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Well steam versions were unlocked today in the UK so you have all them trying to connect at once, it will probably get better later.

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You know the driver issue I think effects both single gpu and sli cards. I am going to downgrade tonight just to be safe.

Game has been running with 0 issues for me since Wednesday. I get in every night and play for 2-3 hours with no problems, other than I might crash to desktop 1 time, and now I wonder if that isn't due to the nvidia driver.

I hate I do not have the M1 garand anymore because it was a fun weapon to use, even though I have the 4 next to my name now.

I can't to see soldier stats on the site, but they took that down for now, I guess due to server lag it was causing.

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I had a quick go in my lunch break, went to MP did not find a game?!?! tried for a few minutes, no games found.

Played first level of SP, went back to MP, found game, and stayed on loading screen.

So far this launch has been great :(

This was on Xbox 360.

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Okay fellow Neowin gamers, please help me out a bit^^

I'm a huge BF2 fan and was in the BC2 beta. While I liked the gameplay in itself the game felt somehow strange for me like there was some kind of blur over the entire graphics which made me feel rather disconnected from the happenings on the screen. Also the Rush Mode didn't really grow on me, I was always a fan of Conquest since 1942. I initially pre-ordered the game then canceled it later on because of the facts I mentioned.

Now I hear from left and right how great the game is and I wonder if I just got a false bad impression out of the Beta (map)...

Long story short, my local retailer has it for 49,99? and I'm sitting here with 50? in my hands wondering if I should buy it or not since I seem to miss a epic game.

What I read here in this thread was mostly very positive, also the fact that the game doesn't force a play style upon you since I suck at spotting enemies so I rather capture objectives and try to hit my enemies from somewhere they don't expect :p

So convince me that I don't waste my 50? I don't want to miss out the fun :p

(dunno if I should have better posted a new thread....)

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So far I haven't had one issue with connecting to a server. I've been able to play every match I've tried to join ... I'm using the Steam version, I don't know what's going on for some of you guys.

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Should really ban these console peasants from using the servers and just let the PC master race play eh Sethos? :p

Try adding some to your faves. I had no problems connecting to my own last night. :s

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Okay fellow Neowin gamers, please help me out a bit^^

I'm a huge BF2 fan and was in the BC2 beta. While I liked the gameplay in itself the game felt somehow strange for me like there was some kind of blur over the entire graphics which made me feel rather disconnected from the happenings on the screen. Also the Rush Mode didn't really grow on me, I was always a fan of Conquest since 1942. I initially pre-ordered the game then canceled it later on because of the facts I mentioned.

Now I hear from left and right how great the game is and I wonder if I just got a false bad impression out of the Beta (map)...

Long story short, my local retailer has it for 49,99? and I'm sitting here with 50? in my hands wondering if I should buy it or not since I seem to miss a epic game.

What I read here in this thread was mostly very positive, also the fact that the game doesn't force a play style upon you since I suck at spotting enemies so I rather capture objectives and try to hit my enemies from somewhere they don't expect :p

So convince me that I don't waste my 50? I don't want to miss out the fun :p

(dunno if I should have better posted a new thread....)

I think you should give it a chance. The conquest maps are really nicely designed. So are a lot of the rush maps, too. I personally like rush more than conquest but to each their own. :laugh:

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I think you should give it a chance. The conquest maps are really nicely designed. So are a lot of the rush maps, too. I personally like rush more than conquest but to each their own. :laugh:

Conquest feels alien after playing Rush through the beta. But the conquest maps are SO well designed. Much better than BF2.

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I had a quick go in my lunch break, went to MP did not find a game?!?! tried for a few minutes, no games found.

Played first level of SP, went back to MP, found game, and stayed on loading screen.

So far this launch has been great :(

This was on Xbox 360.

Weird because ever since tuesday when the game was released I had 100% no problems with MP at all. Someone on my squad last night seemed like he was having the same problems as you and did something to his home network and he got in our game fine. I completely forgot what he did, maybe open up ports? But after that MP was no problem for him at all.

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Should really ban these console peasants from using the servers and just let the PC master race play eh Sethos? :p

Try adding some to your faves. I had no problems connecting to my own last night. :s

I did, have 5 faves and they all went offline during these issues, oddly enough. Suddenly they all came online and I could join servers again! So I just had a session.

Already found my hate map, no idea what it's called but it's a night map and takes place in a frozen forest basically. HDR is a pain in the ass and when you parachute in, if you hit a tree,

your chute disappears and you plummet to your death. You can't see jack **** because of the HDR, all black and then suddenly, all bright and there's snipers hiding EVERYWHERE!

People are even rushing to your spawn.

Oh and why am I loading so god damn slowly? When I'm done loading ( 30-40 seconds or more ) people are already playing and have almost planted a charge.

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servers have been alrite with me, but its weird though to get the ping of the server you have to run it as administrator :s and now all of a sudden my middle mouse button doesnt do anything :s think sum1 mentioned it before, was working alrite last nite weirdly

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I did, have 5 faves and they all went offline during these issues, oddly enough. Suddenly they all came online and I could join servers again! So I just had a session.

Already found my hate map, no idea what it's called but it's a night map and takes place in a frozen forest basically. HDR is a pain in the ass and when you parachute in, if you hit a tree,

your chute disappears and you plummet to your death. You can't see jack **** because of the HDR, all black and then suddenly, all bright and there's snipers hiding EVERYWHERE!

People are even rushing to your spawn.

Oh and why am I loading so god damn slowly? When I'm done loading ( 30-40 seconds or more ) people are already playing and have almost planted a charge.

I HATE that map also, and for the same reasons. I am 90% Sniper so it was good for me at first, but the night time and lighting is horrendous. Now that I have unlocked all my Recon stuff, I am running Assault and played that map last night, and wow, its horrible. Between the lighting, and the trees, and all the random boulders and hills everywhere that people are hiding behind its a pretty bad map.

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Oh and why am I loading so god damn slowly? When I'm done loading ( 30-40 seconds or more ) people are already playing and have almost planted a charge.

Eh? :|

Mine loads in under 5 seconds on a Q9400, 4GB DDR2 (800) RAM, GTX275. My HD is a Caviar Black 500GB.

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The only major gripe I have with this game is the server browser. Why does it take so long to load? :( Doing anything seems to make it refresh, so I spend ages staring at it before I get into a game :/

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I would think that is more of a connection issue than a comp issue Sethos.

I know your comp is more than capable, and as Spookie said I too also load quick as can be, I am actually usually one of the first people on the map which suits a Tank ###### like me just fine. :laugh:

And actually my response would be the same to you Duality. Connection related. I actually hate how it does not remember what options I had ticked for the server browser (I actually tick them all off) but I just cancel the first Server search it starts by default, tick off everything, and do a Full Refresh, and I usually have results in 4-6 second give or take.

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Eh? :|

Mine loads in under 5 seconds on a Q9400, 4GB DDR2 (800) RAM, GTX275. My HD is a Caviar Black 500GB.

Yup, I heard it was related to DX Version somehow but it seriously takes 40 seconds for me to load.

And the server browser is terrible, how can something be so slow and cumbersome? And as Larry said, doesn't even remember filter settings - Thank god for favourite servers at least :p

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Guys with the "server browser being slow" issue... just hit cancel after a little bit (30 seconds?) and then wait for the list to populate with what it has already downloaded :)

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Got some nice gaming in for about 2 hours this morning. I have yet to try anything but conquest. I just like conquest so much and am so used to it I would probably just be a hindrance in something like rush.

One thing I have to say though about assault: The original gun sucks. It take like the whole clip to kill somebody. Once I got the XM8, I started doing MUCH better.

Also, with the sniper rifle, have any of you noticed that if you head shot somebody a grazing blow (can tell you hit by the blood spray), it doesn't kill them? More realistic ya, but a bit annoying

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Oh and why am I loading so god damn slowly? When I'm done loading ( 30-40 seconds or more ) people are already playing and have almost planted a charge.

Sethos you aren't the only one, it takes me a good 40 seconds to load in, seems to sit around for a bit and then it black screens for less than a second and I load into the game about 5 seconds after. Hoping for a solution to it soon, same happening for you?

Also absolutely loving this game, it's just brilliant. God how I have missed Battlefield. Specs found below in my sig and I don't think it should be behaving like this.

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To help speed up your server browsing these tips can help you get results quicker.

  • Use Favourites/History when possible
If you use the server browser then
Use the server browser
When it starts to search click CANCEL
Select the options:
  • Ranked
  • Not Full
  • Not Empty
  • No Password
  • Leave Punkbuster checked
  • Hit Refresh

If you use STEAM and your Friends are in game you can join on them from STEAM. If you don't use STEAM you can use your friends list in game to connect on them without accessing the server browser.

Might help out some of you guys with slow Server Browsing.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/932557-tip-faster-server-browsing.html#post13080970

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Sethos you aren't the only one, it takes me a good 40 seconds to load in, seems to sit around for a bit and then it black screens for less than a second and I load into the game about 5 seconds after. Hoping for a solution to it soon, same happening for you?

Yes, just like that. I heard the fix was setting DirectX version to 9 in the settings file not that I'd want to do that :p

The ATi card you have, that's DX 10.1 as well, right?

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Hows the PC problems coming along?

My mate wants me to pick this up (same guy I play WoW with).

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