PAX Video Interview with DICE BF3 Producer

[Jakob_Pavlov]

Originally Posted by www.geforce.com

GeForce.com’s Kris Rey and DICE Producer Patrick Liu sat down in the gameplay area for a chat about all things Battlefield 3. Getting straight down to business, Patrick spoke of Frostbite 2, the engine powering Battlefield 3’s fantastic visuals: “We added a ton of stuff – we basically rewrote the rendering engine from scratch to add real-time radiosity on the PC… it produces amazing indoor lighting… for the scale of the maps we implemented new streaming technology, so we make bigger maps than we have ever been able to before.”
Continuing with the tech, Kris quizzed Patrick about one of our favourite topics, DirectX 11. In addition to using effects such as displacement mapping Patrick told us that Battlefield 3 will use Compute Shaders to improve the quality and effectiveness of the engine, and with regards to tessellation, which is “doing great on NVIDIA cards,” the DICE Producer simply says, “tessellation is so sexy!”
Kris then attempts to retrieve system spec information from Patrick, but as loose lips sink ships, and ruin PR plans, Patrick stays mum, though he is happy to say, “you’ll definitely be safe with dual [NVIDIA GTX] 580s in SLI.”

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[Dragonhammer]

So you need two graphics card for a measely sum of €1000 to run the damn thing on full detail.
add to that the Power consumption of 700Watt nonstop while gaming will have your power bill go thru the roof.
The power company will alert the local police because with that power usage they suspect you are running a weed farm on your attic.

[Inglorious Nub]

Originally Posted by Dragonhammer

The power company will alert the local police because with that power usage they suspect you are running a weed farm on your attic.

Wait, I can mod my dual 580 to produce a weed farm? Will this require a bigger case?

At least a weed farm will get me carbon tax credit to offset electric bill.

[Purg]

Originally Posted by Dragonhammer

So you need two graphics card for a measely sum of €1000 to run the damn thing on full detail.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

The game will have graphical legs. I'm sure my two 570's will deal with it OK. If I'm going to be playing this for a couple of years, I don't want the graphics engine to be outdated before it's even released. I tried to play BF2 a couple of months ago when it was on special on Steam. I don't recall it looking so ugly.

This time next year, I'm sure there will be an affordable video card that'll chew up and spit out BF3.

[Drac]

Originally Posted by Dragonhammer

The power company will alert the local police because with that power usage they suspect you are running a weed farm on your attic.

OMGWTFBBQHAX don't say that!

You're going to make me all paranoid. And stay out of my attic!!!

[Shrubbo]

Heh, I want 3d on triple monitors but I don't think there is hardware available that will run that maxed with great frames .......

I'll work something out, game must look awesome

[Spectre8]

If you want max details on a 27 inch monitor, it'll take some work. But I'm guessing to run the game on "normal" settings, it'll work on a "normal" computer.

[Inglorious Nub]

I play on low settings always, but that is comp style. Miss my eyecandy.

[koopz]

loving these interviews

[Rob.]

Originally Posted by Shrubbo

I'll work something out, game must look awesome

Yep can't wait to see it maxed out