Bad Company 2 Settings Guide

[SumoSizeIt]

I just played my first stable game on a busy server thanks to this video. Thank you!

[w700awg]

Can you take off shadows?

[y0uRacTivatioN100]

It did help 5+ fps more but not enough,

I've a

Q8500 2,50 ghz

3GB DDR2

2x250 harddisk

Nvidea geforce 250 gts

And a soundblaster can't remember the name :P

But my fps is still 40-60 most times 40. :'(

[hogcia66]

Thanks!

[ggeorgiou01]

Thanks dude, will give this a try when i get home from work.

Hopefully it will up my FPS.

[icon69]

hey my comp spec at the mo is ......

AMD athlon IIx3 425 triple core processor

nvidia geforce 9200 graphic card(driver up to date)

3GB ram

its a new comp only got last week but havng fps problems wit bad company 2 feels rly slow when im aiming and done everythin u said any ideas wat cud be wrong?

[Django15011986]

@icon69

Your pc is just to slow.

Your graphics card suck to be honest.

Buy an other one :)

[hackerisslv]

Hey i have problem with Nvidia ... i instaled nvidia driver and when i press right click or go control panel there is no nvidia options :( plz help

[Tree7rog]

@hackerisslv Check in your control panel and see if its there

[hackerisslv]

@Tree7rog I reinstaled my drive and now everything is in right places :)

[PissedAssasin717]

lol.. i Get 25 fps on all low anyways

[Tree7rog]

@PissedAssasin717 Switch to DX9 it will drastically improve your framerate

[PissedAssasin717]

@Tree7rog I've been using it :)

[Tree7rog]

Whats your hardware? You hoping to get a higher fps or is that to be expected?

[PissedAssasin717]

@Tree7rog Eh.. GTS 250 1024MB, X2 7550 @ 2.5 ghz, 3GB Ram.v

[Tree7rog]

@PissedAssasin717 Ouch thats dissapointing you should be able to get that onto high Dx9 at the very least smooth on medium.

I take it your up to date on drivers? (I hate to ask because its patronising but if we can eliminate that perhaps we can try solve it)

[PissedAssasin717]

@Tree7rog Yeah, I've got the drivers. My computer actually runs pretty well (on low) when the maps aren't very damaged or when there is a low ammount of players. I bought a Quad Core Phenom II @ 3 Ghz, but it turns out HP lied about my motherboard when they said it would be compatible.. so I need $100 for a motherboard that supports the 125W versions of Phenom II processors. (Tried updating Bios too).I'd also like to get one with a PCI 2.0 slot for best GTS 250 performance.. I have x16 slot.

[Tree7rog]

Well hopefully some patches and new nvidia drivers will sort out some issues

[CrossyCriss]

@PissedAssasin717 get 6850 its a steal

[PissedAssasin717]

@CrossyCriss Heh, I've got an ATI 5850 now so I'm good.

[ARGH28]

the renderaheadlimit setting and max pre-rendered frames in the control panel are completely different things so you are just spouting false information. basically you are telling people to turn off some graphics featuers thereby increasing the framerate so the stutters are less severe.

[Tree7rog]

@ARGH28 They are not different things to my knowledge and I believe I stated that my goal was to get the game playable under DX10, I never promised to do so without disabling graphics features. Please keep your criticism constructive

[ARGH28]

there is no difference between dx9 and dx10 in this game. dx10 is only there to allow AA and HBAO otherwise it is visually identicle. the DX10 render path is not ready for primetime in the game yet and it's ironic since the game was build upin dx10 and they later added dx9 render path.

the micro stutters are a problem with their rendering engine and need to be addressed.

i am just telling you the truth and don;t want to burst your bubble or anything, sorry.

[ARGH28]

basically, you should not be playing under DX10 unless you enable HBAO or AA.  if you keep these off it's best to stick with DX9 as that gives 50% boost in framerate over DX10 and helps combat the stutters.

[PissedAssasin717]

@ARGH28 Not true. I get at least a 10 FPS difference

[Tree7rog]

If that is the case why does DX9 yield such a huge increase in framerate?

Also to my eye there is a significant difference between the Visuals in DX10 and 9 even if you turn off HBAO and AA in DX10.

[Tree7rog]

For example turn off all the extras and then go play any of the maps with snow in DX10, then DX9, the trees are rendered completely differently (Very ugly in DX9), so if they are identical besides the addition of AA/HBAO why is there a visual disparity?

[ARGH28]

what do you mean turn off the extras? here try this, HBAO and AA off, everything else set it to high. in the same exact spot take a screenshot with dx9 and dx10 and compare the pics side by side, you will not see any difference at all. just try it.

[Tree7rog]

Thats simply not true. I will post comparison pictures later today.

Secondly you say the game was built in DX10 and DX9 was added later but it was built for console and ported which means that is incorrect (Consoles not supporting DX10)

[ARGH28]

it was built for consoles first but then path they chose to port this to pc was DX10. it is supposed to run as good or better under dx10 than dx9 but this is not the case. the product is not finished for PC and it may never be unless the pc sales are strong.

[Brandoskey]

the dpi settings has to do with text not your mouse dpi. this step is completely useless.

a quick google will tell you exactly what it does.

[Tree7rog]

Ok thanks for comment - I'll edit that into the info - heard that elsewhere and in conjunction with everything else it helps, guess I fell for the placebo effect

[Bra1th]

Any fix on the WSOD (white screen of death) I have to run it windowed which sometimes crashes with no error

[Tree7rog]

Sorry I don't know anything about it / haven't come across it so I can't help

[mrbigtime81]

this worked for me ..CONFIRMED!!!!!

[Sotgar]

nice thanks

[mrbigtime81]

lets see if this is going to work

[wpte]

Nice one treefrog :-)