Can I Run It?

Chavways

I have BF3 for PS3 but I realy want to try it on Pc.I'm not sure if my PC can run it though.I ran the test on can you run it and it failed barely.

Heres the results:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/analysis.aspx?name=Battlefield-3&id=11211&session=7aa82c7f-b915-447e-b066-43a7d645a755

Is there any way I could run it even at low specs?

I have a laptop so I'm pretty sure theres no way for me to upgrade the processor.Any advice would be appreciated.

Genghiz Cohen

That link just drops me at the main page.

What laptop do you have?

If you were to get a better computer what kind of money would you have to spend and would it have to be a laptop?

Spear

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

That link just drops me at the main page.

What laptop do you have?

If you were to get a better computer what kind of money would you have to spend and would it have to be a laptop?

The link worked earlier, but doesn't now.

It was a laptop, 4 gig of RAM, Core 2 Duo at 2.13GHz, and an nVidia Geforce 260M.

Chavways

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

That link just drops me at the main page.

What laptop do you have?

If you were to get a better computer what kind of money would you have to spend and would it have to be a laptop?

Definately wouldn't have enough money to buy a PC for a good few months anyway.I'd buy a desktop if I was buyng anything.The laptop is an Asus g60vx gaming laptop but its 3 or 4 years old at this stage now so it cant run a lot of the modern stuff.

Everything is grand apart from the processor.I've looked into getting it upgraded before but I dont think its possible.

ManTheSam

Seems like a fairly capable laptop so I'd be pretty confident it would run on decent graphical settings

Blazer

SHould do..I was able to run it on my laptop at 1440x900 at low-medium settings and it was fine in fairness..getting around 50-60fps.

Mine was a quad-core with a quadro 3700m which is basically an overpowered 9800gtm so yours should be pretty similiar to mine.

cherryghost

I think you'd be fine. CPU should just about be able to do the job. I have a Desktop CPU 2.13ghz Core 2 and it just about manages the game at 30-35fps

Genghiz Cohen

Had an Core2@2.4Ghz and it kinda struggled. I used GameBooster to free up some processor time and it really helped.

Chavways

I'll get it over the weekend and try it out.Hopefully I can play.Love the game.

Thanks for the help.

One question though.I want to upgrade the processor if possible.Will I ask over on the PC Upgrading forum or would anyone here know if its possible?

Spear

I would have said the laptops forum more so:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=529

Chavways

It looks so good

cherryghost

Did you upgrade or are you happy with how it runs?

Chavways

cherryghost wrote: »

Did you upgrade or are you happy with how it runs?

I have everything on low and its running alright but I might get the processor upgrade anyway just to improve it.It can only make it better.

Chavways

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Had an Core2@2.4Ghz and it kinda struggled. I used GameBooster to free up some processor time and it really helped.

Just a question about Gamebooster.I can run it on low without Gamebooster and when I enable it,it says I have 44% more performance. Does that theoretically mean I can increase settings by 44%? Should I jsut keep increasing them until I notice lag or screen tearing?

Genghiz Cohen

Chavways wrote: »

Just a question about Gamebooster.I can run it on low without Gamebooster and when I enable it,it says I have 44% more performance. Does that theoretically mean I can increase settings by 44%? Should I jsut keep increasing them until I notice lag or screen tearing?

Seems to always say 44% more.

When in game, hit the key to the left of 1, the ` key and type "render.drawfps 1" without the quotes and hit enter. mess with your settings until you get above 30FPS in most situations.

Chavways

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

Seems to always say 44% more.

When in game, hit the key to the left of 1, the ` key and type "render.drawfps 1" without the quotes and hit enter. mess with your settings until you get above 30FPS in most situations.

Even on low I'm only getting 23fps.Hopefully with the new processor that'll improve by at least 20.

Tea_Bag

Chavways wrote: »

Even on low I'm only getting 23fps.Hopefully with the new processor that'll improve by at least 20.

not going to happen. BF3 is much more GPU intensive than CPU.

Chavways

Tea_Bag wrote: »

not going to happen. BF3 is much more GPU intensive than CPU.

I installed it on friday.Getting between 35 and 45fps now.A pretty decent increase.

cherryghost

Chavways wrote: »

I installed it on friday.Getting between 35 and 45fps now.A pretty decent increase.

Pretty much what I expected. I'd be fairly pleased with that tbh

Chavways

cherryghost wrote: »

Pretty much what I expected. I'd be fairly pleased with that tbh

Ya I'm pretty happy with it. I'm playing on the laptop screen but if I used a 32 inch T.v as an external monitor would fps drop a lot?

ktulu123

Only if you increased the screen resolution

conor360

You should be fine. Just dont play with MSAA, it brings your FPS waaaaaay down
Medium still looks good

hidinginthebush

Hey lads, here's the detail for my laptop. I mainly play on the xbox, but saw that my laptop meets the minimum requirements, though not the recommended. Is it worth my while investing in a copy for the pc, or will it just play like pants on my system?

Pretty much boils down to me having 512MB video (minimum) as opposed to the 1GM recommended. What do you think?

cherryghost

Your GPU is a bottleneck. You might get around the same framerate as the console, if you're acceptable with that. On low settings, which is about the same graphics quality as the console either (maybe slightly lower shadow graphics)