Battlefield: Bad Company 2

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WastedJoker

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So I can say what I wanted to y'day to Joker?

The game looks nice, shame the performance doesn't appear to have improved from beta yet.

:|

ty MI6Labs for the player name database. :)

I didn't really have an issue with performance - it always stayed above 30fps but I expected a bit more performance from my rig. HBAO was unplayable in big fights - the quality difference wasn't hat great either.

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Spookie

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Re: 1st Day Patch

It's slightly less than 300MB in size. Assorted fixes, some perf improvements, fov controllable via Settings.ini (fov=55 default I think) and um some other things. More info later, it would be nice with some sleep now.

Poor DICE haha.

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I didn't really have an issue with performance - it always stayed above 30fps but I expected a bit more performance from my rig. HBAO was unplayable in big fights - the quality difference wasn't hat great either.

Does it perform the same as the Beta for you?

On my rig I found the Beta to be really poor I had to play it at the lowest settings even with my system to make it playable.

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WastedJoker

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I never dipped below 60FPS, so it was smooth sailing throughout the entire thing.

What specs do you have? what settings? Your screenies looked like you had HBAO on which absolutely killed me FPS.

I wonder if it'#s a driver issue.

Does it perform the same as the Beta for you?

On my rig I found the Beta to be really poor I had to play it at the lowest settings even with my system to make it playable.

I think it performed about the same but it's difficult to say - in the beta I was too busy concentrating on shooting people to notice the eye candy :P

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What specs do you have? what settings? Your screenies looked like you had HBAO on which absolutely killed me FPS.

I wonder if it'#s a driver issue.

Oh no, no HBAO - That is a killer and it doesn't even add that much graphically, in my opinion.

Was running 1920x1080, everything on High with 4x AA and AF.

Specs are Core i7, 6GB DDR3, 4870X2, W7.

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trag3dy

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Does it perform the same as the Beta for you?

On my rig I found the Beta to be really poor I had to play it at the lowest settings even with my system to make it playable.

If your rig is the one in your sig then something is wrong with it I'm sorry to say. Because you should be able to play it on max settings(give or take HBAO). And as I said earlier...the performance patch isn't out yet as far as I know?

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WastedJoker

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Oh no, no HBAO - That is a killer and it doesn't even add that much graphically, in my opinion.

Was running 1920x1080, everything on High with 4x AA and AF.

Specs are Core i7, 6GB DDR3, 4870X2, W7.

Hm.

Your rig is a bit better than mine but not by that much :( suspect nVidia drivers are to blame then :(

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WastedJoker

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Notice how Vice is also having performance issues, is running SLI GTX260 as well ... I think that's the problem area, nVidia, drivers or just slow cards / SLI.

I just noticed that too.

Hm.

Hopefully a driver release + the perf. patch will even things out. Not that I'm complaining mind - still happy with my performance.

I'd be toning it down online anyway.

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trag3dy

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Well I'm using a Q6600 @ 3ghz, 4gb ram, and a single gtx 260 and I can run the game just fine, most of my settings are maxed..I had one on medium, I think it was shadows. I play at 1920x1080 and never go below 30 fps. No hbao of course. So maybe it just doesn't play well with duel cards? Would that be nvidia's problem or dices? Or both?

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Vice

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I play it at native resolution 2560x1600. And I noticed on the EA forums where guys with HD 5870's were able to play at Max settings at 1920x1200 / 2560x1600 but anyone with SLI'd NVIDIA cards were having issues.

I can play all my other games at max settings fine no issues with FPS. Even Crysis Warhead I can play at very very high settings at native res and pull great FPS.

I suspect the game is not optimised for NVIDIA cards (they did work with AMD very closely on this title and the XBOX360 has an ATi GPU) or the NVIDIA drivers are at fault. One or the other..

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WastedJoker

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I play it at native resolution 2560x1600. And I noticed on the EA forums where guys with HD 5870's were able to play at Max settings at 1920x1200 / 2560x1600 but anyone with SLI'd NVIDIA cards were having issues.

I can play all my other games at max settings fine no issues with FPS. Even Crysis Warhead I can play at very very high settings at native res and pull great FPS.

I suspect the game is not optimised for NVIDIA cards (they did work with AMD very closely on this title and the XBOX360 has an ATi GPU) or the NVIDIA drivers are at fault. One or the other..

*grumbles*

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Spookie

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I intend to. I've had these GTX260's since June 2008. But I'm waiting for the NVIDIA GTX480's which could come out later this month, next month or December for all we know lol

If it's out next month you won't get any till December because of stock shortages. :|

I'd go with ATI my self.

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Vice

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For anyone running SLI with Bad Company 2. Upgrade your drivers it appears NVIDIA just released a new driver with Bad Company 2 Support for SLI users.

http://www.neowin.ne...#entry592299858

I'm going to guess versions prior to this only had rudimentary support which caused the issues. I would try the game again but I've ordered through steam so I wont get it until March 5th and the Beta ended already lol

If it's out next month you won't get any till December because of stock shortages. :|

I'd go with ATI my self.

I'm not buying anything until both companies have shown there cards. I feel it would be foolish to buy an AMD card now when NVIDIA are on the brink of releasing there new cards. I will compare the price/performance from all cards once the GTX480 is released before making a decision :)

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trag3dy

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What's the good ATI card to get for mid range these days? For $200-300 us? I was looking 5850's but I don't know how they compare to my gtx 260.

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16814150454

Edit: And for those guys with SLI nVidia cards might want to check out the new drives that were just posted in back page news...

http://www.neowin.ne...#entry592299858

Adds support or whatever for SLI in Bad Company 2.

Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.
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