i spent £800 upgrading my pc for the large dissapointment that is BF3.
on the plus side of this my pc will more than be happy with running d3 at full.
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
100% for the multiplayer. i played it since release and got to cornel rank 9. It has been the worst game in terms of errors/bugs and terrible communitcation back to community that ive ever seen upon release.
they use multiple other sites to convey the next updates/ideas/thoughts of the game and what they plan on doing, battlelog (the offical forum way) not being one of them? its madness.
the other problem being the updates, where they have catered for consoles (also admitting its was more a pc port game from consoles) the updates take ALOT longer to be released as they havent kept the pc and console updates seperate.
i could go on for a while with the problems dice/ea have done, but all my hopes on my pcs gaming future holds on with D3.
When was the last time you played? Cause, as stated, I only started playing last weekend which is almost 4 months after release, so they got ample of time to fix bugs etc. Since I started playing I haven't noticed any bugs...I did download a 4GB update when I first installed the game, so maybe all/most of the bugs was fixed up to that update.
i spent £800 upgrading my pc for the large dissapointment that is BF3.
on the plus side of this my pc will more than be happy with running d3 at full.
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
IMO seems there is a lack of video settings available. I would expect more options for us computer users. Starcraft II has a nice set of available video options. WoW which is a 8+yr game has more video settings vs. D3. I would like to see more of everything under the video settings menu so we take advantage of our computers. Example, the texture settings only has medium and high with high only demanding 512MB of VRAM. I would like to see options for very high/max/ultra (any of these) available as options. I understand this is only a beta but I hope this trim down of video settings isn't due so this can be an easy port to the consoles. Also, the color system for Diablo 3 seems a bit washed/faded in certain areas. Now is this the way the game is meant to be?
Don't get me wrong, loving the beta but as with any game, there are concerns at hand.
There will be more graphics settings in the full release. I'm confident that there will be an ultra setting as well. I know anti-aliasing is permanently off in the beta (dunno if it still is):
Just wish they made comparing video cards simple… I understand the comparison for everything but that. It's like the make it difficult on purpose by the different brands and numbers and stuff.
ahh i see i was wondering if i purchased the wrong card, im not that crazy into pc gaming so i figured id buy a card just for d3 =p but the gtx 550 ti runs well on starcraft 2 all maxed on 1920 x 1080 maybe a little fps drop here and there but not as bad as D3 beta emulator thats good to know... Btw do you think adding more RAM will do any good or is 4 gb enough?? its DDR3 btw
RAM is fine, no need to add more. BF3's recommended RAM is 4GB, so for D3 (2GB), 4GB is just fine!
RAM is used to store every graphical texture you see while playing (temporary storage). The more things happening in your games, and the higher your texture quality, the more RAM is needed.
Hardware
Intel i5-2500k 3.3Ghz
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
Sapphire Radeon 6950 2Gb
16Gb DDR3 1600
Windows 7 x64
Will i need to pick up a second 6950 to run D3 in full High/Ultra?
That's almost exactly the same hardware I tend to buy for my upgrade before the end of the month B)...except only the i5-2500 (not gonna overclock mine) and only 8GB RAM. Not sure about the mobo, but I have considered that one.
And to answer your question, no. I'll be as bold as to say the 6950 is good enough on it's own. I mean BF3's recommended gfx is an 6950...
Even though these specs in comparison with today's games is really not that high, I really hope the system requirements don't get any higher for the full release. I'll just be able to run the recommended specs, but will prolly be kinda laggy. So I must either be satisfied with medium settings or upgrade. If I must upgrade one thing, what must it be?
My specs:
OS: Windows® 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video: ATI Radeon™ HD 4830
When was the last time you played? Cause, as stated, I only started playing last weekend which is almost 4 months after release, so they got ample of time to fix bugs etc. Since I started playing I haven't noticed any bugs...I did download a 4GB update when I first installed the game, so maybe all/most of the bugs was fixed up to that update.
Did you play multiplayer or just the single player campaign? Cause I bought BF3 last weekend and can't skip one day without playing for at least an hour...in between all my studies. Why don't you like it?
And I upgraded my pc for the most part for D3, but being able to play BF3 is just a treat!
There will be more graphics settings in the full release. I'm confident that there will be an ultra setting as well. I know anti-aliasing is permanently off in the beta (dunno if it still is):
Play around on here:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/379
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
RAM is fine, no need to add more. BF3's recommended RAM is 4GB, so for D3 (2GB), 4GB is just fine!
RAM is used to store every graphical texture you see while playing (temporary storage). The more things happening in your games, and the higher your texture quality, the more RAM is needed.
Since you obviously have the money for it, why not get the 6990? The 6990 is better...but the 7970 is more pricey.
1 - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/515?vs=508
2 - http://www.anandtech.com/show/5314/xfxs-radeon-hd-7970-black-edition-double-dissipation-the-first-semicustom-7970 (Note the normal AMD 7970 is in the article)
And to answer your question, no. I'll be as bold as to say the 6950 is good enough on it's own. I mean BF3's recommended gfx is an 6950...
My specs:
OS: Windows® 7 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Video: ATI Radeon™ HD 4830