Mantle Feedback/Bugs

LtMatt · 25 Feb 2014 at 12:03

The game update today has improved the lag ive been getting the past few days.

JGStonedRaider · 25 Feb 2014 at 12:13

Sounds like placebo as no basis in numbers

Rroff · 25 Feb 2014 at 13:34

LtMatt said:
BF4 online has been very laggy over the past few days no matter what server ive been playing on. People from our community reporting the same. Not a gpu issue. Must be a Dice/EA backend issue. They get DDOS'D a lot.

Couple of servers I've been playing on regularly have had to keep restarting the server or after a few hours its been getting laggy last few days for some reason. Seems to be yet another one of those weird issues with the game that suddenly appears out of nowhere and probably in a few days goes away with no explanation :S

EDIT: Does seem to have been a few short lived DDOS attemps against EA last few days also not sure if its in any way connected to that - late last night origin was briefly affected by it.

LtMatt · 25 Feb 2014 at 13:36

Rroff said:
Couple of servers I've been playing on regularly have had to keep restarting the server or after a few hours its been getting laggy last few days for some reason. Seems to be yet another one of those weird issues with the game that suddenly appears out of nowhere and probably in a few days goes away with no explanation :S

Update today made a difference for a few of us. Not sure if there was a new server build released as well. Currently on R27 but i only see release notes for up to R25 on Battlelog.

humbug · 25 Feb 2014 at 13:51

No wonder my bullets seem to be passing through ppl ^^^^

meldarthx · 25 Feb 2014 at 14:07

*chuckles* of course can't be a bad shot there Humbug? been playing the new metro and other new maps....

Waiting for new drivers to drop so I can go back to mantle

humbug · 25 Feb 2014 at 14:18

meldarthx said:
*chuckles* of course can't be a bad shot there Humbug? been playing the new metro and other new maps....

Waiting for new drivers to drop so I can go back to mantle

bad shot? how dare you

JGStonedRaider · 25 Feb 2014 at 17:11

Sorry Humbug had too..terribad accuracy :S

jakspyder · 25 Feb 2014 at 17:19

got my triX 290 yesterday. Been using mantle with it (was using DX on the 7970)

Mantle appears to run top notch with the 290 giving great fps and smooth play without (touch wood) any crashing.

humbug · 25 Feb 2014 at 17:25

JGStonedRaider said:
Sorry Humbug had too..terribad accuracy :S

I also use my weapons for suppression as well as killing, which doesn't look good on accuracy stats. but thats not whats on my mind. Because i'm a team player

jakspyder · 25 Feb 2014 at 17:29

Suppression is a legitimate effective tactic mate, i'm with you.

My most accurate weapon is the RGO Impact

LtMatt · 25 Feb 2014 at 18:04

Had a a couple of rounds now with the new 14.2 Mantle driver. Overall very impressed. The difference between DX11 and Mantle is immediately noticeable.

Did notice a few minor Mantle bugs. The worst bug ive noticed thus far is about every 10-15 minutes there is a big cpu spike. Other than that, its really very good.

flopper · 25 Feb 2014 at 18:19

LtMatt said:
Had a a couple of rounds now with the new 14.2 Mantle driver. Overall very impressed. The difference between DX11 and Mantle is immediately noticeable.

Did notice a few minor Mantle bugs. The worst bug ive noticed thus far is about every 10-15 minutes there is a big cpu spike. Other than that, its really very good.

u have crossfire so guess thats why.
as far I can tell its just smooth now.

shankly1985 · 25 Feb 2014 at 18:23

Will give it a try with 14.2 tomorrow see if I notice any difference over 14.1.

Diagro · 25 Feb 2014 at 18:52

Will try 14.2 see if game works now

atomic7431 · 25 Feb 2014 at 19:46

So 14.2 are they worth a look? The 14.1 for me were terrible with cpu spikes.

My current replacement vtx290 has already black screened using the whql drivers, seriously tempted to get a refund a buy a 780 now.

Jimdriver2 · 25 Feb 2014 at 21:00

Anyone know if the 14.2 drivers are meant to properly support 280X's on Mantle yet?

I'm guessing not but I can't find any info confirming that. I just tried BF4 with Mantle and had no improvement, it jumps up and down as more stuff goes on and then crashed the game when I tried to quit. DX11 on the other hand feels a bit smoother, barely got any change from 60fps.

JGStonedRaider · 26 Feb 2014 at 00:05

humbug said:
I also use my weapons for suppression as well as killing, which doesn't look good on accuracy stats. but thats not whats on my mind. Because i'm a team player

jakspyder said:
Suppression is a legitimate effective tactic mate, i'm with you.

My most accurate weapon is the RGO Impact

Ahahaha good one, no really, why don't you try killing them instead xD

MyBrainz · 26 Feb 2014 at 00:19

Well i was happily playing a few rounds of BF4 and doing quite good for me as i dont usually kick ass but then after about 90 minutes i get this rather weird error..

DirectX Mantle? wtf?

BuzzLloydyear · 26 Feb 2014 at 02:43

That used to be purely a directx error, I used to get it a LOT in earlier patches. This was definitely BF4 patch related and not driver related though as it happened to me regardless of the drivers I used. The only fix was when a new patch come out. I am not sure if it's something they fix or break, it's just something that will crop up randomly with patches.

It wasn't as prevalent as my pc flat out locking up in BF4, but the same premise, it comes and goes from patch to patch.