Battlefield 4 Running DirectX 11.1 Could Give Radeon HD 7000 an Edge

Relentless81 · 26 Jul 2013 at 19:10

Its that age old cycle of forum posts when a new hyped up game comes out that the usual few things apply

Marketing hype, it will fine on AMD or NVidia it really wont matter

It will kick ten shades out of most peoples hardware until its patched, patched again and its 6 months old and people have upgraded just to play said game on Ultra at the latest resolution that's "in"

And around and around we go until Battlefield 20 and Crysis 16

Call of duty however is of course an exception to this

Calin Banc · 26 Jul 2013 at 19:38

As far as I know, nVIDIA supports DX11.1 with the features that are gaming related and offer no support for others. At least from what I've read some time ago.

Gripen90 · 26 Jul 2013 at 20:57

Windows 7 = DX 11.0
Windows 8 = DX 11.1
Windows 8.1 = DX 11.2

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/1...xclusive-microsoft-dangles-the-upgrade-carrot

I won't change OS (using W7) untill DX 12 !. The changes between DX 11 to 11.2 are insignificant.

titaniumx3 · 26 Jul 2013 at 21:38

Are the changes in DX11.1 only performance tweaks or are extra graphical features? As in, will BF4 look better in Win8 than it does in Win7?

Martini1991 · 26 Jul 2013 at 21:40

The texture tiling thing or whatever it is doesn't sound insignificant (But it probably is

)

flopper · 26 Jul 2013 at 21:53

titaniumx3 said:
Are the changes in DX11.1 only performance tweaks or are extra graphical features? As in, will BF4 look better in Win8 than it does in Win7?

win 8 might be able to make the game run better (faster) but there shouldnt be any visual differences.
dx11 etc..are made so you can do things more efficient and allow a bit better fps if coded well. visually pretty much no difference even though some features might allow such.

flopper · 26 Jul 2013 at 21:55

Gerard said:
Is performance any different in win 8?

64bit OS is likely to do more difference.

spoffle · 26 Jul 2013 at 21:55

Direct X increments are never really about new fancy graphical effects, they're about reducing the overhead required to achieve those effects, meaning more demanding effects can be turned up to 11 without caining performance.

titaniumx3 · 26 Jul 2013 at 22:06

Cool, don't really feel like changing to Win 8 right now (even though I probably will at some point). Windows 7 is running perfect for me right now, I know what's what and where everything is. I just can't imagine things getting any better, at least for my uses anyway. Microsoft really hit the sweet spot here, imho.

antonusklesk · 26 Jul 2013 at 22:12

I like the way W7 works, and in my (admittedly little) experience with W8 it just adds extra layers of complication unnecessarily.

Perhaps I'm just undereducated on its merits, but I'm not aware of any.

gurusan · 27 Jul 2013 at 02:34

There is too much bitching about Windows 8. It's a great OS, yes the stupid start screen was a huge mistake. Stardock start8 cures this for the most part...I bought Windows 8 for 40 dollars on launch and spend 5 dollars on start 8. Cheapest I've ever paid for an OS upgrade.

Dicehunter · 27 Jul 2013 at 05:41

I would make the switch to 8 but none of my custom themes or various customisations work with 8

craptakular · 27 Jul 2013 at 07:06

This will be balanced out by dire AMD drivers.

Randomface74 · 27 Jul 2013 at 07:19

LtMatt said:
+1.

A 780 with its 3gb of vram will be perfect for BF4. I have a sneaky feeling our 2gb friends won't be running x4 AA smoothly at 1080p due to a lack of vram.

+1

Puppetmaster · 27 Jul 2013 at 08:29

craptakular said:
This will be balanced out by dire AMD drivers.

If that is the case, Nvidia users wont be able to play the game because they will be busy RMA'ing their broken cards

spoffle · 27 Jul 2013 at 09:10

craptakular said:
This will be balanced out by dire AMD drivers.

Oh cool, your username and post content match up!

Ian Evey · 27 Jul 2013 at 09:27

craptakular said:
This will be balanced out by dire AMD drivers.

Well he did have a 7950 and swapped it for a 680, so he might have good reason to post what he did.

spoffle · 27 Jul 2013 at 09:28

PEBKAC is never a good reason to talk smack

Ian Evey · 27 Jul 2013 at 09:47

Thats your opinion unless you read minds.

spoffle · 27 Jul 2013 at 09:51

It's not. AMD and nVidia both have driver issues, however the notion that AMD has significantly more is a myth, in actuality nVidia typically has more driver issues as well as more damaging/serious driver issues when issues do crop up.

On three separate occasions, nVidia have released a driver that has physically damaged and or killed their graphics cards. Two of those times, it coincided with nVidia releasing new cards, which makes you wonder.

So no, that's not just my opinion.