HD Texture Pack - Graphics Comparison - Battlefield 3 wiki
Battlefield 3 gives the player an option to install an HD Texture Pack to their hard drive for a gigantic 1.5 gigabytes of hard drive space. The comparison above shows the difference between the regular textures and HD textures.
From the results of the video, the HD textures are almost mandatory for a High Definition screen, as declining the install will make the game's textures look fit for a PlayStation 2 title. When the pack is installed, it will stream these quality textures from your hard drive and quickly fade in; a process almost invisible to players while shooting hoards of bad guys.
The pack is most likely due to disc space limitations. The single player disc, when installed to the hard drive, is a gargantuan 7 gigabytes, which, even with the new disc format, is not enough to store the high-rez textures.
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WOW that's a hell of a difference.
In case you're wondering, PS3 users get it by default, since it's included in the mandatory install.
I hope this doesn't crash halfway through the game for us that have launch models. Naughty Dog (in a story on 1up) had a problem with their code having to do with a similar function of streaming the textures and stuff for the fat models and re-wrote code 2 days before going gold. However, I think they were streaming from the disk and hopefully the textures being on the hard drive (thanks DICE for taking a chunk of my 40g's) won't make my system go crazy.
@celeste_magix I have a 2009 fat model AND a launch model (which was RROD repaired by microsoft) and after about 2 1/2 hours of playing for each console, it froze once on my launch model, but that was remedied by installing the day 1 patch.
I'm glad I have the 250 gigabyte hard drive to install this texture pack. I am not a graphics whore, but I honestly don't know if I could play this with such dismal textures.
I know it won't happen in the practical future, but consoles need an update. Cmon Sony and Microshaft, even Nintendo will have more power than you soon...
@MarioDragon That's the biggest weakness of consoles. Even if tomorrow Sony/Microsoft released the best consoles evar, that were more powerful than any PC, within a few years they would still inevitably become steaming piles of shit :D
knida proves the point of blu rays over dvds
I'm glad I recently bought the new Xbox 360 so I have more memory. Until then i just had the original 20 GB (In other words 13.9 GB).
So how do I install this texture pack? I'm getting it from GameFly and I've been seeing that the pack is on a second cd, does this mean I'm totally fucked?
@parrisgg GameFly always sends both discs (even if you have a 1-disc plan). I know from experience when I had them send me Oblivion GOTY.
looks like a ps2 game without the hd pack
I have the arcade version of the xbox with 3 Gig (long story dont ask) and i have around 2 Gig free but when i try to install the HD pack it says it can only install on xbox hard drives. anyone know why that space is not considered hard drive space? thanks.