Battlefield V Launches Early - Shows No GeForce RTX Support (yet)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/09/2018 09:31 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Yesterday evening the Origin Access Premier Subscribers got a surprise, Battlefield V unlocked itself and is now playable. The new EA tactic is upsetting many Deluxe build pre-order buyers as for them, the game unlocks next week.

Origin Access Premier is a subscription model that will give you extra discounts and the ability to play older games as part of that 99 USD/year or 15 USD/month subscription model. To give it a boost EA added Battlefield V and thus unlocked it no less than 10 days prior to the official release. People that preordered the Digital Deluxe edition still have to wait till November 15th.

As part of my curiosity, I decided to invoke the subscription plan and had a peek yesterday evening. A couple of notes, the game looks and feels good. The wording here is quality over quantity. This is going to be a really nice game.
DX11 runs better than DX12, and considering RTX cards needs DX12 for DXR, that's not a good sign.
GeForce RTX cards do not show Raytracing or DLSS options, and yes I used yesterdays released driver.

I would not be surprised to see a day-1 patch enabling the features, if not then NVIDIA will be in a crapstorm of critique as to date 0 games support it.

I will be working on a game performance article, however, the DRM protection is heftier each year, after changing four graphics cards I got kicked out of the game and will likely need to wait 24 hours. That means I'll be working on an in-progress performance article in which each day we'll add some more cards until we have a proper data-set.

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