At long last, those with recent ATI cards can finally experience the framerate benefits that the Mantle API brings to the table. We're talking about some fairly substantial framerate gains in some cases over DirectX 11.
First off, go pick up the AMD Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers and enable the Mantle API within the Battlefield 4 settings. It's recommended that you do a clean install of these drivers and not simply install over your old drivers. Installing over your old drivers with...
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AMD Releases Catalyst 14.1 Beta Drivers with Mantle Support - Battlefield 4 Framerate Gains Benchmarked
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Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation Month Has Begun
Just a friendly reminder to all Battlefield 4 players out there. The "Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation Month" has officially kicked off. One of the first things you'll notice is that you get some free Battlepacks every single day you log into Battlelog. Today, you'll probably get a free Bronze Battlepack and a free Silver Battlepack. You get things in them like your 30th 25% XP boost, new camoflauge patterns, dog tab patterns, weapon attachments, and more. What else can you expe... -
DICE Details How to Enable Mantle Battlefield 4 and What to Expect Once Enabled
While Mantle support has been added in today's Battlefield 4 update, it still isn't able to be used until AMD rolls out a new video driver. Until then, DICE details all you need to know about how to enable it within the game and what to expect once it's enabled.
Battlefield 4 on PC is already quite heavily optimized using DirectX 11 and DirectX 11.1, but with Mantle we are able to go even further: we’ve significantly reduced CPU cost in our rendering, efficiently parallelized it over multiple... -
Battlefield 4 PC Update Includes Mantle, Balancing, Performance Gains, and Undocumented Improvements - January 30, 2014
An update was released earlier today for the PC version of Battlefield 4. Most notable in this update, at least for ATI users, is the addition of Mantle support to the game. Also included are various performance gains for all hardware types, weapon balancing, vehicle balancing, and more.
Changelog for Battlefield 4 (PC) for January 30, 2014
Mantle Support The new Mantle renderer has been added in Battlefield 4. Most players can expect a performance increase by us... -
Upcoming Battlefield 4 Pistol Tweaks Detailed by DICE
Not content just with buffing soldier weapons or mucking around with vehicle balance, they're also working on tweaks for the pistols in Battlefield 4.
Another blog post that went up today details a few ways in which they're attempting to bring balance to the various pistols in the game.
1) Increased the aimed accuracy of the M1911 to make it a viable choice once the COMPACT 45 has been unlocked. This gives the M1911 a clear accuracy advantage for range, while the COMPACT 45... -
Missing Battlefield 4 Veteran Battlepacks Won't Be Fixed Until March
Still don't have your promised Veteran Battlepack for Battlefield 4 yet? Don't worry, most people don't. Something that was promised at launch has been pushed back now until March 2014.
A posting on the EA support forums from "eabastian" gives us the quick details.
Short update:March. That will be over five months since the g...
Expect your Veteran Battlepack to become available in early March. Stay tuned for more information!
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DICE Details Upcoming Soldier Weapon Tweaks for Battlefield 4 Including DMR Damage Buff
DICE is turning the "EZ Mode" for the Recon class up to at least 10 with the upcoming patch. Today, the Battlefield 4 blog talks about some weapon tweaks coming to the game. Weapon tweaks that include a damage buff to DMRs and increased accuracy when sniping.
DMRs 1) Increased the damage of all DMRs across all ranges. Specifically, damage has been increased at long ranges to allow three-hit kills against unarmored opponents. Additionally, reduced the penalty to accuracy for susta... -
DICE Announces February as Player Appreciation Month - Includes Free Unlocks, Battlepacks, and More
DICE has decided to turn February into Player Appreciation Month for Battlefield 4. Think of it as their way of saying "sorry" for releasing one of the biggest blunders of the modern gaming era.
So, what does this mean for you, the player? They first open by saying they're still working on the "netcode" for the game that they feel wwill "tighten the overall multiplayer experience" for the game. Details are light on this but hopefully more will be revealed in the next month.... -
DICE Reveals Plans on Vehicle Balancing Tweaks Coming to Battlefield 4
After trying for a few hours just to get their blog to load, I finally see now how DICE plans to introduce even more balance to the vehicles in Battlefield 4.
Aircraft and Anti-Aircraft 1) Reduced the total amount of missiles carried by the Mobile Anti-Aircraft vehicles from 6 to 4. The total carried missiles were making it impossible for helicopters to use counter measures to avoid the MAA’s attacks. 2) Reduced the velocity of the MAA’s default 20MM CANNON from 1200m/s to 8... -
Battlefield 4 Running on Mantle Runs Up to '45% Faster'
During AMD's CES 2014 conference, the company discussed a bit about their upcoming Mantle API and how it will impact Battlefield 4 performance. They said that they've seen "up to" 45% increases in framerate in some cases in Battlefield 4.
The part of the above video that is important to you begins around the 30:30 mark. Comparison video footage was not shown off, though they seem to have shown off a few brief segments of the game running with Mantle. Unfortunately, their p... -
Reminder: Double XP Event for Battlefield 4 Premium is Active
Just a quick reminder to all owners of Battlefield 4 and Premium out there that there is an ongoing Double XP event underway. This event began yesterday at 8AM (ET) and is active for 58 hours.
There is nothing special that you need to do to participate other than own Battlefield 4 Premium. Don't forget to make use of your 100% and 200% experience boosts for even faster gains. -
AMD Mantle Support for Battlefield 4 Delayed Until at Least January
If you're an AMD videocard owner and you've been anxiously awaiting AMD Mantle support that was promised for Battlefield 4, you're going to have a bit of a longer wait.
With DICE focused on fixing bugs for the game, support for the new API has now been pushed back to some time in January. A spokesperson for EA issued the following statement to SemiAccurate.
"After much consideration, the decision was made to delay the Mantle patch for Battlefield 4. AMD continues to support... -
Check Out 'LEVOLUTION' a Time Lapse Video of Battlefield 4
Kick back, relax, and enjoy "LEVOLUTION," a time lapse video of some of some multiplayer battles in Battlefield 4.
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Rumor: EA May Offer Free Battlefield 4 DLC as Apology for Releasing a Buggy Mess
As a way of apologizing to the community, EA may offer up some free DLC for Battlefield 4 if current rumors are to be believed. It isn't much to go on, but the rumor suggests that DICE and EA will give out some free DLC to make up for releasing what is arguably the buggiest AAA release of 2013. If it's the China Rising DLC, that would be really stupid considering most everyone already has that anyway. Will it be Second Assault? Maybe, but then those who purchased the Season Pass will be... -
Battlefield 4 PC Patch Addresses SLI Texture Flickering and More - December 20, 2013
Another patch was released earlier today for the PC version of Battlefield 4 that addresses the texture flickering issue for SLI users. In addition, it promises even more crash fixes.
Changelog for Battlefield 4 PC for December 20, 2013-Fix for terrain flickering when using SLI/CrossFire setup -Fix for three of the top crash issues on the PC platform -Fix for case when soldier can die with 1 HP instead of 0 -Fix for the issue where the revive UI could be permanently shown after accep...
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