Battlefield 3
Battlefield 3 (DirectX 11)
Battlefield 3™ leaps ahead of its time with the power of Frostbite 2, DICE's new cutting-edge game engine. This state-of-the-art technology is the foundation on which Battlefield 3 is built, delivering enhanced visual quality, a grand sense of scale, massive destruction, dynamic audio and character animation utilizing ANT technology as seen in the latest EA SPORTS™ games.
Frostbite 2 now enables deferred shading, dynamic global illumination and new streaming architecture. Sounds like tech talk? Play the game and experience the difference!
Our Settings for Battlefield 3
Here is our testing run through the game, for your reference.
Immediately we see some good results! The most important comparison here is between the orange line (HD 7990 with the 13.4 driver) and the black line (HD 7990 with the new 13.8 driver and frame pacing enabled). Compare the lines in the first two graphs – FRAPS FPS and observed FPS – notice how the orange line dips dramatically from FRAPS to observed frame rates? The black line does NOT do that indicating we are not seeing runt frames!
The frame times graph clearly shows that difference at work as the black line of the HD 7990 with the latest beta driver and frame pacing enabled is MUCH tighter than the orange line. The result is frame time variance that never gets out of control and stays within 2-3 ms. Looking at the FPS by Percentile graph you can also see that because of these changes the observed frame rates are much higher and actually push the Radeon HD 7990 well ahead of the GTX Titan and the GTX 690.
The same story is repeated here at 2560×1440 – the new 13.8 driver with frame pacing produces a MUCH better result! The frame times aren't quite as consistent and smooth as the GTX 690 still but the improvement over the previous driver iterations is clearly night and day.
AMD should have added you to
AMD should have added you to their payroll for exposing this. It is >>tragic<< for a manufacturer not to have tested the true display performance of their cards and having a reviewer showing them how it' s done. Unacceptable.- On the other hands, Kudos!
I’m glad to see that AMD was
I’m glad to see that AMD was willing to acknowledge and fix the issue, even if they did it kicking and screaming the whole way.
Dear amd, I thank you that
Dear amd, I thank you that the “secreted” anal hammering you have been delivering for years and swore you weren’t doing has been reduced, even though it took many beatings and incarcerations before you owned up to your problem.
We don’t know if you are stupid or blind or both, or just a liar.
Since you likely have 4 or 5 other major secrets right now just like the runts you anal hammered on everyone for years while in public denial, this is not a real thank you, it is just a reminder about who and what you really are.
I’ve got a 6990 with an
I’ve got a 6990 with an arctic cooling cooler on it.
I’ve also got shit eyes and can’t seem to notice any difference yet. Farcry 3 still plays like crap and my golf gti exhaust is still blowing balls, but hey.
I’m very happy AMD are listening and gradually sorting this problem out, I just wish they would be more pro active instead of sorting shit out when people call them out.
It’s impressive how well the
It’s impressive how well the 7870 xfire works with this driver, those frametime plots are as good as any you’ll see with the geforces if not better
well i’ll be diggydee
well i’ll be diggydee dogged!
i did not think they could do it without a hardware fix- well here is pie in my face!
nice to see the first results did so well, it will be nice to see how the software matures over time
nice writeup
Ahhh this is great news for
Ahhh this is great news for my ATI Dept. AMD Radeon HD 6990 too then, I plan to beta test for AMD with such things, this really seems worth beta testing I do find 🙂
Great work! And great review!
Great work! And great review! I hope AMD will take a look at Dual Graphics issue. Because this release doesn’t affect Dual Graphics. And It’s really annoying, coz It’s great deal for notebooks, there is just no contest for AMD A10-4600M(7660G+7690M) combo for that money and productivity. So please aks AMD about Dual Graphics issue. I believe in you.
Hi,
I have a 7970 crossfire
Hi,
I have a 7970 crossfire setup. The rest of my computer is listed below: I7 4770k factory speed, gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard, 16gb ram, 650w 80+ gold psu, windows 7 x64. When i try running BF3 with the 13.8 beta driver, I get black thick bands flashing horizontally across my screen, sometimes immediately and sometimes after 5-10 minutes. My game would then crash and I would then get static artifacts of squares with little squares in them with the error titled: Directx Function Get Device Removed Reason. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Wayne
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