Battlefield 3 on Xbox Looks Awful Without HD Texture Pack

[Ubermetalhed]

Graphics on the PS3 are also rubbish.

Surprising I didn't expect Dice to trick everyone like they did with the promise of amazing visuals.

Did they even note that the graphics were top end PC in the trailers and previews? If not isn't that false advertising?

 

[arealperson]

For some possible answers to our questions [a href=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-face-off-battlefield-3]here's Digital Foundry's Face-off analysis[/a]. Mayhaps our arguments be fulfilled by their all-knowing technical wizardry .

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

No big deal, just delete stuff off your drive and download the HD stuff. Although those mentioning the PC, the reason the PC can handle better graphics than the 360 is because most PCs have tons of memory as standard and can be easily upgraded if you need more. Heres hoping the next console has tons of space and is on blueray or equivalent so these idiots dont use the "PC is awesome" every time a game comes out. We all know the PC is awesome, it should be awesome when you have to pay £2000 just to play a game. Then ends up out of date when the sequel is released.

Although, as far as HD space is on the 360, i would have thought they would be cheap by now, especially as MS is in the PC market. Dont know why we cant buy a huge capacity hard drive off the shelf and just plug it in the360's USB port.

 

[SpAc3man]

Glad I decided on the PC version then since I wasnt sure that my gtx 460 could run it that well, then I remembered I have a beast of an overclock on it so I wont have much of a problem aside from the obvious bugs to be encountered on day 1.

My GTX 260 runs it fine. Seriously everyone is over estimating how much computing power this game needs. It has been said multiple times that low graphics settings (which still look great) on PC is the level consoles have. The graphics hardware in the consoles is 6 years old.

Anyways I just pulled this off the BF3 blog:

A few weeks ago DICE revealed that Xbox 360 copies of Battlefield 3 will ship with low-res textures, while players will have the ability to install higher resolution textures on the Xbox 360 hard drive. Now it?s been confirmed that the install takes up 1.5 GB of disk space.
DICE?s Patrick Bach said in a recent interview that the Xbox 360 version is basically ?standard definition? with the regular texture pack. The reason they need to ship with an optional install is that not all Xbox 360 consoles have a hard drive, so Microsoft requires all game installs to be optional. Bach pointed out that the high-res textures do make a big difference to Battlefield 3.

For those that don't understand that, I will explain. The full game is too big to fit on a single Xbox dvd in a playable state. To fix this problem DICE have decided to make the game installable so you can have the full playable game on your HDD. The only problem with this is Microsoft require that games be playable off the disk and any installs are optional because not all Xboxs have a HDD and Microsoft doesn't want those Xboxs to be near useless and unsellable. DICE then have no choice to have the game in a playable state on the disk. The way they have done this is to reduce texture resolutions so they can fit the game on the disk in a playable state to comply with Microsoft requirements. They still want the game to be of the quality they know that can be done on the Xbox so they make the higher resolution textures available as an optional install. If Microsoft didn't have the regulations to prevent Xboxs with no HDD from being redundant then the game would have come on two DVDs like the PC version did and would be only playable once it was installed onto the HDD.