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Battlefield 4 Beta Thread: Prepare 4 Battle (Update to beta drivers)

Just spawned on one of the skyscrapers, sniped a dude, and parachuted across the map to another spawn point underground where I managed to grab it. This is crazy.
 
Everyone is complaining of spikes in my game as well. I think it's just driver issues. It'll hopefully get better. I had a guy in my game complain about it then say he is uninstalling. Like a winner.

So, I played 4 games. That's enough for me tonight. My impressions? Pretty damn good. But hard to tell on one map---especially one so small. Tip for those who haven't played yet---get to the roof. If you're on the roof, you're the king. I just finished a game 18 kills and 3 deaths because I was sniping like a noob bitch from up there. No one ever came up to stop me.

As someone who loved Bad Company 2 and didn't care at all for Battlefield 3---this beta is great so far.
 
Yep it's running great, everything ultra and no AA @1080P. Most awesome is the scale of the map, lots of verticality, jumping from the big building and landing behind a guy's back just to knife him felt good lol.

The gameplay is much more improved, feel like there's some weight and impact when my bullets hit.
 
The beta is pretty good and battlefieldey but the performance is pretty bad. Even with everything on low I get drops forties and even lower when I'm just turning around are looking at certain direction. But it's still in beta and they probably haven't finished optimizing.

But the game still looks pretty good even with everything on lowest.

Also, "perfoverlay.drawfps 1" show your framerate. "list" shows available commands but it's really hard to read because it's bugged, at least for me it is.
 
Yeah this is unplayable for me. BF3 was decent at medium/high, but even low on this is a low-framed stuttery mess. My PC is pretty ancient, but I didn't think it'd be such a difference. Using the new drivers too.
 
NameGenerated said:
Yeah this is unplayable for me. BF3 was decent at medium/high, but even low on this is a low-framed stuttery mess. My PC is pretty ancient, but I didn't think it'd be such a difference. Using the new drivers too.
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I'm suspecting/hoping that's something that'd be ironed out fairly quickly, but if not... yeah, consoles.
 
can someone give me a hint how well this wil run on my laptop?

i7-3610QM @2.3Ghz/3.3Ghz Boost
Geforce GT650M (2GB)
8GB DDR3

thanks guys :)
 
Getting surprisingly good performance - no stutters or any perceived fps dip on my 2500k/oced 6970 and 8gb of ram on high settings. Can't get MSI Afterburner to work on this.
 
My 6970 is doing surprisingly well. Did have to add extra cooling around it, but it's definitely worth it. Game looks magnificent.
 
This game is not liking my GTX 560 ti

I'm getting good performance on high medium but I'm guessing it's time to upgrade.

This game feels a lot snappier that BF3, I can't figure out why. Maybe they have finally improved the hitbox?
 
ive got 2 570 gtx's 1.25 gig and an i7 2600k at 4.5, 16 gig of ram. should I be good for ultra? is it like BF3 where ultra wasn't actually unlocked until launch? so all we will see is high?
 
3770k, GTX670 -- game runs great, however, stutters like a motherfucker. Going to just assume that's typical beta issues.
 
aww yuisss

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Xyber said:
Using the beta drivers, they do nothing.

Game uses way more RAM than BF3. Maxed out my 2GB and had to lower some stuff to get down to 1,9GB.
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I feel like the RAM situation on nVidia cards may be enough to push me to AMD even without recent driver garbage (especially as I seemed to have resolved that.) It's kind of frustrating how you'd have to spend way more to get a significant boost whereas AMD's a bit more liberal with that, and it seems like it can be a more annoying bottleneck than simply being weak, lower FPS > stutter.
 
Eusis said:
I feel like the RAM situation on nVidia cards may be enough to push me to AMD even without recent driver garbage (especially as I seemed to have resolved that.) It's kind of frustrating how you'd have to spend way more to get a significant boost whereas AMD's a bit more liberal with that, and it seems like it can be a more annoying bottleneck than simply being weak, lower FPS > stutter.
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Yeah, depending on how well the 290X performs and what it will cost, I might just get in on that.

cheezcake said:
TURN OFF HBAO

absolutely no more sutter after i switched to SSAO, getting ~50fps with my 570 OC at high-ultra
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That did nothing for me.
 
This proves to be an update to BF3 but a very well done one.

PRO

- the water is absolutely gorgeous. Can't wait to play with boats.
- movement seems more solid in comparison with bf3's twitchy movement.
- gunplay is great and seems improved.

CON

- the comrose is still too shallow, where are the days of BF1942 command buttons?
- destruction seems to have more phsyics (tumbling panels, falling glass) yet it doesn't look much better than BF3

Will get this on launch.
 
God this is good.


So hyped for PS4 launch now. My console only brethren have never seen anything quite like this.


Also, game still looks fantastic on all medium settings. A mix of medium and high on PS4 will look fantastic.


Ultra looks and runs great on PC.


Fighting atop the skyscaper as it falls is amazing.
 
Is the highest motionblur setting a per object blur?

Repi made reference to it in his slide show... and would love to see what it looks ike in action (no premium BF here).
 
Anybody else getting weird framerate lag? I've tried everything from "low" to "ultra" and even if the game is running with 60fps, it feels like <20. I doubt it's my hardware (sandy bridge, gtx 680).
 
So I am getting 60FPS sometimes on my GTX 670 and i5 3570k on Ultra minus a few things.

but it feels like 30FPS, not really stutter.


Anyone else getting this?

EDIT: So the post above me agrees.
 
Four shots I took, maxed out at 1920x1080, with post AA set to high and MSAAx4.

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Man I really want to play this...but I think I'll hold off till the open beta starts on the 4th. Don't wanna pre-order the game on PC since I have no idea what system I'll be playing it on.

If you pre-order on Origin to get the beta, can you cancel the pre-order at any time?
 
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