Bethesda's epic sci-fi RPG is here, and it's a big one. From shipbuilding to exploring the surface of Mars, our thoughts so far.
Starfield Review... In Progress
We take an in-depth look at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and tell you why it should be heavily on your radar!
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - a Deep-Dive into its Potential
Range-wise, the ROG Rapture GT6 is phenomenal, and it's ideal for all gaming and non-gaming-related tasks.
ASUS ROG Rapture GT6 WiFi 6 Mesh System Review
The GeForce RTX 4060 is out this week, and NVIDIA let us check out the new mainstream GPU early to see what DLSS 3 brings to Cyberpunk 2077 and the still-gorgeous Night City.
GeForce RTX 4060 Preview - Cyberpunk 2077, RT, and DLSS 3!
Post by Dan @ 04:05pm 24/10/13 | 3 Comments
We've known for some time that publisher Electronic Arts has adopted the powerful Frostbite Engine tech from its Swedish subsidiary DICE, as the defacto technology that many of its upcoming non-sports titles, and according to comments from DICE Technical Director Johan Anderson, those titles number more than 15.

The number was casually offered in a Twitter response to a fan question about utilising the benefits of AMD's recently revealed Mantle API across Frostbite 3 games, to which Anderson replied "yes the plan is once Mantle in #BF4 is done it's part of Frostbite & Mostly 'out of the box' to use the rest of our 15+ games"

DSOGaming points out seven of EA's currently announced titles known to be in active development on Frostbite tech, which include Battlefield 4, Mirror’s Edge 2, Star Wars Battlefront, Need For Speed: Rivals, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, and the next Mass Effect game, then the upcoming free-to-play Command & Conquer game would make eight.

It seems unlikely that performance benefits from Mantle would be retroactively pushed out to older, Frostbite 2.0 engine games like Battlefield 3 and need for Speed: The Run, but DICE is also known to be working on a Frostbite GO engine tailored to mobile devices, so perhaps there'll be some mantle action there also.

DSO also notes another tweet from Anderson that confirms that all of Frostbite 3 does not have any optimisations that work on Windows 8.1 and not Windows 8, so no rush for eager BF4 players to upgrade to Microsoft's latest OS update there.



dicefrostbiteeamantle





Latest Comments
ph33x
Posted 04:12pm 24/10/13
...but DICE is also known to be working on a Frostbite GO engine tailored to mobile devices, so perhaps there'll be some mantle action there also.

I'm doubtful on this as most mobile devices aren't accelerated with AMD hardware. IIRC AMD doesn't have a mobile chip at all, except laptop targeted stuff.
blahnana
Posted 05:58pm 24/10/13
I love how you casually dropped "Plants vs Zombies" in there.
Dan
Posted 09:17am 25/10/13
Blah: probably not what you would expect, PvZ Garden Warfare is a rather bizarre class-based multiplayer shooter http://www.ausgamers.com/videos/watch/71641/plants-vs-zombies-garden-warfare-e3-2013-gameplay-trailer
Commenting has been locked for this item.