Battlefield 4's System Requirements Won't Melt Your PC

[The White Hunter]

Wow.
Why the hell does it even matter if I have an AMD Quad core processor? Shouldn't it run just as fast a the Intel one?
I mean, sure, optimization matters, but it should just have a marginal power difference.

An FX-4300 or 4350 doesn't touch an Ivy or Haswell i5 or i7 to be honest, and it certainly doesn't come close to any recent Socket 2011 quad-core.

AMD's FX chips current architectures are not really directly comparable, and each pair of cores functions more like a core and a half. That doesn't mean they're bad chips, and they do have some advantages, but intels quad cores are definately superior to AMD's quad cores. I'd recommend either an APU or an i5 personally at this point,s ince the AM3 socket is so stagnant.

 

[GAunderrated]

To sum up my point; if steam meets all my needs why would I install origin if it doesn't do anything more that I need? Sure they are holding a few "decent" games hostage with the platform but that isn't enough to sway people such as myself.

Competition is good, monopolies are bad. That is why Origin needs to exist. It's the single biggest competitor to Steam. It has been improving greatly in the last year or so. They even had a sale a few weeks ago!

However, I do agree that it is incredibly annoying to have your gaming library spread out over multiple accounts.

I agree competition is good, but I disagree that Origin is competing with Steam. At current Origin is just copying steam's model not trying to improve it. They currently are doing nothing more than holding EA games hostage through Origin. If they do something that makes people want to use Origin over Steam then it would be competition.

I honestly believe that GoG, GMG, and amazon are bigger competition for Steam than Origin. Mostly because this past year I have bought more games on sale in those 3 sites than I have even at big steam sales.

 

[Griffolion]

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Yeah, I agree. Leave the start menu there, and code the OS to recognise a touch / non-touch device. Hell, you can even have your user tell the OS on first time setup what it is (or the OEM can hard code it in). From there, optimise the experience based on what it is. Desktops/laptops go straight to desktop mode, touch devices go to Metro.

Honestly, MS have some technically capable teams, Windows 8 is brilliant under the hood. But their vision is very clearly "by committee", rather than led by a single good visionary. And, as we've also seen with the XB1, their marketing and general PR skills are utterly abysmal.

To be frank, I'm waiting til Ubuntu get's more wide spread support from hardware manufacturers and games. I'll make the switch as soon as I see that happen.

 

[irok]

Yeah , nah , I shan't be getting it, good to know my laptop from 5 years ago can run minimum and except for my OS.... apparently my desktop can run max, and for ongoing argument of lol what's wrong with origin, well its crap and slow and at this point hasn't steam already just won? EA has sales Im sure but they are the price slashing 70% off that steam does, nor do they as often, they aren't competition either EA only sells EA stuff and steam cant get ahold of most of EA's games to sell now that they have origin but there's another time and place for this.

 

[Drejer43]

Recommended OS: windows 8, HA!
instead of saying windows 7 couldn't they just leave that out

 

[Strazdas]

As a owner of 8600GS i want to shake my first in the air to non existing gods for them coming so close.
I really need to update get a new PC.

I have a similarly powered 9600M gs on my laptop, and I have been shaking my fist the same way since 2011. At least I'll be getting something with a GF 660-760 next month.

And now you made me jelous as it will still be half a year for me at least, and thats assuming no force majour happens meantime

Wow.
Why the hell does it even matter if I have an AMD Quad core processor? Shouldn't it run just as fast a the Intel one?
I mean, sure, optimization matters, but it should just have a marginal power difference.

Due to new intel architecture that AMD hasnt managed to replicate yet, same clock speed single core from Intel is around 1.5 times faster. To deal with this AMD has decided to put more cores in thus trying to compete in total power. problem is - with more cores the cores have to work together. and to do that you need to program your programs to multithread properly. this is much easier with less, more pwerful, cores, like Intels. so optimizing for intel CPUs are much easier as well. also lets not forget the whole "most games run on single core" thing where 1 more powerful core is a big advantage.

 

[legendp]

Is Origin still a minimum requirement? If so then I can't get it then.

Origin is not that much worse than Steam. If you're willing to use Valve's service, what's your objection to Origin beyond LOL EA?

Origin can still spy on you, unless they changed that. and the argument that it shouldn't matter unless you have something to hide just doesn't hold up. There are some games I own that I have downloaded cracks for because of drm or just plain coveniance, and I don't want origin throwing a fit and banning me. why can't everyone just sell there games on gog or similar drm free service.