News - AMD spent as much as $8 million on EA/DICE Battlefield 4 deal

[crossy]

$8 million for the deal, and as of the Beta - it still feels unoptimized. I'm getting only 30-40fps with my x6 1090T @ 3.5GHz, HD7950 3GB OCd and 24GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9.

Since that's your first post - welcome to Hexus! (ex-pat Bullwell/Bramcote lad misel')

30-40fps - surely that's "reasonable"? Remember this is a beta and I'm pretty sure that the US$8m will have been for joint promotion and perhaps some major tweaks for the current gen and Hawaii gfx cards. The ole Phenom II isn't the best engine for games these days.

24GB of memory - ouch! I've seen servers doing Oracle production that have less memory than that. Be a kick-ass virtual machine host though.

Just a thought - have you tried upclock on that processor? I'm running reasonably stable at 3.6 and 3.7 and there's been lots of talk that 4.0 is achievable with good cooling. There's a lot of discussions out there, like this one on boosting the PhenomII's speed. That said, I'm planning to jump to Haswell for my next build (or rather ... rebuild) since it's obvious that current games can't really make use of the six cores and Intel's less-but-faster approach is more suitable.

Got my BF4 Beta invite last night Unfortunately I won't be able to take advantage until the weekend because there's too much on.

[Jace007]

danrolye - Not sure why your showing your BF3 stats, they are poor more Deaths than kills and more Losses than Wins?! i would'nt want u on my squad for sure lol On my GTX 680 there was no differance between LOW & Ultra graphics settings :S

[fozan1072]

You have remember that this is one of the new lines of graphics from AMD. That is why they are paying so much to get the game included with the card.

[HalloweenJack]

Its a BETA its bound to have issues and bugs, The massive slow down experienced by everyone who owns a Nvidia card is nothing to whine about, its a beta for God sake. Man up. As stated by Dice they are more intrested in testing the back-end of the structure, Also remember this is an 'older' version of the Game that they are working on as stated in the page. Overall it was ok, but something was missing, there was no 'wow' factor. The hit reg was abit odd 50 mile shots and kill cam was sht.

its far too close to release for them to chage anything big in the code - BF4 went gold already. - this is exactly the same as the BF3 beta - only improvements will be from ihv drivers and bugs that are found and patched.


as for unoptimized - crisis 3 isn't unoptimized , it just hammers pc`s!

[dezontk]

Good business for all involved.