Battlefield 3

[Bush Elephant]

Originally Posted by r8response

This.

Had a similar setup only with an AMD 6000+. It would run like utter crap for the first 20-30s then be fine for the rest of the round.

My brothers AMD 64 X2 6000+ with 4GB DDR2 and a HD3870x2 had this exact same problem on all video settings. Once the lag goes the game ran fine on a combination of medium/high though.

[elephantman]

Originally Posted by Dodoman

Can't be possible... I had two roomies with near identical PCs (they had E8400s) run it at full settings, 1920x1080, and get 40-70FPS.

Hahahahaha, god what a load of crap.

My e8400 @ 4ghz was maxed out at 100% with my 5870 doing almost no work, dual cores are as good as shit for frostbite.

Even my q6600 @ 3.4 almost maxes out with cpu usage.

I had to upgrade from my e8400 because it could not run BC2 very well at all....40-70 fps @ 1920x1090? maybe when looking at the ground on an empty server

[Dodoman]

Originally Posted by walker_2003

I call bs, any sort of mp action would bring them to 20fps

I sat right next to them and watched them... they only had problems on Atacama, but that map sucks any ways. The lowest I've ever seen their frames go was about 20-30FPS during massive explosions.

[stocky]

It ran fine on my e8400 with a 4870

[KillerBunny]

In bad company I get about 100-120fps constand (fraps) with 4.6ghz i5 and 6950 at 1920/1080 4x AA no HBAO lighting everything on high.

I am guessing this is pretty much what you will want for BF3 as I want 100fps constant and only get that on bc2 so not gonna get it on bf3 I don't think!

[hpbmaxi]

Looking forward to this game.

[disguisey]

I have an AMD athlon X2 and it runs fine, stutters a little when starting any of the snow maps, but that's it. Other wise smooth as 40frames+

[t8y]

really? 60+ fps here, seems to average around 60 (taken from afterburners g15 readout), everything maxed, aa on 2x, i3-530 and 5870 here.
dont have vsync on though as there is a min dip, as a few have said, normally at the start of maps for about 5secs

not sure on cpu usage (pretty well maxed i think, its temps get quite high on this corsair h50) but the GPU is actually running stock speeds, as this mini-itx case gets quite warm.
cpu is at 4.5ghz though (HT on), QPI@9ghz, ddr3@1800.. lots of bandwidth there i guess.

do plan to put a socket 1156 quad back in here though in time for bf3 (used to run a i5-750 @ 4ghz)

[C0ncrete]

Dual core is terrible on Frostbite.

High CPU usage = console port?

[Mat Pav]

Originally Posted by C0ncrete

Dual core is terrible on Frostbite.

Runs great on mine.

[n2o]

big announcement in 60mins according to twitter feed

[Baboy]

Originally Posted by n2o

big announcement in 60mins according to twitter feed

release date has been put forward 6 months

[Bush Elephant]

Originally Posted by Baboy

release date has been put forward 6 months

Battlefield 3 Beta servers not ready for PC - 1 week delay

lols

Edit: Shit, should probs pause my downloads so i have bandwidth left to download hey...

[Dodoman]

Furiously F5'ing the internet atm, brb.

[shredR]

Farrkkkk! Was gonna go to bed after a long ass day - but now!!! I MUST STAY AWAKE FOR 31 MORE MINUTES!