Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

ive managed to avoid playing for almost 2 weeks now.. its like weening urself off crack

i havent played a full round from start to finish in 4weeks (since my 4870 died) I tried to get back into it the other day & played on HC mixed mode servers where people were spawn camping in uncaps. on both servers & these were my regular servers too. i couldnt be arsed to look for another server or even go into a non HC server - I just shut the game down & went back to TF2

 

[Mussels]

i was just hammerin BC2, was on a server with just 4-6 players... oh man there is nothing more fun than running into a room, headshotting 3 guys with a magnum revolver for instant kills and stabbing the last guy who's pissing his pants cause he was typing when you came in.

then i teabag their corpses and read their bitchin when they respawn

 

[erixx]

haha Mussels, greaaat productivity yeah!

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BTW:
Anyone has suffered lock ups with only this game, with an overclocked i5 ?
I'm still overclocking (21x155) but had to lower it a fair bit (was stable 24/7 at 3800Mhz in all games).

Also, with the new GTX470, what AntiAliasing should I choose? Maximum/32x is realistic? And AF at 16x....
I don't understand very well the different AA options, FSAA-Q is Quintaple something of Nvidia, right?

Thanks.

 

[1Kurgan1]

This game hammers CPU's, you can bench and bench and bench and play other games and be fine, but if you want to see if your CPU is stable, try some BC2, honestly, I have got this game to cause more issues with CPU OC's than anything else has.

 

[DrPepper]

This game hammers CPU's, you can bench and bench and bench and play other games and be fine, but if you want to see if your CPU is stable, try some BC2, honestly, I have got this game to cause more issues with CPU OC's than anything else has.

I find L4D2 is even worse.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

how come a lot of servers have high pings most of the time i get major lag, or maybe its my rig, something not stable, or is this just me?

 

[DrPepper]

how come a lot of servers have high pings most of the time i get major lag, or maybe its my rig, something not stable, or is this just me?

Remember it doesn't display ping it displays how far behind you are in relation to the server thats the trip there + trip back so just half the number you get to get the ping.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

yes it does by pressing tab key it shows everyone's ping

 

[OnBoard]

BTW:
Anyone has suffered lock ups with only this game, with an overclocked i5 ?
I'm still overclocking (21x155) but had to lower it a fair bit (was stable 24/7 at 3800Mhz in all games).

Also, with the new GTX470, what AntiAliasing should I choose? Maximum/32x is realistic? And AF at 16x....
I don't understand very well the different AA options, FSAA-Q is Quintaple something of Nvidia, right?

Thanks.

Nope, but mine is clocked just to 3.6GHz.

32AA would be silly, go for 8X or 16X if you have extra power. (I say silly, because for me it's better to up graphics quality than to add more AA over 8x)

Here's stuff of the Coverage Sampling Antialiasing and it's Q mode.
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/coverage-sampled-aa.html

I'd go for 16x or 8xQ CSAA. 8xAA would be about the same as those, but with a bigger performance hit. Try what looks best/performs ok.

 

[1Kurgan1]

I find L4D2 is even worse.

I never really have been able to get into L4D, so never played 2, but thats interesting.

 

[DrPepper]

yes it does by pressing tab key it shows everyone's ping

That's not the ping thats latency but not ping maybe someone can explain it better than me.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

ya cause every game ive played i always went by ping, i get an average of 70 in bfc2 not sure if that's acceptable or not

 

[El Fiendo]

ya cause every game ive played i always went by ping, i get an average of 70 in bfc2 not sure if that's acceptable or not

Every game generally measures by ping, but in BFBC2s case they measure by latency and the numbers on the scoreboard are all latency. If you have a G15/G19 keyboard, it will properly tell you your ping. I'm not entirely certain why they did it that way. 70 Ping is pretty good, 70 latency is damn good (35ish ping).

Now, you shouldn't be getting too bad lag, because BFBC2 is actually pretty good with its anti lag measures. You especially shouldn't be getting lag if you have either 70 latency or 70 ping. I usually operate as high as 180 - 200 latency without noticing an issue with BFBC2. This is indicative of a problem, are you sure there's no other network traffic at the time of the lag spikes? Also, are you sure its network lag and not hardware lag (performance issues)?

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

i get good frames 90 to 150 1280x1024 75hz medium to high settings

 

[El Fiendo]

Is there alot happening on screen when it happens? Explosions or perhaps just alot of character and vehicle models?

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

slows down a little nothing major, i do get the odd black stuff on screen not sure what it may be, physx is set to off should i enable it?

 

[1Kurgan1]

That FPS sounds about right for your res, medium/high settings, and your setup. 1280 isn't very stressful.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

eh now its just the 9600gt that needs to be upgraded to a hd5850

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

i can run 1600x1200 all high no aa, but i rather have smooth gameplay

 

[AlienIsGOD]

I do 16 x 10 with med to high setting and 4x AA, runs me about 40 - 50 fps, smooth as butter ( ya I kno it DX9 but o well)

 

[hv43082]

try your onboard sound

Tried on board, sound came back but the game freezes up every 5 min or so...I give up.

 

[Apocolypse007]

I do 16 x 10 with med to high setting and 4x AA, runs me about 40 - 50 fps, smooth as butter ( ya I kno it DX9 but o well)

I run at 2048x1152 with mostly medium settings and x4 AA. Try reverting back to DX10 and upping the resolution a bit. You may be pleasantly surprised.

 

[1Kurgan1]

I run at 2048x1152 with mostly medium settings and x4 AA. Try reverting back to DX10 and upping the resolution a bit. You may be pleasantly surprised.

Why not run like 1680x1050 on high settings, 2048x1152 is overkill, I would rather play a bit lower and looking a lot better.

 

[erixx]

I was talking about running it with all maxed, and by maxed up i mean, every slider set to Ultra, or the highest available value, including 32xAA and 16xAF,
and yes, it sounds crazy, indeed I didn't know if it was okay, but otherwise why change from a 9600 to a 470
Like Corduroy says, without extras, it runs fine on a 9600!!!! But 32xAA makes it look photorealistic, honestly.

 

[Animalpak]

Again the game doesnt show off pings of the servers.