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justinian said:

I am guessing you are questioning your GPU. I am no expert but I think you should be able to run B3 with some decent settings on your 5830.

My reason for saying this is that I play B2 with the frostbite engine on my cousins PC who also have the HD 5830 ( I am not so sure about his CPU or RAM) with max settings and it was decent.... at least to me it was decent.

Frostbite 2 that is used on B3 is not that far more power hungry (depends on who you listen to) than the original.

I think that you should be able to happily run the game somewhere between medium setting and high (max).

As usual buy the game and see how it goes before you read to much into specs (which companies like Nvidia and AMD love as it gets a few people to go out and upgrade to the recommended card without thinking) but I am sure you already know this.

My rig surpasses the recommended specs but still undecided on which platform to get it on, console or PC.

I must say I am more tempted to get the PC version because after shelling out money to build my PC it seems like a waste not to use B3 to put it to some good use instead of work.

Pretty much. The CPU and RAM should be enough for a while but I haven't kept track of all the cards released lately. Thanks for the info.

If you have a lot of friends on consoles then it might be better to go for the console version, which is something I do for most of the time. I generally dont care about the looks as long as the game is fun. However, it seems BF3 will use all the power available in modern PC's. Plus it has 64 player online which sealed the deal for me.



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Ill be lucky to get passed the main menu . Powerful as expected.



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Yep... just as I thought. I would require a new video card... meh I'll just stick to the PS3 version. Save me over $200.



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Jdevil3 said:

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You'll need 2 GTX 580 to play it on ultra :P

No wonder why they were showing PC footage. C'mon AMD/Nvidia, launch those new HD7xxx/GTX 6xx series soon!

Btw, no dx9 support! Strange given that it's also on consoles.



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JEMC said:

Jdevil3 said:

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You'll need 2 GTX 580 to play it on ultra :P

No wonder why they were showing PC footage. C'mon AMD/Nvidia, launch those new HD7xxx/GTX 6xx series soon!

Btw, no dx9 support! Strange given that it's also on consoles.


DX10 (and 11 even more) actually lowers API overheads a lot if you design for it, as far as I know BF3 will be the seccond game to actually be designed to take advantage of the lower API overheads the first I know of being Just cause 2. Everything else was basically just using a DX9 renderer that had some extra effects tacked on (Crysis 1 etc did this) which is why DX10 got a reputation for lowering performance.



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No Windows XP support? I'm guessing that's what the no dx9 support is then. XP doesn't officially support dx10, last I remember(around vista release). Makes sense, but there are still many people with XP. If I wasn't using Win7, I'd be using XP.




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Leunam said:

So what do you think. Do you meet these requirements?


I'm guessing no. And I've just bought a new PC. Then again gaming is a secondary consideration for my PC, as long as I can play post 2003 games I'm good.



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I should be able to play it with minimal settings atleast.



disolitude said:
If my minimum frame rate goes under 50 at any point of the game I killing the first kitten I see.


You and me both brotha! :P (the killing kitten part of course!)