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9 years ago
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Battlefield 3: Can't change resolution

I am trying to play on my laptop which has a 4k screen but when I load into a game the map picture is very small as well as the menu and hud. My resolution is set at 3840x2180 and the game runs horri...
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    ragnarok013
    9 years ago
    @mmodonnell wrote:

    I have not tried that because I cannot for the life of me find the file. Everyone talks about the "config" file but nobody ever says where it is. Could you tell me?

    For me the config file that I made to display FPS etc is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3

    Your GTX 970M exceeds the recommended GPU for BF3 so are you 100% positive that the laptop is not using the integrated GPU instead of your 970M? On my Alienware 17 that I game on when I travel I had a similar issue and it turns out a driver update cleared my settings an it was trying to use the integrated GPU to play Skyrim instead of my R9 290x that I originally set up to use for games. Hitting the key to force swap GPUs to the performance GPU and doing a reboot solved the issue for me.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

I have not tried that because I cannot for the life of me find the file. Everyone talks about the "config" file but nobody ever says where it is. Could you tell me?

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9 years ago
@mmodonnell wrote:

I have not tried that because I cannot for the life of me find the file. Everyone talks about the "config" file but nobody ever says where it is. Could you tell me?

For me the config file that I made to display FPS etc is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3

Your GTX 970M exceeds the recommended GPU for BF3 so are you 100% positive that the laptop is not using the integrated GPU instead of your 970M? On my Alienware 17 that I game on when I travel I had a similar issue and it turns out a driver update cleared my settings an it was trying to use the integrated GPU to play Skyrim instead of my R9 290x that I originally set up to use for games. Hitting the key to force swap GPUs to the performance GPU and doing a reboot solved the issue for me.

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