However, it will be the first title to support the alternative to directx almost from launch. Thief to get mantle and trueaudio support tomorrow pc. Its important to understand that dx11 doesnt do a bad job frankly speaking the radeon 280 using mantle does a better job with frame rate and visuals than either the ps4 or x1 can muster the same could be said for nvidias mid range cards. Thief launched today and if you have been waiting for the aaa title you can finally play it. Amds mantle is available to users of certain radeon cards, as are the first few titles with corresponding api support. Thief mantle support not shipping with game might have. Yesterday we wrote that thief is getting a patch to support mantle and trueaudio. The only other studio and game that boasts of the same, which is in the market, are dice and battlefield 4.
Amds new mantle api brought notable improvements to battlefield 4 does it do the same for thief with the. Amd have launched their new graphics api, mantle, to the public and you can pick it up right now in the new catalyst 14. Now though, amd have teamed up with eidos and are set to release a. Thief shutting down windows 10 pc thief general discussions. If it was just mantle missing, i would say get on with it but lots of people have been looking forward to true audio i know i would if i had a 290x and to let the customers down right at the last is a little disappointing. We gathered up a number of cpus and graphics boards, fired up. Thief is part of amds gaming evolved ecosystem, which puts it in amds inner circle of developer support. Thief, dragon age inquisition, civ beyond earth, battlefield 4 etc im wondering if they still support it and if theres a difference in relative performance gain versus the. Amd says that the following graphics cards will support the new catalyst driver, and by extension, mantle. Support for amd mantle api technology has been discontinued starting with radeon software adrenalin 2019 edition 19. Users who wish to continue to use amd mantle api technology may do so with prior supported radeon software releases.
Mantle sara usata per i giochi star citizen e thief, e nellimminente motore grafico nitrous. I am getting this when i try to play thief using mantle. To coincide with thiefs pc release, amd have put out the 14. Directx 11 vs mantle vs directx 12 3dmark api overhead test r9 280x catalyst 15. Eidos has mantle and trueaudio support scheduled for march. The dark project, is a return to the series that remains at the core of the stealth genre.
Thiefs mantle update incoming on march 18th pc gamer. Thief pcgamingwiki pcgw bugs, fixes, crashes, mods. Amds mantle brings 23% performance boost to thief, trueaudio. Crossfire profile update and performance improvements for single gpu configurations mantle. Mantle also does not work properly in any games using the windows 10 drivers from windows update.
Amd originally developed mantle in cooperation with dice, starting in 20. Amd mantle api promises to improve performance in games by allowing them to speak directly to the graphics core next architecture in your gpu or apu and help remove load from your cpu. Thief is the next one to be released but thats not until late february so unless amd were to provide some techdemos when they release their 14. I had much lower minimum fps in the thief bench but much higher on the top end so averaged around 1520 better.
Launched around 20, mantle had a short stint with aaa pc games, such as battlefield 4, thief, sniper elite iii, and star citizen, offering noticeably higher performance than directx 11. Amd manda in pensione lapi mantle, precursore delle directx 12. Amd mantle update for battlefield 4 delayed guru3d forums. Here are the benchmarks for the ultimate thief showdown of mantle api vs direct x and the gtx 780 ti vs r9 290x. Evaluating amds trueaudio and mantle technologies with thief. On march 18, amd and eidos enabled both mantle and trueaudio in thief when using the latest catalyst beta driver and a compatible gpu. Aside from the thief support, the driver also brings several fixes to mantles technology itself. Amd is following up with a new beta driver that will enable this support. In 2015, mantles public development was suspended and in 2019. Thief is due to launch in north america on the february 25th. Additionally, crytek revealed at gdc 2014 that cryengine will. Amd mantle benchmarks thief apu, entrylevel graphics.
The latest version of the amd catalyst software suite, amd catalyst 14. Amd halts optimizations for mantle api techpowerup. Soul suspect performance is up to 16% with cf support, eyefinity has features a host of new technologies for mixed resolutions, new color and display options to control each display options, mantle support for enduro and performance. With battlefield 4 already supporting the mantle api, thief will become the second aaa title to support it but not quite yet. I thouroughly enjoyed all entries in this series amd would love to see a bundle with. With mantle enabled i can set ssao to high, get solid 60fps but it introduces stuttering every few seconds which is more than just framerate drops. We begin at the bottom end of mantlecapable gpus, with integrated graphics on amds a107850k apu. As amd recently has proven, mantle can bring a significant performance improvement towards compatible games. Amd mantle api promises to improve performance in games by allowing them to speak directly to the graphics core next architecture in. Thief will not support amds mantle api at launch, patch set for march. Thief is actually an amd optimized title, and in march will receive an update which will allow the title to use both trueaudio and amds mantle api.
We are not sure whether amd has been late with its driver support or whether eidos montreal had problems implementing it, but after the battlefield 4 mantle fiasco it is wise from amd and from eidos montreal to take more time in implementation. Amd mantle benchmark dx11 vs mantle api on mid range gpu. Feral interactive brought the game to macos in november 2015. Mantle is a new graphics api that amd says provides a performance increase in games that are mantle enabled. While battlefield 4 was the first game to support mantle, thief by square enix is the first game to support both mantle and trueaudio. I know a lot of people using i7s with mantle, in thief and bf4, some with cf 290s, they all. On a side note, battlefield 4 and the mantle low level api get. As of right now mantle for thief is scheduled for the next patch which. New thief beta to add amds mantle, trueaudio on tuesday. With all the stealth clones out now, it is good to see a return to the roots. Fu usata in diversi titoli come battlefield 4 e thief. Thief is not the first game to get mantle support, as battlefield 4 has had it for a few weeks now. Again, thief appears to be an ideal proof point for mantle.
Ive recently got thief 2014 version, on steam and i got a pc that can run 64bit executables and use the amd mantle technology but if i try to start the game without the 32bit mode i just get a b. Mantle was designed as an alternative to direct3d and opengl, primarily for use on personal computers, although mantle supports the gpus present in the playstation 4 and in the xbox one. For osd im using msi afterburner which unfortunately doesnt support mantle api and this is a reason why osd is not rendered during mantle. If you have been buying amd gpus then you might of gotten the game for free with the never settle bundle. Who out there is successfully running mantle on r9 270x7870 cards, cf or not.
The driver is to be released to coincide with the release of thief in the us which, as an amd gaming evolved title, is optimised for amd radeon graphics and will. Mantle was a lowoverhead rendering api targeted at 3d video games. Amds mantle api arrives in new beta driver, free star. Just like our thief tests, battlefield 4 is consistently faster using mantle than dx11 manages. Thief delays support for amds groundbreaking mantle api days. Discussion in graphics cards started by warsam71, mar 18, 2014. Thief mantle support not shipping with game might have guessed lol. The cards will retain mantle api support at the driverlevel, to run existing mantle applications, but will not receive any performance optimizations from amd. On bf4 it wont get any further than the loading screen.
Cpu, ram, os, vid driver ver, vram amount, any screenshots you have. Trueaudio is implemented to enhance environmental sound effects. Eidos however has shared a note where it states that that thief wont be shipping with mantle support and truaudio. At 3200x1800 the benchmark had more large frame spikes on mantle as seen by the min than on dx11. An amd spokeswoman said monday that gamers who own the thief game, a graphics card powered by a compatible amd gpu amds r9 290x, r9 290, or r7 260x cores, the amd catalyst 14. Thief patch will be the latest rendition of amds catalyst drivers. It is a revival of the cult classic thief video game series of which it is the fourth installment. Multigpu configurations up to 4 gpus running battlefield 4 are now supported. Most of these patch notes are from pc updates, but its fair to assume that similar fixes were put out for console updates as well. Thief 4 mantle api vs direct x benchmarks directx 12 has big shoes to fill the exact test rig was not mentioned though i am pretty sure it was a i74770k downclocked, no htt since they mention. Amd mantle benchmarks thief mid to highend graphics. Amd has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to its changelog, this new driver adds support for amd mantle and amd true audio in.
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