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EA Adds AMD Mantle Support To Three New Game Titles
AMD recently announced that it will be partnering with EA to bring Mantle to new game titles. AMD already works with EA to bring Mantle to titles such as Battlefield 4 but in the near future AMD and EA will also be cooperating to bring Mantle to Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Plants…
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AMD Attacks Nvidia’s Gameworks, Claims Secret Contracts Are Anti-AMD
AMD’s Graphics Executive Richard Huddy is a well respected figure in the industry. Huddy has worked for ATI, AMD, Nvidia, Intel and is now back at AMD. He is also considered one of the pioneers of the DirectX API so it’s fair to say that his opinion matters. Huddy had…
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Intel Approached AMD About Access To Mantle
According to an AMD executive, Richard Huddy, Intel has approached the company about getting access to AMD’s Mantle technology. Intel has confirmed that it made such a request but did so for “experimental” purposes. Intel claims it remains committed to “open standards” like Microsoft’s DirectX API. AMD refused Intel’s request…
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AMD Hints at Steam OS / Linux Release of Their Mantle API
AMD have fired some shots over at the Nvidia team with a recent statement on their blog. They imply that AMD will be working with Linux much sooner than Nvidia will see any benefit of their latest DirectX 12 API, giving AMD an upper hand as Linux gains strength, especially…
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AMD Has Added Sniper Elite III To Its Never Settle Forever Bundle Gold and Silver Tiers
The Never Settle Forever Bundle has been a big attraction for gamers, having big AAA, AA and even Indie titles up for grabs to any user purchasing a select AMD graphics cards or gamers using the AMD Gaming Evolved app, through which they can exchange points for sweepstake tickets in…
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AMD Demonstrates Mantle Can Be Easily Ported To DirectX 12
This may not be news in the traditional sense of the term, but I know this will be news to a lot of people. The guys over at WCCFTech have been doing a bit of digging around in the Mantle White Papers and Mantle presentations AMD have produced and they stumbled…
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AMD Unleash The Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate
The latest release candidate for AMD’s catalyst driver has been released, bringing the graphics driver software up to version 14.4. With the new update we can expect improved support for the latest card in the AMD gang, the Radeon R9 295X2, full Open GL 4.4 support and a few tweaks…
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Move Over Mantle! It’s Time For Microsoft To Party
AMD have been stirring up the world of PC gaming in a massive way recently, the launch of their Mantle API is one of the biggest changes to how game engines can access the hardware of a GPU in many years. Designed to run on Radeon graphics cards, as well…
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Thief Mantle API Support Delayed Until First Patch In March, Brings TrueAudio as Well
There have been rumors about Thief getting Mantle support, and it appears that Edios Montreal has finally made it official. However, players are not to expect AMD’s Mantle API at launch. Edios Montreal has confirmed that Thief will be launched only with DirectX support. However, a match stipulated to be…
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Battlefield 4 Experiencing Washed-Out Textures In AMD’s Mantle
Mantle is reportedly creating washed-out graphics in EA’s Battlefield 4 title. Have you noticed it? No? Well, it’s probably because the elements affected by Mantle are the sky and background props. WCCF has taken a notice in this matter as well, and as far as anyone can see, it might…
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Mantle Officially Launched For Battlefield 4 While Catalyst 14.1 Rolls Out To The Public
AMD is finally ready to unveil the Mantle API to the public, along with new patches and drivers enabling the low-level API released today. To add more fuel on the already burning flame, AMD has finally released the Catalyst 14.1 beta drivers to the public as well, and can be…
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AMD 14.11 Beta Driver Gets Released To The Press, First Impressions Revealed
Reports are that AMD has finally released the Catalyst 14.1 beta to the press. The driver is said to bring along the first release of Mantle, AMD’s ambitious 3D graphics API to rival Direct3D and OpenGL. The Catalyst 14.1 beta is said to enable the 3D renderer option in Battlefield…
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Nitrous-powered Engine – Star Swarm Benchmark – Released on Steam
For those of you who want to try out how well AMD’s Mantle works, it seems that you are going to like this. The Star Swarm Demo has been released and is available on Steam to be downloaded and stress out your Radeon graphics cards (but not too fast, what…
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AMD’s Catalyst 13.35 Beta Driver Leaked, Said To Include Mantle API And TrueAudio
It seems that the first ‘official’ driver from AMD with Mantle and TrueAudio support doesn’t come from AMD itself. Toshiba, the multinational engineering and electronics corporation, seems to be the first to leak the driver onto the Internet. However, there is some bad news to all of this. Since it…
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AMD Catalyst 14.1 BETA Driver To Launch In Q1 2014, Rumored To Bring AMD’s Mantle
AMD Catalyst 14.1 is said to launch sometime in Q1 2014, and it is confirmed to be packed with a lot of features. It will feature first of all support for the Radeon R200 series graphic cards and the AMD Kaveri A-series APU. The Catalyst 14.1 BETA driver would be…
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