@malfunkshun101
Yeah, that seems like an accurate description of when the leak happens, seems to occur at random when the map changes.
I doubt mantle has anything to do with it because:
I don't think the game even supports mantle yet. afaik its being patched in on a later date. And mantle doesn't even support pre-GCN cards, so they aren't even using it either way.
Bwat, thats kind of my point about Mantle, pre GCN cards cant use it but I havent found any cases of GCN cards (HD7XXX +) that suffer from this (although that probably indicates that I havent looked as hard as I could have more than it indicates that this is a fact).
As for the API itself, I would be surprised, very surprised, if there wasnt already some framework already in place. It would take a considerable effort to patch it in in its entirity at a later date. Anyway, Mantle is just my own speculation and can be accepted as such, or just ignored 🙂
For what it's worth, it happened to me twice on Flood Zone only. I haven't played all maps yet but this is the only one that leaks memory at the moment.
I've delayed building a new machine until the memory leak is fixed, at minimum. Being an old timer gamer, I've come to accept bugs and glitches are common and more prevalent the more complex games become, however to be honest this memory leak issue is the worst I recall in years.
BTW, has anyone noticed some servers are very smooth yet others are rubber banding and lagging horribly even at low pings? One has to wonder if the hardware requirements are higher than DICE anticipated. Hopefully it is just a server side software fix. Otherwise, sad to say, I don't see BF4 residing on my PC after the first of the year.
This is the best unplayable game I've ever purchased.
I have the same problem.. with 8 GBS after a few rounds it laggs out and shows a large page file in the task manager
