***THE BF4 BENCHMARKS THREAD***

[Zeed]

Ok then tests on windows 8.1 incoming Preloading now )

 

[setter]

Ah memory usage, nearly forgot about that one, would be interested to see this too, at 1080 I'm wagering around 1750mb usage

I could live with that fine at 1920x1200. Bf3 on ultra with x4msaa at this res rarely ventures over 1500mb for me.

 

[Boomstick777]

Ok then tests on windows 8.1 incoming Preloading now )

I just moved onto RTM Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64. Really impressed so far, everything flies, boot times, games running really well. Gonna test out the BF4 beta @ 1440P with single GTX 780. Post some results here at some point.

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[Suarez7]

Really wanting 8.1 but don't want to pay £80 or whatever it is for 8.

 

[Gregster]

Really wanting 8.1 but don't want to pay £80 or whatever it is for 8.

Same as. If I spend another penny on my comp before we go away, the Mrs is gonna string me up

 

[Suarez7]

It's probably worth the price but paying so much for an OS after I got 7 really cheap feels wrong.

 

[Phixsator]

Running windows 8.1 RTM myself using legally my win 8 upgrade key. Was freakishly easy. Install, once windows is booted up change the key to upgrade key and your done.

 

[LtMatt]

I'm waiting for the upgrade to come out via Windows update then ill be on 8.1 Although once mantle is released ill be using that instead for BF4.

I'll be sure to thoroughly bench the fps differences in BF4 between Windows 8/8.1/Mantle.

 

[hyperseven]

Me too

I went for bf3 premium when they had the Indian proxy loop hole open, think it cost me something like £12

Just paid 899 pesos for my BF4+Full Premium, that's £43, showing ready in my Origin client will all dlc's listed, albeit greyed out for now.

 

[pgi947]

£43 is pretty good! I'll let the beta decide if I'm going to stump up the full amount for BF4. Hopefully EA don't take the 'Tough ****' approach to customer service if it has a rough launch like BF3 did.

 

[Gregster]

I wouldn't mind paying for the premium at the EA price but if I can get it cheaper, I will. I have seen it for around 36 euros but not in a rush, so will hold out and hopefully get an indian one like the other lucky punks did with BF3

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Can we see some beta benchmarks between windows 7 and 8 using the same setup?

Still in 2 minds whether to hop on the windows 8 boat. For 1/2FPS I'll stay with 7, for 5+FPS I'd swap straight away, need every little you can get.

 

[Rusty0611]

And they're off!

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Welcome to 26 hours ago

 

[Neil79]

Time Warp

 

[Rusty0611]

Welcome to 26 hours ago

I'm sorry I wasn't sitting there waiting for the pre-load option to open up when I can download it in under 10 minutes at any point before tomorrow .

 

[setter]

I'm sorry I wasn't sitting there waiting for the pre-load option to open up when I can download it in under 10 minutes at any point before tomorrow .

Lol, good point Rusty. Took me seven hours ono, not including a few errors i encountered that forced a restart of the pre load.

 

[Gregster]

All you with ya super fast fibre can do one...I hate my 450K BB and fantastic ping of 50ms.

I did get it quicker but my speed was down to 2mb and it made it hard to watch anything on demand movies, so went with the higher speed over better ping.

 

[Suarez7]

All that PC Greg and it's throttled by your internet connection

 

[InvisiblePrawn]

I'll be eagerly reading all of your findings, guys! Hopefully my 580 and 2700K at 4.6 will be man enough. I'm not expecting ultra, but I'm sure it will look and run superbly. I never got BF3 so I really have no reference point!