DICE details BF4 fixes, mostly CPU.

ALXAndy · 17 Oct 2013 at 11:35

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2013/10/17/dice-bf4-beta-fixes/1

It seems it had CPU issues, especially on multi core. Sounds promising though

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 17 Oct 2013 at 11:49

the fixing of an amusing bug which turns lifts into catapults

awwwww

ALXAndy · 17 Oct 2013 at 11:52

LOL I must have missed that bug

shame !

I did see trees disappear into the roads though

jonnyp1993 · 17 Oct 2013 at 12:16

i also saw floating defence posts

and half a tank eaten by the ground :eek:

ALXAndy · 17 Oct 2013 at 12:21

Yeah it was pretty bad tbh. IMO BF3 in multi actually looks better. Looks like BF4 has bigger maps though.

~>Dg<~ · 17 Oct 2013 at 12:24

you judging a 3 month old build

ALXAndy · 17 Oct 2013 at 12:26

~>Dg<~ said:
you judging a 3 month old build

It's been in development for a couple of years

But no, not judging it. I do get a very odd feeling it only supports 6 CPU cores though and I had that suspicion with BF3 also. Will need to crack out my little VFD screen and set it to monitor core usage.

I won't be playing it in multi player any way I just want the SP to be good with really nice graphics

gpuerrilla · 17 Oct 2013 at 14:08

I didnt get to test the beta. Downloaded it onto my old machine but my parts arrived next day for this new build. Built the rig and tried it the other night to see they pulled the beta!

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 17 Oct 2013 at 14:41

~>Dg<~ said:
you judging a 3 month old build

Don't think anyone was judging anything, just having a laugh at some of the funnier moments ie the boat that spawned on top of the multistory

The fact that it was an old build was obvious however they are also talking about having implemented changes brought to light due to the beta. Why they would need a beta to show them that the game was horribly optimized is a bit of a worry. By that I mean most of the issues the beta highlighted that we see ie client side, should already have been sorted in their current build.

Sadly my old system failed horribly and on the basis of the 'final' beta that we had access to I wouldn't pre-order BF4. Final release and some good reviews/benchmarks (or money for a new system

) could change that.

yanielliot · 17 Oct 2013 at 14:58

Happy to hear that they have managed to do some work on the CPU usage since that build. My 2500K was barely hanging in there at 1440p.

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
just having a laugh at some of the funnier moments ie the boat that spawned on top of the multistory

I kinda want them to leave that bug in, always made things interesting when in a middle of a firefight a boat popped in! :eek:

OCPete · 17 Oct 2013 at 15:08

ALXAndy said:
It's been in development for a couple of years

But no, not judging it. I do get a very odd feeling it only supports 6 CPU cores though and I had that suspicion with BF3 also. Will need to crack out my little VFD screen and set it to monitor core usage.

I won't be playing it in multi player any way I just want the SP to be good with really nice graphics

BF4 beta uses 8 threads on my i7. Sure it'd do the same on AMD.

From memory BF3 only uses ~6 threads

Adam_101 · 17 Oct 2013 at 15:25

ALXAndy said:
LOL I must have missed that bug shame !

I did see trees disappear into the roads though

I saw a floating piece of metal/tree lol :cool:

DarkTheSupreme · 17 Oct 2013 at 15:27

My performance in the beta was pretty decent on Windows 8, but it was definitely not as smooth as BF3.

My main issue I hope they fix, is how quickly you die. It felt like playing Hardcore mode in the beta.

ALXAndy · 17 Oct 2013 at 15:48

OCPete said:
BF4 beta uses 8 threads on my i7. Sure it'd do the same on AMD.

From memory BF3 only uses ~6 threads

Good to know thanks Pete. Yeah I'm pretty sure I did some digging once and BF3 only used 6. Same reason as 3dmark 11 IIRC, for the 980x.

alex_123_fra · 17 Oct 2013 at 18:00

OCPete said:
BF4 beta uses 8 threads on my i7. Sure it'd do the same on AMD.

From memory BF3 only uses ~6 threads

It does use 6 threads. There was a review of 4-core vs 6-core i7s with HT enabled and disabled around 8 months ago. The slightly worrying thing at the time was that although a hex-core 3930k was better (in terms of min, max and average fps) than a 3770k, this improvement was mainly when the 3930k had hyperthreading off.

I certainly hope that BF4 utilises 4 cores + 4 threads or 6 cores + 6 threads or 8 cores effectively.

uksoldierboy · 17 Oct 2013 at 18:07

DarkTheSupreme said:
My performance in the beta was pretty decent on Windows 8, but it was definitely not as smooth as BF3.

My main issue I hope they fix, is how quickly you die. It felt like playing Hardcore mode in the beta.

I'm of the opposite opinion, i hated how long it took to kill and be killed on the beta

But i only ever play Hardcore on BF3 so i guess it was to be expected.

gpuerrilla · 17 Oct 2013 at 18:22

I wouldn't expect a person called "uksoldierboy" to be anything but hardcore!

WingZero30 · 17 Oct 2013 at 19:32

Good to hear.

Beta didn't run well on my Q9650@4Ghz, 8GB DDr2 and 7950. I didn't even enjoy it and stopped playing it 2-3 days after release.

uksoldierboy · 17 Oct 2013 at 20:45

Th0nt said:
I wouldn't expect a person called "uksoldierboy" to be anything but hardcore!

Damn right th0nt!

mmj_uk · 18 Oct 2013 at 01:10

Is this the reason why BF4 was said to be 50% faster on Windows 8? buggy as **** game code?