The AT Battlefield Bad Company 2 F.A.Q.

[Termie]

They made two different changes related to load-outs in the last patch:

Support for SpecAct kits
Support for Vietnam Kits

In doing so, they added new bugs. (even if you don't take advantage of either of them)

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Look for Battle of Hastings to be unlocked on the PC tomorrow! (currently ~66 Mil/69mil)

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I have a feeling the loss of your selected kit might only happen when you go from vanilla to Vietnam or vice versa. Just a hunch, b/c it certainly doesn't happen often. But it definitely happens at the worst times.

We're now at 67mil on the road to Hastings. We have more than PS3/Xbox combined.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Operation Hastings has been unlocked for the PC! At the the moment, the XBox is at 36 Mil and the PS3 is at 27 Million.

WOW! Just played a few minutes of Conquest on Hastings. It rocks! you will love it!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

after about a dozen+ rounds playing both sides of Hastings on Rush I have to say I'm underwhelmed, seems too small but at least its pretty unique relative to the other maps. On the plus side the average combat range seems tailor made for some good ole M40 rape, so the map is right up my alley in that regard.

I'm pretty pumped about the Heuy though, will have to wait for my buddy to get on and I'm sure we'll rape face just as hard if not harder than Phu Bai.

Of course just like Phu Bai I see far too many noobs all clamoring for rights to the Huey instead of doing something useful for the team. DICE really needs to put in some sort of vehicle tutorial or something with a bunch of dummy bots to blow away so that noobs can have at it with the vehicles all they want there instead of wasting time in game. Even better would be requiring noobs to either level up and/or pass rigorous training tests in order to gain access to the vehicles in game, especially for the tanks and even more especially the choppers. Its ridiculous that players have to level up in order to unlock the more advanced features but any noob can jump in a heli or grab the UAV and essentially throw that vehicle spawn right down the drain for the entire team.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

dp

 

[Baasha]

Guys,

I would like to add some of you to my Friend's list on BFBC2 for PC so that we can play in squads.

Can you please add me as well? My BFBC2 ID is: Baasha

I would love to team up with 3 others to have a full squad of people to make the game more fun. Right now, a couple of people on my friends list are hardly on whenever I'm on and so I get teamed up with random people who do their own shit and it takes away from the fun IMO.

Is there a gamer-ID list somewhere where I can add some of you?

 

[Termie]

Guys,


Is there a gamer-ID list somewhere where I can add some of you?

Zargon put this together a while back: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2057282. I think most of us are on it.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Meh, as much as i want to get nam expansion, i give up, the lag is killing me, the game is annoyingly playable @ 50 FPS.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Well, I finally got banned from a server for being too good as a gunner in the Huey, was over 50-0 when it happened. :twisted:

Meh, as much as i want to get nam expansion, i give up, the lag is killing me, the game is annoyingly playable @ 50 FPS.

are you talking about lag lag or frame lag? because Vietnam is less taxing on the hardware, and the lag issues should subside when the newness of the latest DLC and Vietnam settles

 

[Termie]

Meh, as much as i want to get nam expansion, i give up, the lag is killing me, the game is annoyingly playable @ 50 FPS.

If you haven't tried running in DX9 mode, you seriously should. It lessens the load on the system by a lot.

- Go to Documents>BFBC2 and open up "settings.ini"
- Change DxVersion=auto to DxVersion=9

I know your GPU could do more, but this could alleviate the CPU bottleneck.

As bunnyfubbles mentioned, Vietnam is less taxing, but I can understand that you don't want to spend more money on BC2 if you're not satisfied with it.

 

[destrekor]

Hey guys, does anyone know if you can switch to 3rd person view (not in a vehicle)? I have volunteered to be my friend's platinum 500th knife kill in a bizarre ritualistic sacrifice. We'd very much like to record it on FRAPS in third person, though.

It would be best to get a third person not involved in the sacrificial ceremony to serve as the recorder of events. He can be in First-person, but is viewing everything happening as if one is observing the event happen.

And have that person turn off GUI settings if possible, or at least frame the events in his/her view centered on-screen so the GUI can be trimming using some means of post-processing.

I could help, mayhap.

That's the kind of stuff me and my buddies would do with BF1942 during a lan match - recording various methods of TK or crazy things. A regular event was also a few of us standing, sitting, or prone on the wings of a bomber, trying to stay on as long as possible with a careful [or not] pilot.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'm pretty sure it's lag lag, the game feels a lot like the PS3 version did at launch.

I can play the campaign smooth even at 30FPS, but the game just feels like crap online @ 50 FPS.

I'm running on DX10 if i'm not wrong, not sure about running down to DX9, i like sharp edges :x

 

[zerocool84]

I'm pretty sure it's lag lag, the game feels a lot like the PS3 version did at launch.

I can play the campaign smooth even at 30FPS, but the game just feels like crap online @ 50 FPS.

I'm running on DX10 if i'm not wrong, not sure about running down to DX9, i like sharp edges :x

You should be running it at DX11.

 

[destrekor]

You should be running it at DX11.

With C2D systems, there is a lot of talk about dropping down to older DX versions to save some abuse on the CPU.
Granted, I have no idea why dropping from DX10 to DX9 on a GPU that is not exactly being taxed anyhow would bump framerate, but I've heard it mentioned a lot. For some reason some fixes seem more graphical in nature but the game's engine simply taxes the shit out of CPUs. It basically seems like regardless of clockspeed and chip type, if it's dual-core, you can't get maximum quality at playable framerates, no matter how awesome the GPU.

Looking at graphics quality and following the framerate while tweaking my own settings, it definitely appears my GTX285 could easily play this game at max quality settings, as long as I had more than two cores (C2Q at good clockspeed, AMD tri-core, Intel i5/i7, etc).

I've been thinking about trying this DX9 trick, it's the last framerate-boosting trick I've read everywhere (everything else essentially worked, be it maybe only a few frames/sec more, or 10+) that I haven't actually employed on this end.
There is still a fair amount of lag even on very low-ping servers (at least, low-ping in the server browser... 25ms on the browser, in game close to 100 most often, but still have seen below 50 in-game and lag is still there)... but if I could get a more playable framerate without going to ugly as shit settings, I'd quite like to reduce the visual problems to network lag instead of sub-par FPS and lag.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I'll benchmark my FPS on an online MP session and come back with the FRAPS spreadsheet.

 

[TheNiceGuy]

The second time I have gotten outrageous lag. I'm getting like 3 FPS. It happened a few weeks ago too. I just had to wait a few days and it went away. I'm guessing its a EA server overload issue? I'm in Japan BTW.

 

[RavenSEAL]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8e31a9824fgkwsn

Settings: High/High/High/4aa/off(HBAO)/off(vsync)

Time:14 minutes and 41 seconds

AVG FPS: 34.65

Server:

 

[zerocool84]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8e31a9824fgkwsn

Settings: High/High/High/4aa/off(HBAO)/off(vsync)

Time:14 minutes and 41 seconds

AVG FPS: 34.65

Server:

That doesn't seem too bad with your dual core.

 

[Termie]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8e31a9824fgkwsn

Settings: High/High/High/4aa/off(HBAO)/off(vsync)

Time:14 minutes and 41 seconds

AVG FPS: 34.65

Server:

Yup, that's almost exactly what I get (within one FPS) on my e8400/GTX460 with the same settings. Actually it's what I get whether I have 2xAA or 4xAA, HBAO on or off, and whether I'm overclocked or not. In other words, pure dual-core CPU limitation.

That doesn't seem too bad with your dual core.

No, but it is practically unplayable. If RavenSeal is going to ditch the game b/c of it, I still say try DX9 before you do.

And BTW, at that FPS, I don't think you'd need "lag lag" to experience annoying game play. You sure it wasn't your FPS making it feel like it was "lagging"?

 

[HybridSquirrel]

http://www.mediafire.com/?8e31a9824fgkwsn

Settings: High/High/High/4aa/off(HBAO)/off(vsync)

Time:14 minutes and 41 seconds

AVG FPS: 34.65

Server:

0/0 friends



forever alone

 

[RavenSEAL]

0/0 friends



forever alone

I'm level 3 lol, i don't play this game often :|

 

[RavenSEAL]

Yup, that's almost exactly what I get (within one FPS) on my e8400/GTX460 with the same settings. Actually it's what I get whether I have 2xAA or 4xAA, HBAO on or off, and whether I'm overclocked or not. In other words, pure dual-core CPU limitation.




No, but it is practically unplayable. If RavenSeal is going to ditch the game b/c of it, I still say try DX9 before you do.

And BTW, at that FPS, I don't think you'd need "lag lag" to experience annoying game play. You sure it wasn't your FPS making it feel like it was "lagging"?

I can tell you for sure it's lag lag, same thing happened to me on PS3( Console version runs 30 FPS locked)

Character slides to sides
Fall through stairs
Go through door, end up on the same side next to door in front of wall
Weapons don't fire even though the game shows them to have
half scoped weapons
weapons don't reload even though animation is showed
etc, etc.

:|

 

[zerocool84]

I can tell you for sure it's lag lag, same thing happened to me on PS3( Console version runs 30 FPS locked)

Character slides to sides
Fall through stairs
Go through door, end up on the same side next to door in front of wall
Weapons don't fire even though the game shows them to have
half scoped weapons
weapons don't reload even though animation is showed
etc, etc.

:|

Have you tried overclocking your processor higher? 3.6 isn't that high for a dual, especially a 8500. I'm sure you'll see some gains from clocking it higher since this game loves processors.

 

[minmaster]

raven, get vietnam. it will run much much better than vanilla. my frame rates jumped bigtime on vietnam, probably due to the lesser destruction. in vietnam, i am using DX11 and HBAO/Bloom ON whereas in vanilla, i those settings would make it unplayable.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Have you tried overclocking your processor higher? 3.6 isn't that high for a dual, especially a 8500. I'm sure you'll see some gains from clocking it higher since this game loves processors.

Need a new RAM kit to push it fast 3.6GHz stable...DDR2 sucks, a decent kit of DDR2 DC cost $80 :|

 

[lupi]

if you want a copy of vietnam for $5, check over in hotdeals.