The Battlefield 4 Thread 2015

Josh · 25 Sep 2015 at 22:42

Yeah temps have never been over 58C all night which is very nice.

Running Full Ultra (minus MSAA) tonight and never dipped below 135.

Chuffed. Sidey mentioned a bug which 144hz which makes the temps higher at idle.

At 144hz the idle is around 35C, at 120hz it's under 30C and at 60hz its 23C.

Very odd, something I need to look into.

brit~XR · 25 Sep 2015 at 23:20

I love them spamming gunners who get in tank then bail and leg it. Damn my ears are still ringing from the constant sound of MG spam! I demand a james bond eject seat button for unwanted tank gunners
I can just see me using it now. ejecting noobs like fanatic and nexus into a enemy heli's above!

Fanatic · 25 Sep 2015 at 23:27

We would knife the heli pilot and then take the chopper. Then get a way higher score than noob ass you

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Nexus18 · 26 Sep 2015 at 00:00

Some decent games. That ****ing balance thing is so **** though....

Hopefully get a bigger SSD soon and get bf 3 back on.

Fanatic said:
We would knife the heli pilot and then take the chopper. Then get a way higher score than noob ass you .

This

JGStonedRaider · 26 Sep 2015 at 01:46

JOSH86 said:
Yeah temps have never been over 58C all night which is very nice.

Running Full Ultra (minus MSAA) tonight and never dipped below 135.

Chuffed. Sidey mentioned a bug which 144hz which makes the temps higher at idle.

At 144hz the idle is around 35C, at 120hz it's under 30C and at 60hz its 23C.

Very odd, something I need to look into.

You got 2 screens? If so your GPU won't downclock as it would on 60/120Hz hence my desktop is 120Hz and when I launch CSGO the refresh rate goes to 144Hz due to launch options. Best way to be economical yet have the eprf I want.

xinamibf4 · 26 Sep 2015 at 02:20

You guys don't 'alf pick some servers

Josh · 26 Sep 2015 at 08:11

JGStonedRaider said:
You got 2 screens? If so your GPU won't downclock as it would on 60/120Hz hence my desktop is 120Hz and when I launch CSGO the refresh rate goes to 144Hz due to launch options. Best way to be economical yet have the eprf I want.

Yes bud, had never heard of before yesterday. I've set it to 120hz now, the Gsync should still make it playabale.

How do you set launch options for it to change hz then? That could be useful.

1kiwi · 26 Sep 2015 at 09:24

Set you main refresh as 120 Josh and then within specific game settings select highest refresh rate. You can also use these settings to switch between GSYNC, Fixed Refresh and ULMB

Josh · 26 Sep 2015 at 09:30

Brilliant thanks Kiwi. Will sort that out this morning.

Nexus18 · 26 Sep 2015 at 10:17

TBH I doubt you would notice the difference between 144 and 120 especially with gsync anyway.

xinamibf4 said:
You guys don't 'alf pick some servers

Yup servers are ****ing **** now

Never going on that SIC one again though, always super laggy, they mustn't reset the server at all.....

setter · 26 Sep 2015 at 10:21

JOSH86 said:
Yeah temps have never been over 58C all night which is very nice.

Running Full Ultra (minus MSAA) tonight and never dipped below 135.

Chuffed. Sidey mentioned a bug which 144hz which makes the temps higher at idle.

At 144hz the idle is around 35C, at 120hz it's under 30C and at 60hz its 23C.

Very odd, something I need to look into.

135fps, pretty nice. Only had a few quick rounds using the 980ti. Built a new system but cant get on to play as I'm waiting on a few parts. Iirc this is a double XP weekend too.

1kiwi · 26 Sep 2015 at 10:48

To be honest I could push my settings more using res scale but with 2560x1440 it's a really good looking game. The 980ti really comes into its own when I'm playing more demanding games like GTA5

setter · 26 Sep 2015 at 10:54

I'm pondering a monitor upgrade. Either 2560x1440 or 4k. Ideally with gsync in either case. Though the choice at 4k is limited. Did try bf4 with a higher res using dsr. But that was when I had the sli 780 setup.

Rroff · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:02

Never really got on with 4K for FPS games personally - having a ~40" 4K display for racing games, etc. is pretty immense but I found 2560x1440 with gsync the sweet spot for stuff like BF4.

setter · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:08

Thing with 4k too I guess is the gpu horsepower required to run it at decent settings. I suspect you would likely need sli/xfire with current cards.

Nexus18 · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:11

4k is over rated IMO, only useful for when it comes to monitors of >28" IMO. I would go with 27" 1440 IPS 120+ g/free sync every day of the week. 4k will still be a struggle to run games at Max settings with mostly 60fps too even with a single 980ti, you would need 2

If you can hold on longer though, we should hopefully see more sensibly priced 34" 1440 21.9 g/free sync screens, that 980ti will be the sweet spot for 3440x1440 and 21.9 is far more beneficial than 4k imo

setter · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:15

Yep, ill wait it out a bit longer to see what cones up. Saved a few quid and ill make a few more from selling my 4790k setup.

Rroff · 26 Sep 2015 at 11:42

setter said:
Thing with 4k too I guess is the gpu horsepower required to run it at decent settings. I suspect you would likely need sli/xfire with current cards.

Averaged about 43fps on my current card running BF4 with full ultra setting except no MSAA at 4K on a 64bit CQ large server. Most of the time it was "playable" but there was some bits where it dropped back to ~26-28fps which wasn't really very playable.

1kiwi · 26 Sep 2015 at 12:25

Rroff said:
Never really got on with 4K for FPS games personally - having a ~40" 4K display for racing games, etc. is pretty immense but I found 2560x1440 with gsync the sweet spot for stuff like BF4.

This to be honest. Either the SWIFT or the new 160hz ROG IPS coming out! Expensive but getting the SWIFT on release was one of the best purchases I've made in years! It would be ice to see another version of the SWIFT (TN Panel) with 160hz. The thing that worries me about IPS is that it's still 4ms GTG vs 1ms GTG TN panel.

Josh · 26 Sep 2015 at 13:11

1kiwi said:
This to be honest. Either the SWIFT or the new 160hz ROG IPS coming out! Expensive but getting the SWIFT on release was one of the best purchases I've made in years! It would be ice to see another version of the SWIFT (TN Panel) with 160hz. The thing that worries me about IPS is that it's still 4ms GTG vs 1ms GTG TN panel.

But you get deeeeeep ddDDDeeeEEEppPPPP blacks.