Thanks Phat, that was necessary as noone believe the guys, who already told them all these problems.
Bf3 is not only, because the maps are smaller, but also the viewing distance, which is just about 1km or 2 and not 20 km. The textures in bf3 are quite demanding or better say the amount of polygons is high. But this is more gpu dependant
Second fact for bf and all the othe fps graphic monsters:
1.) many things are just eye candy. The graphic behind the game and the technique is less demanding. I prefer all games with less effects, because it is better playable. Your eyes in reality could focus quickly and sitting in front of bf3 seems cool, but a computer game should focus on the circumstances of seeing things on screen. E.g. the general viewing in counterstrike without all the effects suites way better to reality and makes the game a competitive "skill" game. Bf3 is just eye candy for casual gamer and will not survive this long! My opinion..
2.) The developer first built up most games for multi platform. And as ps3 and xbox360 has very low ram overall, it needs to be done like that. On PC you only have problems with these games, as they are not 100% suitable for pc and not programmed well. Normally, the hardware of a pc will simply be bored to death by these games. That is the influence of the casual gaming comunity. As more and more casual gamers are becoming real gamers, they will soon ask for more challenging games with longer life span. Think of some games losing their support after 1 year... No online servers and no possibilty to play it online anymore, because dedicated servers seem to be out of scope nowadays.
Hopefully everyone understands, that bf3 is graphically demanding because of bad programming, although the frostbyte engine is an engine, which scales quite good. That is, why the game for pc is looking very good. But all in all it is simply not totally optimized for pc. The engine in this case is some kind of "conversion" tool to have a multiplatform engine, easy to run on every hardware.
Thanks again phat to show some guys some pictures to get heard.
