BF3 hardware requirements thread

[roachcoach]

With spec in thread, I've got shedloads on ultra and see 4-60fps. perfectly playable

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems people have been dumping reasonably decent rigs and upgrading to new ones to play BF3 and it seems many CPUs from the last few years are fine.

[roachcoach]

imo, the typical component 'life' has been artificially extended by the overlong console dominated period. Some folks aren't used to this/ain't adjusted


To add to above, I'm dipping under 40 in the 64 player MP maps, but I'm well over the default recommended settings.

When I first loaded everything was high, AF 16x, AO@HBAO all at 1680*1050 in the rig specced here with zero OCing. AA deferred defaulted to off.


Right now I have 2x MSAA jacked up, shadows|terrain deco |AA post are on high, the rest ultra.

Campaign is high FPS for the mission so far (45-55), MP dips when it all kicks off.



With ref to CPUs, it's not maxing mine, I'm GPU bound (no surprises) but I'm surprised (in the right way) at the smoothness.

[Phage]

Just FYI - I found the game would freeze/crash if I tried to update the video settings.
On checking the forums this seems fairly common. I found that when I go into OPTIONS in the game and change a video setting and press APPLY FULLSCREEN it will lock up the game always but if I make the setting and press BACK and Save and OK, the change works.

[cheesemp]

I'm getting very playable frame rates on my old Q6700 with a GTX 285 at 1920x1080. Settings on auto and it looks great. This game doesn't need a new pc (mines 3 years old now)

[Phage]

OK after a few in-game MP fraps runs, I'm getting some big swings.

Min Max Avg
15 138 74.833

This is on all Ultra settings with 4xMSAA

[Rylan]

Im playing on a GTX275 and it's running well enough at medium settings, 1680x1050, 4xAA.

I'm so close to buying now, hovering over the "Confirm Order" button but now Im thinking I can hold out for a few more weeks now I now the old card can handle it.

[dweeno]

I need a new build but at the moment my 5770 runs the game fine. Which is a lifesaver at the moment as I'd like to hold off upgrading to see how the 7000 series pans out. Just sucks my psu dcides to go pop a week after release.

[Firdelore]

Haha, my friend bought a new graphics card specifically to play BF3 - that's how much it meant to him xD

[Rob_B]

Bit tech (I think) down locked an i7 to 2ghz and it still gave the same fps, also disabled 2 cores with the same result. Found that hard to believe myself.

[Rob_B]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/201...cal-analysis/7

1,920 x 1,080, DirectX 11, Ultra Detail Preset

i7 965 @

2Ghz
2.5Ghz
3Ghz
3.3Ghz
3.3Ghz (No HT)
3.3Ghz (with 2 cores disabled)

Also tried only 2/4/6GB DDR3..

All give the same fps....madness, I find it hard to believe although it's obviously GPU limited but they dont mention which GPU they used looking at the number it was probably a 6950.

[shaithis]

I'd like to know what it's doing to my CPU then! 75-95% on all four cores....

[Covenant]

Just to bring the discussion level to the bottom end of the hardware rung, I'm running this on a early 2011 Macbook Pro 17.

Was umming and arrring whether to bother buying this game or not due to hardware requirements, but it's surprisingly playable. I didn't even bother attempting any high settings and went straight to 1280x800 @Medium. So far so good. If anyone's interested I'll do a fps check.