Official Battlefield 4 Thread

[The Joker]

Well I managed to play 3 rounds without issues last night...Seems Nvidia drivers are sucking hard lol
Went back to AMD and now my game is fine...lol

[AlienTaker]

i can play some BF4 again tonight so gonna try and blow up some tanks

[DarthMol]

Well I managed to play 3 rounds without issues last night...Seems Nvidia drivers are sucking hard lol
Went back to AMD and now my game is fine...lol

Did you use Mantle?

[The Joker]

Did you use Mantle?

I have used mantle, it def improves performance especially when you have it running with a FX8350 and a R9 290.
My biggest issue with it is, I don't think AMD should have used BF as the launch platform for it, yes it helped them sell a heck of a lot more cards ect but BF4 is just a buggy mess. Personally I won't be running Mantle again before we have a WHQL Mantle driver and I don't see that happening in the near future, possibly only in a month or so from now.

[DarthMol]

That's true, I also wondered if BF4 was really the best platform to show off Mantle considering the bugs but I guess they kinda had no choice since it's been hyped for ages.

[AlienTaker]

I have used mantle, it def improves performance especially when you have it running with a FX8350 and a R9 290.
My biggest issue with it is, I don't think AMD should have used BF as the launch platform for it, yes it helped them sell a heck of a lot more cards ect but BF4 is just a buggy mess. Personally I won't be running Mantle again before we have a WHQL Mantle driver and I don't see that happening in the near future, possibly only in a month or so from now.

I also saw an improvement but i got stuttering every now and then not permanent but it's annoying so i went back to DX11. But Joker maybe you can give me advice or tell me what the issue might be my card is a R9 270x O.C and my cpu is a i5 2320 quad and i have 8gb of 1600 ram. do i have an issue somewhere or is all that fine?

[KrustyThePirate]

I have used mantle, it def improves performance especially when you have it running with a FX8350 and a R9 290.
My biggest issue with it is, I don't think AMD should have used BF as the launch platform for it, yes it helped them sell a heck of a lot more cards ect but BF4 is just a buggy mess. Personally I won't be running Mantle again before we have a WHQL Mantle driver and I don't see that happening in the near future, possibly only in a month or so from now.

Was debating whether to download the 14.1 beta drivers and use them but I guess this settles it, will wait for WHQL mantle drivers, seems there are too many issues at the moment.

[DuckKnuckle]

394.08MB update rolled out today.

Feb 13 PC Game Update Notes
-General stability improvements
-Fix for an issue where spawning into, or switching to, a gunner seat in an IFV/MBT sometimes could cause the game to crash
-Fix for missing sound in Team/Squad Deathmatch
-Fix for an issue in the Defuse game mode, where a bomb carrier would be permanently spotted
-Decreased the rate at which the kill card would incorrectly display 0 health, while the enemy was clearly alive
-Fixed an invisible wall that was incorrectly positioned in one of the fallen concrete pipes on Zavod 311
-Fix for an issue where bullet impact sounds weren’t properly matching the actual number of impacts
-Fix for an issue where the “Draw” message would not display on-screen once a Conquest round ended with both teams having the same amount of tickets
-Fix for a game crash that could occur when spectating a player in a vehicle
-Fix for an issue where long IDs wouldn’t scroll on dog tags
-Fix for missing grass physics in terrain

Mantle
-Fix for a crash that would occur when activating full screen in portrait mode
-Fix for stuttering that could appear during video sequences on multi-GPU PCs
-Fix for a memory system leak that could cause stalls, which would result in frames taking longer to process
-Reduced the amount of stalls that occurred when running with high graphics setting that require more GPU memory than is currently available
-Fixed screenshots on multi-GPU PCs
-Players now have to explicitly enable Mantle, as it is no longer enabled by default

[The Joker]

I also saw an improvement but i got stuttering every now and then not permanent but it's annoying so i went back to DX11. But Joker maybe you can give me advice or tell me what the issue might be my card is a R9 270x O.C and my cpu is a i5 2320 quad and i have 8gb of 1600 ram. do i have an issue somewhere or is all that fine?

That should be fine, what I will say is that BF4 actually loves faster ram, For instance if you run 2400 ram over 1600 ram you should see an extra 10fps or so, not sure if the price of upgrading is worth it though for you. Other than that your rig looks fine.

[Stunt]

And another Gold battle pack challenge lands 50 Million vehicles destroyed to get it. Just fix the Shotguns first please and Give me an MK3A1 i miss my gun

I'd rather have the NS2000 back

I miss the days when Rush was the most popular game mode (BC2 days really)

It still is pretty popular, BFBC2 was just done right when it came to Rush. The maps were designed for Rush and adapted for Conquest. They shouldn't have stopped using that method.

Well I managed to play 3 rounds without issues last night...Seems Nvidia drivers are sucking hard lol
Went back to AMD and now my game is fine...lol

Weird, I know 4 people on nVidia incl. myself who've had no issues at all. Think it's something else.

i can play some BF4 again tonight so gonna try and blow up some tanks

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394.08MB update rolled out today.
-Decreased the rate at which the kill card would incorrectly display 0 health, while the enemy was clearly alive

This is gonna make some people very happy!