The AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Drivers are released. That means for the Battlefield 4 players under you, who own an AMD video card, you will be able to check out the new AMD Mantle renderer in Battlefield 4. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 14.1 Beta Drivers Released
DICE added a some more console commands with the latest Battlefield 4 PC Game Update January 30. In this article here I want to talk about a new command that allows us to see additional on-screen information about our CPU and GPU configuration of our system, the screen resolution and the information if we use DirectX 11 or Mantle as rendering engine. To activate this new information screen, we should either write this command in the BF4 console or in a config file for BF4 if we want the information screen to be activated permanently. But now let´s talk about … Continue reading How To Show Additional On-Screen Informations About Your CPU And GPU Config In BF4
There are several useful Battlefield 4 commands. But some might ask how to use them and I will explain this here. If we want to activate some of the commands permanently then we should know how to create a BF4 config file. But sometimes we only want to activate any of the commands for a short period and in this case we could go without the config file. In this case we would use the in-game command console. Writing commands into the console will activate them just for the period the game is running and the commands would be disabled … Continue reading How To Open The Command Console In BF4
It´s no secret that many people hate the Metro Interface of Windows 8. many people including me, complained already before the release of Windows 8, that this is not what would be considered as an interface with “Usability”. When the Windows 8.1 update came out, Microsoft did add the possibility for user´s to change the OS so that it would be possible to boot it without the Metro Interface. According to The Verge, Microsoft will set this to default with the next update. That means the OS will start by default with the normal desktop and not with the Metro … Continue reading Acknowledgement Of The Faults? Microsoft Will Bypass The Metro UI By Default With The Next Update!
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
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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