Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[Kursah]

Just a Heads up.

If you had a problem like mine, where the game will refuse to go to full screen, you have to manually change it in the .ini for game settings since it is not a normal option.

ALT+Enter didn't work for ya? A guy on my clan had a similar issue, and he did that, it stayed fixed after that. But I suppose if the .ini was set incorrectly by the game for some reason it'd be annoying to launch in a window every time!

 

[exodusprime1337]

Hey guys, just a tip if you have a quad and are crashing to desktop or doing a hard reset, i found that disabling the 4th core stopped me from crashing

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Horizon-based Ambient Occlusion

HBAO stands for Horizon-based Ambient Occlusion and is a rendering technique developed by Nvidia originally and that we have integrated into Frostbite for use on all DX10 and DX11 graphics cards.

It is a technique that creates soft & realistic contact shadows between objects and can really enhance the visuals but in a quite subtle way. It can be a demanding effect for the graphics card and as such is primarily meant for more higher-end cards. It only is a cost on the GPU, not the CPU.

Since the PC Beta we've done a bunch of optimizations on the effect together with both Nvidia and AMD, so if you had performance problems with it before: please give it a shot again in the retail game if you have a modern & fast GPU!

For the full technical details about how HBAO works, see this presentation by Nvidia from SIGGRAPH 2008: Image-Space Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion.

I think I will give it a miss lol - even with all the settings cranked right up I think my machine is feeling the strain a little. - I can hear 1 of my 4870's wheezing.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

For those who want to try adding me up - IGN - 'LockonStrat0s' (because of my love of sniper rifles)

 

[TheLaughingMan]

ALT+Enter didn't work for ya? A guy on my clan had a similar issue, and he did that, it stayed fixed after that. But I suppose if the .ini was set incorrectly by the game for some reason it'd be annoying to launch in a window every time!

No that did not work. I tried a few things with Lemode helping me on TS, but no luck. he finally just said, "Try editing the settings in the .ini" I did and it was set to false for some reason.

I think I will give it a miss lol - even with all the settings cranked right up I think my machine is feeling the strain a little. - I can hear 1 of my 4870's wheezing.

I don't think the difference with HBAO is significant enough to justify the drop in frame rate, so I have mine off for this game.

P.S. Signs you are on a server full of noobs. Joined a game of 28+ after an hour long 2 on 1 match with Scrizz and Lemode. Since I was now paranoid from being hunted, I managed to go from last to 3rd place in 5 minutes. Everyone just seemed like they were standing in the open to me and I was like 19 kills, 4 deaths, 1500+ combat score that I completely attribute to Scrizz and Lemode (Soviet_Missile).

 

[FreedomEclipse]

how can you manually enter the servers ip?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

& I cant find the tech power up server

 

[exodusprime1337]

& I cant find the tech power up server

search [TPU] only and make sure it's all caps and the brackets are there

oh and you can add me as a friend if you want handle is the same a tpu's Exodusprime1337

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

& I cant find the tech power up server

You cant join an IP directly. You need to filter the full server list alphabetically and look for [TPU]. That's how I found it.

We had some good rounds tonight gentlemen. Looks like server is staying fairly populated

@ Shogoxt - we could hear you but for some reason you couldn't hear me. You should get in TS3 with us, your communications was good and we'd all benefit from being on the same channel.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well I found the server - but as you all know - i cant fucking join. gg EA.

 

[kid41212003]

Well, suck for you. May aswel reinstall steam and the game before returning it.

 

[douglatins]

This game is saying i need to have PB (I do dammit), is CTDing, Locking my pc. Dammit the other version i played was so much more stable

 

[TheLaughingMan]

This game is saying i need to have PB (I do dammit), is CTDing, Locking my pc. Dammit the other version i played was so much more stable

Turn the game on and read the scroll bar at the bottom after longing in. How to fix that is listed there.

 

[douglatins]

Turn the game on and read the scroll bar at the bottom after longing in. How to fix that is listed there.

I didnt have to read the bar to know that it had to be done, But it didnt work

EDIT: Apparently the pb chebox in options wasnt enabled, no seems to work

 

[TheLaughingMan]

I didnt have to read the bar to know that it had to be done, But it didnt work

EDIT: Apparently the pb chebox in options wasnt enabled, no seems to work

So you got it working now?

 

[boise49ers]

Cool played my first round with [TPU] I have a lot to do prior to leaving for Vegas next week so I won't be on much,
but it is added to my favorites and "I'll be bawk !" Is the talk button just between teams ? I have never talked on-line,
but I think in this game it could help quite a bit.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

got my game going finally - was able to join in a fair few rounds before the server crashed & only a few people came back

 

[lemode]

P.S. Signs you are on a server full of noobs. Joined a game of 28+ after an hour long 2 on 1 match with Scrizz and Lemode. Since I was now paranoid from being hunted, I managed to go from last to 3rd place in 5 minutes. Everyone just seemed like they were standing in the open to me and I was like 19 kills, 4 deaths, 1500+ combat score that I completely attribute to Scrizz and Lemode (Soviet_Missile).

made me wish i had the Jaws theme song playing while we were 2 on 1 ing you!

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

I had an annoying fishbowl effect when I increased the FOV too high and it turns out the FOV option in settings.ini uses a vertical FOV instead of the usual horizontal FOV. So to achieve the correct FOV for your screen you can use this calculator if you're having troubles. Enter your resolution and it calculates the Vertical FOV needed to reach a 90 degree horizontal FOV.

http://rjdown.co.uk/projects/bfbc2/fovcalculator.php

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Im having issues with badly renderd water both in SP & MP. the water isnt 'consistant' & i can see big chunky scanlines & stuff... which will probably be fixed with a driver or BC2 software update

 

[FreedomEclipse]

ah nvm - I fixed it, it only happends when i set it to 8xMSAA - gone back to 4x

 

[johnnyfiive]

So I did some testing last night, and I'm glad I have the settings I have. I didn't realize just how demanding this game is (GPU wise of course). With my single 5770, if I set everything to high, use DX11, 2xaa, 2xaf, and HBAO, 1680x1050, I get an average of about 50FPS. At times it will dip into the 30's. This may be due to DX11 alone, either or, its not enough FPS for me. Using my settings I posted earlier, I get 100-130FPS, and the average is around 90-100FPS.

I'm working on the perfect settings that give the amazing look but don't kill the FPS needed to have a good time playing. Even with my settings, the game still looks fantastic.

@TRIPTEX_MTL: The undergrowth and overgrowth settings don't really make it any different, it just makes the bushes/shrubs less defined. I'm thinking it uses lower quality textures, verified this last night.

I've got some testing to do. Hopefully I can find a setup for people to use with GTX 260, 4870, 4890, 5770's that will give them a great visual experience but also a nice FPS count.
Again, here are my settings. Give em a whirl if you are having issues with low framerates:

[WindowSettings]
Width=1680
Height=1050
Fullscreen=true
RefreshRate=60
VSync=false
[Sound]
Quality=high
VoipEnable=true
SpeakerCount=0
[Graphics]
Effects=low
Soldiers=high
Vehicles=high
Overgrowth=low
Undergrowth=low
StaticObjects=low
Terrain=high
Shadows=low
Bloom=false
HSAO=false
MSAA=1
Water=medium
MainQuality=custom
Texture=high
DxVersion=10
Aniso=1
Detail=high
RenderAheadLimit=2
Fov=65

(The fov setting and resolution go hand in hand so adjust accordingly)

 

[FreedomEclipse]

my current settings....

Width=1920
Height=1080
Fullscreen=true
RefreshRate=60
VSync=false
[Sound]
Quality=high
VoipEnable=true
SpeakerCount=0
[Graphics]
Effects=high
Soldiers=high
Vehicles=high
Overgrowth=high
Undergrowth=high
StaticObjects=high
Terrain=high
Shadows=high
Bloom=true
HSAO=false
MSAA=4
Water=high
MainQuality=custom
Texture=high
DxVersion=auto
Aniso=4
Detail=high
RenderAheadLimit=2
Fov=59

but it confuses me a little.... MSAA would auto default to 8x ingame despite config setting & AF(Anisotropic Filtering) says 16x ingame despite saying 4x here???

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

So I did some testing last night, and I'm glad I have the settings I have. I didn't realize just how demanding this game is (GPU wise of course). With my single 5770, if I set everything to high, use DX11, 2xaa, 2xaf, and HBAO, 1680x1050, I get an average of about 50FPS. At times it will dip into the 30's. This may be due to DX11 alone, either or, its not enough FPS for me. Using my settings I posted earlier, I get 100-130FPS, and the average is around 90-100FPS.

I'm working on the perfect settings that give the amazing look but don't kill the FPS needed to have a good time playing. Even with my settings, the game still looks fantastic.

@TRIPTEX_MTL: The undergrowth and overgrowth settings don't really make it any different, it just makes the bushes/shrubs less defined. I'm thinking it uses lower quality textures, verified this last night.

I've got some testing to do. Hopefully I can find a setup for people to use with GTX 260, 4870, 4890, 5770's that will give them a great visual experience but also a nice FPS count.
Again, here are my settings. Give em a whirl if you are having issues with low framerates:

SNIP*

(The fov setting and resolution go hand in hand so adjust accordingly)

Putting the water quality to low might be a good idea as well.

Would you mind doing a 2 minute min,max,avg with fraps? Might be useful for others to see.

About the Over/Undergrowth. I was going to test it out myself but I got sucked into playing. Although, last night my crossfire flickering came back for some reason. Pretty frustrating since it was supposed to be resolved in the beta.

 

[Marineborn]

i have everything at max, and im hitting 150+fps at all times, but my res is only 1378x768, i play on a 32 inch tv, still looks sexy as hell