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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3OH3Posted:

Oasis Why is everyone kicking off so much?

Don't be so sad, viva pinata was 30fps and look how good that is...

:D
I loved viva piata.... And yeah that gameplay seemed smooth

OasisPosted:

Why is everyone kicking off so much?

Don't be so sad, viva pinata was 30fps and look how good that is...

:D

COMAPosted:

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-

Flareon9159Posted:

RhyssBrahh
-Telenow-
-Unshaken-
TTG_Baller
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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3

umad bro? to bad it's BF1, BF2, BFBC1,2, and this is BF3.
If you don't know anything about the game, then just don't talk. Plus BF>CoD, it's been like this since ummmmm forever.

Obviously well said. :)
Call of Duty Has and always will be The dominant FPS... nuff said.


You guys are missing the point. Even though this article is about fps, gameplay is more important than anything. And my opinion is Battlefield has more realistic gameplay. Sniping ftw.

RhyssBrahhPosted:

-Telenow-
-Unshaken-
TTG_Baller
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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3

umad bro? to bad it's BF1, BF2, BFBC1,2, and this is BF3.
If you don't know anything about the game, then just don't talk. Plus BF>CoD, it's been like this since ummmmm forever.

Obviously well said. :)
Call of Duty Has and always will be The dominant FPS... nuff said.

TelenowPosted:

-Unshaken-
TTG_Baller
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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3

umad bro? to bad it's BF1, BF2, BFBC1,2, and this is BF3.
If you don't know anything about the game, then just don't talk. Plus BF>CoD, it's been like this since ummmmm forever.

Obviously well said. :)

cuePosted:

-Unshaken-
TTG_Baller
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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3

umad bro? to bad it's BF1, BF2, BFBC1,2, and this is BF3.
If you don't know anything about the game, then just don't talk. Plus BF>CoD, it's been like this since ummmmm forever.

lol did that guy just seriously say that CoD4 was better than BF BC 1,2 ( and 3?! ) lmao, go play CoD kiddo, with BF i've NEVER had a bad connection, but with CoD ... lmao

Soldier_Posted:

Im_From_HF
GuyNamedBob Thats a fail even COD4 had twice the fps than that. So much for frostbite 2.0


COD4 has TERRIBLE graphics compared to more new games..
You do know that CoD4 came out 4 YEARS AGO right?

New_JerseyPosted:

TTG_Baller
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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3

umad bro? to bad it's BF1, BF2, BFBC1,2, and this is BF3.
If you don't know anything about the game, then just don't talk. Plus BF>CoD, it's been like this since ummmmm forever.

TTG_BallerPosted:

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

LOL You mad bro COD4 was better then bc1/2/3