I'm equally frustrated with QA on this game. Shocking that they can release BETA code to the open public for forty five quid. Disgusting!
I run on:
Mac Pro Bootcamp'd
6 gigs DDR2 800
6870 1GB GDDR5
Windows 7 Ultimate
ATI BF 4 BETA drivers
This runs for no more than 30 min on High detail settings. I gain 15 min if I switch to Medium detail settings. I decided this was an excuse to get a 3D card with more memory as I heard the game is very memory intensive.
MSI Nvidia 760 2GB Frozr
Nvidia 331.65 'BF 4' driver
Now run on Ultra settings again last 30 min before a hard lock or Direct X error and the game hangs. Based on previous results I'd estimate on High settings I'd get an hour of play on this new card.
Smells to me like memory leaking. Be interesting to monitor the 3D card memory usage over that 30-1 hour duration to see when it peaks. Check the bottom of this page for estimated memory usage. Shows something is afoot if through my research so far it just bombs out quite religiously based on detail setting and 3D card memory size:
http://www.bf4blog.com/battlefield-4-retail-gpu-cpu-benchmarks/
P.S. can people elaborate on what they are changing with respective overclocking software? Or is it just installing of it that changes BF 4 behaviour??
For me I think noticed it popping up when turning on vram intensive settings. Some things like detail level have no no real effect, but texture filtering and even full screen were setting it off. (On Ultra.)
