If my minimum frame rate goes under 50 at any point of the game I killing the first kitten I see.
trasharmdsister12 said:
You should be able to play at decent settings. AFAIK it's pretty similar (slightly lower overall, sometimes higher depending on the game) in performance to my card (460) which is about 15% slower than their recommended spec (560). Are you OC'ing it? What resolution do you play at? I don't think you'll have a huge issue running it at or slightly above 1680x1050 with more than a few bells and whistles turned on. From my experience with BC2, Frostbite seems to react a lot more to changes in CPU than in GPU. OC'ing my 920 from 2.67 GHz to 3.6 GHz did a lot more in that game than swapping from a 9800GTX+ to a 460 GTX. |
Good to hear. I play at 1680x1050. I don't know anything about overclocking because I lost my interest in PC gaming ages ago due to my PS3 and PSP so I was happy with the performance of my computer. Battlefield 3 is the first game I'll buy after Dragon Age, which came out two years ago.
trasharmdsister12 said:
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lol. Impressive you remember. That was like a year ago. I went from that to 2 gtx560s Gigabyte 1GHZ edition. I still wasn't happy with 3 screen performance and I realized AMD CPU was holding me back so decided to build a new PC like 3 months ago.
This is my current setup -
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=130806&page=1
trasharmdsister12 said:
Yeah I remember about the 3 screens. Did you end up keeping them portrait or did you go back to landscape? I helped my cousin push his 875K to 4 GHz and got his EVGA 560 Ti's to 1 GHz. It's more than enough to run just about anything on the market (save for Ubersampling in Witcher 2) at 1920x1200. |
Back to landscape... Yeah, I think 560TI maxes out at 1GHz. Mine wouldn't go up at all anymore without overvolting it.
That was actually a pretty crapy trade. GTX470s for gtx560s.
GTX560s ran cooler and were clocked at 1GHz out of the box but GTX470s had more memory, more cores and are only at 600mhz stock. I couldn have pushed those puppies to 800mhz easily and had them stable with some extra cooling which would beat GTX560s at 1 GHZ.
trasharmdsister12 said:
Welcome back to PC Gaming! A lot of people find the spec stuff and OC'ing and tweaking settings and all that a hassle. I actually find it fun. I think I've spent more time modding, tweaking config files, and reading internet forums about Crysis 1 than actually playing the game. I've put in close to 80 hours on just making it look and run better I added more to the post above btw. I know Frostbite has undergone a fair share of changes between BC2 and BF3 but it's the best indication we can get at the moment on how well it runs. Perhaps you could do a google/youtube search for someone in the alpha with specs close to yours. Even better, let me do it! |
Thanks :). I may try overclocking when BF4 comes out, but it is okay for now :). It seems it performs nicely with BFBC 2, especially for a person who got used to 30 fps games :). By the which program are you using to capture FPS? I was using something like frups or fraps but iirc it was slowing the machine down so I deleted it.
trasharmdsister12 said:
Yeah, I've never done OC's on a GPU that involved messing with the voltage. I just go up 25 MHz at a time and spend some time in a game to see if everything is alright. That's true. I think the 470's were a fairly overlooked card because the GF-104 kinda stole their thunder with their lower price, cooler operation and good overclockability. I guess people just seemed to want to overlook the overclockability of the 470's. I know that's what I did Do you sell of your old cards? If so, how? Just Kijiji? I'd love to own your hand-me-downs |
Yeah they usually end up on Kijiji lol. I am kinda commited to this setup now and even plan to add a 3rd 580 down the road so I won't be selling any computer stuff. However I do plan to sell my 720p 3D projector setup and screen and upgrade to a 1080p 3D one...lol.
As soon as Optoma sends me a new GT720 its going on Kijiji. I bought it 4 months ago and the damn thing broke...luckily still under warranty.
As for me, I'm running an i5 2500k and an HD 6950 2GB coupled with 8GB of RAM. I think I'll be fine.
| michael_stutzer said: Here is my system: AMD phenom 2 x6 2.80 GHz, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 5830 1GB. Can I play it with good settings? |
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.
"bkohn1 @zh1nt0 so can you tell us if the recommended system requirements are enough to run the game on ultra?"
"zh1nt0 @bkohn1 recommended is usually medium"
http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/116140116820504576
So... the recommended specs are to run the game on medium settings xD
bkohn1 Bob Kohn
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@zh1nt0 "so would one GTX580 run it on ultra? Or do I need two of them?"
@zh1nt0 Daniel Matros
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http://twitter.com/#!/zh1nt0/status/116140729864159232
You'll need 2 GTX 580 to play it on ultra :P
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I can't even keep up with what you've got in your box. The last I recall you had dual 470's right?
