Tag Archives: DICE

Battlefield 5 – DICE will return TTK (Time To Kill) to its original values after huge backlash from fans

Last week, DICE rolled out a patch for Battlefield 5 that increased the TTK values. According to the developers, this was done in order to attract more gamers to it however the game’s die-hard community was not happy with that change. And after a huge backlash, DICE has decided to revert those changes to their original values. Continue reading Battlefield 5 – DICE will return TTK (Time To Kill) to its original values after huge backlash from fans

Benchmarked – Battlefield 5 can be played with 60fps at 1440p with real-time ray tracing RTX effects

As we’ve already reported, the Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture update is currently available for download. DICE and NVIDIA claimed that this patch comes with some impressive performance improvements for the real-time ray tracing RTX effects and as such, we’ve decided to benchmark our RTX2080Ti and see whether the game can be played at 1440p on Ultra settings. Continue reading Benchmarked – Battlefield 5 can be played with 60fps at 1440p with real-time ray tracing RTX effects

Full release notes for Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture update revealed, is now available for download

Electronic Arts and DICE have revealed the full release notes for the Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture update. The changelog for this major update is huge and details every change that has been made to it. Continue reading Full release notes for Battlefield 5 Chapter 1: Overture update revealed, is now available for download

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

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)