BATTLEFIELD 3 WORKING IN EYEFINITY (ALPHA BUILD)

[tet5uo]

*Has both MW3 and BF3 on pre-order and would absolutely love it if I MW3 had poor or no multi-monitor support so I can create a side by side video showing why DICE are better developers then Infinity Ward*

Not that MW / CoD are bad games but people need to learn that CoD and MW are not the be all and end all of first person shooters, and that opinion stands whether Infinity Ward give proper multi-monitor support or not.

Out of the last 7 COD games, how many have proper Multi-Monitor support?

Lol there's no way they will have it in MW3, I'll bet my gaming rig on it.

[skipclarke]

[quote]I really don't see what's the big deal with BF3. It was supposed to have uber destruction but they nerfed it back to be worse than BC2, once they got all the fanboys to preorder it after seeing the promo videos, now all the fanboys are screwed paid $60 for a PoS.

What I dont get is why people have to bash BF3, especially with a name like MW2. If I preorder then Im a fanboy? And no destruction means its a POS? COD has ZERO destruction, what does that make it?

BF is my favorite series, every since 1942 with the Desert Combat mod (oh eyefinity where were u then?) . At the same time I also love Call of Duty, theres just no need for me to go bashing the games just because someone else likes it. There are times where I feel like picking up COD for a quick 30 mins of mutliplayer and then there are times when I want some squad based action with some destruction and vehicles so I go to my PC and launch BF.

COD has gameplay. Without destruction BF3 is nothing.

[TheUnk]

HUD vanishes in eyefinity/surround. What little remains is on the far edges. FPS dropped from 80-90 high settings on 1 screen to below 30, even on lowest settings. Unplayable.

2x480GTXs

[sixshot]

[quote][quote]I really don't see what's the big deal with BF3. It was supposed to have uber destruction but they nerfed it back to be worse than BC2, once they got all the fanboys to preorder it after seeing the promo videos, now all the fanboys are screwed paid $60 for a PoS.

What I dont get is why people have to bash BF3, especially with a name like MW2. If I preorder then Im a fanboy? And no destruction means its a POS? COD has ZERO destruction, what does that make it?

BF is my favorite series, every since 1942 with the Desert Combat mod (oh eyefinity where were u then?) . At the same time I also love Call of Duty, theres just no need for me to go bashing the games just because someone else likes it. There are times where I feel like picking up COD for a quick 30 mins of mutliplayer and then there are times when I want some squad based action with some destruction and vehicles so I go to my PC and launch BF.

COD has gameplay. Without destruction BF3 is nothing.
Are you sure about that? I've played through CoD4 and WaW. Assume for a moment if BF3 doesn't have destruction, I'd still play it regardless. I play to have fun and to win. I don't play to constantly check the scoreboard to see if I'm #1. I don't mind being support. I don't mind having to be aggressive if everyone else on the team is too chicken to push up/forward. Since CoD4, I have seen nothing changed over the years.

[miked1883]

The Alpha is amazing BTW, especially with eyefinity. You do have to go prone a lot because usually sticking your head up means getting it blown clean off. BC2 used to have the best sound in a video game, that is till I played BF3, the variations of gun sounds with the pings!, zooms! and richochet sounds as they whiz by are simply amazing. I did have to change settings from high to medium because my 5870 couldnt handle it :(

Naturally that means Im in the market for a new video card :D

What sort of FPS were you getting on medium/high settings on single screen and 3 screens?

What sort of CPU are you running?

I am curious because I plan to run this game in eyefinity, and I have 2x 5870's (2 GB sapphire vapor x toxic versions) with i7-920 @ 3.4 ghz.

I was able to run bc2 in eyefinity at highest details (no AA or HBAO though) at 45-60 fps, but the game crashed constantly (eyefinity bug that I PRAY they fix for bf3). Cranking all of the settings down to lowest allowed me to play bc2 with infrequent (but never fully eliminated) CTDs. I never had any CTD issues at all if I played on just a single screen, but I felt like I had horse blinders on (too used to surround gaming).

Do you guys think that the FPS everyone is getting right now will be improved once official drivers are released after the game's launch?

[MEAHT]

What sort of FPS were you getting on medium/high settings on single screen and 3 screens?

What sort of CPU are you running?

I dont know how many FPS but as soon as I moved around it was stuttering.

As far as specs I have updated my Profile on left :D

[MEAHT]

COD has gameplay. Without destruction BF3 is nothing.

BF has squads, land and air vehicles , award winning sound, amazing graphics, real bullet physics (and Im not a huge realism fan) plus destruction. Whats not to love?
COD for PC is a console port which is why I dont ever play it on my computer, only on 360. Great to pick up and play, great matchmaking as well.

There is nothing that compares to being on top of a hill in your ghillie suit, you hold your breath, line the target in between your sights, squeeze trigger and watch the bullet curve downwards as it travels from barrel to enemy's head 1 second later head from a mile away. +150 Marksmanship Bonus. Aaaaaahhh, Extremely satisfying.


Like I said before man, Im a big fan of both. Great games, they just offer slightly different gameplay.

[skipclarke]

[quote]

COD has gameplay. Without destruction BF3 is nothing.

BF has squads, land and air vehicles , award winning sound, amazing graphics, real bullet physics (and Im not a huge realism fan) plus destruction. Whats not to love?
COD for PC is a console port which is why I dont ever play it on my computer, only on 360. Great to pick up and play, great matchmaking as well.

There is nothing that compares to being on top of a hill in your ghillie suit, you hold your breath, line the target in between your sights, squeeze trigger and watch the bullet curve downwards as it travels from barrel to enemy's head 1 second later head from a mile away. +150 Marksmanship Bonus. Aaaaaahhh, Extremely satisfying.


Like I said before man, Im a big fan of both. Great games, they just offer slightly different gameplay.

Crysis Wars has better graphics and vehicles. How many people play Crysis Wars? 0.

[Unknownsock]

You seem to be missing the whole point of BF games in general.

And the two facts you seem to be basing your decision on is your "Strong" dual cpu and nerfed destruction.
It's widely known BFBC2 requires to quad CPU, to play with high settings on populated servers why would BF3 be any different?
Also Dice already stated the destruction was nerfed in the alpha, as the whole point of the alpha was the stress test.

With a name like that too I cant help but think your just trolling. Or just plain ignorant.

[biscuits88]

Just wondering, with your single 6970. What FPS do/did you get running eyefinity 5760 x 1080 in different modes? I am interested in getting a single 6970 for the time being, then possibly upgrading later.

But right now, I just want to know if one 6970 will run BF3 in eyefinity, on mediumish settings. I dont need AA or anything of the sort. Just a decent fps on decent settings.

Thanks!!

[Stec]

Just wondering, with your single 6970. What FPS do/did you get running eyefinity 5760 x 1080 in different modes? I am interested in getting a single 6970 for the time being, then possibly upgrading later.

But right now, I just want to know if one 6970 will run BF3 in eyefinity, on mediumish settings. I dont need AA or anything of the sort. Just a decent fps on decent settings.

Thanks!!

I would also be curious to learn this as well.

[Downtown1]

Didn't BFBC2 have center HUD? Hopefully they'll add that in before shipping BF3. It's been a nice progression since BF2 where they didn't even have proper WS support IIRC.

[rebelstar]

Guys please, does BF3 have microlag/stutter issues in crossfire while eyefinity? God damned BFBC2 have it so for the smooth gameplay you need to play on single card, even with low fps cuz higher "crossfired" fps does nothing since it's stutters as hell. I'm crossing my fingers to hear it's okay to play BF3 with crossfire+eyefinity.

[skipclarke]

I'm glad to see that DICE has made good on their promise for BF3.

[GeneralAdmission]

BF3 + Origin and more

More good news (from article and posters actually participating in the alpha):
- BF3 will in fact require Origin
- The game must be launched via internet browser
- The game will require an EA browser plugin
- Switching servers requires exiting the game to go back to the web browser
- Origin pops up to deliver ads during game launch/loading

That pretty much squelches my interest in BF3. Great surround support just doesn't provide enough counterweight.

[sixshot]

The Origin requirement is gonna bowl me over. Worse yet is some of the people mentioning the problematic steps your computer goes through just to do the simplest tasks. This better not be the way it's going to be. If they absolutely must have a Battlelog, then at least keep it just within the browser. Otherwise, they should just grab WebKit and use it to code their miniature in-game browser.

[Abram]

BF3 + Origin and more

More good news (from article and posters actually participating in the alpha):
- BF3 will in fact require Origin
- The game must be launched via internet browser
- The game will require an EA browser plugin
- Switching servers requires exiting the game to go back to the web browser
- Origin pops up to deliver ads during game launch/loading

That pretty much squelches my interest in BF3. Great surround support just doesn't provide enough counterweight.

Wow. That's a whole load of horseshit that's a real turn off. The ads, in particular.

[Downtown1]

I'd like to see them make the game start up really fast if it's launched from the browser.. the skeptic in me says it will not happen. Why don't they just embed IE into the game and move on like the rest of the world?

[tet5uo]

The web-browser is just temporary I think.

[TheScorp]

[quote]Just wondering, with your single 6970. What FPS do/did you get running eyefinity 5760 x 1080 in different modes? I am interested in getting a single 6970 for the time being, then possibly upgrading later.

But right now, I just want to know if one 6970 will run BF3 in eyefinity, on mediumish settings. I dont need AA or anything of the sort. Just a decent fps on decent settings.

Thanks!!

I would also be curious to learn this as well.

Seeing as there was no crossfire/sli support and I didnt bother getting around that I ran it on high with a 6970 in eyefinity. There was lag, and stuttering but it wasnt THAT bad. So honestly, once the engine is optimised and released I reckon you wont have much problem running it on medium with eyefinity.

Not something I can gurantee tho. But it seemed more than doable.

Asfar as the "No destruction" goes, theres plenty of destruction in BF3, but it was scaled down significantly in the alpha as this was a test of the server/battlelog functions. So we had little to no options in things we could actually change. But MW and BF are two COMPLETLY different brands of FPS games. So I dont get the hate at all, its just silly. Like the other guy said, buy the one you enjoy.

Personally, Ill be getting both.

The web-browser is just temporary I think.

No, its permanent.

And the game startup from launching from the browser was actually quite fast even in alpha.