Battlefield 4 Demo: Paracel Storm at Gamescom
EA TV conducted a broadcast of Battlefield 4, spectating gameplay from the attendees of Gamescom. Almost 13 minutes of were posted to Youtube and, because our readers are awesome, you get to see it...
View ArticleBattlefield 4: Levelution Teaser
Battlefield 4 is still at Gamescom, possibly the last big trade show before launch, and they are still trickling out news. DICE just released their Levelution teaser, which is a cheesy name and I will...
View ArticleAMD versus NVIDIA versus Frostbite3
As the recommended requirements for BF4 indicate that a mid-range GPU should be able to handle the game, [H]ard|OCP tested out the public beta with the new R9 280X as well as the GTX 770. This not...
View ArticleThree For Three: Battlefield 4 Fail Launch. DRM'd!
((Update: October 30 @ 7:04pm: The issue was not resolved by EA before the EU release date. However, as expected, the game unlocked at 7:01pm. While I wish I could have reported that the issue was...
View ArticleBattling Frostbite on the PC
EA may have released the minimum and recommended specs but until properly tweaked and benchmarked it is never clear how much power BF4 wants. Thankfully TechSpot has gone through all of that work for...
View ArticleAMD's Holiday Game + GPU Bundles
UPDATE (11/14/2013): After many complaints from the community about the lack of availability of graphics cards that actually HAD the Battlefield 4 bundle included with them, AMD is attempting to...
View ArticleBF4 and the 3GB VRAM myth
One of the more interesting results from [H]ard|OCP's testing with Battlefield 4 was the RAM usage they observed, cards with 3GB or more of VRAM used 2.25GB of RAM at most points, cards with less...
View ArticleAMD Mantle for Battlefield 4 Delayed into the New Year
If you have been following the mess than has been Battlefield 4 since its release, what with the crashing on both PCs and consoles, you know that EA and DICE have decided that fixing the broken game is...
View ArticleAMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Driver Brings Mantle Support, Frame Pacing Phase 2, HSA
AMD has released some important new drivers with drastic feature additions over the past year. Remember back in August of 2013 when Frame Pacing was first revealed? Today’s Catalyst 14.1 beta release...
View ArticleBattlefield 4 Mantle Early Performance Testing
Late last week, EA and Dice released the long awaited patch for Battlefield 4 that enables support for the Mantle renderer. This new API technology was introduced by AMD back in September....
View ArticleFocus on Mantle
Now that the new Mantle enabled driver has been released several sites have had a chance to try out the new API to see what effect it has on Battlefield 4. [H]ard|OCP took a stock XFX R9 290X paired...
View ArticlePodcast #286 - AMD Mantle, Battlefield 4 Performance, Chromeboxes and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #286 - 02/06/2014Join us this week as we discuss the release of AMD Mantle, Battlefield 4 Performance, Chromeboxes and more!You can subscribe to us through iTunes and you can...
View ArticleFrame Rating: Battlefield 4 Mantle CrossFire Early Performance with FCAT
Back in September AMD publicly announced Mantle, a new lower level API meant to offer more performance for gamers and more control for developers fed up with the restrictions of DirectX. Without diving...
View ArticleTake Your Best BF4 Battlefest Battleshots and Win!
For the next month, until August 12th, Battlefield.com, AMD and Sapphire will be giving away video cards, DICE giftcards and BF4 Premium memberships to the best screenshots submitted to their blog.This...
View ArticleMore testing of Mantle's mettle
Mantle is currently supported by the Nitrous, Frostbite 3 and CRYENGINE engines, and the current official list of released or soon to be released games that support the new API has reached eight AAA...
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