Mantle Feedback/Bugs

LtMatt · 11 Feb 2014 at 19:43

Lord_ZED said:
One thign i noticed.

If i start my pc up and do stuff like normal aka check email watch youtube or porn or we and i start BF4 after fps is all over the place CPU usage jumps and ****.

If i reebot my pc and start bf4 str8 after 70-71fps SOLID all the time cpu and gpu usage all normal.

Interesting must be Mantle bug of some srot ??

Driver bug i expect, not a Mantle bug.

4737Joker · 11 Feb 2014 at 19:56

Lord_ZED said:
One thign i noticed.

If i start my pc up and do stuff like normal aka check email watch youtube or porn or we and i start BF4 after fps is all over the place CPU usage jumps and ****.

If i reebot my pc and start bf4 str8 after 70-71fps SOLID all the time cpu and gpu usage all normal.

Interesting must be Mantle bug of some srot ??

Probably some nice malware from those dodgy porn sites

LtMatt · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:03

4737Joker said:
Probably some nice malware from those dodgy porn sites

But Gregorio told me to get the latest Mantle drivers from www.Bangkokchickboys.com :confused:

Duvar · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:25

Lt.Matt:HAHAHA

nicnik said:
TLDR; beta drivers mate. Compare when it's finished.
At the end of the day everyone should be grateful that graphics API has some competition.

I am grateful, i am currently waiting to get my 290 Tri X.
Should be here in 2 days. I wrote the info as a fact, nit to bash on Mantle or AMD.

4737Joker · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:41

i'm itching top get a second 290 to add to my water loop, only the look on my wifes face is stopping me atm

LtMatt · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:42

4737Joker said:
i'm itching top get a second 290 to add to my water loop, only the look on my wifes face is stopping me atm

I can highly recommend it.

cjph · 11 Feb 2014 at 20:48

Lord_ZED said:
One thign i noticed.

If i start my pc up and do stuff like normal aka check email watch youtube or porn or we and i start BF4 after fps is all over the place CPU usage jumps and ****.

If i reebot my pc and start bf4 str8 after 70-71fps SOLID all the time cpu and gpu usage all normal.

Interesting must be Mantle bug of some srot ??

I'm not on a 290 (7950) and it is subjective, but I found a few days ago that when I switched from DX to Mantle without rebooting I suffered BF4 crashes immediately, so switched back to DX and although a bit smoother it still did not feel as polished as it did with DX under 14.1. So I switched to Mantle and shutdown, and rebooted yesterday - under Mantle it now feels smoother and I've had zero crashes in around 10 games, all near full 64 player servers on virtually all maps.

As I say its my feelings than any concrete measure, and I'll try tonight to switch between the two and see what happens.

cj

Mei · 12 Feb 2014 at 16:10

so is it not worth installing 14.1 unless testing out bf4 mantle?
i tried it on my ancient install of windows 7 and it was problematic

i was thinking of installing windows 8.1 later today and trying it out on that but not sure if its worth the trouble right now?

back on 13-12 right now

humbug · 12 Feb 2014 at 16:14

Mei said:
so is it not worth installing 14.1 unless testing out bf4 mantle?
i tried it on my ancient install of windows 7 and it was problematic
i was thinking of installing windows 8.1 later today and trying it out on that but not sure if its worth the trouble right now?

back on 13-12 right now

I'm on Win 8.1, 14.1 works well for me, just not Mantle in BF4. DX BF4 is good.

Mei · 12 Feb 2014 at 16:22

humbug said:
I'm on Win 8.1, 14.1 works well for me, just not Mantle in BF4. DX BF4 is good.

but from the skim reading on here its less performance on 14.1 if not using mantle or is that wrong?

hmhm i prolly will re-install windows anyway just wondering if there's benefit of doing it sooner (lazy!) and everyone telling me ragnarok2 wont work on windows 8.1

LtMatt · 12 Feb 2014 at 16:24

I had to google what the hell ragnarok2 was. I'm still not sure after looking at pictures of it. Nonetheless id stick with 13.12 WHQL for now until a newer Beta comes out. 14.1 is fine for a teaser of Mantle though.

Mei · 12 Feb 2014 at 16:35

LtMatt said:
I had to google what the hell ragnarok2 was. I'm still not sure after looking at pictures of it. Nonetheless id stick with 13.12 WHQL for now until a newer Beta comes out. 14.1 is fine for a teaser of Mantle though.

haha its a terrible korean game where i play a bear that rides a giant tortoise or sometimes a bike and sidecar

so no good reason to retry 14.1 if i dont play bf?

LtMatt · 12 Feb 2014 at 17:32

Mei said:
haha its a terrible korean game where i play a bear that rides a giant tortoise or sometimes a bike and sidecar

so no good reason to retry 14.1 if i dont play bf?

Sounds a bit like the porno version of animal farm. A true classic.

In short, no not really. Wait for the next beta.

LtMatt · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:23

Good news chaps. Dice are releasing a patch which address some of the problems with Mantle, fixing those lag spikes. :cool:

We’ve started rolling out a new Battlefield 4 game update on PC. You may experience some downtime during this rollout, as we are also updating the game servers. As usual, it will take a few hours before the majority of servers are updated.

Feb 13 PC Game Update Notes
-General stability improvements
-Fix for an issue where spawning into, or switching to, a gunner seat in an IFV/MBT sometimes could cause the game to crash
-Fix for missing sound in Team/Squad Deathmatch
-Fix for an issue in the Defuse game mode, where a bomb carrier would be permanently spotted
-Decreased the rate at which the kill card would incorrectly display 0 health, while the enemy was clearly alive
-Fix for an invisible wall that was incorrectly present in one of the fallen concrete pipes on Zavod 311
-Fix for an issue where bullet impact sounds weren’t properly matching the actual number of impacts
-Fix for an issue where the “Draw” message would not display on-screen once a Conquest round ended with both teams having the same amount of tickets
-Fix for an issue where long IDs wouldn’t scroll on dog tags
-Fix for missing grass physics in terrain

Mantle
-Fix for a crash that would occur when activating full screen in portrait mode
-Fix for stuttering that could appear during video sequences on multi-GPU PCs
-Fix for a memory system leak that could cause stalls, which would result in frames taking longer to process
-Reduced the amount of stalls that occurred when running with high graphics setting that require more GPU memory than is currently available
-Fixed screenshots on multi-GPU PCs

Source
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150493838365687/

~Mike~ · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:32

LtMatt said:
Good news chaps. Dice are releasing a patch which address some of the problems with Mantle, fixing those lag spikes.

Source
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150493838365687/ via cq247.co.uk

Fixed.

LtMatt · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:37

Mike306 said:
Fixed.

Get your ass on the server Rofls. All hands on deck.

~Mike~ · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:39

LtMatt said:
Get your ass on the server Rofls. All hands on deck.

Sorry Lt it was uninstalled weeks ago.

humbug · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:41

LtMatt said:
Good news chaps. Dice are releasing a patch which address some of the problems with Mantle, fixing those lag spikes.

Source
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150493838365687/

DICE. IE not AMD

DL'ing now. hope it does the job

LtMatt · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:43

Mike306 said:
Sorry Lt it was uninstalled weeks ago.

You'll be uninstalled in a minute.

humbug said:
DICE. IE not AMD

DL'ing now. hope it does the job

Who would've thought, eh?

~Mike~ · 13 Feb 2014 at 11:47

LtMatt said:
You'll be uninstalled in a minute.