Possible problems concerning BF3

[England4eva]

ModMyWhat.com is reporting various problems with Battlefield 3 as noted at the GamesCom event. How much truth is in this and how much of it is for sensationalised news will be left to be seen..

http://www.youtube.com/v/Zw94LLpFY8w

There seems to be a rather huge problem overshadowing the next installment of Battlefield. The game, Battlefield 3, seems to be rather unoptimized. During our behind-the-scenes gameplay hands-on we saw over 14 machines that either broke down during our hands-on or machines that were already disfunctional when we arrived.

A chat with an EA staff member made it clear that it was driver related. A Battlefield 3 developer later confirmed that it was both hardware and driver related. There were both NVIDIA and AMD machines scattered around the area, the NVIDIA machines were running 128.12 drivers.

Another EA staff member told me that there are no system requirements. "Every build has different system requirements so we're not sure". It seems the developers are just coding away without looking at how things affect the game.

Therefore it seems that the developers are not really paying any attention to what machine the average gamer has. The game wasn't running 60 FPS on high either, even though the machines were supposed to be high-end systems.

It is fairly surprising that no other gaming-related website is reporting this issue, perhaps due to the no-camera policy inside the Battlefield 3 booth. However, since we believe that this is an issue that should be known to every PC gamer and Battlefield fan we're going to post it anyway.


Source : http://www.modmywhat.com/article/Over-20--high-end-PCs-fried-at-the-Battlefield-3-booth-at-GamesCom-2011-now-in-video/858

[Neil]

From what we have been told so far it's an Alpha build the people are playing. I highly doubt they are just "coding away". Sounds more like a modder who has a bee in their bonnet towards DICE with comments like that.

[Tobi54]

Sounds like crap to me, those of us that have been following BF3 pretty closely know that DICE has been working with both nVidia and AMD since very early on, the meetings started months ago. Aside from that, the one rumor that has been constantly corrected is the one ragarding required specs to play, they are well aware of community needs in regards of this, I highly doubt they are "coding away" without a care in the world. Lastly those of us that played the BF3 alpha can tell you that while not perfect, performance optimization was miles ahead compared to BC2 around the same time frame, driver updates and SLI profiles were deployed just for the alpha within days of gathered feedback. DICE has been on the ball about this, and I really woudn't believe otherwise until I see it for myself, and we have the open beta just for that.

[zeroy]

Pointless article really aside form the fact that the performance were not top notch, as reported with 60FPS on "high end PCs"; The alpha was running smooth on my rig which is 2 years old and the performance were equal to BC2 for me (on Medium).

[Sgt.Trojan]

The reason the PCs were off was due to them not having enough amperage to run them all. They had to turn them off to maintain the supply from the event power distribution.

Related to this is seems, from looking at minimum server specs, that a lot more demand is placed server side, i.e. on the hosting server and not on the client PCs so don't be concerned by your pc if it runs BC2.

[MaydaX]

@argrn (http://twitter.com/argrn) wow that is a crap and incorrect article, but thanks for forwarding it

http://twitter.com/#!/repi/status/105011252757139457

I knew the 128.12 drivers was total bs (for nvidia anyway) because

200 series >= 197.25
400 series >= 197.41
500 series >= 262.99

And I'm sure they used something from the 500 series to crank the graphics up. Most likely a 580 or 590.