Bad Company 2

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:44

Hi All,

I have not long got the above mentioned game and was interested to know if my GFX card needs upgrading

I soon understood that in order to run any AA in this game you need to be running either Vista or 7, I had originally installed it under XP which ran it fine but without AA.

I then installed the game under Win 7 64 bit and the game doesnt run very well at all. As per my sig my comp isnt too bad and I thought my GTX 280 should be able to handle it. Its well choppy even with x2 AA and so much so that when I came out of the game Windows 7 reported that it had detected that my comp was struggling and did I want to turn off Windows Aero lol?

Im running the latest Nvidia drivers and wondered if my card just aint cutting it anymore?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Krib

reflux · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:45

What resolution are you running it at?

OpenToSuggestions · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:46

My 4890 runs it maxed out at 1920x1200 with some AA and AF.

Something is not set up right on your rig. Your graphics card is capable.

rhys216 · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:46

What res. you gaming at?
And what are those Nv drivers? if they are the 196.75 roll back because they are card killers!

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 11:52

Hi all thanks for the replies, the RES is 1920 x 1200, I also noticed that I could only select that res with 59Hz not sure if ths correct?

In terms of the drivers they are Win 7 64 bit 196.21

Any thoughts

Marine-RX179 · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:03

Kribby2006 said:
I also noticed that I could only select that res with 59Hz not sure if ths correct?

Don't worry about that. For me in Win 7 I also only get 59Hz on desktop. For games in full screen mode you should be able to vsync at 60Hz like usual no problem.

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:12

Although im not sure if its related, its in the actual game and not the desktop that it only gives me the option to select 1920 x 1200 @ 59hz

Ultimately though the game still runs terribly

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:15

Just looking at it actually, I see that in Win 7 its set to 59hz and I cant change it, I guess the 59hz bit relates to that.

Still, the game runs like crap???

Geckovich · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:30

I'm running a gtx280 (back at stock, not speeds in my sig) and an i7 860 at 3.8. At 1920x1080 during online play I'm getting between 55-95 FPS according to fraps. All settings maxed, 16xaf, 4xaa HBAO off.

Something definately seems to be up.

Are you sure you're not overlooking something minor, like accidentally forcing masses of AA?

setter · 7 Mar 2010 at 12:39

Running it on a stock (at the moment) i7 with an 8800gt, res at 1920x1200 on medium, plays pretty well, fraps maxing out at 50fps, dips down to the 30's in parts. Hopefully getting a new vid card this week.

Sycho · 7 Mar 2010 at 15:17

Kribby2006 said:
Just looking at it actually, I see that in Win 7 its set to 59hz and I cant change it, I guess the 59hz bit relates to that.

Still, the game runs like crap???

I explained the 59hz issue in the bbc2 thread, do not worry is nothing to worry about it's just windows 7 displaying your hz frequency different to other operating systems.

Also i would suggest turning hbao off for a good fps increase and also there's a fix in the setting file where it says "RenderAheadLimit" change the value to 0 it is probably set at 2.

BigBruiserAl · 7 Mar 2010 at 15:35

Im getting 120-150 fps with 8AA 16AF HBAO on so maxed out at 1920x1200 to compare

Sycho · 7 Mar 2010 at 15:40

BigBruiserAl said:
Im getting 120-150 fps with 8AA 16AF HBAO on so maxed out at 1920x1200 to compare

What does it manage if you use one 5870? that's very nice fps though.

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 17:25

BigBruiserAl said:
Im getting 120-150 fps with 8AA 16AF HBAO on so maxed out at 1920x1200 to compare

lol I guess u just had to get that 1 in eh

Anyway thanks for your replies guys, was messing around with it earlier and now it seems to be running fine with 8 x AA.

Not sure what the prob was :S

dmxdex2020 · 7 Mar 2010 at 17:30

how many fps would my 4870x2 get on this game with 8aa and 16af?

Kribby2006 · 7 Mar 2010 at 17:57

Sycho said:
I explained the 59hz issue in the bbc2 thread, do not worry is nothing to worry about it's just windows 7 displaying your hz frequency different to other operating systems.

Also i would suggest turning hbao off for a good fps increase and also there's a fix in the setting file where it says "RenderAheadLimit" change the value to 0 it is probably set at 2.

Thanks for this

Mr Fujisawa · 7 Mar 2010 at 17:58

running on my rig (sig) its fairly decent but have to switch HBAO off and only running 2xAA. AA doesn't seem to do much in this game or is it just me?

Sycho · 7 Mar 2010 at 19:47

AA only seems to correctly work if you re-adjust your resolution which is the same to make v-sync work, i.e if you originally play 1920x1200 then load up the game switch to some random resolution then back to 1920x1200 and it should be fine.

Hope they patch it soon as it's annoying having to do that all the time.

Also hbao doesn't seem to do much so i keep it off for about 20fps more or so.

Th3D0n · 7 Mar 2010 at 21:18

it runs fine on my computer with vista all on max at 1600*1200 with no AA 4AF HBAO on (spec in sig)

my 4850 only has 512meg

msaunders · 8 Mar 2010 at 00:45

Hi

I was having issues with this game also, the intro movie was stuttering etc and couldn't figure it out , I ran task manager and launched the game and noticed that my AV software went nuts as soon as the game lunched , so I killed the process and the stuttering went.

I am using Sophos , not sure what problem it has with the game , still have to fix it , but it might be worth disabling your AV and launch the game to see if its the same problem....... just a suggestion.

rgds
Martin