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Latest revision as of 01:08, 17 May 2024
Developers | |
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DICE | |
DLC | DICE Los Angeles[1] |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Engines | |
Frostbite 3 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 29, 2013 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 81 |
OpenCritic | 79 |
IGDB | 80 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC, Subscription gaming service |
Microtransactions | Loot box |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Shooter |
Vehicles | Automobile, Flight, Helicopter, Naval/watercraft, Tank, Transport, Truck |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Contemporary |
Series | Battlefield |
⤏ Go to series page | |
Battlefield 1942 | 2002 |
Battlefield Vietnam | 2004 |
Battlefield 2 | 2005 |
Battlefield 2142 | 2006 |
Battlefield Heroes | 2009 |
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 2010 |
Battlefield Online | 2010 |
Battlefield Play4Free | 2011 |
Battlefield 3 | 2011 |
Battlefield 4 | 2013 |
Battlefield Hardline | 2015 |
Battlefield 1 | 2016 |
Battlefield V | 2018 |
Battlefield 2042 | 2021 |
Warnings
- Mantle graphics API option requires an AMD video card with a driver version earlier than Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1.[2]
Battlefield 4 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person shooter game in the Battlefield series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Amazon.co.uk | ||||
Epic Games Store | Premium Edition. | |||
Microsoft Store | Premium Edition. Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC as part of its version of EA Play. | |||
Origin | Digital Deluxe Edition and Premium Edition also available. Premium Edition included with EA Play. |
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Steam | Premium Edition. Included with EA Play (Steam). | |||
Amazon.com (unavailable) | ||||
(unavailable) | Premium Edition also available. | |||
Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | Premium Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store (unavailable) |
Version differences
- Pre-orders contained early access to the China Rising DLC; pre-ordering the Digital Deluxe Edition granted access to the beta.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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DLC | Additional content. |
One-time game purchase | The game requires an upfront purchase to access. |
Subscription gaming service | Available via EA Play. |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Air Vehicle Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Assault Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Dragon's Teeth | Included with EA Play. | |
Carbine Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
China Rising | Included with EA Play. | |
Community Operations | Free | |
DMR Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Engineer Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Final Stand | Included with EA Play. | |
Grenade Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Ground & Sea Vehicle Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Handgun Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Legacy Operations | Free | |
Naval Strike | Included with EA Play. | |
Night Operations | Free | |
Recon Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Second Assault | Included with EA Play. | |
Shotgun Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Soldier Shortcut Bundle | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Support Shortcut Kit | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Ultimate Shortcut Bundle | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Vehicle Shortcut Bundle | Can be obtained by ingame leveling | |
Weapon Shortcut Bundle | Can be obtained by ingame leveling |
- All expansion packs are available with Premium.
Essential improvements
Use Battlescreen on secondary monitor
- If you are using a multi-monitor resolution in-game the secondary monitor can't be part of the spanned resolution.
Move Battlescreen browser window[3] |
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Notes
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 4\settings\PROFSAVE_profile |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1238860/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 4\settings\ |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1238860/pfx/[Note 1] |
-
meta.xml
,PROFSAVE
,PROFSAVE_header
andPROFSAVE_profile
are the save files.
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Origin | ||
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud | ||
Xbox Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | Allows HUD scaling | ||
Field of view (FOV) | 60-120° in multiplayer; for single-player use Flawless Widescreen. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Up to 16 samples. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | Low to High Post AA, up to 4x MSAA, and resolution scale for SSAA. MSAA can be enhanced with TrSSAA on Nvidia systems; requires setting Antialiasing - Behavior Flags to none with Nvidia Profile Inspector and value must equal MSAA value (thus 8x is not available). | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Up to 200 FPS. 200 FPS cap can be removed with console command GameTime.MaxVariableFPS 0 . |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Color blind mode | Set in Options, Video; alters HUD colors and text/icon borders. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Enable Raw Mouse Input to disable acceleration. | |
Mouse sensitivity | ||
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | In-game prompts always refer to keyboard keys. | |
Full controller support | Changing weapons/classes at supply crates (commonly found in the SP campaign or via the commander ability in MP) requires mouse input. | |
Controller remapping | Supports full controller remapping on XInput controllers. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | Only in menus. Keyboard keys during gameplay. | |
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Only Master and VOIP can be changed, no separate music/SFX volume options. | |
Surround sound | Up to 5.1[4] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, download (mirror). | |||
Italian | Steam version displays an infinite loading screen at startup when set to Italian. Follow this guide to fix. | |||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
Network
- Servers use PunkBuster and Fairfight anti-cheat protection.[5][6]
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 64 | Up to 64 players, 2 commanders, and 2 spectators |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | Server browser also available | |
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | Servers must be rented from approved providers (archive.org). | |
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 80, 443, 9988, 17502, 20000-20100, 22990, 42127 |
UDP | 3659, 14000-14016, 22990-23006, 25200-25300 |
- This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Native 3D | |||
Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Battlefield 4. | ||
TriDef 3D | |||
iZ3D | |||
vorpX | G3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Devices | |||
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3RD Space Gaming Vest |
Issues unresolved
Can't pass swimming part in the South China Sea mission
Pause the menu for every 5 seconds, which helps you getting through the part[7] |
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Limit the game to 30fps[8] |
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Tactical Visor doesn't work in Campaign
- Changing the Aiming to Toggle unable to use the visor properly.
Switch back to HOLD to use visor in the game setting |
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Issues fixed
Use Mantle with newer AMD Catalyst drivers
Mantle support was dropped after 19.4.3 causing launch errors if the user was trying to launch the game with newer Catalyst drivers. A workaround involves placing 19.4.3's Mantle DDLs into Battlefield 4's install directory.
Download and insert Mantle DDL files[9] |
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Stuck on Loading Screen / Game Closes with No Error Message / PunkBuster Initialization Failure
PunkBuster issues may cause the game to become stuck on the black loading screen with the flashing indicator at the top-right, or cause you to be kicked mid-game by the server with or without the following error messages:
- Game disconnected: you were kicked by PunkBuster. Stated reason: PunkBuster kicked player '(player name)' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication Failure: PnkBstrA.exe.
Ensure PunkBuster is installed correctly[10] |
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Update PunkBuster manually[11] |
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(Nvidia) Stuttering on loading screen, losing connection to servers
Clear shader cache folder[12] |
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Notes
with two respective folders, DXCache and GLCache.source
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Game Won't Start: Invalid license: Missing DLL Error
- Full error text is: "We're sorry, an error has occurred Invalid license. Reason code = Missing DLL: [MSVCP110.dll] Error: 0x7E."
Install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4[13] |
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FOV slider doesn't work in singleplayer campaign
The Field of View slider "only affects multiplayer," as the tooltip says. To adjust FOV for singleplayer, a 3rd-party application can be used.
Install and use Flawless Widescreen[14] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11.1 | Can be run on DX10 hardware with limited features. For Windows Vista - the DX11 update (KB971512) must be installed |
Mantle support | See Use Mantle with newer AMD Catalyst drivers. | |
Shader Model support | 4.1, 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | Havok | |
Audio | EAAudioCore | |
Interface | Qt | |
Anti-cheat | PunkBuster | [15][16] |
- Uses the Enlighten middleware for Global Illumination.
Performance monitoring tools
Performance monitoring tools[10] |
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Notes
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Console commands
- Launch console with ~.
- You can have these commands run automatically, whenever you start the game, by entering them in
user.cfg
in the Battlefield 4 installation folder (the file won't exist by default, you can create it through a Notepad and save as a .cfg file).
Command | Description |
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PerfOverlay.DrawFPS 1 | Show FPS counter |
PerfOverlay.DrawGraph 1 | Show performance graph |
GameTime.MaxVariableFPS # | Limit frame rate (where # is a positive number) / '0' unlocks framerate beyond 200FPS
|
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 1 | Enable Triple-Buffering (only recommended if Vsync is on) |
RenderDevice.ForceRenderAheadLimit 1 | Force rendering only 1 frame ahead (can remove stutter, default value is 3) |
NetworkPerfOverlay.DrawGraph 1 | In depth network debugging information |
Screenshot.Render | Take a screenshot (into %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 4\Screenshots\ )
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Disable HUD
- Open the console (~).
- Type
ui.drawenable 0
. You can auto-complete the command by pressing Tab afterui
. - To restore the HUD, open the console once again, repeat the same command (quick access by Arrow Up), but this time use 1 instead of 0.
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Vista SP2 32-bit with KB971512 update | 8 |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Athlon X2 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz |
AMD Six Core Intel Quad Core |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 30 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | ATI Radeon HD 3870 Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB of VRAM DirectX 10.1 compatible | AMD Radeon HD 7870 Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 3 GB of VRAM |
Other | Broadband Internet connection |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1238860) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ DICE LA to handle remaining Battlefield 4 DLC - Polygon - last accessed on 2017-11-16
- ↑ AMD - Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1 Highlights - last accessed on 2019-05-15
- "Support for AMD Mantle API Technology has been discontinued starting with Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.5.1. Users who wish to continue to use AMD Mantle API Technology may do so with prior supported Radeon Software releases."
- ↑ I too, am enjoying BF4's Battlescreen : pcgaming - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Battlefield 4 PunkBuster Online Countermeasures - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Faq | FairFight Server Side Anti Cheat & Middleware
- ↑ Solved: can't pass swimming part - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Solved: can't pass swimming part - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Is Mantle in 2020 on BF4 possible? - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Verified by User:Waschbär on 2017-09-03
- ↑ ea.com - PunkBuster technical guide - last accessed on 2017-09-03
- ↑ Solved: BF4 Visual/Audio Lag in Loading Screen & Occasional Disconnect - Answer HQ - last accessed on 2021-03-20
- ↑ Solved: BF4 Invalid License. Reason code = Missing DLL: [MSVCP110.dll Error: 0x7E - Answers HQ] - last accessed on 2021-08-12
- ↑ FlawlessWidescreen FOV fix tool - last accessed on 2022-08-30
- ↑ Even Balance, Inc. - PunkBuster Online Countermeasures - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Even Balance, Inc. - PunkBuster Online Countermeasures - last accessed on 2018-09-04
- "Tue Aug 27 2013 12:00
Electronic Arts Inc. has contracted with Even Balance, Inc. to integrate PunkBuster™ Anti-Cheat software into Battlefield 4™. We will soon be opening a section on our website to support PunkBuster™ for Battlefield 4."
- "Tue Aug 27 2013 12:00