Concluding Thoughts

Nosotros've held off on testing Mantle for 2 reasons. First and foremost, Curtain is sketchy in Hardline right now and nosotros often saw performance decrease.

The 2nd problem is Origin. We had to cut some testing equally EA'south platform only allows us to change the CPU/GPU up to eight times per account before locking us out. We were forced use four unlike accounts to produce this article!

Later on viii hardware changes we get hit with "nosotros're sorry, an error has occurred...too many computers have accessed this account'southward version of Battleground Hardline recently. Please effort again later." Ohh how I long for a Steam version of Hardline.

As yous might imagine these pointless anti-piracy measures made testing ho-hum and somewhat painful. Hopefully these accounts volition allow hardware changes over again presently so nosotros tin do more than testing.

Those hoping to play the retail version of Battleground Hardline at 1080p with everything cranked up will desire at to the lowest degree a Radeon R9 270X or GeForce GTX 760 for what nosotros consider to be the bare minimum of 40-45fps on boilerplate.

For around 50fps the R9 285 or GTX 960 will get the job washed, while the R9 280X or GTX 770 will deliver a more pleasing 55fps. Getting over 60fps required the GTX 780 or faster and information technology'southward interesting to annotation that the R9 290 smoked the GTX 780 with an average of 73fps versus 65fps.

Gaming at multi-monitor resolutions or high single monitor resolutions such as 2560x1600 will require a seriously powerful GPU. The R9 290 and R9 290X averaged just 46fps and 50fps while the GTX 980 managed 53fps. The GTX Titan X proved its mettle hither delivering 70fps.

Folks playing at higher resolutions such as 4K volition want to reduce the anti-aliasing level to 2xMSAA or just disable it altogether.

When it comes to CPU performance, gamers will desire a decent quad-cadre and it doesn't really affair if it comes from AMD or Intel. The AMD FX series was only slightly behind the performance of Intel's Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Based on our testing it doesn't seem like Hardline is particularly CPU-intensive, simply of course this could change with 32 active players.

As nosotros found when testing the beta version, Hardline isn't any more enervating than 2022's Battleground 4, and then most fans won't accept a reason to upgrade components.

Until the next i, you can check out more PC gaming benchmark tests here, including GTA 5, Far Cry 4, Homeworld Remastered, Dying Light and more than.