Thoughts on how BF4 might run on APUs?

Aslong as you've got a reasonable quad core CPU and something thats equivalent to last gen mid-range GPUs (560ti/6870) then it plays fairly playably on low settings at 1920x1080 or medium settings at lower resolution.
 
Not very playable in multiplayer at 1080p, i would imagine.

The 6800k is essentially a refresh of the 5800k with minimal performance gain, so i suppose this video is quite relevant.


To me that fps is not acceptable for competative first person shooter multiplayer, but i suppose others might find 18-27 fps not all that bad.

I would have held out till feb for Kaveri, if you had a rig to use for the meantime.
 
Avenged7Fold said:
Not very playable in multiplayer at 1080p, i would imagine.

The 6800k is essentially a refresh of the 5800k with minimal performance gain, so i suppose this video is quite relevant.


To me that fps is not acceptable for competative first person shooter multiplayer, but i suppose others might find 18-27 fps not all that bad.

I would have held out till feb for Kaveri, if you had a rig to use for the meantime.
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well, having played minecraft at 16fps for the last 2 years, i should feel quite at home. this actually is better than i expected.
 
From looking around the 6800K APU struggles to sustain BF3 at 30fps with low settings and 1280x1024 res so BF4 is gonna be pretty close to unplayable IMO.
 
Rroff said:
From looking around the 6800K APU struggles to sustain BF3 at 30fps with low settings and 1280x1024 res so BF4 is gonna be pretty close to unplayable IMO.
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Agreed, i get just over half the performance in bf4 compared to what i got in bf3 on the system in sig.
 
Pair it with a GPU that can Crossfire with the onboard and clock the Ram to 2000+ and you will see some considerable results. If you dont have a board yet, get an FM2+ g1 sniper, great value, incredible board and is probably the only non dead socket but comes with a small bump in price.
 
For a laugh I have just made a 5800K APU system and am installing BF4.

Any settings you want me to try?
 
CPU performance wise it will be fine. GPU performance wont be enough. I would highly recommend getting a separate GPU to run it anywhere close to 1080p.

As for game performance, yet to see it NOT crash on any system set up. Most bugged game I have ever seen :(
 
solado said:
CPU performance wise it will be fine. GPU performance wont be enough. I would highly recommend getting a separate GPU to run it anywhere close to 1080p.

As for game performance, yet to see it NOT crash on any system set up. Most bugged game I have ever seen :(
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I`ve played the Campaign 3 times and have yet to experience a crash. I can`t speak for the multiplayer side of the game, as I never play it. Most new games have bugs and this is no different, certainly not the worst.
 
Idleman said:
I`ve played the Campaign 3 times and have yet to experience a crash. I can`t speak for the multiplayer side of the game, as I never play it. Most new games have bugs and this is no different, certainly not the worst.
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It's online where the bugs shine. The patch has fixed a few problems but it still has regular "BF4 has stopped working" errors. I agree that new games have bugs as development costs increase and the demand for more complicated scripts cause bugs. But BF4 is a mess online.

Sorry OP. Back on topic <3
 
The current crop of APUs aren't up to it but Kaveri will run it quite acceptably (at least in Campaign mode) at 720p and medium preset. Multiplayer may not be quite so good because of the additional load it puts on the CPU.
 
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