Widescreen Gaming Forum

If you're running a single 5870, I'd suggest bumping down a notch on your resolution for 2 reasons:
1) You'll get more performance and after going from 5760x1080 to 4800x900, it's much smoother for my preferences in MP (60-80 fps now).
2) The icons will re-appear in non-native fullscreen resolutions! They were gone at 5760x1080 for me... but they re-appeared at 4800x900. The catch? My HUD was no longer centered. Scrunching it using the UI adjuster can help with that.

As far as how much crossfire helps: Immensely. I haven't had the greatest experience with xfire and scaling in eyefinity... but my god this game scales almost 100%. The biggest issue if you have 1gb 5870's will be the VRAM though. I found the reduction in resolution improved my gameplay experience more than the loss in visual fidelity.

I previously had problems with missing indicators when I had my settings all on MED. When I put them on HIGH I got indicators above all my teammates about 80% of the time with missing SQUAD/ALLY indicators the remaining 20% of the time. I don't know if this solved the problem or if I just got really lucky. Just what I seemed to notice. At all settings on HIGH I am getting around 47-52 fps at 6060 x 1200 res with no AA and 1x AF.


Setup:
AMD 1100T BE
Asus M4A79T-Deluxe
8GB RAM
2 x 5870 E6 2GB in Xfire
AMD CAT: 11.9 w/ CAP3 installed

Found this, I guess DICE is aware of the issue.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1444436-hud-not-scaling-correctly-eyefinity.html#post20228581

I was granted a refund for the game. I have no interest in playing this with one screen and there's no sense in waiting around for a fix that im sure is WAY down in the list of things to do. Ill keep an eye on it, if they fix all of these eyefinity issues then ill hop back on board.

Found this, I guess DICE is aware of the issue.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1444436-hud-not-scaling-correctly-eyefinity.html#post20228581

I was granted a refund for the game. I have no interest in playing this with one screen and there's no sense in waiting around for a fix that im sure is WAY down in the list of things to do. Ill keep an eye on it, if they fix all of these eyefinity issues then ill hop back on board.

Repii (DICE) posted a reply in that thread, he reported the issue to the UI ppl to investigate.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-3-pc/1444436-hud-not-scaling-correctly-eyefinity.html#post20228581

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If I bump my resolution down to 4800x900 and run it in windowed mode maximized i get my teammates names and such where they should be. However, radar is in the left screen is slightly twisted and the ammo count box is in the right screen, again slightly twisted.

Its playable this way until they get a fix.

Hopefully this'll be fixed in the first patch. I'd hate for them to lag behind in fixing Eyefinity/Surround-related fixes 12+months down the line.

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same prob, no player icons

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intel x79
2 way 780ti's under water
Intel 4760 extreme @ 4GHz
3 x 42 inch screens @5860x1080
16 gigs xmp ram @2200

Can't you use the screen adjust to fix the hud on the non-native resolutions?

If not, what about making your desktop res match the games lower res?

OK! Got a temporary fix for Nvidia guys.

You must install driver 285.38. 285.62 does not work for this.

Run at a resolution lower than your desktop, such as 4800x900. First thing you'll see is your hud is now nolonger centered.. No problem! Go into your DocumentsBattlefield 3settings folder and open PROF_SAVE_profile in notepad. Change the line "GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaWidth 0.800000" to "GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaWidth 0.300000" (30 worked for me)

The ingame screen area does not let you go this low, but you can mod the file and it works. So now I have centered hud and enemy/friendly indicators. A good trade off from native res.. for now.

how do I force that 4800x900 res? in game it doesn't give me that res option.