“Battlefield” maintains a partnership with Nvidia.
EA and Nvidia announced that Geforce will be DICE’s upcoming official GPU partner Battlefield 2042. This partnership means that multiplayer shooters will take advantage of some of Nvidia’s most advanced features.
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Of course, the most important one is DLSS, which is the company’s famous AI-driven upgrade technology, and everyone has praised it for many years. DLSS should make running games at high frame rates very manageable, especially considering that Battlefield 2042 is much larger than previous iterations.
“Battlefield 2042” will also utilize Nvidia’s Reflex, a low-latency mode that optimizes the rendering pipeline to create the lowest input latency. Reflex has been adopted by many competitive games, including the recent Call of Duty: Warzone.
Interestingly, the press release did not mention ray tracing. “Battlefield 5” is one of Nvidia RTX’s poster games and one of the first large-scale games to support ray tracing. It is not clear whether “Battlefield 2042” will abandon ray tracing or whether it will be announced later.
In fact, the game’s lack of single-player campaigns—usually intended as a technical showcase for battlefields—may reduce the value of ray tracing to some extent. After all, multiplayer games do not always benefit from revolutionary technology.
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Elsewhere in the same announcement, EA also confirmed that Xbox Series X/S is a console partner of Battlefield 2042. Of course, considering the game trailer that debuted on the Microsoft stage, and the fact that Battlefield games are generally consistent with Xbox, this is not surprising.
However, EA did not announce any special rewards for playing games on Xbox. For example, the partnership between Call of Duty and PlayStation provides regular free cosmetics for PS4/PS5 players and locks a mode exclusively on PlayStation for one year.
There is no doubt that we will learn more in “Battlefield 2042” released on October 22.
