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The Reason For AMD´s Mantle Driver Delay

Dennis

The AMD Mantle driver (AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta driver) should have been released with the latest Battlefield 4 patch with Mantle support. But the driver was not released on time due to a last-minute delay caused by too late detected driver issues. That´s why AMD did hold back the driver. AMD wrote “We are putting the finishing touches on the AMD Catalyst™ 14.1 Beta driver, which enables support for Mantle and many other fabulous features. We appreciate your patience and will update you as soon as it’s ready for download!”. While we still don´t know for how much time the … Continue reading The Reason For AMD´s Mantle Driver Delay

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DICE Released A New Battlefield 4 Patch Including Mantle Support For AMD Cards

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DICE just rolled out the PC Game Update January 30 for Battlefield 4. Apart from bug fixes and balancing, the patch comes with the long-awaited Mantle support. This new render engine is a low-level graphics API which should increase the BF4 performance for people who have an AMD video card which supports Mantle. Find out about the requirements and how to use the Mantle renderer here. The main problem is that you will need the AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta drivers but it seems that AMD didn´t get them out today. According to DICE, AMD will post the drivers here soon. … Continue reading DICE Released A New Battlefield 4 Patch Including Mantle Support For AMD Cards

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I Bought The PowerColor Radeon R9 270X Graphics Card…

Dennis

I mentioned weeks ago that my old graphics card was toasted. That happened in a very bad time as I had other costs to pay the last months. I had some savings but I did save the money for something different. Anyway, I can be days and sometimes weeks without a computer game but then, well you know what I mean if you are gamer like me… you simply come to a point where you miss it to play games if you do not have proper hardware for it. I had this NVIDIA GeForce 7100 GS as a replacement and … Continue reading I Bought The PowerColor Radeon R9 270X Graphics Card…

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DICE: BF4 Balancing Poll

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It´s no secret that BF4 is completely unbalanced. Some of my friends are pretty pissed about this fact but I told them that it is after all the trouble better if DICE would focus on bug fixing rather than balancing the game. Sure, it sucks how the game has been released but technical problems should be solved before the balancing. I still wouldn´t call BF4 problem-free but it is at least on a good way and next we really could talk about game balancing. That´s what DICE thought too… They did set up a poll about BF4 balancing and you … Continue reading DICE: BF4 Balancing Poll

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The Cross Spider

Dennis

In 2012 I bought a cheap Medion digital camera which I reviewed at that time. It was really a good digital camera for that price but I don´t use the camera anymore since I prefer my smartphone camera at the moment. The main reason is that I have my smartphone all the time with me and that is an advantage. But you can find a spider photo in my older camera review and now I took this spider image to apply some effects with the android app called Pixlr-o-matic. I really like how the mood of an image can change … Continue reading The Cross Spider