Any way to have video settings global on BF2?

[natto fire]

I play BF2 on two different computers, one has a 6800GT and 19" LCD, the other a 9800NP and 17" CRT. For some stupid reason EA thought it would be cool to bind video settings to the user logged in, not the computer it is on. As much as I love optimizing the shaders from changing back and forth to the different computers; I was wondering if there was a way to make video settings global for any user on the computer. (i.e. the logical way to do it, BTW I am loving my favorites list, a sheet of paper with IPs and info scribbled on it. Thanks EA :roll:.)

At least they finally fixed the bug that made your teammates show up red... sigh.

 

[natto fire]

So I assume this can't be done. Great yet another reason for me to poke fun at EA and BF2.

 

[Tremulant]

I don't play between multiple computers, but it'd be great if video settings were per computer and not per user.

 

[Dman877]

Try making another account?

 

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: Dman877
Try making another account?

I do have two accounts. That doesn't make it any less retarted to bind video settings to account that can be used on any computer, rather than a local file that would be used by all accounts. Even I can see that is flawed logic, and I am in no way a programmer. Unless EA figured out a way to transfer hardware over the internet.

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Well whenever you make a new account, you could just copy the video.con from your old profile to the new one.

 

[Xyclone]

Originally posted by: FishTaco
Well whenever you make a new account, you could just copy the video.con from your old profile to the new one.

:thumbsup:

 

[ryanv12]

I ran into this problem playing between my 2 computers. My desktop 6800GT does better than my go6800 in my laptop. I did it by doing the settings I wanted on both computers, but using the +szx/szy command to set their resolutions so that the performance ends up being equal.

This may not apply to you though since both of your monitors run at 1280x1024. If you want, just run the same settings on the 9800 as your 6800GT but just play at 1024x768 on your CRT

 

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: FishTaco
Well whenever you make a new account, you could just copy the video.con from your old profile to the new one.

This is the one that shows up in 'my documents', correct? Thanks for the tip, maybe I will just name the account xhi-res. Now the question is which weapon to unlock with the other account. (after thorough dissapointment with the DAO-12)