still run it well enough on a damn 18.4'' monitor. I would've got the 560m or the ATI but I don't live in the US and I could only get my hands on that one, and I'm beyond happy with it.

If I lag I'll lower the graphics settings..

[3demons]

Well the closed beta has been out for a while and many forum members including Skygunner have been involved with it. The only problem is they have signed a NDA so they cannot post pics but they are trust worthy in my opinion so if they post their findings here ill believe them.

really? ive never even heard of the closed beta... then im ask skygunner to see what he atleast "thinks" on the topic.

well, id still love to hear from the general community on how their lappy performs.

[mharidas]

well, id still love to hear from the general community on how their lappy performs.

You can read all about here Who got the Battlefield 3 alpha?

The situation is not so bleak. Infact there is no such rule that says any good looking engine has to be a resource hog. It may well be in the end but if it isn't that should not come as a surprise. It would only show how good DICE's programmers are in developing an engine that is very efficient in delivering great visuals with as many frames as they can crank out on mainstream systems.

[ARGH]

good news everyone! the recommended specs of gtx 560 ti or AMD 6950 is for high settings!

us 6990m and 580m mgpu owners might be able to run it on ultra!

[mharidas]

good news everyone! the recommended specs of gtx 560 ti or AMD 6950 is for high settings!

us 6990m and 580m mgpu owners might be able to run it on ultra!

Most definitely.

[daveh98]

Mharidas speaks the truth. 2560 by 1600 is a crazy number of extra pixels. It is almost a MOOT point considering 1900 x 1080 is plenty given the screen size; makes a difference. Playing a notebook on a monitor like that is POINTLESS unless you are playing sourced based games. Just get a desktop with SLI if you plan on playing at that resolution. Multiply the pixels and you QUICKLY see where the processing power of the GPU's will go.

On notebooks, the key to "eye candy" is to play at Native resolution. I would rather LOWERE settings than play "Max" at non-native resolution as that dramatically lowers IQ (image quality).

Now here is my HOPEFUL prediction; this game should run better than Crysis 2. I THINK this is an Nvidia made game and I HOPE they don't drop tons of money into the makers of BF3 to implement DX11 in a way to lower performance on Radeon/AMD chips like they did in Crysis 2.

I am thinking this game will be MUCH more optimized than the rush job DX11 crysis patch job for "ultra." Therefore, since this game will run "ultra" (or whatever it's called) out of the box; the game has gone through the major testing. I run an OC'ed CF6970 in my m18x and Crysis at certain points can get pretty shaky. I don't think that will be the case for BF3; at least in campaign. Now a huge battlefield in MP.....that is going to be the real test. We will see. Until then it is only speculation. If you own ANY m18x consider yourselves lucky because the majority of gamers, even desktop gamers don't game nearly as well as we do. If the 6900/485/580m runs this game at max in CF/SLI then the 7 series will be pretty pointless and I will probably ride this system out for a few years and just upgrade to the R2 or wait until the next gen consoles hit and then upgrade to the latest and greatest. Again, the ONLY reason to upgrade (if means allow) is to play a game you want that your current system struggles with. Peace.

[daveh98]

Also an interesting footnote; FINALLY a PC game not nearly a "port." This is DX10/11 ONLY. Consoles will NOT get that eye candy. Plus a 20gig file? Though the PS3 could carry that data (though not transfer it nearly due to the GPU bottleneck and RAM bottleneck) the 360 can't hold that data. Therefore, BOTH systems will be limited to probably a game the size of the DVD. Therefore, a LOT of textures and details will be missing in the console versions. Can't wait to play a true PC game

[3demons]

You can read all about here Who got the Battlefield 3 alpha?

The situation is not so bleak. Infact there is no such rule that says any good looking engine has to be a resource hog. It may well be in the end but if it isn't that should not come as a surprise. It would only show how good DICE's programmers are in developing an engine that is very efficient in delivering great visuals with as many frames as they can crank out on mainstream systems.

due to the different specs between the beta and the alpha, id rather not go off the alpha at all, hence why i ask the NBR community to just put up some numbers once it comes out.

[GreaseMonkey90]

AMD is set to release drivers specially for bf3 beta which is the 11.9 driver

AMD set to release special drivers for Battlefield 3 | EGMNOW

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AMD is set to release drivers specially for bf3 beta which is the 11.9 driver

AMD set to release special drivers for Battlefield 3 | EGMNOW

ultra settings with no mgpu microstutter here we come!