Battlefield 3 on Vaio Z11/12?

Hi everyone,

Im sorry if this topic has been discussed, but the search function on this forum is not the best, so I figured I would just ask.

Have any of you with a Vaio Z11/12 (the new with external GPU doesn't count) have any experience playing Battlefield3 on your laptop? and if with what settings and what performance?

Thanks guys.

 

Ive got it installed on a Z11 with slight overclock (575 I think on core clock), it runs ok on 720P res with everything on low.

 

Okay, cool hmmm to buy or not to buy

 

Well to be fair, it also works on 1600*800 on medium, but when there are scenes with smoke etc it gets very laggy... I havn't been measuring fps though. Perhaps you could download the demo and test to see for yourself, that would probably be best

 

It's very very laggy with the default settings on 1080p.

I had to drop it down to 720p for a smooth experience, on the other hand, my Vaio SA handles the game fine at 1600x900.

 

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your SA is on default settings for BF3 and 1600x900?

 

HMM!! Sooo I borrowed BF3 of a friend to test, and it starts up fine but I can't change video settings! :O Game instant crashes.

Searched a bit and found this:
Battlefield 3 Crash on PC: Video Settings

Anyone know about it or have the same problem/fix?

 

Turns out that there is massive nvidia driver problems with BF3 even after their latest 285.79 release (258 series crashes in video settings). But I tried 270.61 and it worked, but it is not actually playable :/

 

I don´t know if Skyrim needs less power than BF3...

Skyrim runs on my Z11 with non overclocked GPU on high settings very good.

Maybe just try BF3

 

Skyrim? really?? Hmm I guess I should try!

thanks