Poll: ****Official Battlefield Bad Company 2 Thread*****

Which type of game play would you prefer

  • Normal Rush Mode

    Votes: 481 33.4%

  • Hardcore Rush Mode

    Votes: 222 15.4%

  • Normal Conquest

    Votes: 507 35.2%

  • Hardcore Conquest

    Votes: 229 15.9%
  • Total voters
    1,439
Master_X said:
They need to give more fixed guns and vehicles to the defending teams, it drives me mad when all the attacking team does is shoot the M-com stations with a tank miles away!
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yeah when an mcom is in a destructible building there's nothing you can do to stop recons just calling mortars on it til lit goes :(

although the first B (in the pit) on port valiese is funny with 5-10 medics in there loads of health kits and so many defibs you can never kill em all at once can hold that point though multiple mortar strikes with all the med packs (if they have faster healing + range upgrades)
 
McGray said:
I'm always the first in on my team and my rig is nothing to shout about.

Q9550 at 3.2 and GTX260 running everything on high.
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ati cards take an age and a half to load in d10/11 for some reason.


Then if you put it into dx9 mode you get gfx glitches like the glass shield on the mounted gun being opaque.
 
sorry if this has been mentioned before, but thought i would share again just in case.

This sorted out an odd issue ive been having with this game on my new i7.

I upgraded recently to an i7 930, asus rampage extreme 2 and 6gb of corsair ram. I run a BFG GTX285OC card and everything maxed out graphicwise in game. At exactly the same time as the upgrade, i installed Windows 7x64. Everything runs as you would expect on this system (overclocked to 3.8gtz for now) and it just destroys anything in its path.

BF2 was having a strange problem with almost "rubber banding" in the lightest form (even with very high fps), when you would run down a map for example towards the action. I thought it was the vsync bug the game had on release to begin with, but when that was fixed and the problem remained i started trying other things. I put it down to the i7 causeing a strange stutter - as there was a big thread about i7 users problems on the EA forums.

Lots of people were suggesting the i7 was basically too fast for BFBC2 - and limiting the game to 2x cpu cores instead 4 would fix it, but this turned out to be ******.

Turns out this fixed it - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281&highlight=Multimedia+Class+Scheduler

It's a network setting on Windows 7x64 - and it will also inprove several other games. BFBC2 is back to being silky smooth. Its basically network lag causing the stutter - although your ping rate may look fine in game. Just thought id share incase anyone needed / missed earlier in this thread.
 
FrenchTart said:
I'm just running it in dx9 mode and living with the slight graphics dodginess for now - load times are so much quicker with it.
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Ah, will have to give that a go :)

I can't use AA anyhow due to **** crossfire drivers atm, so I'll give DX9 a go!

Does it look much worse in DX9 comparatively?
 
uv said:
Ah, will have to give that a go :)

I can't use AA anyhow due to **** crossfire drivers atm, so I'll give DX9 a go!

Does it look much worse in DX9 comparatively?
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Not really. Bits of it definitely aren't great - but those are mostly visible when you're waiting to spawn. Once you're playing it's fine.

I also have my contrast and brightness turned down (in game) to .30 (as per some post on here somewhere) and that helps massively with the glare problems, as the expense of the game looking a bit washed out and grey.
 
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Fenlock said:
sorry if this has been mentioned before, but thought i would share again just in case.

This sorted out an odd issue ive been having with this game on my new i7.

I upgraded recently to an i7 930, asus rampage extreme 2 and 6gb of corsair ram. I run a BFG GTX285OC card and everything maxed out graphicwise in game. At exactly the same time as the upgrade, i installed Windows 7x64. Everything runs as you would expect on this system (overclocked to 3.8gtz for now) and it just destroys anything in its path.

BF2 was having a strange problem with almost "rubber banding" in the lightest form (even with very high fps), when you would run down a map for example towards the action. I thought it was the vsync bug the game had on release to begin with, but when that was fixed and the problem remained i started trying other things. I put it down to the i7 causeing a strange stutter - as there was a big thread about i7 users problems on the EA forums.

Lots of people were suggesting the i7 was basically too fast for BFBC2 - and limiting the game to 2x cpu cores instead 4 would fix it, but this turned out to be ******.

Turns out this fixed it - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281&highlight=Multimedia+Class+Scheduler

It's a network setting on Windows 7x64 - and it will also inprove several other games. BFBC2 is back to being silky smooth. Its basically network lag causing the stutter - although your ping rate may look fine in game. Just thought id share incase anyone needed / missed earlier in this thread.
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Very interesting reading. This looks like it could solve a lot of annoying issues I've had lately.
 
Frapple said:
10:1 is terrible and doesn't benefit the team in the slightest as attackers, defenders have unlimited respawns.



There's nothing to bypass, all it does is x1.25 health (125 normal, 62.5 HC)
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I spend a lot of time painting targets, especially on the sleep inclines with defenders having the advantage. I also morter the stations when we arm them ....usually gives enough time to stop them being disarmed. Highest score i got for distant kill was GOL, 12xZoom, basic ammo, 200+ for distance kill, 50 for the kill, 10 for the head shot. As per other comments its really great fun when its recon vs recon
 
Fenlock said:
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I wonder if this is the cause of the hitching I get in several different mmo's. Your fps stays constant, but you get this horrible glitching effect where the landscape seems to jump forward by an small amount every few seconds when you're moving. It's pretty famous in lotro at this stage, but I've seen it in Aion too.
 
Can anyone help me please!? My copy of bfbc2 won't update so I can't play any games online. It installs fine and I can play the singleplayer, however I cannot play online as I do not have the latest patch (it is not a punkbuster issue). The game does not do an auto-update when I run it. Whenever I run the updater from the game folder it says I need to update to latest version, starts to update and then the whole computer freezes (can't move mouse or start task manager or anything - this has never happened to me before except when updating this game). A bit more info:

I am running vista 64bit with service pack 2
I have a retail copy of the game
I run the game and updater as admin

I have looked all over the ea forums and it seems some people have had the same problem but the methods suggested don't work for me. I am really at my wits end about this - don't know how many times I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game.

If anyone else has experienced the same problem and resolved it please let me know how!
 
Fenlock said:
sorry if this has been mentioned before, but thought i would share again just in case.

This sorted out an odd issue ive been having with this game on my new i7.

I upgraded recently to an i7 930, asus rampage extreme 2 and 6gb of corsair ram. I run a BFG GTX285OC card and everything maxed out graphicwise in game. At exactly the same time as the upgrade, i installed Windows 7x64. Everything runs as you would expect on this system (overclocked to 3.8gtz for now) and it just destroys anything in its path.

BF2 was having a strange problem with almost "rubber banding" in the lightest form (even with very high fps), when you would run down a map for example towards the action. I thought it was the vsync bug the game had on release to begin with, but when that was fixed and the problem remained i started trying other things. I put it down to the i7 causeing a strange stutter - as there was a big thread about i7 users problems on the EA forums.

Lots of people were suggesting the i7 was basically too fast for BFBC2 - and limiting the game to 2x cpu cores instead 4 would fix it, but this turned out to be ******.

Turns out this fixed it - http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1043281&highlight=Multimedia+Class+Scheduler

It's a network setting on Windows 7x64 - and it will also inprove several other games. BFBC2 is back to being silky smooth. Its basically network lag causing the stutter - although your ping rate may look fine in game. Just thought id share incase anyone needed / missed earlier in this thread.
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This sounds like exactly the problem i have suffered from in CSS (Which led to me quitting it 6 months ago!) If this works I may well get back into it.
 
Clairvoyant said:
You could try re installing it.

And make sure you are running the updater.

"Your drive:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2\BFBC2Updater.exe"
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bibalasvegas said:
...Whenever I run the updater from the game folder it says I need to update to latest version, starts to update and then the whole computer freezes (can't move mouse or start task manager or anything - this has never happened to me before except when updating this game).

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don't know how many times I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game....
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Well read.
 
Just spent my first few mins playing this game. I loved BF2, but this.. I don't know.. feel's kinda odd.

Maybe it's because I'm running it with a larger screen etc.. not sure. Looks very STALKER esk.
 
Is it worth me buying this for the PC rather than the PS3? I am debating which one to get it for. How well would it run on my PC? (Spec is in the signature and I'm running Windows XP 32-bit).
 
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