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Jon1984 wrote:It's been difficult to work with the built in logger from Battlefield 4. I think I managed to successfully put to work the logger with MSI Afterburner. I run the game in Direct3D mode so the MSI AB works, play the mission then restart the mission without getting out of BF4 so MSI AB keeps working. Between missions I change in the game settings from Direct3D to Mantle.
Savyg wrote:Firestarter wrote:I'm pretty excited! Not so much for BF4, but for any tech demos out there that can show me what my HD7950 is actually capable of. Besides BF4, can you name anything that we may want to check out?
The Star Swarm demo just went up on Steam.
ChronoReverse wrote:My empirical experience with my 7950 is that it works. I'm able to push up to 4x MSAA from 2xMSAA and still completely lock it at 60FPS.
However, I don't know if it's the code in BF4 or the 14.1 drivers (probably the drivers), I get severe lulls of low FPS for several seconds every few minutes. Basically makes it unusable for me so I'm back to DX11 and 2xMSAA.
BlackStar wrote:Jon1984 wrote:It's been difficult to work with the built in logger from Battlefield 4. I think I managed to successfully put to work the logger with MSI Afterburner. I run the game in Direct3D mode so the MSI AB works, play the mission then restart the mission without getting out of BF4 so MSI AB keeps working. Between missions I change in the game settings from Direct3D to Mantle.
You need to restart the game, otherwise the switch between DirectX an Mantle does take effect.
morphine wrote:ChronoReverse wrote:My empirical experience with my 7950 is that it works. I'm able to push up to 4x MSAA from 2xMSAA and still completely lock it at 60FPS.
However, I don't know if it's the code in BF4 or the 14.1 drivers (probably the drivers), I get severe lulls of low FPS for several seconds every few minutes. Basically makes it unusable for me so I'm back to DX11 and 2xMSAA.
That's been happening to others in this thread, and to a friend of mine who also tested this yesterday.
Bensam123 wrote:the Spike for me was every 3-4 min. I have ZERO spikes with DX11.Oh yes, everyone is switching back to DX because of the spike you get every 15-30 minutes that lasts for all of .25s.
tanker27 wrote:One thing no one is reporting on is the thermals with Mantle enabled. Just after a cursory look at temps after an hour of BF4 both CPU and GPU are up 7-10 degrees over the same time played at DX11. I also notice the GPU fans and case fans kicking up to high and staying that way.
puppetworx wrote:Mantle's benefit seems really hard to gauge in absolute terms, it's dependent on so many factors.
Aphasia wrote:It's just not enough space to keep it all in your head anymore. And GASP, I even pass over a few of the TR graphs in the reviews these days.
Aphasia wrote:Yeah, my head contains policies, ISO standards, firewall rulesets, a ton of different iterations of various flavours of proprietary shells not to mention all the black magic networking stuff
Well, supposedly, anything using Frostbite is going to have Mantle support, so that means Mirror's Edge 2, Dragon Age 3, Battlefront, although out of those, DA will probably be first out. Good question if Thief or Star Citizen will come out before that, haven't kept up with the dates on those. Q3 2014 for Dragons Age inquisition according to Wikipedia.
Jon1984 wrote:Thief is supposed to come next month.
tanker27 wrote:Meh, Not a big Thief fan so I probably would pass on it.
Savyg wrote:My A10-7850K arrived, got the UEFI updated, everything works perfectly with no reinstall in 8.1 coming from a DX58SO + i7 920. Right on. Didn't know you could do that.
Ryu Connor wrote:I feel like the technology is less revolutionary than touted by AMD or excited developers.
Savyg wrote:I feel like it'll save me money, and as relatively budget constrained gamer I appreciate that.