BF3 System Requirements Clarification

A clarification of the BF3 PC system requirements:

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PC Mimimum & Maximum requirements quote.​

Retyped word for word from Atomic PC magazine (Australian) Issue: 125 Jun, 2011
Nathan Lawrence talking with Patrick Bach executive producer of DICE.
Issue 125, Jun, 2011 - Magazine - Atomic MPC
^ Pic and yes the type is too small to read. You will just have to trust me. Others who have the mag might be able to back me up with a post.

Note: Due to the paraphrasing it may not be 100% right, there is no way of knowing if Patrick Bach said it like that. We will just have to wait and see. Dont shoot the messenger ~ Raistlin ~, ok you can later when im playing BF3 8)

Now firstly Read it again and note the word DEMO. it was NOT the full retail game and it is also the Single Player campain not Multiplayer with a full battle going on. So to all the people saying that they think they can run the game on Max setting with the PC they have currently, I say good luck with that, we will all have to wait and see when we have the Game.

To the players saying it looked good enough on the NVIDIA 580 they showed it on, so I sould be able to Max it out and play it, again remember its the demo and single player. The multiplayer maps are HUGE and then add the other 63 players and think how that will affect your FPS.

Minimum settings are easy on Current hardware. Its Max settings that are going to make most PCs struggle.

Finally a UK poster has Added scans of the Atomic PC magazine for everyone to read.
atomic pc Exclusive BF3 Interview with DICE June 2011 edition - Page 2 - Electronic Arts UK Community

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Bolded the interesting parts for emphasis.

Taken from here: PC Mimimum & Maximum requirements quote updated with scans - Battlefield 3 PC Discussion - Battlefield 3: EA Forums

EDIT:
My apologies, could a mod move this here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...584246-battlefield-3-requirements-leaked.html ?

 

I think this thread is deserving of its own. +1 Good info, thanks.

 

Haha wow, I guess they really are investing in all DX11 has to offer, like I said in the other thread this game will be the benchmark, and it obviously will scale well. Atleast the 5870m is twice as powerful as the RSX in the ps3. Im excited, my lappy is gonna get alot of use between this and Skyrim.

 

Well there go my hopes of playing on high settings. So i guess it is medium for me then.

 

If bc2 is any indication, the difference between medium and high will be hardly noticeable except for level of detail.

 

Well, BF3 is all about the details isn't it?

 

He went on to claim that the computer that will be able to run BF3 on Full settings has yet to be Built.

I call BS on this. While BF3 looks stunning, it really doesn't climb that far away from some of the visuals capable on Frostbite 1.5. Im not saying that they have introduced a massive overwrite in code to the engine and implemented settings that may not be accessible to the end-user to turn "off" -- like HBAO, for example, but it would take a lot of work for me to believe this quote. And I don't. This is pure and simple hype train, unless of course it is a god awful console port with terrible optimization and code, then yes he may be right. Either way both scenarios make the dev look stupid.

* i cant help to think SLi 580's eating this game alive, unless it is another failure console port that utilizes CPU instead of GPU.

** all of this speculation on system requirements is really nil if DICE's BF3 has crap netcode and hit registration.

 

I agree wholeheartedly with your ** point. The best graphics in the world can't make up for bad netcode and hit registration. That really puts a damper on my enjoyment of the game.

 

well I think it looks pretty amazing.

12 minute video

Its good.

 

If anything, wouldn't the Ubersampling on TW2 surpass the graphics they are claiming to have?

 

Well I dont think we have to worry about it being a console port atleast because the devs have mentioned in interviews that this was developed first on the PC meant to run on a PC in all it's glory (hence being demo'd on a PC at e3) and they were going to then take it over to consoles, removing things,downscaling textures,etc to get it to run optimally on them..
Basically he was saying they first got it to run on the PC to demonstrate and get a feel for the "experience" and then port that over to the consoles without compromising too much...

I honestly think right now is a brilliant time for PC gaming and we in-part have the aging consoles to thank for that.. Sadly consoles are where the real market is but because of that, all the new and upcoming games which are using 2nd/3rd generation engines are highly optimized, getting the maximum potential out of the existing(aged) console hardware while still looking good and this in turn results in games which are also very well optimized to medium/mid-high end PCs.. because the game devs cant just build crappily coded games anymore and expect the consumer to upgrade their gpu's any more, they've gotta be very well optimized to run on the consoles and hence run better on PCs..
Sure, if there weren't any consoles and game devs were coding games meant to run on our pcs which are “an order of magnitude"(as said by john carmack ) more powerful than the consoles they would look and play much better but most devs would never goto the trouble of optimizing,expecting us to just upgrade the biggest,baddest card to play it, which was the trend in previous years and most of us would never be able to play them
Take crysis 2 for example, my laptop runs it better than it did crysis1, yea sure it suffered coz of being developed for consoles(onlyDX9 and stuff), but it looks and plays amazingly!
ofcourse all of this will change soon after the next gen consoles get here (yes i know pc will still be more powerful then but devs will just adopt a "throw everything you got at it coz it can handle it" attitude to cut down development times..)


Anyway got carried away, i'm super-excited about this game and i'm sure it'll run pretty well on our notebooks thanks to it being co-developed for the aging consoles!

 

Not that I disagree entirely with your statements here, but the demo was NOT running on max settings according to Patrick Bach.
atomic pc Exclusive BF3 Interview with DICE June 2011 edition - Page 2 - Electronic Arts UK Community
atomic pc Exclusive BF3 Interview with DICE June 2011 edition - Page 2 - Electronic Arts UK Community

 

^ yea but there's no point arguing about it coz till we know what the max settings are, if they are something like 16x fullscreenAA or something like ubersampling on witcher 2, it really doesnt matter..