BF Hardline - AMD cards getting panned (not by much)

LtMatt · 23 Mar 2015 at 15:34

dasimpse said:
I cant see through the fighting. Is this game running fine on AMD cards?

Both DX and Mantle working well, though Mantle is miles ahead in smoothness.

Wucked · 23 Mar 2015 at 16:03

whyscotty said:
Settled on 347.71 - so far so good

347.25 also works well.

whyscotty · 23 Mar 2015 at 16:17

Wucked said:
347.25 also works well.

Good to know

Gregster · 23 Mar 2015 at 16:19

AMDMatt said:
Both DX and Mantle working well, though Mantle is miles ahead in smoothness.

Is it? I just played it on both DX and mantle and neither stood out for me, except I actually get lower frames with Mantle. Is that normal?

shankly1985 · 23 Mar 2015 at 17:54

Only playing on single 290x my frame rate is much higher using mantle than dx11..

Gregster · 23 Mar 2015 at 17:56

shankly1985 said:
Only playing on single 290x my frame rate is much higher using mantle than dx11..

I recorded it but Raptr messed up the video for Mantle

setter · 23 Mar 2015 at 18:12

pgi947 said:
If nvidia users are getting the dx error (swap chain), they need to roll back to another driver. 340.52 worked for me.

Fraps doesn't work with it, neither does FLAC calculator.

There was a user.cfg command line I had to use in the beta to get FRAPS working. Without it the game refused to launch. I'll see about adding it later when back on the pc.

Gregster · 23 Mar 2015 at 19:02

lol @ the thread name change

Well, in around 30 mins, my time with the 290X comes to an end

But.... I will be rocking a pair of 7950s till the TXs arrive :eek:

May God have mercy on my soul

humbug · 23 Mar 2015 at 21:36

SiDeards73 said:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015...video_card_performance_preview/7#.VNoE4S5uZEE

Oh dear

Dodgey drivers is my bet, maybe they are hoping to put Mantle back in and save it? who knows.

Again they are using that XFX DD thats 15% slower than a standard 290X. it throttles like nothing else i don't know why they insist on using it and not the much faster Asus they have used in other reviews.

Phixsator · 24 Mar 2015 at 01:36

Doesnt matter the game is poop anyway imho..

LtMatt · 24 Mar 2015 at 08:28

SiDeards73 said:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015...video_card_performance_preview/7#.VNoE4S5uZEE

Oh dear

Dodgey drivers is my bet, maybe they are hoping to put Mantle back in and save it? who knows.

Nope, right where we should be and actually ahead/equal to the 980 if an 290X 8GB card is used. Expect more performance reviews to pop up shortly for this game.

Source
http://www.techspot.com/review/979-battlefield-hardline-benchmarks/page4.html

humbug · 24 Mar 2015 at 11:59

AMDMatt said:
Nope, right where we should be and actually ahead/equal to the 980 if an 290X 8GB card is used. Expect more performance reviews to pop up shortly for this game.

Source
http://www.techspot.com/review/979-battlefield-hardline-benchmarks/page4.html

I haven't run a test yet but some of these review results seem very strange to me, everytime i look at my Frame Rates they are in the 80's or 120's.

Looking at some of these reviews claiming 45/50/60/80 Average for 290/X and GTX 970/80 just makes me have a huge WTF?!?!?!!!!! moment.

Maybe i should switch back to DX to see where all the Frame Rates are going. eh?

Diagro · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:05

I cant understand why the same old people are doing the same old crap.

just get on and play the bloody game and stop looking at numbers and graphs!

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:19

I've got a very detailed article up on my website (HardwarePal) for the beta if anyone is interested in posting the link here. I don't think things changed that much as the game played perfectly fine.

It has all the frame times in charts for single and sli/cfx.

humbug · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:24

Diagro said:
I cant understand why the same old people are doing the same old crap.

just get on and play the bloody game and stop looking at numbers and graphs!

It matters, to say that a high end GTX 970 / 290P can only manage 45 FPS average is a nonsense, that would be unplayable and it forces people to look at much more expensive solutions where in reality they don't need to.

I would like to know how they got to those results but unfortunately these days they never publish their methods so its impossible to verify them.

IMO Mainstream reviewers are no longer valid, they all have people with commercial interests pulling their strings.

And thats fine, but they should at least publish how they get to those results so that users can say "this is how they got to those results" if they are not (utterly fictitious for commercial purposes)

Final8y · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:24

Diagro said:
I cant understand why the same old people are doing the same old crap.

just get on and play the bloody game and stop looking at numbers and graphs!

Well people need to be informed, but as long as im getting my 60fps Vsync or caped i dont careless after that, the only time i bring up the OSD to look at fps and such is if it feels like im not getting my 60fps.

africanos23 · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:28

humbug said:
It matters, to say that a high end GTX 970 / 290P can only manage 45 FPS average is a nonsense, that would be unplayable and it forces people to look at much more expensive solutions where in reality they don't need to.

I would like to know how they got to those results but unfortunately these days they never publish their methods so its impossible to verify them.

IMO Mainstream reviewers are no longer valid, they all have people with commercial interests pulling their strings.

And thats fine, but they should at least publish how they get to those results so that users can say "this is how they got to those results" if they are not (utterly fictitious for commercial purposes)

I'm not a mainstream reviewer and it's a hobby of sorts.

You want the frap logs for validation ?

That's the testing methodology and all settings are included so you can test against them.

~>Dg<~ · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:35

to get fraps to work type in (hit tilde key)

RenderDevice.PresentAsync 0

Gregster · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:39

~>Dg<~ said:
to get fraps to work type in (hit tilde key)

RenderDevice.PresentAsync 0

Wish I knew that yesterday whilst I still had the 290X in

Oh well, not to worry

humbug · 24 Mar 2015 at 12:42

africanos23 said:
I'm not a mainstream reviewer and it's a hobby of sorts.

You want the frap logs for validation ?

That's the testing methodology and all settings are included so you can test against them.

Thats going to be difficult to replicate, at least you publish your methods

Can you put a link up to your results please?

I'm going to have a go my self at getting some consistent results when i get back home.