DICE: Battlefield 4 supports DirectX 11.1

Dice has announced that Battlefield 4 support will offer for the DirectX 11.1 api, which, among other things, the cpu has more offloads can be while gaming. The successor of the popular Battlefield 3 released at the end of this year for almost all platforms, except the Wii U.

Johan Andersson, the technical director of Dice, via a post on NeoGAF confirmed that Battlefield 4 will support DirectX 11.1. According to him, provides the DirectX 11.1 api, some optimizations, such as constant buffer offsets. With respect to dynamic buffers, the gpu can effectively certain calculations over the cpu. Earlier this week there were system requirements for the pc version of Battlefield 4 in the Uplay Store from Ubisoft, but this turned out not to be true, so let Andersson know via a tweet.

Battlefield 4 is rumored to be on the 31st of October, and AMD would release seize to the new video cards with the Volcanic Island gpu. The game is displayed for the current and upcoming generation of Xbox and PlayStation consoles and the pc.

To play the game with DirectX 11.1 functionality is not only a video card that supports that, but also Windows 8. The api is exclusive to Windows 8 and only partially available on Windows 7.