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DICE details BF4 fixes, mostly CPU.

I pre-ordered the game yesterday as I havnt played FPS type in a long while (COD2). This should be interesting and I can upgrade the GPU at Christmas for the best £/performance after some users have feedback to give.
 
mmj_uk said:
Is this the reason why BF4 was said to be 50% faster on Windows 8? buggy as **** game code?
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No Windows 8 works differently to 7. It's been trimmed and optimised for Direct X. Sadly 99% of people can't see past Metro (which is completely crap I agree, especially on desktops and non touch screens) so didn't bother with it.

It is, actually, quite a good bloody OS tbh. The boot times are much faster, shut down times are faster and it's rather pretty to look at when you've installed a start button which can easily be had for free.

I shan't be bothering with 8.1 myself as I'm happy with it as it is :)
 
50% faster is still a hell of a lot though just for OS tweaks, you don't even get that with newer generations of hardware.

It's a possibility that the Windows 7 run just suffered from this bug and got bogged down during benchmarking whereas the Windows 8 one didn't.
 
mmj_uk said:
50% faster is still a hell of a lot though just for OS tweaks, you don't even get that with newer generations of hardware.

It's a possibility that the Windows 7 run just suffered from this bug and got bogged down during benchmarking whereas the Windows 8 one didn't.
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Windows 8 is faster as an OS. Personally I certainly don't think it's 50% faster for me. I was seeing mins of 49 FPS in BF4.

I've seen a good lot of improvements in other games and benchmarks though. Mostly around 10% but higher in some cases.

Will load up BF4 tonight and see if the patches come down :)
 
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