Bad Company 2 tweaks & FAQ

[DethBum]

Bad Company 2 beta tweaks & FAQ

If youre running an ATI card and you find BC2 crashes on startup (no error)
- Go to battlefield bad company 2 beta\BFBC2Game.exe and right click -> properties -> compatibility and "Run this program as an administrator"



To enable more engaging audio:
- Change your audio setting to "war tapes" instead of "hifi"
An example of the improvement can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cFgWKEYC2g&hd=1



To get an ATI frames boost:
- Set Catalyst A.I to max



For a reported 10-20 fps boost:
- Documents>BFBC2Beta and open up "settings.ini"
- Change "renderaheadlimit" to 0 instead of 2


For a reported giant general performance boost:
- Documents>BFBC2Beta and open up "settings.ini"
- Change "Bloom=true" to false



For another potentially big performance update (especially with Quad Core users):
- Documents>BFBC2Beta and open up "settings"
- Change "HSAO=true" to false (also settable in the in-game "advanced" graphics settings)



Other settings.ini changes that you can try:
- Undergrowth=”medium” – Put this to low, if experiencing frame-rate issues. This map has a lot of it.
- Water=”medium” - Not really any water to traverse in this map, go ahead and set this to low.
- MSAA=”2″ - This is Anti-aliasing, this will always use up a lot of a gpx cards resources. Set this to “0″
- Shadows=”medium”- you can also set this to low to improve performance
- Textures=”medium”- Setting this to low can improve FPS at the cost of visual eye candy.
- Aniso=2 - Set this to 0 to disable Anisotropic filtering.



To fix sticky controls (for those who get key shadow/lag with wasd etc):
- Delete the joystick conrols under foot (options->controls->foot), then it works fine



To run DX9 for improved performance (this also stops random crashes for some people):
- Documents>BFBC2Beta and open up "settings"
- Add "DxVersion=dx9" to the list (without quotation)



You closed the PunkBuster agreement window and can't get it back:
- Head to Steam\steamapps\common\battlefield bad company 2 beta\install\PunkBuster and re-install Punkbuster



To run the game in a window:
- Simply hit alt+enter and change your resolution to something smaller than your desktop.



To enable the Steam overlay on DirectX 10 and 11:
- Participate in the Steam client beta (Settings > Account > Beta participation).



For sticky/laggy mouse issues:
- Disable mouse acceleration in the game's mouse settings, and turn off Vsync in the graphics settings.



What ports should I open for multiplayer if I'm having connectivity trouble?
- Port: 80 TCP
- Port: 18121 TCP
- Port: 18126 TCP
- Port: 18126 UDP
- Port: 13505 TCP



You can't look up-down and/or left-right - "my mouse isn't working"
- You've accidentally bound something to the axes that BF2 uses for looking around.
- Reset your controls to fix this.
- In future, when binding things to your mouse, pay close attention; if you move the mouse at all while binding, it will register & bind that horizontal or vertical movement axes, replacing your look ones.

[stub]

I saw something that you can change your fov.But I can't find the settings folder.Anybody know?

[delur]

cool beans Bum.
I will try a few of these things but...

What ports should I open for multiplayer if I'm having connectivity trouble?
- Port: 80 TCP
- Port: 18121 TCP
- Port: 18126 TCP
- Port: 18126 UDP
- Port: 13505 TCP

where do I do this???
I have never done anything with ports before.

[DethBum]

http://www.ehow.com/how_5104013_open-ports-linksys.html

[stub]

http://www.fragcast.org/?p=433
this link may help some out too.

[DETHsDoOr]

[stub]

TY..Got it.

[delur]

anyone got a monkey they can spare?
fuck this game until a patch comes out.


stupid fucking money grubbing geeks.

this did it for me guys, I will buy no more games.
unless Sierra comes out with something cool.
EA and Activision are off my "send me your money " list

[stub]

In my documents is where I found mine.I was looking in the drive where game was installed.I am with ya delur.No more games for me .I am done.Next time I get a urge to waste 60 bucks,I'll go out and pack my ass full of gun powder,throw in some 20's,drop a fuse in, bend over, and happy fuckin 4th of july...I did turn the "bloom" to false and since I am running quad core I did the enable all cores thing.Seems like it helped some.But then PB reared it's ugly head and kicked me.I was up and down like a 2 dollar hookers panties.Getting to old for this shit.Going to go get my etch a sketch out and make stair steps.Cya in hell,stub. (I may be selling this bitch.Q9300 quad,gtx 260,8 gig ram,850 watt ps,$100 bill slot that goes directly to paypal for EA.)

[DETHsDoOr]