Battlefield 3 will not support XP or DX9.

[oplinger]

What will you do when April 2014 rolls around?

Celebrate my 41st birthday. You?

Laugh when XP stops being supported by Microsoft. Also by then -nothing- else will support XP.

I'd start saving up.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

What will you do when April 2014 rolls around?

Celebrate my 41st birthday. You?

Laugh when XP stops being supported by Microsoft. Also by then -nothing- else will support XP.

I'd start saving up.

Well, I always save up for my birthday, it's usually something of a piss up.

I'm running Win7 Enterprise anyway.

 

[Liberaliter]

Good. We need to progress and utilise current technologies. Anyone still using XP deserves not to play this game. I hope more games adopt this approach in the future.

Or some people think that they don't need to upgrade. They use the old system, it works fine for them, why should they upgrade? Just because it's new?

I'm a gamer who still uses XP, and it works fine. I will upgrade when my desktop dies or I make a major upgrade, but until then I doubt 7 is a big enough improvement for me to upgrade. (I am primarily use consoles to play games anyway so it doesn't affect my much, but I still buy some PC only games)

They should upgrade because more and more games will take this approach on the PC, just like Just Cause 2 and Battlefield 3. XP is nine years old after all and sure, people can stick to it if they want, but I don't think they should complain when games drop it's support.

 

[Super Toast]

As one of the forum posters, daltob to be exact in the Battlefield 3 to be ported to console topic said that Battlefield 3 with Frostbite 2 will not support XP or DX9, only DX11.

I checked it up on google and I found it out to be true, Battlefield 3 will only support Vista, Windows 7, DX11 and DX10. I find this suprisingy seeing as a lot of people are still XP (7 here myself.) and couldn't this cut into the PC sales for the game?

What do you guys think?

why do we have to upgrade to a PS3? my PS2 works just fine, why'd they stop making games for it? upgrading to a new console is so expensive, they should just keep making everything for my PS2

Please let that be sarcasm.

OT: I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

 

[Laughing Tumour]

I keep getting tempted and try to get more into PC gaming as I do sincerly see it as surperior in alot of aspects however the required investments are just to much for someone like me, and now that they want to me buy a whole new operating system im just not sure if i can take the leap again.

 

[PurpleSky]

Herp de derpy derp let's take a perfectly good pc game (battlefield 2 ) that even has a huge mode called Project Reality made that kicks today's MW2's ass around the block, turn it into a console game ported for the PC so it can have shitty controls,slow moving camera for mouse users and weapons that clearly don't belong in a Battlefield game.


Fuck you Developers for ruining another great franchise.

 

[jamesworkshop]

I have windows 7 anyway so I like the fact games are finally going to run better now that they only have to write for a single code path.

Come on people Vista didn't sneak up on anyone it was released worldwide on January 30, 2007

it will be 2011 by the time battlefield 3 is out, so 4 years

you can pick up a copy of windows 7 for about £50, making it about one of the cheapest things you could ever upgrade in your computer

 

[Frapple]

Good news!

Now if we could upgrade these pesky dated consoles technology could advance!

 

[Laughing Tumour]

I would appreciate any recommandation you can provide Charcharo, thanks

 

[Korten12]

hmmm, good job I have an Xbox360

this is why console gaming is so much easier. i salute you PS3 and i also salute my fellow consolers on the 360, thanks for our dedicated, purpose built and user friendly software

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You do know that your consoles use DX9 only?
And that we have been using XP for 9 years. Thats almost 2 console generations.
And I can run almost all XP games on a Windows 7.

But you guys are doing something useful, optimization. Many game engines aren't optimised. To make them work on a XboX devs understand that optimization > Crysis graphics. Source engine and ID TECH 4 are very well optimized. So are most console engines.
So in mu mind devs should start shelling money for optimization rather than graphics. Metro 2033 was realtively optimized, but it could have been better.
L4D2/Wolfenstein look fucking incredible when we consider the requirements. We have to thank cansoles and those tech geniuses at Valve/Id.

they said that becuase, BF3 will be for console so now they don't need to upgrade thier PC.

 

[Korey Von Doom]

It's a kinder way of telling XP user to move on.

 

[Nmil-ek]

I think it's a good call. DX9 is getting dated. DX10 even runs smoother now. It isn't the first time a company has ditched the old to utilize the new.

yeah same, ppl really need to move on and go to 7.

erm why?

becuase we can't stick with xp forever.

Thats the beautiful thing about PCs WE CAN just about every operating system is emulatable once the technology makes a jump, DOSBOX is far more stable then the original dos systems ever where for one.

 

[icyneesan]

If your gonna PC game, your gonna have to upgrade. It's not like its hard, just safe up some money, go buy it from a store, shut up, and install.

If XP users can complain about no support anymore, can I complain that they don't support Windows 95 anymore?

NO - because its old. Now STFU and give Microsoft your money.

 

[Korten12]

If your gonna PC game, your gonna have to upgrade. It's not like its hard, just safe up some money, go buy it from a store, shut up, and install.

If XP users can complain about no support anymore, can I complain that they don't support Windows 95 anymore?

NO - because its old. Now STFU and give Microsoft your money.

well that put it nicely and bluntly.

 

[Kouen]

Well lets face it, there are a few games now like that Just Cause 2 being one of em

Besides i think its time we left XP and DX9 where it is and move on... now if only we can drop x86 os's....

 

[Korten12]

It was surprising enough that BF:BC2 did have support for DX9, I guess it's natural to evolve, but XP sounds picky IMO.