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NVIDIA GeForce 417.22 WHQL driver available for download, optimized for Battlefield 5 RTX

NVIDIA has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, the NVIDIA GeForce 417.22 WHQL driver provides the optimal gaming experience for Battlefield V Tides of War Chapter 1: Overture Update (that was meant to come out today but was delayed). Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce 417.22 WHQL driver available for download, optimized for Battlefield 5 RTX

Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture Update has been delayed and won’t be released today

Electronic Arts and DICE have announced that the Chapter 1: Overture update, which was meant to come out later today, has been delayed. According to the official statement, the development team has discovered an issue with it and instead of releasing it in a broken state, it decided to slightly delay it. Continue reading Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture Update has been delayed and won’t be released today

New Battlefield 5 patch promises to offer almost 100% performance boost for real-time ray tracing

DICE has been working with NVIDIA in order to improve performance of the real-time ray tracing RTX effects in Battlefield 5 and have revealed some really impressive figures. According to the teams, the upcoming Battlefield 5 patch will offer – in some scenes – an almost 100% performance boost. Continue reading New Battlefield 5 patch promises to offer almost 100% performance boost for real-time ray tracing

DICE details upcoming real-time ray tracing RTX optimizations coming to Battlefield 5

In an interview with Eurogamer, EA DICE’s rendering engineer Yasin Uludag has detailed the optimizations that are coming to Battlefield 5’s real-time ray tracing RTX effects. According to Yasin, performance of the RTX effects will noticeably improve in the future as both NVIDIA and DICE are working on various performance improvements. Continue reading DICE details upcoming real-time ray tracing RTX optimizations coming to Battlefield 5

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.2 is now available, optimized for Battlefield 5

AMD has released a brand new driver for its graphics cards. According to the release notes, this driver adds support for Battlefield 5. Unfortunately, AMD did not provide any percentage improvements over the AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.1 (which was also listed as a driver that was optimized for DICE’s shooter). Continue reading AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition 18.11.2 is now available, optimized for Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 PC Performance Analysis

Battlefield 5 is the first game officially supporting the newly announced real-time ray tracing effects and as we’ve already reported, even NVIDIA’s flagship GPU is unable to offer a smooth gaming experience. Still, and even without these effects, Battlefield 5 is one of the most beautiful games to date. The game has just been released on the PC so it’s time to benchmark it and see how it performs on the PC platform. Continue reading Battlefield 5 PC Performance Analysis

No AMD users, you cannot enable the real-time ray tracing RTX effects on the Vega 64 (or other AMD GPUs)

A couple of hours ago, a rumour arose suggesting that AMD users can enable the real-time ray tracing RTX effects on their GPUs. Guru3D’s member ‘OnnA’ suggested that by enabling three settings, it may be possible to enable the RTX effects that NVIDIA RTX owners can currently experience. And since we’re in the middle of benchmarking Battlefield 5, we’ve decided to test these settings and see whether it’s possible to have any ray tracing reflections on the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64. Continue reading No AMD users, you cannot enable the real-time ray tracing RTX effects on the Vega 64 (or other AMD GPUs)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti cannot run Battlefield 5’s RTX with constant 60fps at 1080p on Ultra settings

As we’ve already reported, DICE has enabled the real-time ray tracing RTX effects in Battlefield 5 via its day-1 patch. And while it took us a while, we had to also download the October 2018 update for Windows 10, we were finally able to test these new effects with our NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce RTX2080Ti cannot run Battlefield 5’s RTX with constant 60fps at 1080p on Ultra settings

Battlefield 5 day-1 patch adds DXR real-time ray tracing support

Electronic Arts has released the day-1 patch for Battlefield 5 for all platforms. According to the release notes, this first patch adds further improvements to game client stability, resolves an issue which would make the menus unusable when cancelling a matchmaking session and brings support to DXR real-time ray tracing. Continue reading Battlefield 5 day-1 patch adds DXR real-time ray tracing support