Battlefield 3 primarily being developed for DX11, no XP support :)

Dice on twitter said: Frostbite 2 is primarily developed for DX11. XP & DX9 is _not_ supported, 64-bit OS is recommended. Lots of time to upgrade if you havent!

http://twitter.com/repi/status/20028015661

Maybe they are making 2 versions of BF3 afterall? Like a Modern Combat 3 for consoles and BF3 for the PC.

Finally a game built ground up for DX11!!, now we can see the true power of it.

Its nice to see DICE throwing out support of that soon to be 11 year old OS (XP) in favor of progression (DX11) :D

Luckily I have Windows 7, and i'll have hopefully upgraded by then.

More people need to move on from XP :(

This is awesome news, I will upgrade to that.

"Like a Modern Combat 3 for consoles and BF3 for the PC"

Yes, please be like that so I can get the PC version.=3

Heh, one big difference between PC gamers and console gamers is that PC gamers are happy to hear when older things aren't supported.

I knew it was a good idea to get the 5770.

I'm hoping this is good. I love hearing about devs providing PC gamers with what they should get.

Heh. pne big difference between PC gamers and console gamers is that PC gamers are happy to hear when older things aren't supported.

SakusEnvoy

So this apparently offsets the zero compatibility that BF2 has for Windows 7

After seeing the piss poor performance of BC2 in DX11, I dunno if this is such a good idea. They should put more focus on DX10 if anything as that at least is more well adopted.

BF3 is one of those games, many PC gamers were gonna upgrade for, but I dunno how many gonna get DX11 cards for it. I myself still have XP and 2GBs of ram so I have to spend some mulah.

Good. The best way to get good performance is to drop the legacy DX9 baggage.

This is very good news :D.

Will run flawlessly in XP, exactly in the same way that Starcraft II runs in my XP SP2 just after telling me that SP3 was required in the installation -I just ignored the warning-.

I have 2 rigs, one with XP, q6600, 4 GB and a GTX 275 and the other with W7 Ultimate 64, i920, 6GB and a HD 5870, and I'm still trying to figure if W7 has any advantage. My text editor, multimedia player, image editor, Fraps and almost all the games and applications runs the same.

So I'll wait BF3 to play it in XP, if is possible, but I guess that they will probably lost sales due their decision, as Remady with Alan Wake.

Woah. A native DX 11 game? Just like BF2 being native DX9 back in the day...

Wow this is impressive. Thankfully I have a DX 11 card, but I feel that it wont be until the 3rd generation will we beable to max this game out no problem...

I saw this from someone on the Battlefield 3 Gamefaq/Gamespot forums a few days ago.
Good, good news :D
If they really are making two versions, I'm going to have to finally upgrade my graphics card.

Excellent. My 480 is quivering with anticipation. :D

Will run flawlessly in XP, exactly in the same way that Starcraft II runs in my XP SP2 just after telling me that SP3 was required in the installation -I just ignored the warning-.

I have 2 rigs, one with XP, q6600, 4 GB and a GTX 275 and the other with W7 Ultimate 64, i920, 6GB and a HD 5870, and I'm still trying to figure if W7 has any advantage. My text editor, multimedia player, image editor, Fraps and almost all the games and applications runs the same.

So I'll wait BF3 to play it in XP, if is possible, but I guess that they will probably lost sales due their decision, as Remady with Alan Wake.

Ondoval

Umm... if it is using the DX 11 API and you don't have DX 11 hardware or software, you aren't playing it.

There is a HUGE difference between a small system pack and an entire graphical library. You won't be running DX 11 on a Windows XP machine.

Luckily I have Windows 7, and i'll have hopefully upgraded by then.

More people need to move on from XP :(

lundy86_4

You guys can go praise ms os all you want i will stick with my xp version and linux until a RPG or STrategy game requires it. I could care less about multiplayer shooters anymore... way to much other things in life to care about.... (if a new baldur's gate, Elder Scrolls or Diablo3 come out requiring it that is what it will take for me to upgrade to windows 7... and at the rate of blizzard putting d3 out , Bethesda no caring about its elder scrolls fans, and bioware being consolites...its not happening anytime soon. )

[QUOTE="Ondoval"]

Will run flawlessly in XP, exactly in the same way that Starcraft II runs in my XP SP2 just after telling me that SP3 was required in the installation -I just ignored the warning-.

I have 2 rigs, one with XP, q6600, 4 GB and a GTX 275 and the other with W7 Ultimate 64, i920, 6GB and a HD 5870, and I'm still trying to figure if W7 has any advantage. My text editor, multimedia player, image editor, Fraps and almost all the games and applications runs the same.

So I'll wait BF3 to play it in XP, if is possible, but I guess that they will probably lost sales due their decision, as Remady with Alan Wake.

Wasdie

Umm... if it is using the DX 11 API and you don't have DX 11 hardware or software, you aren't playing it.

There is a HUGE difference between a small system pack and an entire graphical library. You won't be running DX 11 on a Windows XP machine.

Woah. A native DX 11 game? Just like BF2 being native DX9 back in the day...

Wow this is impressive. Thankfully I have a DX 11 card, but I feel that it wont be until the 3rd generation will we beable to max this game out no problem...

Wasdie

Luckily I have Windows 7, and i'll have hopefully upgraded by then.

More people need to move on from XP :(

lundy86_4

This is quite bothering to me. I use XP and I dont feel like spending 200 dollars on a new OS. I have been able to play all my games on the OS so far and if I am being denied that then I might as well skip. I just ordered a Radeon 5770 but that doesnt exactly mean I am upgrading to a new OS anytime soon. :x

People need to get on the Windows 7 already.siLVURcross

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]People need to get on the Windows 7 already.Midnightshade29

People need to get on the Windows 7 already.siLVURcross

I ditched XP at the start of this year. Best move I've made.

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]People need to get on the Windows 7 already.Rahnyc4

I think people think it will be like vista, windows 7 is awesome

I think the funny thing about all this is the people that stuck with the BF2 mods typically stuck with XP due to compatibility issues.

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

so should I hope for a really BF3, I still think its gonna be a BC3, but time to save up for a new card :)

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

Teufelhuhn

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

Ravensmash

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

Ravensmash

[QUOTE="Ravensmash"]

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="Teufelhuhn"]

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

Ravensmash

[QUOTE="siLVURcross"]People need to get on the Windows 7 already.Rahnyc4

Gotta agree with most people here. This is good news. Assuming, of course, that they do a good job optimizing and implementing DX 11 features. If they do, this has the potential to look incredible for a PC game which already features better looking games than the consoles.

I'm all for this. It's time to upgrade people. XP is a decade old OS.

what.. xp 4 life.

This is going to be the new crysis. A true DX11 game and it happens to be BF3? PCs shall kneel before it.

I should have a new pc by the end of the year.

So this apparently offsets the zero compatibility that BF2 has for Windows 7

svetzenlether

[QUOTE="svetzenlether"]

So this apparently offsets the zero compatibility that BF2 has for Windows 7

tagyhag

How??? All I get when I try to run it is a black screen for 5 seconds and then I get thrown back to the desktop!

Helll, no I will not be giving M$ any of my hard earned money for a version of windows vista (crap os) with a slightly faster shell... Screw that... I love my XP.. and I don't own a dx11 card anyway.. still sporting a 9800gt .... M$ fulled us with that vista crap adn I had to reformat to XP as it crashed every single game i ran on vista due to how it used my ram.

You guys can go praise ms os all you want i will stick with my xp version and linux until a RPG or STrategy game requires it. I could care less about multiplayer shooters anymore... way to much other things in life to care about.... (if a new baldur's gate, Elder Scrolls or Diablo3 come out requiring it that is what it will take for me to upgrade to windows 7... and at the rate of blizzard putting d3 out , Bethesda no caring about its elder scrolls fans, and bioware being consolites...its not happening anytime soon. )

Midnightshade29

We need progression with people purchasing higher-end OS' in order to push something like DX11. I have 7 running as fast, if not a little faster than my old XP comp (which died not long ago) and it'ss fantastic. The GUI is also much friendlier (IMO).

XP was great, but it's holding things back, game development being one, due to it being solely DX9 and non-compatible with DX10/11.

I hate MS OS' but out of necessity and ease, I use them. I have no want, nor need to boot into linux, and I don't buy Macs.

Guilty as charged:D But I'll be getting a laptop with Win 7 later this Nov.Rockman999

I completely understand why people don't, and I wouldn't blame them in the case of Vista (though I had no issues with it personally), but 7 is great.

DX11 doesn't require DX11 hardware. It has a concept called feature levels that lets you target older/less-capable hardware but using the same API. So for instance you can use DX11 on DX10 hardware, but you can't use tessellation or other new features (however you can use the multithreading support, which is cool).

DX11 does require Vista or above, since it's built on top of the new display driver system. So there's no way you'll be seeing it run in XP, no matter what GPU you have.

Teufelhuhn

Thanks for putting that so well. I knew it was capable of something like that, but you explained it rather nicely.

Sweet. Just like Crysis, this is gonna make A LOT of PC gamers upgrade to Windows 7 and a DX11 card.