Battlefield 3: 30 FPS on PS3 and Xbox 360

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For those wondering the difference, FPS determines how smooth the animation runs. It’s most noticeable when you look at a high-end computer playing League of Legends, the animation is smooth as silk. A handful of games however run at 30FPS but the reasons are usually technical.

It was announced recently that the home console versions of Battlefield 3 would not support 1080p resolution or 60FPS. The reasons being that at its maximum potential, the PS3 and 360 cannot handle Battlefield 3 at its peak graphics despite being the most powerful home consoles released. Johan Andersson was asked about this, and he said “No, we always do 30fps on consoles, not possible to fit in the vehicles, fx, scale and all players otherwise.”
Comparing the two in terms of screenshots, I feel the difference in graphics is extremely subtle and the strength would be more in the smoothness of the game rather than the graphical quality which is a bigger deal for me than how it looks with today’s rendering technology.
DICE shared their reasoning behind the game running at 30FPS, saying “It’s not a technical challenge to get it to run at 60 but you have to scale back in some areas and we’re not willing to do that. We want to keep the core concept of what Battlefield is about and that means we’d rather stay with 30FPS because we are convinced that it is a good shooter experience there on 30FPS.”
In short, they can run it at 60FPS but they wont in order to retain the full gameplay. Gameplay over polygons anyday for me, I’d rather not play something where they gimped the gameplay to make it look pretty. To put it simply, running a game at 30fps greatly reduces the processing power needed to play the game on a console, as the number of things that need to be rendered come at a much slower pace, but at the cost of smoothness.

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Source: http://igxpro.net/2011/09/05/battlefield-3-runs-at-30fps-on-consoles-dice-explains-why/159402

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xFunShotzZPosted:

marcusmonsoon
The_M21_EBR
Blakeaphobia
GuyNamedBob Thats a fail even COD4 had twice the fps than that. So much for frostbite 2.0
BF3 is going to have massive environments, awesome graphics, super realistic character movements, and crazy realistic destruction. Cod4 had none of these. that's why it's going to be 30fps. which i'd have to say isn't that bad if you think about the fact that none of those would be possible at 60fps.

And it's not the dev's fault. the consoles just cant handle it. SO GET OVER IT. this game's going to be great either way.

if you don't like that it'll be 30fps then go get a 3,000$ cpu. otherwise, stop whining.

Also BC2 had 30fps and it was perfectly fine. And most movies and tv shows are recorded at 24fps so get over it. cod4 sucked anyway


MW3 is going to have a huge scale as well. And operating at 60 fps. Also, as seen from the ps3 trailer, the graphics on bf3 aren't phenomenal on consoles. There not all that much better than MW3 is. So I think most people will agree that they would rather have a much smoother game, than have slightly better graphics and half the smoothness. And also, Im pretty sure it's a well known fact that COD 4 didn't, in fact, suck.


Enjoy your ten year old squealers in a lobby crying over someone sniping properly just for the "60 FPS" while people who want to play a serious shooter will be playing BF3. And not "QS'ing" or any of that utter bullsh*t.


There's something called a mute button you know....

SwAgGxNaStYPosted:

Call of Duty Runs 60FPS

-SpiritPosted:

SteelSeries
triksta2k11 I'm going to go with all the CoD fanboys here and say that MW3 will be far better than BF3.

BF3 will have 30 fps which will look like **** like Bad Company 2 did.

MW3 will have 60 fps which will have great graphics and be smooth like MW2.

Cod graphics suck.

MW3 will be fast paced and a jaw dropping adrenaline rush.

BF3 will be slow, boring and frustrating like an old lady crossing the road!

SteelSeriesPosted:

triksta2k11 I'm going to go with all the CoD fanboys here and say that MW3 will be far better than BF3.

BF3 will have 30 fps which will look like **** like Bad Company 2 did.

MW3 will have 60 fps which will have great graphics and be smooth like MW2.

Cod graphics suck.

MW3 will be fast paced and a jaw dropping adrenaline rush.

BF3 will be slow, boring and frustrating like an old lady crossing the road!

reed1234500Posted:

triksta2k11 I'm going to go with all the CoD fanboys here and say that MW3 will be far better than BF3.

BF3 will have 30 fps which will look like **** like Bad Company 2 did.

MW3 will have 60 fps which will have great graphics and be smooth like MW2.

MW3 will be fast paced and a jaw dropping adrenaline rush.

BF3 will be slow, boring and frustrating like an old lady crossing the road!


CoD fanboy much?

PrefirePosted:

HAHA! Called it, dbags argue with me saying Battlefield 3 will look just like it does on pc for xbox.. I love being right.

triksta2k11Posted:

I'm going to go with all the CoD fanboys here and say that MW3 will be far better than BF3.

BF3 will have 30 fps which will look like shit like Bad Company 2 did.

MW3 will have 60 fps which will have great graphics and be smooth like MW2.

MW3 will be fast paced and a jaw dropping adrenaline rush.

BF3 will be slow, boring and frustrating like an old lady crossing the road!

Wiz-PhamouzPosted:

Blakeaphobia BF3 is going to have massive environments, awesome graphics, super realistic character movements, and crazy realistic destruction. Cod4 had none of these. that's why it's going to be 30fps. which i'd have to say isn't that bad if you think about the fact that none of those would be possible at 60fps.

And it's not the dev's fault. the consoles just cant handle it. SO GET OVER IT. this game's going to be great either way.

if you don't like that it'll be 30fps then go get a 3,000$ cpu. otherwise, stop whining.

You Maggot. 3,000 dollar CPU? There is no such thing, and you don't need a "expensive" CPU, you can play BF 3 with a 1,000 dollar computer. LOOOL you stupid little trump. Now this game looks mint, but i know the online won't be as thrilling and fast paced as MW3, so i'll only buy this for campaign and multiplay once in a while online.

marcusmonsoonPosted:

The_M21_EBR
Blakeaphobia
GuyNamedBob Thats a fail even COD4 had twice the fps than that. So much for frostbite 2.0
BF3 is going to have massive environments, awesome graphics, super realistic character movements, and crazy realistic destruction. Cod4 had none of these. that's why it's going to be 30fps. which i'd have to say isn't that bad if you think about the fact that none of those would be possible at 60fps.

And it's not the dev's fault. the consoles just cant handle it. SO GET OVER IT. this game's going to be great either way.

if you don't like that it'll be 30fps then go get a 3,000$ cpu. otherwise, stop whining.

Also BC2 had 30fps and it was perfectly fine. And most movies and tv shows are recorded at 24fps so get over it. cod4 sucked anyway


MW3 is going to have a huge scale as well. And operating at 60 fps. Also, as seen from the ps3 trailer, the graphics on bf3 aren't phenomenal on consoles. There not all that much better than MW3 is. So I think most people will agree that they would rather have a much smoother game, than have slightly better graphics and half the smoothness. And also, Im pretty sure it's a well known fact that COD 4 didn't, in fact, suck.


Enjoy your ten year old squealers in a lobby crying over someone sniping properly just for the "60 FPS" while people who want to play a serious shooter will be playing BF3. And not "QS'ing" or any of that utter bullsh*t.

iCustomPosted:

-BlueEagle- ok this fanboy war over battlefield 3 and mw3 is starting to get out of hand. you can't say battlefield 3 will be better then mw3, when the 2 games aren't even out. what we are seeing from battlefield 3 is pre alpha footage which means they haven't even finished it to make it look even better. now console footage of battlefield 3 looks really good. not as good as pc but good, now to the mw3 fanboys. just gtfo, battlefield 3 gets a reward for the realistic feel in the game, call of duty gets a reward for the fast paste arcade feel which is good. now i probably didn't make sense but please just stop it. no need to hate on a game when its not even out ok.

-BlueEage-


I agree. this war is getting too far... both games look great


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