Now that Battlefield 4 has been out for a while, how do you think the Frostbite 3 engine stacks up against CryEngine 3 in terms of visuals and performance?
I played the Battlefield 4 single player campaign yesterday, and while I wasn't overly impressed with the first level, as I progressed through the game, I began to see that the Frostbite 3 engine is certainly capable of generating some spectacular images and set pieces.
Although the single player campaign probably isn't the best way to judge the full capabilities of the engine as DICE obviously didn't put much effort into it, it still makes enough of an impression to form a valid opinion...
In the end though, I think CryEngine 3 is the better engine overall. No game that I've yet seen manages to surpass Crysis 3 in the graphics department, and when it comes to performance, CryEngine 3 has the edge on Frostbite 3 as well.
Playing the BF4 single player campaign, there was activity on all 12 threads on my CPU, but one thread always had a higher load than the others. With Crysis 3, the load balance is much more even, and as a result, Crysis 3 fully loads both my GPUs to 99% and object pop in is less noticeable as the CPU can feed the GPUs instructions faster..
I'm sure BF4's performance will increase over time as patches and driver updates roll out, but it's a shame that we won't really get to see what the engine is fully capable of doing until perhaps Dragon Age 3 Inquisition comes out..
I played the Battlefield 4 single player campaign yesterday, and while I wasn't overly impressed with the first level, as I progressed through the game, I began to see that the Frostbite 3 engine is certainly capable of generating some spectacular images and set pieces.
Although the single player campaign probably isn't the best way to judge the full capabilities of the engine as DICE obviously didn't put much effort into it, it still makes enough of an impression to form a valid opinion...
In the end though, I think CryEngine 3 is the better engine overall. No game that I've yet seen manages to surpass Crysis 3 in the graphics department, and when it comes to performance, CryEngine 3 has the edge on Frostbite 3 as well.
Playing the BF4 single player campaign, there was activity on all 12 threads on my CPU, but one thread always had a higher load than the others. With Crysis 3, the load balance is much more even, and as a result, Crysis 3 fully loads both my GPUs to 99% and object pop in is less noticeable as the CPU can feed the GPUs instructions faster..
I'm sure BF4's performance will increase over time as patches and driver updates roll out, but it's a shame that we won't really get to see what the engine is fully capable of doing until perhaps Dragon Age 3 Inquisition comes out..