Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[boise49ers]

Yep, and its sexy.

Can I have your Quad

 

[rizla1]

Use the updater. Should do it automatically if you launch BC2 from the Games folder.

thanks it worked.
and straight away i was in thanks , i think the weapon balance is good so far.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Can I have your Quad

It's actually sitting behind my computer monitor right now, but I think a friend of a friend is buying it (sounds kinda shady saying it like that ), it had only been in use for like 3 days before I got the X6, lol.

 

[Marineborn]

GImme that quad core sucka

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Yep, and its sexy.



I am using Cat 10.4 officials, and I havent even tried any profiles yet, and wasn't using them before when I had 80fps average.

Maybe its time for a new windows, I didn't want to, but I finally took the plunge and I don't regret it at all.

I was able to nuke the registry yesterday so CCC would revert to default settings. BC2 is running smoother and averaging higher GPU usage than before (70% ish) I agree it's probably a good idea to reinstall Windows but I was saving that as a last resort although I have had 4850 crossfire, single 5850, 5850 crossfire, and 5970 all running on this windows install. I think I'll borrow a HDD from work today and put a fresh W7 on it to test before I format my drive.

I dont know.. I'm thinking that i might never see the same performance you're seeing since you're running DDR3 but I guess I'll find out tonight.

 

[1Kurgan1]

My DDR3 speed is only at 1600, from what I noticed it really isn't any faster than my old DDR2 I was running at 1100.

But I now have an issue myself, I was running the game all OC'd yesterday just fine, today I put on sound drivers as I had just been using the defaults from W7. And my game started freezing and locking up my system. All sound would be going through the background, I could continue talking to Marineborn on Skype, but my game window would be locked, and I couldn't alt tab out of the game, num lock or caps lock wouldn't light up. So I kept lowering my OC's and finally went back to stock settings and it still locked up. So I uninstalled the sound drivers and it worked for a while longer, but then locked up again, so I'm pretty confused.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

That is strange did you leave Overdrive locked in CCC? If it's unlocked you might have to excplicitly revert each card to default clocks manually in Overdrive even if Afterburner has been disabled. Overdrive remembers clocks regardless of the app which set them. That could explain why the cards kept crashing when you thought they were stock..

 

[1Kurgan1]

Yep left Overdrive locked, it's showing everything greyed out and all stock.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Hmmm ok, what is Cat AI set to? Advanced showed less stability when I was overclocking.

y'know this is like the blind leading the blind right?

 

[1Kurgan1]

I do have it set to advanced, but I also had it on that when I played for like 2 hours yesterday, but I might have to give that a shot. I do see a lot of BC2 freezing being attributed to onboard sound, but I have been running this board with a AII 240, PII 720, PII 955, and the 6 core and played BC2 with all of those processors and never ever had this issue all with the same mobo.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

There is a chance your issues is related to the most recent patch as well. I say run any other benchmark and game you can find and If your system smokes them with stability then BF is just crap. I've never played a BF game that wasn't a complete gong show but I still love the games. It's tough to test a new system on a game that come with more baggage than a 45yo divorcee.

Try putting your sound to medium.. I havent been playing as much as I've just been testing BC2 and I think with medium sounds the game freezes less.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/...1061724-my-game-keeps-freezing-new-patch.html

edit: For others using realtek sound and experiencing sound looping hard locks.

Originally Posted by evilpioneer View Post
- installing realtek's 2.46 driver had a major impact, I'd recommend it over any other previous version, and especially over drivers that came with the OS
I did this a few days ago and it solved my sound looping, hard lockup issues.

 

[cadaveca]

I had MAJOR issues last night..servers were screwed...seen 8559 ping!


8559 PING, then drop back to 45...slowly go up to 9k again, drop back...there was only 95 servers available @ about 12PM, and only 4 were 32-player.

Methinks NA host companies are having issues! Went on 7 servers, all the same issue!

Not surising though....I can't see 10 feet out my front door due to a snowstorm that blew in. Went from shortsa couple of days ago, back to winter parkas!

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

I had MAJOR issues last night..servers were screwed...seen 8559 ping!


8559 PING, then drop back to 45...slowly go up to 9k again, drop back...there was only 95 servers available @ about 12PM, and only 4 were 32-player.

Methinks NA host companies are having issues! Went on 7 servers, all the same issue!

Not surising though....I can't see 10 feet out my front door due to a snowstorm that blew in. Went from shortsa couple of days ago, back to winter parkas!

Yeah you guys got smoked by that storm.. and 90k winds.

Also, when you posted your GPU usage you didnt mention FPS or player count....

 

[cadaveca]

I always play in full servers. If I cannot get into a full 32-man one I'll hop into an realtively empty one, and usually by the end of the first round the server is full. Makes me feel followed..LOL. Works out good every time though...


I get avg 90FPS, soemtimes way over 100, sometimes dips below 60. But i need about 10 players right in front of me, and TONNES of snow, or smoke, or something, to get below-60 dips...the PC beta map, when second MCOMs open up...pretty hectic on the highway, almost never dips below 60, unless a rocket blows up in my face. The other snow map is worse FPS-wise, and nothing I do seems ot drop the 60FPS-dips..seems cpu-related.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

I was averaging close to 75 and rarely dipping to 45 (when it felt like the whole map exploded) with everything set to the highest possible quality including shadows.. but my card was running stock. Also at a lower res than you.

I alread got a spare HDD formatted for tonight so I can run it on a clean install in W7 x64. So I'll know if it's my install or something else

 

[cadaveca]

Remember that I'm running 2x5870 1GB's, so my FPS is higher due to clocks. Running 950/1250 ATM. You might easily break stock 5870 speeds..but maybe not. Ram speed really helps with AA.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Remember that I'm running 2x5870 1GB's, so my FPS is higher due to clocks. Running 950/1250 ATM. You might easily break stock 5870 speeds..but maybe not. Ram speed really helps with AA.

I've not tried pushing the card too hard yet but I do have a profile in afterburner @ 830/1200 but I didn't test it since I fixed CCC yesterday. Did your OC make that much of a difference?

 

[cadaveca]

yeah, but I'm running 2560x1600, or 5870x1080, so I got a buttload of work for my gpus to do in any situation.

 

[Killer_Rubber_Ducky]

My system has been giving me guff. After playing in Single Screen mode, I switch back to dual screen mode for web surfing etc. When I do that, my first screen goes blue and my second goes black then freezes. Ive had to purge all my video drivers and reinstall. Now my 4850 is default clocked at 500mhz and 750 mhz. The stock clock is 625mhz and 993 mhz. WTF?

 

[Nick89]

So have they nuked any of the weapons yet?

 

[cadaveca]

Seems like I'm not getting mowed down by medics so much any more...Since the last patch, I've actually been playing really good, and I doubt it has anything to do with me...been top on the server a few times in the past week or so. It's definately changed, but I obviously like the change.

 

[kid41212003]

Is it just me or is it actually easier to get kills with high ping? (>200). It's seem like my shots connect more, and it's harder for me to get killed.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Seems like I'm not getting mowed down by medics so much any more...Since the last patch, I've actually been playing really good, and I doubt it has anything to do with me...been top on the server a few times in the past week or so. It's definately changed, but I obviously like the change.

Thats because they nerfed the M60 something wicked. At range it now takes as many shots to kill with an M60 as it does with most Assault rifles. And I'm talking about shots that connect, so a gun with a much larger bullet and far slower rate of fire needs to hit as many times with to kill, the only real way to play Medic now is to use Magnum ammo on anything. I know they nerfed explosive damage too, but as the 1 close quarters class with no explosive weapons I now don't play so much close quarters with the Medic.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Scrizz, stop lurking and get on, me and laughingman are playing, thats right I'm watching you!

 

[Killer_Rubber_Ducky]

Scrizz, stop lurking and get on, me and laughingman are playing, thats right I'm watching you!

Ill join soon. too. Just Working out some kinks in my system. gotta clock to 675mhz and 1000mhz. I found that any jitters i had get fixed when I OC to that one.