BF3 on a pinmodded R1?

did anyone try the BF3 beta on a pinmodded r1? Im dying for those 64 player battles and this game may be worth voiding my warrenty for, after all i heard it runs like crap on the r1.

 

I made a video of my pinmodded R1, here is the link. I was also playing on an external monitor at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 with the beta Nvidia drivers.

 

hmm not bad so im guessing at 1280x720 I will be getting about another 5 fps at least? but then again those outdoor scenes were a frigging slide show. Did you try it at a lower resolution? what kind of framerates were you getting on those?

 

Never tried lower resolutions, but I think I must have had some other programs opened when I made that video. In the first outdoor part of that level I was getting 25-30fps with graphics settings on Auto. I also had 2x AF turned on in that video as I was trying to test out some different settings.

 

lol dont lower the rez. the lower your resolution he more cpu power it eats up. the higher the resolution it uses less and depends on the gpu more. higher rez, lower settings. thats the way to go. with the R1 anyway.

 

As I am a game developer and have been to school for game development that makes no sense to me. Games should use the same CPU cycles no matter the resolution of the graphics. Higher resolution graphics usually run slower because of pixel fill rates and and per pixel lighting/fx shaders. CPU calculations are usually reserved for updating object positions, calculating collisions, ect(general game logic); things that have nothing to do with rendering resolutions.

Unless you are in some way trying to balance the load on the cpu by forcing the game to become more GPU bound, therefore causing less bottlenecks on the CPU. Even that shouldn't speed up the number of frames drawn to the screen.

 

yeah, uhh. do some benchmarks with a highly cpu intense game. like bf3. or bfbc2. just to prove it.

 

As I own neither of those games I can't do any benches with them. That is certainly the first time I have heard that raising resolution makes a game run faster. I will have to do some testing to see what I can find with the games that I do own. It still makes no sense to me as the resolution shouldn't change the way the CPU scheduler hands out clock-cycles.

Unless the games that you mention have some kind of crazy level of detail systems that cause more work for the CPU with lower resolutions, but that seems like a terrible idea for a game engine.

Edit : I'm not trying to argue, just wish to learn something new . If someone can explain to me why this happens I would love to know the answer, as it may help me in the future!

 

yea that didnt really make any sense to me either, I actually tried playing The Witcher at 1920x1080 and 1366x768 and got 10 fps better at the lower resolution so I really dont know what hes talking about

 

Same here , really depends on the game ... and how it use CPU

For ex , LOL ( actual version , older ver' works like a charm ) : lower rez : more fps ( but at high rez , higher fps with higher details )

Crysis 2 : Unplayable on multiplayer at 1366*768 , works great at 800*600 , even if it's stretched.

 

It makes more sense that some game engines may be geared towards higher resolutions, but to say that works for all CPU intensive games does not compute for me.

 

i mean for cpu intensive games. the lower your res, the harder your cpu works.

its only cpu intensive games that your gonna see a degrade in performance with lower resolutions. it has to be highly cpu dependent.