Battlefield 3 is Here: Make Sure You Have the Latest Drivers
Does your system have the latest drivers for Battlefield 3 yet?
The wait is finally over. Battlefield 3 is here and ready to accept your countless hours of first-person gaming. This is what your gaming rig was meant to do.
EA estimates that there were close to 3 million pre-sales, making Battlefield 3 the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history. 9.5 million gamers downloaded the September beta and collectively set new social online play records for EA with 42 billion shots fired and 1.6 billion kills registered, 21 million exploded M-Com stations and 19 million dog tags lost at the end of a knife.
Before you jump into the game any further, however, you should make sure that you have all the most current drivers for your game. Such is the joy of being a PC gamer.
Nvidia yesterday released a new driver set that's optimized for Battlefield 3, Rage and Arkham City. Battlefield 3 players will enjoy a performance boost of up to 11 percent GeForce 285.38 beta drivers.
AMD doesn't have an official new driver set yet, but those looking for best performance (along with Eyefinity 5x1 support) should get the latest Catalyst preview driver that's been tuned for Battlefield 3 and Rage.
Speaking of which, here's a bonus video of Battlefield 3 running in Eyefinity:
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Although I hate warfare shooters, I'm impressed with how well optimized and easy the game is to run. At 1080p with everything maxed, my HD 6750 was pulling an average of 30FP, though this was in the beta. Even on lowest settings, the game looks great.
Pre-ordered off Amazon, just arrived earlier today, installing Now. Can't wait to try out the full range of maps.
Downloaded last night at 12:05 from EA. I didn't want to, but whatever. Only now I realized that they removed battlefield commanders. That's what I get for not staying up on its development. This bites.
BTW, i7-930@3.8 with a GTX570@815Mhz with ultra settings I had to turn on vertical sync to get rid of the screen tearing, so I guess it was getting more then the 60 fps at 1920x1080. The game informs you that you are not running the recommended drivers when it starts. At least for the Nvidia drivers it did.
Anyone know how to get your current FPS?
Game is crashing on me during gameplay. Running Core i5-750, Win7-64bit, 8GB RAM, ATI 6850. I'm hoping the preview drivers will fix it.
Oh and running the current Catalyst 11.9
It's the first thing I have to do tonight. NVidia beta drivers borked my BF2 install, however. Hope that is fixed, I still have a passing interest in BF2. Looking forward to trying out the jets.
I pre-ordered on Newegg but I doubt it will arrive until tomorrow or later since I haven't even recieved a shipping notice, just a billing one.
the game is fucking garbage right now they need to fix the constant crashing for about 50% of the players.
Is that for campaign or online? I don't care about online for now.
Is that for campaign or online? I don't care about online for now.
presumably because its a warez version that doesn't go online anyways.
42 Billion shots fired
1.6 Billion kills
unless it takes 40 shots to kill a person these people have horrible aim
Did that guy in the video even get a kill? Eyefinity was cool looking but I'd like to see some action, jeez
Once they release it on Steam... Don't want yet another digital store. Had enough problems with the MS Live thing.
Did that guy in the video even get a kill? Eyefinity was cool looking but I'd like to see some action, jeez
lolz ... correct
In Beta, my Crossfired 5850's with my Phenom II 965@3800 was pulling an average ~45FPS at 1080 with all maxed settings, 4x AA. Sometimes, in 64 man games, I'd dip into the 20's. Actually, in 64 man games I'd average 35FPS or so, but always completely playable with very few hiccups.
Anyone know how to get your current FPS?
Fraps.
Anyone know how to get your current FPS?
Looked it up: "Render.Drawfps 1" in the command console (` button)
Gameplay looks mediocre at most... Glad Im not anticipating this crap
what i liked was the gpu on top of the shelf
cause i didnt see enought action on this screening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKECcdKXbs&t=7m55s
cool watch
42 Billion shots fired1.6 Billion killsunless it takes 40 shots to kill a person these people have horrible aim
Accuracy normally averages between 10%-20%, so that means with 4.2-8.4 billion shots there was 1.6 billion kills
Played for a few hours.
Non-tank vehicles are now worthless... I happily strolled through a meadow as a chopper gunner rained lead around me, but couldn't kill me. So much for attack choppers and blackhawks being something to fear... And why are the attack choppers so much more responsive than the scouts/light helos? Seems silly. The scouts will flip much more easily, but the attack chopper actually changes speed/direction much faster.
Jets only get their machine gun without perks. Right now, you basically fly around and look cool. If a blackhawk gunner can't hold his aim over me long enough, there's no way a jet will. The guns just don't do enough damage. Little birds suffer from the same issue. I've seen 2 kills from these 2 aircraft. A jet kamakazied a tank.
The maps are kinda lame too. They were definitely made for huge, 60 player games. On a 24-26 player game, they're WAY too big and you do a LOT more running than gunning.
I can't speak to gun balance, since I haven't unlocked enough of the weapons (or fought them) to give fair judgement.
There are the Nvidia 285.62 non beta drivers.
Game is crashing on me during gameplay. Running Core i5-750, Win7-64bit, 8GB RAM, ATI 6850. I'm hoping the preview drivers will fix it.
As the late Stevie will say, you're playing it wrong!
Played for a few hours....So much for attack choppers and blackhawks being something to fear... ...Right now, you basically fly around and look cool.
I'm sure they'll adjust balance sooner than later.
I've seen 2 kills from these 2 aircraft. A jet kamakazied a tank.
lmao
barely playable on quad core and 280 gtx on medium settings.. heavy graphic lag with aircraft and lots of players, can't log on to some servers adminstator kicked before even get a chance to log on with a+ ping. lots of buggyness. hoping for review from toms and get the right graphics card need 60fps in high to ultra setting with out missing a arm or a leg
can we get the first patch please! lol
EA, you can take your Origin and shove it up you collective greedy asses.
^To the guys arguing above me,
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Watch the language; this isn't some site for children to play name calling games in.
what i liked was the gpu on top of the shelf cause i didnt see enought action on this screening
You mean the box? Cause that is the box for a motherboard not a GPU.
Runs fine on the new drivers, however the new drivers did not remedy the "diplay driver has stopped responding and successfully recovered" issue that the last release brought back. Game runs fine hardware wise but battlelog needs alot of work. Every damn server I jumped into was lag city. So much to the point that it was nearly unplayable in seceral servers. Installation was a major pain, so much unnecessary crap required for this game. So far aside from the coop missions I played which were cool, the rest of the game was kind of a dissappointment. I'd give it a 65%. If they fix battlelog, and the major laginess everywhere I'd bump it up to 80% but as it stands now, I am not happy with the direction they took. They also need a way of changing the settings before jumping into a game, the current method sucks!
OMG, trying to play BF3 for the PC is like installing AA3 for the first time with Punk Buster enabled....
I bought BF3 through Game Stop as an online download. Here are my steps for the night. No, I didn't get to play the game tonight.
Download Game Stop (GS) Impulse
GS > Purchase BF3
GS > Download BF3 13.7 GB
Program Files > Uninstall Origin Beta
GS > Install BF3
Install Origin
Update Origin which requires another download.
Origin > Install BF3 (which basically scans the previous BF3 download file via GS).
Origin > Update BF3 472.1 MB
Chrome > Install Browser Plugin
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At the same time, I did this:
Router > Open Ports (Port Forwarding)
TCP: 80, 443, 9988, 20000-29999, 17502, 42127
UDP: 3659, 14000-14016, 22990-23006, 25200-25300
Download NVidia Driver Version: 285.58, Released Mon Oct 24, 2011.
This download is the slowest dl so far because it appears that everyone in the world is trying to get it. I will try DL'ing from work tomorrow.
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If you want to see the issues so far, here is the official forum link:
https://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/f ... 694388054/