Battlefield 1
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Developers | |
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DICE | |
DICE Los Angeles[1] | |
Publishers | |
Electronic Arts | |
Engines | |
Frostbite 3[Note 1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | October 21, 2016 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 88 |
OpenCritic | 87 |
IGDB | 89 |
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 | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Vehicles | Automobile, Flight, Motorcycle, Tank |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | World War I |
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 |
Battlefield 1 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person action, FPS and shooter game in the Battlefield series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Not available in North America.[2] | |||
Amazon.com | ||||
Microsoft Store | Revolution. Included exclusively with Xbox Game Pass for PC as part of its version of EA Play. | |||
Origin | Included with EA Play. Manual link for EA App purchase. |
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Steam | Revolution. Included with EA Play (Steam). | |||
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Green Man Gaming (unavailable) | ||||
Humble Store (unavailable) |
- All versions require Origin and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[3]
Version differences
- Pre-orders included the Hellfighter Pack of weapons and cosmetics, in addition to early access of the map "Giant's Shadow".
- In addition, pre-ordering Titanfall 2 grants three "battlepacks", and pre-ordering Battlefield V grants immediate access to 5 weapons in Battlefield 1.
- Standard Edition contains the base game.
- Deluxe Edition included 3 days early access to the final game, the Hellfighter, Red Baron and Lawrence of Arabia packs, and five "battlepacks".
- Revolution includes all released DLC and the Premium Pass. This is the default edition when purchasing from Steam and Epic Games Store.
Monetization
Type | Notes |
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DLC | Additional multiplayer 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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Premium Pass | Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. | |
Apocalypse | Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. | |
In the Name of the Tsar | Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. | |
They Shall Not Pass | Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. | |
Turning Tides | Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. | |
Heroes of The Great War Pack | Previously Deluxe Edition Upgrade. Included with EA Play Pro and Battlefield 1: Revolution. |
- Shortcut Kits for each of the classes are also available.
Microtransactions
Type | Notes |
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Cosmetic | Cosmetics for soldiers, weapons and vehicles. |
Currency | Warbonds' are granted through gameplay. |
Loot box | Battlepacks could be bought with Warbonds, which are granted through gameplay. Battlepacks could also be purchased separately. |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 1\settings\ |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1238840/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Battlefield 1\settings\ |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1238840/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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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 | |||
Field of view (FOV) | 50-105 VFOV on foot, 45-95 VFOV in vehicle | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Low to Ultra (Up to 16 samples) | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA (Medium & High), TAA and SSAA (through resolution scale) | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | 200 FPS cap[4] 200 FPS cap can be removed with console command GameTime.MaxVariableFPS 0 . |
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High dynamic range display (HDR) | Added along with the "In the Name of the Tsar" expansion pack.[5] HDR10 and Dolby Vision supported. | ||
Color blind mode | Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Protanopia |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | Raw Mouse Input | |
Mouse sensitivity | For soldier and vehicle | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | Currently only main menu tabs can be switched with right and left bumpers (tested with Xbox 360 controller) but selecting options is not possible. Navigating through options is fine | |
Controller remapping | Set presets to custom in "Controls">"Control Schemes" menu to remap | |
Controller sensitivity | Listed as Soldier or Vehicle Left/Right Stick Sensitivity | |
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
DualShock 4 controllers |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Up to 5.1. | |
Subtitles | Available for active Voiceover Language and foreign languages | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | Dolby Atmos support over HDMI[6] | |
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Arabic | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | Fan translation. | |||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, by 'The Baker Company' | |||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Polish | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Latin American Spanish | ||||
Turkish |
Network
- Battle(non)sense has created a comprehensive video explaining network performance graph variables. It can be found here.
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | ||||
Online play | 64 |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | Server browser also available | |
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 80, 443, 5222, 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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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Battlefield 1. | ||
vorpX | Z3D, DirectVR Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Issues fixed
Stuttering on Creators Update 1709 and up
Instruction[7] |
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Once the free memory is exhausted, performance takes a big hit - games with heavy caching like BF1 suffer horribly. The only way to fix it previously was restarting the computer (thus clearing the memory), which explains why it was only happening after a while and not on a fresh boot.
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Use InSpectre |
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Disable "Control Flow Guard" in Windows Defender[9] |
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Use this instruction and choose executable. Don't turn off CFG globally - it's a major security breach.
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Use DirectX 11 instead of DirectX 12[10] |
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Limit FPS (e.g. by V-Sync or MSI Afterburner/Riva Tuner) and increase resolution to 1440p on higher end GPUs[11] |
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Stuttering during pre-rendered cutscenes
Turn off FreeSync (AMD) or GSync (Nvidia) |
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Videos recorded by Nvidia Shadowplay's Instant Replay are in 720p
Set startup resolution in user.cfg[12] |
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Nvidia Shadowplay's Instant Replay uses game's startup resolution for recorded videos. Battlefield 1 and V start with 1280x720 and later change to user's chosen resolution. One way to fix this is to create user.cfg in game's folder and paste: Window.Width 1920 Window.Height 1080 Change values to correspond to your desired resolution |
Stuttering In-Game (Nvidia GPUs)
Set Maximum pre-rendered frames in Nvidia Control Panel to:
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Disable Nvidia's Low Latency Mode[13] |
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Input lag on mouse and keyboard
Disable the Origin overlay from the Origin client. |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11, 12 | |
Shader Model support | 5, 5.1 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Interface | Qt | |
Anti-cheat | FairFight | [14] |
- Uses the Enlighten middleware for Global Illumination.
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 1 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
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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 1\Screenshots\ )
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System requirements
Windows[15] | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7, 8.1 | 10 |
Processor (CPU) | AMD FX-6350 Intel Core i5-6600K |
AMD FX-8350 Intel Core i7-4790 |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon HD 7850 Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible | AMD Radeon RX 480 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 4 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
- Battlefield 1 will end of Support Windows 7 and 8.1 in November 30th 2023,
Notes
- ↑ Frostbite 3 version 2014.4.11 - Same as Mirror's Edge Catalyst and Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1238840/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1238840) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Battlefield 1 (2016) Windows credits - MobyGames - last accessed on 2018-12-30
- ↑ Battlefield 1 will be digital-only on PC in North America | PC Gamer
- ↑ "Playdead drops Denuvo from the hit indie platformer Inside". https://www.pcgamer.com/playdead-drops-denuvo-from-the-hit-indie-platformer-inside/.
- ↑ Battlefield 1 Performance: High-End PC, 1920x1080
- ↑ battlefield.com - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Behind the incredible sound of 'Battlefield 1': | A Sound Effect
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/deton24/Dlaczego-moje-gry-sie-zacinaja-diagnostyka-Ustawianie-pliku-wymiany-ReadyBoost-Testy-trybu-gry-i-kompresji-pamieci-w-Windows--porady,85501.html
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ https://forum.dobreprogramy.pl/t/ryzen-5-3600-rtx-2070-super-i-kilka-problemow-w-grach/601663/27?u=deton24
- ↑ https://forum.dobreprogramy.pl/t/ryzen-5-3600-rtx-2070-super-i-kilka-problemow-w-grach/601663/27?u=deton24
- ↑ Reddit - last accessed on May 2023
- ↑ Reference
- ↑ Keeping the Fight Fair: Our Anti-Cheat Approach in Battlefield 1 - last accessed on 2021-10-19
- ↑ Battlefield 1 System Requirements - last accessed on September 19, 2016