What the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 looks like, without installation
Battlefield 3 features an optional HD texture installation. The game is entirely playable without the installation... but a new video shows how drastic the drop in visual fidelity is.
Because not all Xbox 360s come equipped with hard drives, Battlefield 3 features an optional HD texture installation. The game is entirely playable without the installation... but a new video shows how drastic the drop in visual fidelity is.
The HD texture pack requires 1.5GB of hard drive space, on top of the 7GB demanded by installing the disc onto the console. If you hsven't invested in a large hard drive for your Xbox 360, watch the video to see exactly why it's not really optional for Battlefield 3.
The video, captured by NextGenWalkthroughs (via Joystiq), looks akin to a last-generation title. Calling this mode "standard definition" is not entirely accurate. We'd simply call it "bad."
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Battlefield 3 features an optional HD texture installation. The game is entirely playable without the installation... but a new video shows how drastic the drop in visual fidelity is.-
Wow, some of those clips from the non-HD-pack feed really do look like standard-def games like shooters on Wii.
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So Rage is just missing its HD texture install.
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damn you tj
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so it looks like rage on pc
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probably more of a sign that streaming from a optical disc is coming to an end, shit is too slow
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yup this would be my guess, Forza 3 & 4 has extra content on a 2nd disk.
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Forza 4's second disc content is 2.8 GB, easy to fit on a 4 GB Arcade 360 if it's the only game installed.
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Actually, this isn't such a bad option... PC games have only been doing this forever. Far Cry, X3, Diablo II if I remember right, and scads more came with what amounted to a Play disc and one or more data discs to install. For some reason, since only the beginning of this console generation, the concept of pausing gameplay to switch discs has become so abhorrent that a Final Fantasy game coming on more than one disc is considered news. Yes, people without a hard drive are out in the cold for this sort of thing, but this provides an alternative.
In the end, we'll see how it pans out, but with all the negative gamer reactions to multi-disc console games, what other alternatives are there? They have to test the water somehow.
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So how big is the texture pack? I only have a couple of gigs that I can free up on my shitty 20gb drive.
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Fuck. There's no way I can find that much room. I have an extra HD lying around somewhere but it will kind of suck to have to delete all of my old games.
I wish there was an easy way to delete only xbox arcade games, most of my space is being eaten up by dumb shit that downloaded automatically. Removing 200 50mb games one at a time is not a lot of fun. It actually sucks really bad.-
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Ahh, ok, I can free that much up fairly easy.
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You may be able to install to a usb drive? Or move your games to one? I don't know I know there was a report about usb drives being compatible with xboxes now, but I've never had to use one.
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I don't have any USB sticks with capacity >2gb so I haven't bothered with that much, I thought about using it to port my xbl account from one xbox to another but I let a friend of mine borrow my spare 360 for a while so I never got around to it.
Guess I'm going to have to look into it soon, or try and pick up a 120gb drive for cheap or something.-
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It's cool, it's not the money as much as the fact that I just haven't had a reason to look into it all that much. I can usually wipe out a demo or two to clear up some space, too many awesome games are coming out now for that to continue to be a viable option though. I'm gonna snag one off amazon, but thanks for the offer!
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(I'm in Dallas btw so shipping would make it not worth it, but thanks again for the offer)
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Cool. I keep looking for some way, on here, to pay forward Big Luke giving me a DLC code for Duke map pack :-) and though I understand Microsoft's business model on disk pricing I balk at their RRPs - inherent tightness of the miserable Englishman. That install looks essential & I look forward to killing you in battles.
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You can.Can also install optical disc games to them. A 16gb usb will get you about 14.1 of usable space if I recall correctly. You can also do a Content Transfer with Y button on memory screen to transfer all content or selected content of one type or all types, to drive. Its not great but...
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I suppose with a 20GB drive, it's pretty rough if you play a few installed disc-based games alot. I install them for the time I'm going through them, and remove them when I'm done. The couple games I'm currently working on are the only 2 or 3 which are installed at any given time. But even doing the math on that says that would use up nearly the full 20GB on a small drive.
Time to just upgrade that shit and transfer it over.-
I have a bunch of DLC and stuff installed that I'm not sure I can download again, do you know if stuff like that can be downloaded more than once?
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When I had my grief with 7 Xboxes over a period of 2 months failing, I got pretty good at re-downloading my profile. I never had any issue with downloading DLC and whatnot, but I'm not sure about things which were once on XBLA and have since been removed. I *believe* they're still hosted and can be redownloaded if you bought it when it was still on the service, but that stuff didn't start happening until I finally got a working Xbox.
For the most part, it was a fairly straightforward, albeit long process.-
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Awesome, time to delete some crap. Still wish there was an easier way to remove stuff because deleting things one at a time is a pain in the ass.
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I redownloaded the Alan Wake DLC a couple days ago. You shouldn't have any problems.
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Not unplayable, but god damn if that doesn't look absolutely disgusting.
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I remember a discussion, when installs came out first, where there was a lot of talk about whether installing made any difference other than noise of console - long lists of load times were linked? Someone back then it wouldn't be load times that benefit solely but also this streaming from disc stuff would be holding back developers (based on what they had inferred from PS3's installed assets and access times I guess I presumed). So, if you had a 360 (say an original arcade) and it did not play a 360 game then you'd be annoyed (I recall being confused by getting an N64 cart with plug in h/w) but unless its hooked up via RF to small SD tv you aren't really having the same experience, are you?
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I haven't played a 360 game from Disc in a loooooooong time.
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It's the harbinger of the end!
.......of this console cycle anyway. Everyone with an ounce of common sense knew this day was comming when Microsoft got out in front without a permanent storage requirement and the lack of upgraded disc media storage be it a commercial platform (HDDVD or Blu-Ray) or a propreitary disc.
Will this game look gob smacking awesome on a capeabe PC? Yes. Does everyone want to play it on PC? No, me included since I work from home and am on a PC all day. Is the money going to come from the PC or Console? Console and that is why I am glad they provided an option for those of us with the bigger hard drives.
The bigger thing we should be all making noise about is the proprietary bull s*** that Microsoft is still pulling over HDD's both on the launch and new XBOX 360 consoles. Say what you want about the PS3, but it has a standard 2.5" HDD which you can swap and have multiple backups of for the price of what you can get at NewEgg.
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It's quite sad when consoles are running sub HD resolutions. I played the beta on consoles it wasn't the textures that looked bad it was the horrible jaggies. It really is time for new consoles or we are going to be playing at 480p again.
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where'd you do that?
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....what? You have a 250gb drive so why would you not buy it? I do not understand.
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looks like Half-Life
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* R_PICMIP 3'D*
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Played some Q3DM against an ex co-worker. As I blasted right through the department, I took a quick break to visit a co worker. He had that setting on and virtually every other setting off/low as possible. Quizzing him as to why (esp since his box could handle it): he's color blind and it was the only thing he could do to make out the differences in textures.
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fuckin lol
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For reference, the PC version of Rage: http://chattypics.com/files/20111010_00001_2k7x5m8w7n.jpg
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haha, dat tree
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haha
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Yeah, that should be a SpeedTree ad.
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Ugh, speed tree!
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It looks MUCH better on my PC. Which isn't even high-end. Sadly, it took a lot of config editing to get it that way.
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Nothing wrong with sprites. A number of modern engines still use them well. But that one is straight outta Compton.
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I've done this too but not for frame rate reasons :D.
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I'm with you. To answer willard's question. Yes. I'm much more comfortable in the 90-120 fps range.
In general turning off shadows is a huge boost for frames but BC2 didn't allow you to do that afaik and I doubt BF3 will either.
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