Hi, I thought this might be informative for those still tweaking their graphics performance or for those who is planing on upgrading their system.
REAL WORLD APPLICATION ONLY! no graph nor statistical bs.
feel free to also post resources here to improve performance.

TIPS: in the game, press ` (next to numeric 1) to activate console. Use the command Render.DrawFps 1 to show current frames per sec)


Windows 7 64 bit
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80GHz (stock fans)
4 GB RAM
Cheap Western Digital harddisk
Sapphire HD5770 1GB Vapor-X (mild oc to 920Mhz @ 1300Mhz using stock fans)
AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver


Average FPS on 64 player servers: 48fps

Resolution: 1440x900
Texture: HIGH
Shadow: HIGH
Effects: HIGH
Mesh: HIGH
Terrain: HIGH
Terrain Decor: HIGH
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: HIGH
Motion Blur: OFF (less distraction during intense battle)
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambien Occlusion: HBAO


here's a semi-official guide from AMD for ATI graphics card
http://blogs.amd.com/play/2011/10/31/your-...-battlefield-3/

Windows 7 64 bit SP1
Intel i7 2630QM
8GB RAM
WD Scorpio Blue
nVIDIA GTX460M, Driver version 285.63

Average FPS on 64 player servers: 80-100fps @ 1280x800 pixels
Settings : ALL Low

Windows 7 64 bit
Intel i7 2600k @ 5.0GHz (water cooling)
16 GB RAM (watercooling)
Corsair Force 3 SSD
Asus 6990 QuadFire (water cooling)
AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 with CAP 4


Average FPS on 64 player servers: 150fps/120mhz

Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Setting : Ultra

This post has been edited by Norazam: Nov 5 2011, 11:23 AM

windows 7 64 Sp1
AMD 955BE 3.9Ghz (soon chg to 1100t)
8GB Corsair Dominator
Seagate HDD
XFX 6870+Sapphire 6870 toxic
AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version official driver with battlefield cFX profile
Average FPS on 64 player servers=45-60
range view set to 90
setting: Auto=Ultra

Windows 7 64 bit
Intel i5 @ 2.80GHz (stock fans)
10 GB RAM Kingston KVR PC1333
mechanical HDD 1TB
Asus ENGTS 450 DirectCU (only intended to get this to run Starcraft II)


Resolution: 1680 X 1050
Texture: HIGH
Shadow: HIGH
Effects: HIGH
Mesh: HIGH
Terrain: HIGH
Terrain Decor: HIGH
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: MEDIUM
Motion Blur: ON
Anisotropic: 4x
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO


Average FPS on 64 player servers: 33-35 FPS, dips lowest at about +-29FPS on heavy scenes. Stable & smooth enough for me.

This is not autodetect settings, I pushed it higher until it gets noticeably laggy then I dropped it back down to somewhere comfortably smooth.

Going to autodetect settings at some high some medium gave me 45 FPS.

So yes, you don't need to spend so much to get a good enough rig. RM 440 for this performance at only 31% of the cost of a dual SLI Rig for 6870 or only 18% of the cost of a high end 6990.

This post has been edited by slickz: Nov 5 2011, 02:41 PM

Intel Core i7 2630QM 2.0 - 2.9GHz
Nvidia Geforce GT540M 2GB
4GB Ram

Average FPS on 64 players map: 30 - 50FPS

Settings:
Resolution: 1366x768
Texture: Ultra
Anisotropic:16X
Others: LOW



i better go work and build a gaming desktop first, kthxbai

i set graphic LOW ,....got 23fps

AMD Phenom II X3 720 @Stock
XFX HD 4850 512MB @Stock
4GB DDR3
500GB Samsung F3
Win7 Pro X64

All medium @ 1600x900 average 35 fps during multiplayer.

Single player is smoother, average 45 fps.

how do you think if i ran this game on the same spec except the proc is i5-2410m 2.3ghz and I lower the resolution to 1024??
can still get over 30 fps?

Intel Core i5 760 2.8Ghz
4GB DDR3
Asus ENGTX460 Top 768mb
Sea Barracuda 1TB
Windows 7 32bit

All low @ 1920x1080

super smooth in game..
wanna chg gpu but next year
no moo-moo now

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Intel i7 @ 3.40GHz with Cooler Master V6GT
Team Elite Performance Series 8GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD
2x LEADTEK GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB 384bit in SLI-mode


Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Texture: LOW
Shadow: LOW
Effects: LOW
Mesh: LOW
Terrain: LOW
Terrain Decor: LOW
Antialiasing Deffered: 4x MSAA
Antialiasing Post: High
Motion Blur: OFF
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: OFF

Average: 95fps - 125fps @ 120Hz monitor

The graphic in Battlefield 3 is seriously imbalance, the FPS can sometime go up and go down very quickly.

This post has been edited by oec88: Nov 6 2011, 11:38 AM

if lower to 1024, can get more than 40fps

Specs as in sig

Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Texture: ULTRA
Shadow: ULTRA
Effects: ULTRA
Mesh: ULTRA
Terrain: ULTRA
Terrain Decor: ULTRA
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: OFF
Motion Blur: 70
Anisotropic: 1x
Ambient Occlusion: OFF

Average: 75fps - 200fps depending on scenery

Looks like my dual GTX 580 under perform compare to your dual GTX 570?

Lower resolution and I turned off MSAA which is an FPS killer in this game. So in a way it balances out. Also this game uses quite a lot of memory, so you might see an improvement with another 4GB in your rig

This post has been edited by DrBlueBox: Nov 6 2011, 12:17 PM

But now I am very satisfied with my current setting, having average 100fps in 120Hz monitor, very smooth gameplay.

If I set the resolution that is lower than 1920 x 1080, then I will lose the Full HD.

Yeah. I mean i am running on a lower reso since that is my native reso so my vram usage is lower

AMD Opteron 180
3GB RAM
Vista 32 bit
ATI HD4870

All low, FPS 15 to 20.

Windows 7 64 bit SP1
Intel i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz
8GB RAM
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB HDD
GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB SLi
Driver version 285.62

Average FPS on 64 player servers: 85fps - 150 fps @ 1920 x 1080
Settings : Ultra

Looks like both of us have the same specification in our rig.

Why are you running BF3 on low setting, didn't enable SLi mode?

AMD Phenom x4 955BE stock
4gb 1333 ram
HD4770 1gb
sata samsung hdd

set as ''AUTO''
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Texture: HIGH
Shadow: MED
Effects: MED
Mesh: MED
Terrain: MED
Terrain Decor: MED
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: MED
Motion Blur: OFF
Anisotropic: 2X
Ambient Occlusion: SSAO

Average framerate 25-35fps (higher if got map like Caspian Border)

special for Grand Bazaar & Seine Crossing (intense combat face-to-face)
average 20fps

1920x1200

intel i7 920 2.67GHz
12GB RAM Kingston HyperX
OCZ Vertex 3
GTX590

Ultra
Average Frame Rate - 90-100 fps...

This post has been edited by mohamadfazli: Nov 7 2011, 02:45 PM

this one i really jelly

Intel i3 530 @ 4.2ghz
Team Xtreem DDR3 2x2gb @ 1882mhz

HD5850 @ stock clock
Catalyst 11.10

Averaged 55fps
I need high fps rather than nicer eye candy graphic because I'm playing this game on Hard difficulty, need that Counter-Strike kinda response
AA is set very low, Medium Effects Quality because the 5 Series isn't optimized for the smokes and debris effects, Occlusion to SSAO because the 5 Series ain't optimize for DX11 features...

Settings:



Not too bad, still @ stock 725mhz on my HD5850, might OC'ed to 900mhz for benchmark.

Processor : i7 2600K @4.8GHz, stock VCore
RAM : 12GB PC12800 DDR3
VGA : GTX570 DirectCU II (800/1600/4000), stock vGPU @285.62

Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture: ULTRA
Shadow: ULTRA
Effects: ULTRA
Mesh: ULTRA
Terrain: ULTRA
Terrain Decor: ULTRA
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: HIGH
Motion Blur: ON
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambien Occlusion: HBAO

* easier to say, all ULTRA, except the AA, disabled.

both SP or MP, be it in large map, close intense battle, FPS maintained @50fps, enough to keep me happy, hoyeah...

guys, you think msi hd6870hawk is good enough to support bf3 in high settings?

i wanted to buy hd6950 tf3, but its out of stock. hd6970 is too expensive liao

With MSAA off should be enough imo

Of course I did enable SLI.

I just don't like the FPS drop to lower than 90fps so I use low setting to make it stable at around 100fps at most of the time. My monitor is 120Hz display mode, that's why the higher the fps the better. My eyes very sensitive to graphic tearing.

Win7 64bit Home Premium
AMD X3 710 (stock)
6GB DDR2 RAM
ATi HD 6790

and this is my setting...



frame rate goes around 35-40 something...
at outside intense fighting...
it drops to 28...

This post has been edited by Darkz01: Nov 9 2011, 02:24 PM

If you use 60hz LCDs/LEDs like most of us for sure can play ULTRA full 60fps (V-Sync ON)

Anything above 60FPS on a 120Hz LCD will be smooth and give you an extra advantage, especially in MP

NECROMANCER INCOMIIIING!!!!


btw wut psu r u using?

my rig below:

all ultra except AA and anti at 2x.

btw me 19" , average FPS is 50 - 70 on all maps sometime 45 - 50 when zoom IRNV ... how come ar?!!??! when zoom then fps dropped

This post has been edited by Hou_JaI: Nov 22 2011, 10:42 AM

When you zoom the AA level for the zoomed scenery/stuffs increases, thus the FPS drop

Hmmm...

My benchmark:

Rock and a Hard Place singleplayer mission
Reso: 1920x1080

High
Min: 36
Max: 95
Avg: 57.175

Medium
Min: 46
Max: 137
Avg: 77.737

My comp sux

because of processor?

i5-760
2 X 2GB DDR3 RAM

Sapphire HD5770 Vapor-X

ALL MEDIUM, Motion blur and Antialiasing post off, AA off (cause I don't like it)

Constant 60fps

ALL HIGH, motion blur and Antialiasing post off, AA off

40~60

ALL ULTRA. motion blur and antialiasing post off, AA off

30~60

not like it matters.

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Added on November 26, 2011, 5:28 pmWeird.


According to Tom's Hardware, the average FPS of my card should be 61.44.

I went in-game, benchmark under the same mission, same settings, & same reso.

Min: 50
Max: 121
Avg: 81.022



This post has been edited by Luftwacko: Nov 26 2011, 05:28 PM

Specs:
-Core i3 2100@3.1GHz
-MSI H61M-P23(B3)
-4GB DDR3@1333MHz
-ASUS EAH5770 CuCore 1GB GDDR5 @Core:900MHz/Memory:1250MHz
-WD Carviar Blue 500GB 7200rpm
-Win7 HP SP1 X64

Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture: HIGH
Shadow: MEDIUM
Effects: MEDIUM
Mesh: HIGH
Terrain: HIGH
Terrain Decor: HIGH
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: OFF
Motion Blur: ON
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO

Outdoors: 3X fps
Indoors: 3X-4Xfps

Specs:
-AMD X6 1055HT
-MSI 790FX-GD70
-12GB DDR3@1333MHz
-Sapphire / XFX 5850 1GB GDDR5 @Core:900MHz/Memory:1250MHz CF
-WD Carviar Blue 500GB 7200rpm
-Win7 HP SP1 X64

Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture: Ultra
Shadow: Ultra
Effects: Ultra
Mesh: Ultra
Terrain: Ultra
Terrain Decor: Ultra
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: OFF
Motion Blur: ON
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO

Averaging 60FPS with vertical sync on.

This post has been edited by Icehart: Nov 30 2011, 06:15 PM

Try turning it off and report back the fps. hard to believe a 5850 can do a constant 60fps using ultra at full hd

maybe his constant FPS is standing still?
would like to see what it is in a firefight.

Sapphire / XFX 5850 1GB GDDR5 @Core:900MHz/Memory:1250MHz CF

Patutla, it's supposed to be CFX

W7 Ultimate x64 SP1
AMD Athlon II X2 4400e @ 2.7GHz
2GB DDR3 Corsair RAM @ 1600MHz
Sapphire ATI Radeon 6770 1GB

All Medium except Shadows on High, AF and AA set to 2x
1680x1050
Averaging at about 35fps.. But micro stuttering happens very often.

The single, cheapest and the best upgrade you can give yourself is more RAM.10 GB on my system made BF3 playable.

This post has been edited by slickz: Nov 30 2011, 09:54 PM

I'm getting a 4GB stick soon

Ops, sorry.

Guys, can an Asus A43SA laptop with a Radeon HD6730M be workable with this game?

Try this

Anyone running the game with a GTX560Ti?

I got the equivalent of that card, HD6950 1GB. If that counts.

What settings you're running it on? Wanted to get 6950 2gb but now no stock.

Borderline 60 fps on high. Tend to dip below 60 more often than not, hence I lowered the settings to medium.

High

The wierd thing is i'm running the same settings on my old 5770 and the new 560Ti.

No noticeable difference in FPS

Specs:
-Intel i7 2600k @ 4.6 Ghz
-ASROCK Extreme 3 Gen 3
-8GB DDR3@1333MHz
-Sapphire 6950 1GB GDDR5 @Core:900MHz/Memory:1350MHz
-WD 1TB , Samsung 1TB , Seagate 2TB , WD 500gb
-Win7 Ultimate x64
-Vantec Ion+2 600w

Resolution: 1920x1080
Texture: Ultra
Shadow: Ultra
Effects: Ultra
Mesh: Ultra
Terrain: Ultra
Terrain Decor: Ultra
Antialiasing Deffered: OFF
Antialiasing Post: High
Motion Blur: ON
Anisotropic: 16x
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO

FPS min 39 - 69 Max

with occasional stuttering .