Battlefield 3 announced
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I was under the impression it was open to all, but I'm not entirely positive.
Hehe yeah seriously, have you guys never been to LAN parties? Even with a quarter that many machines it's common to have at least one or two die before gaming even begins.Try stuffing 128 GPUs and 64 machines in an enclosed area in a convention center and see how many survive
Right and let me note again as I did in the thread where AMD was trying to justify their chips frying when you run firmark: it's never acceptable for any code to physically damage a chip. It can stress it to the max, use tons of power and generate lots of heat forcing the chip to ideally slow down (comon, this is 2011 here guys...) or at least shut off, but you can never blame software for "frying" a chip. That's a pure hardware defect.
Svensk Viking
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I have a HD4870 512MB so I'm only a little better off than you..I hope the usual sites will include a couple of DX10/10.1 cards in their benchmark and not completely neglect them, as is the case with the majority of games supporting DX10+ now
Wait to see the benchmarks of course, but I full expect DX11 cards to do significantly better in performance in BF3 due to compute shader. So even if you can upgrade to a mid-range DX11 card it may well do better than even a high-end DX10 one.
Svensk Viking
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I really hope for Battlefield 3 to have good customizable settings, I absolutely hate those games where enabling DX11 automatically includes enabling tessellation and tons of other effects that really drag the performance down
Also, will there be any difference(performance benefit or extra visuals?) between playing BF3 on a DX10.1 card instead of DX10? All this talk about DX11 and 10, but nothing of 10.1
I'll let repi answer (I have no inside knowledge on this) but my guess is if anything 10.1 will support MSAA and 10.0 may not.Also, will there be any difference(performance benefit or extra visuals?) between playing BF3 on a DX10.1 card instead of DX10? All this talk about DX11 and 10, but nothing of 10.1
That's certainly possible as well, as the performance hit of MSAA with conventional (non-compute-shader) deferred shading is very high.
Meh, it's not DirectX11.1
What's all this crap about Origin's EULA? I have a few friends boycotting BF3 because they claim their personal information will be sold to third party companies. I did, however, read that WAS an initial clause of the EULA, but it was removed. They'll trash EA and in the same breath support companies whose games are rife with micro transactions. So then, what's even the issue anymore? It's harmless data gathering, which I'm certain almost every gaming company is guilty for with their software. I'm a die-hard BF franchise fan, and honestly can't understand how this could deter people from buying the game, if it's no longer the issue.
Sounds like my friends need to bust out their tinfoil hats, to prevent the "corporate overlords" from mind control.....
Sounds like my friends need to bust out their tinfoil hats, to prevent the "corporate overlords" from mind control.....
I don't think the problem was with personal information per se, but the expanse of data that they're collecting, even if they're not selling it to other companies.
The part that pisses me off personally is that they're collecting data about the other software I have on my computer, things that aren't owned or controlled by EA, and have nothing at all to do with gaming. That's one step away from sending them a complete index of every file on my system.
I can see collecting information about hardware, and what games I have installed through their own service. But anything beyond that is purely invasive and they can go to hell. At least Steam asks you first, and you can tell it "no". I don't see that option anywhere here.
This is the kind of stuff that causes people to buy a game, leave it on the shelf unopened, then pirate the game. Which I am sorely tempted to do in this situation.
The part that pisses me off personally is that they're collecting data about the other software I have on my computer, things that aren't owned or controlled by EA, and have nothing at all to do with gaming. That's one step away from sending them a complete index of every file on my system.
I can see collecting information about hardware, and what games I have installed through their own service. But anything beyond that is purely invasive and they can go to hell. At least Steam asks you first, and you can tell it "no". I don't see that option anywhere here.
This is the kind of stuff that causes people to buy a game, leave it on the shelf unopened, then pirate the game. Which I am sorely tempted to do in this situation.
Soon. It should drop mid to late September. I just hope Blizzard doesn't decide to launch the public Diablo 3 beta, at the same time.
