Battlefield 4 players who currently own AMD Radeon cards can now enable Mantle in the latest Battlefield 4 patch. While the patch is 1.23 Gigabytes majority of the patch is to enable Mantle, AMD’s answer to Microsoft’s DirectX. The patch also delivers a variety of CPU & GPU improvements as well as a few in-game fixes:
- Significantly reduced the duration of the black screen when spawning in, and fixed the issue with players getting killed before being in-game
- Greatly reduced the risk of crosshairs disappearing, which would also result in hit markers disappearing
- Added a headshot icon on the killcard. This should help identify instances where players are correctly killed by one shot
- Fixed an issue in Squad Deathmatch where the “Win/Lose” text was overlapping
- Fixed an issue with players using an exploit for the SOFLAM
- Fixed an issue with players using an exploit for the MAV
- Fixed the gameplay code to properly track the FOV (Field of View) changes in the options menu
- Fixed an issue where chat would break when entering "false" or "true" in the chat window
- Fixed an out-of-helicopter glitch in Air Superiority where players could spawn on the ground and play as infantry
- Fixed the misaligned crosshairs on the T90 MBT
- Added setting to tweak joystick dead zone
- Various minor crash fixes
You can view the full patch notes here on the Battlelog Control Room, you can also view the full article on how to enable Mantle for Battlefield 4 here.