As this issue seems to have been resolved with new drivers I'll mark this thread as solved now.
I got rid of this issue a while back, by forcing bf4 to run in 32bit mode.
After some recent update (last few months? not played), that no longer works - all graphics options get forced to minimum, and there's a message within bf4 explaining that in 32bit mode you can't change graphics options.
So, I go change back to 64bit mode, graphics options reappear ......... and so does the memory leak. I tried updating to the latest AMD drivers, but no luck.
This is a bug that has existed from day one of BF4, and as the thread shows, it's extremely common. Why is it not fixed yet?
@ spankthatmonkey - I too had this issue for a long time and I was one of many who got tired of this issue and AMD's few and far between * drivers, I switched to nvidia and haven't looked back or had any problems really to speak of.
However, when I had this issue I was able to edit the graphical settings of 32 bit mode by doing this - http://answers.ea.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/board-id/battlefield-4/message-id/36812
I also ran the 32 bit .exe in compatibility mode with 7 and never had the leak (as long as it was 32 bit) and could edit graphical settings 🙂
Also I was one of many who couldn't edit graphical settings in 64 bit mode without the game freezing when mantle came out (fix was to disable onboard video but I had no onboard video on my motherboard) and this helped immensely - http://battlefield.realmware.co.uk/bf4-settings-editor/downloads
EDIT - OMEGA drivers fixed not being able to pull up the options menu in the 64 bit game
This tool was also quite helpful to auto kill bf4 as soon as the leak was detected - http://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/2l37od/memory_leak_killer_v2/
Unsure what still is and isn't relevant as I haven't used an AMD gpu since December but I hope this helps!
Thanks Mike, I'll have a look at that stuff you posted.
@EA: 18 months after a game's release, this shouldn't be necessary.
Im getting random crashes on 280x with 15.3.
I cant disable the pool or set no pool on w8x64 or crash on omega.
