PC Battlefield 3 Beta Performance With Dual Cores.

YTBOY83 · Oct 17, 2011

I am wanting to know if anyone has played Battlefield 3 Beta on PC with just a dual core and how the performance was.

pparks1 · Oct 17, 2011

I played it on my Q9550 quad core and my CPU didn't even break a sweat. But I understand your concerns, I think min spec calls for a Dual core at 2.4Ghz.

boogieboy · Oct 17, 2011

mine's Q6600 @ 2.4GHz stock! how it will perform on it?

Beta · Oct 17, 2011

Minimum Requirements
OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit
Processor: 2GHz dual-core (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or Athlon X2 2.7GHz)
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard drive: 20GB
Graphics card AMD: DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512MB RAM (ATI Radeon HD 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon HD 3870 or higher performance)
Graphics card Nvidia: DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse
DVD-ROM drive

Recommended Specifications
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core CPU
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard drive: 20GB
Graphics card: DirectX 11-compatible with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse
DVD-ROM drive

boogieboy · Oct 17, 2011

Hmmm seems like i'll be able to play it nicely

hopefully

badger906 · Oct 18, 2011

before building my newest pc, i waited for the specs to be released, and then added a little extra head room lol just in case.

seemed fitting to build this rig for bf3, as my first rig was build for bf2 lol

PwnFrnzy · Oct 18, 2011

Looks like I'll have to go low if I were to play it on my PC (the nVidia site says best I'll get is just above 20FPS). I had CoD Black Ops on this machine, and even on low quality graphics performance was worse than an unpatched GTAIV!

I would really like to get myself an i7 rig, but without a job, by the time I have saved the money for an i7, the i9 and i11 might be out.

mickey megabyte · Oct 18, 2011

i don't know what frostbite 2 is like - but i noticed quite a big difference with BC2 going from dual-core E8400@4GHz to quad-core i5 [email protected] GHz.

the cpu performance difference was much more noticeable than upgrading my gfx card from HD4890 to HD6950 a few months ago - frame-rates didn't improve very much at all.

with the new cpu, finally i can crank all gfx settings to the max and not be penalised with slowdowns at hectic moments. :party:

stormy13 · Oct 18, 2011

Two reasons for the mickey,

1. BFBC2 and BF3 are both multi-threaded and perform better with more cores.

2. The audio (from BFBC2),

Naturally, doing all of the audio processing in software puts the CPU under some extra strain. Since Xbox360/PS3 has fixed hardware and both have multiple cores available to do many things in parallel, you could say this is only an issue for the PC SKU where we may end up having less cores than on console. In Bad Company, all audio processing is performed sequentially on a single hardware thread regardless of platform. For PC this means that a CPU with a higher frequency will help more than one with more cores. But of course, there are other areas of the game that execute in parallel, so having more than 2 cores will help the game in general. This is an area we're constantly looking to improve and the results of our efforts will show up in future titles.

Battlefield Blog

Essentially means that having more than 2 cores allows one to be dedicated to just the audio processing, and I don't see BF3 being any different. This is/was pretty much the biggest gain in that game when moving from a dual core to a quad core.

96accord · Oct 19, 2011

As for the dual core CPU.. I'd say the GPU will be more of importance.. I don't think the OP's 9400GT will handle BF3 even on low. I had the 512MB 9800GTX+ and playing the BF3 Beta on low sucked! I upgraded to the MSi 2GB HD 6950

simmo · Oct 19, 2011

BF3 is optimised for multi cores..quad in particular..unlike BC2 tho BF3 is not so heavy on the CPU as its been set up this time around to give more work to the GPU.
So you will be needing a decent graphix card with 1.5gb of memory..to play in ultra settings then you need top end 3gb cards.
It's likely to be playable on a wide range of (older) cards but lo res and lo settings.6 more sleeps til it starts and I'll bet it has all sorts of issues on release.
It is EA/DICE after all..

96accord · Oct 19, 2011

Of course it's going to have some issues. lol if someone thought it wouldn't then they are on crack! lol

badger906 · Oct 19, 2011

uk release isnt till friday 28th =(

96accord · Oct 19, 2011

badger906 said:
uk release isnt till friday 28th =(

Ouch! That's closer to the release date of MW3 (CoD) in the States (November 8th I think)

Wonder why you all get shafted??

YTBOY83 · Oct 19, 2011

I shall just upgrade my GPU and just unlock my CPU to 4 cores when needed (It would help if someone replied to my topic regarding my CPU unlocking).

PwnFrnzy · Oct 20, 2011

I saw a yourube video of a guy who played BF3 beta on ultra settings. But not with a high end card. The card he was useing was the same as mine, the GTS 450, paired with a quad-core AMD CPU. So. . .Yea, I doubt the cards will need to be super high-end.

badger906 · Oct 20, 2011

96accord said:
badger906 said:

uk release isnt till friday 28th =(

Click to expand...

Ouch! That's closer to the release date of MW3 (CoD) in the States (November 8th I think)

Wonder why you all get shafted??

to give you guys the change to get all the good guns and unlocks and own us!?

guess EA didnt want a world wide release.. is odd though.

Let me know if theres a massive patch on release! my rubbish 1.6mbps internet will need that 3 day delay to download it lol

Beta · Oct 20, 2011

I will like the proper CrossfireX and SLI support. I have been thinking about buying a 6990 when I order the game on Newegg. But I might want to upgrade my ram first. Not sure what I will do next.

hybridfan · Oct 20, 2011

I hope my system can play it.... I think I should of gone for a 560 instead of a 460 but heard great things about a 460 and so far it's been brill.

simmo · Oct 20, 2011

PwnFrnzy said:
I saw a yourube video of a guy who played BF3 beta on ultra settings. But not with a high end card. The card he was useing was the same as mine, the GTS 450, paired with a quad-core AMD CPU. So. . .Yea, I doubt the cards will need to be super high-end.

No you didn't..Ultra settings were selectable but DISABLED during the Beta.
and
Yes you will if you want Ultra settings..I'm certainly not expecting too with my 570..if I can I will be surprised (pleasantly).
Waiting on Kepler now...too upgrade.

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