Is there another way to update BC2?

[TW]Fox · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:06

Downloading the new BC2 patch using the godawful Autoupdater. Why is it godawful? Because for some reason it uses 40-50% of my CPU which keeps causing the CPU fan to cycle in and out, very irritating, and also it seems content to use 100% of my available bandwidth meaning I might as well browse the rest of the internet on my phone whilst its doing it, as its so slow.

Trouble is it seems like a pretty huge patch and I've only got a 1mbit internet connection so its going to take some time.

I have tried and tried and cannot find a standalone download, is this really the only way to update the game?

Why can't I download an incremental patch using a download manager? :confused:

AshFU · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:18

if you add it to your games list on steam, will it update it for you?

Calneon · 21 Mar 2010 at 12:47

I found a .txt document in the BC2 root folder, called UpdateHistory.

2010-3-6 21:9:11.966 http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/Patch/patch_515195_519874

2010-3-18 2:12:23.462 http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/Patch/patch_519874_522175

It seems to contain two URLs presumably to the patches but they didn't work for me, maybe somebody else knows how to access the patches?

uv · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:25

AshFU said:
if you add it to your games list on steam, will it update it for you?

No. Only Steam native games update automatically via Steam.