Battlefield 3 - Anyone managing decent framerates out there on a notebook?

So i'm wondering how it runs for you on laptops you might be running out there, I personally haven't ever came across a laptop that would cope with my gaming demands... and I worked repairing laptops for insurance companies and had around 3-400 a week pass through my hands for inspection/repair/testing. Toshiba Qosmio with a nice 3D screen was the latest unit i'd probably got my hands on before leaving that line of work but I have to say the build quality for such an expensive machine was pretty bad, Plastic felt cheap and the chassis heavy but hollow and weak feeling.

My friend has an old R1 Alienware with a 260M so thats pretty dated. Another friend uses an MSI with a 520m I think it is, gets 30-40fps on skyrim if lucky.

So... battlefield 3, in 3d perhaps 120hz screen... anyone managing 120 fps out there!?

 

Never played BF3 but Skyrim is not a very GPU-limited game. Open world games with complex scripting and A.I. tend to be a little more demanding on the CPU.

On my three-year old envy, which is not really a "gaming" laptop, Skyrim runs great at 1080p with all settings maxed except using FXAA instead of MSAA. Every other recent game I've ever tried runs great at 1080p except Witcher 2.

 

the hp envys looked pretty nice when I saw them pop up. What gpu does it utilise?

 

5830m, sadly gimped with GDDR3 instead of GDDR5

 

There are many notebook solutions that offer excellent performance in demanding titles like BF3. The Sager NP9150/NP9170, Alienware M17x r4, MSI G series, or basically any other laptop with a high end mobile gpu (7970m or 680m especially) will max out BF3 with no issues. For the total performance nuts out there, dual gpu notebooks like the M18x and Sager NP9370 will handle any game you throw at it at 60 fps.

 

yeah a 680m works great, but you won't be getting 120fps. maybe if you over clock the hell out of it and play on low you might get there. I'm running a relatively high oc and I get around 75fps on new maps 85+ on vanilla.

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680m looks pretty impressive, so there are some pretty damn high end notebooks out there and a dual GPU m18 may be on the cards in the future lol.

 

Performance of the 7970m had a nice bump with the 12.11 drivers a few months ago and I think even surpassed the 680 in bf 3. You can easilly manage 45+ fps on ultra and 60-100 on something around medium. But BF3 is also CPU demanding if your playing bigger maps with 64 players on it. If you wanna get an idea how it playes heres my gameplay on ultra 2x aa with 7970m and 3610qm. I still belive that enduro is holfding bf3 performance a bit so if you want to witness the true power of 7970m opt foir a alienware with mux.

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GT 650m DDR3 @ 1366x768 running mix of medium/high at 40-50 fps no problem, 680m high/ultra 1080p no problem. Just make sure you have a quad core CPU.

 

Sure, there are plenty of us out here playing BF3 on a notebook! I'm seeing anywhere from 60 to 160 on BF3 (ultra settings). I'd say it stays between 60-90 about 80% of the time, though. With v-sync on, I never see below 60 while playing. Dual 680M's with SLI enabled.

Temps are decent. Never see above 65C (GPU) with my cooling pad. In fact, with my cooling pad and v-sync enabled, I see 47C on one GPU and 55C on the other GPU almost all the time. Probably 70C - 80C on the CPU after a while.

Unfortunately, I haven't tried playing on a 3D monitor.

 

75-85 FPS according to FRAPs with everything in the BF3 control panel set as high as it will go except AA. This is on my M18.

 

lol.

whats up with the 120fps?

you dont need 120fps to game in 3d, coming from someone who games in 3d 90 percent of the time with a two year old 6990m

 

I think it's well established that you're happy with your last gen technology, it's certainly not necessary for you to post your nonsense in every thread that comes along asking for information or advice on better video card performance.

 

The only laptop that could probably do what you want, or at least semi close, is the Sager-NP9370. Its a dual 680m GPU beast thats more powerful than a desktop with a single desktop GTX680. And it has a 120Hz 3-D screen option. I doubt it would get 120 FPS with 3-d on (you wouldn't even be able to tell above 80), but it should manage 60+ on ultra handily.

The AW m18x is also similarly powerful, and has a better chassis (aluminum), but it does not have a 120Hz 3-d screen option.

 

Better cooling as well. BF3 wouldn't run at a steady 60 fps in 3D with maxed settings on either laptop though. Not on stock clocks at least. Probably more like 40-50 fps or so. I'm sure it would hit 60 with aa turned down.

 

The Alienware m17x-R4 with a HD7970m or GTX 680m will be able to run BF3
My m17x-R2 upgraded to HD7970m runs it flawlessly on everything i could possibly find maxed out, netting an average of 55fps in multiplayer games.

For even greater performance, you could have a look at an Alienware m18x-R2 with a GTX 680m SLI setup, or a HD7970m Crossfire setup. Notebooks really don't come any more powerfull then these babies.
The downside would be in your case that there is no 3D screen available on an m18x (and 3D on the laptop itself will in any case also limit you to NVidia CPU's).

I think your view on gaming notebooks is a bit outdated, there's a couple of brands out there that offer really, really serious specifications which most desktops can't cope with.
There are a couple of top of the line brands like Alienware (I favor Alienware obviously, but there's a couple of other brands offering similar performance also but i'm just not to familiar with them, I've seen Sager mentioned also, there's Deviltech, Origin etc) that really offer top of the line specs and laugh at anything you throw at them game-wise.

It comes at a price though...

 

AW is one option for mobile gamers. Flashy, powerful, and somewhat overpriced (really overpriced in some cases).

Origin, Mythologic, and most other resellers and sites sell Sagers (which are rebranded clevo's) which are solid, plain looking gaming notebooks, and the best bang for the buck.

There is also asus with their cool looking G-series, which is a decently priced mid range gaming laptop line.

And there is MSI, which sells several mid-very high ranged gaming laptops which are well built, have lots of unique features (steelseries keyboards, gold plated audio jacks, etc...). I find they are a great option, as they fall almost exactly in the middle in terms of price between Sager and Alienware generally.

There are a couple others, such as the Samsung series 7 gamer, and the Compal line, but these are strictly mid range lines, and I don't have much experience with them (although I have read the samsung line has some interesting features, and very nice screens).

 

I can get about 70FPS average on ultra settings @ 1920x1080... Im defiantly CPU limited, so i would expect about 80-90 if paired with a top of the line CPU.
BF3 is demanding, but i mean i think FC3 or Metro 2033 needs more power than BF3 does. 3D is VERY demanding on almost any GPU, i mean you can consider about 30-40% of your frame rate just disappear since you almost have to do twice the GPU load.. So, Unless we're talking SLI 680's i doubt 120/3D is going to be a pheasable goal on a cheap setup..

 

Origin and Mythlogic are system builders using a Clevo chassis like Alienware used to.

XoticPC, LPC-Digital, Gentech, etc are Sager resellers. They all basically sell the same machines.

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I game (on a desktop) using a 3D monitor and sometimes it's brutal when you turn everything up - like slideshow bad. I'd suggest a 680M SLI setup too - if you really want to run 3D at as high a resolution/detail as possible (since there's no point staring at half-rendered giant blocks when you've taken the trouble to go 3D).

The problem with 3D on the other hand is that if you don't buy a really good system (i.e. screen, glasses, emitter combo), crosstalk and other problems can actually get in the way of gaming, not enhance it.

The flipside is however that when you have good 3D. It's goooooood.

 

Lol is this guy serious? So you are telling me that your 6990m is pushing acceptable framerates and no input lag to your 47" TV for 90% of your games in 3D? Are we talking measly analog glasses or full blown stereoscopic which would still be locked at 720p to your TV correct? Anyways back on topic and in reply to the OP's question... I just fired up BF3 in full 1080p 3D with my 680m running overclocked at 1100mhz and as suspected my framerates were all over the place but most of the time still averaged 35-40fps with my settings mixed high/ultra and AA disabled.... Wow they must have patched the game recently to improve 3D because last time I tried it about 6 months ago it was pretty bad with uneven rendered items and lots of crosstalk...but I was amazed to find it is now definitely better rendered and much more immersive than most current FPS's I've tried in 3D recently. A M18x with SLI 680's hooked up to my 120hz BenQ thru displayport would be glorious right now and allow full 3D as long as one had the IR transmitter and glasses

 

Thanks for all the contributions to the thread guys, really helpful stuff and restored my faith in possibly moving to some serious mobile gaming .

 

OP if i was you, I believe you said you have a 15x with a GTX 260m.
I would just buy a 7970m With Enduro Disabled (On ebay), and install that in there... You would be easily getting 60FPS on BF3 on Ultra.. then get a like a 840qm or a 920xm and you would be competing with a top of the line modern laptop.

 

Good suggestion. You'd be a little cpu limited even with an XM, but it shouldn't affect gaming too much. Plus, the M15x is just cool. I want one