Battlefield 3 streaming tech

beginning at 7:00 in the video

We [Frostbite 2] stream almost all meshes & textures

– Shorter loading times

– Reduced memory requirements

Streaming based on camera position, no blurry textures behind you

Per multiplayer level

– 200 – 250 MB of streamed object meshes

– 1.3 – 1.5 GB of streamed object textures [Per level!]

TEXTURE QUALITY setting sets size of the texture pool

– Low: 150 MB

– Ultra: 500 MB