Bad Company 2 and G73jw

I have searched high and low on the internet and cannot find any solution.

I JUST received this laptop yesterday, and wanted to do a fresh install since I got windows professional free from my college.

Anyways, short version, I ended up restoring to what the computer came with, because I thought I caused the BC2 problem doing it that way. Apparently not.....

So far, I tested BC2, GTA IV, and FEAR.

FEAR has no problem, maxed out everything, works fine.

GTA IV can get good fps when most graphics settings set to medium (is this good for g73jw, or should it be performing better?). When I put graphics on high, will get lag.

BC2 will not work. I updated it to the newest version. It starts up and everything, but I literally get about 1fps. When I start it up, the intro video takes for ever, moving at about 1 fps.

I tried everything, update drivers, update game, uninstall stuff.

Also, when installing GTA IV, the DIrectX installer at the end, as well as the C++ distro, would lock up and never complete. I had to end them in task manager, tricking GTA IV Installer that they installed. I ended up installing them manually later which allowed GTA IV to run. Maybe it has to do with Windows 7 64-bit?

Also I have BIOS 202 and have not update it.

But I can't figure out this BC2 problem.

Any suggestions?

 

I would update your video drivers, and also update your DirectX.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=3b170b25-abab-4bc3-ae91-50ceb6d8fa8d

 

Ok, I will install that link in your post.

I currently have nVidia driver V8.17.12.5912, so I will update to V8.17.12.6114 that just came out on Asus website (I tried this already but no hurt in trying it again).

UPDATE: Installed both, rebooted, and still same problem. FYI, BC2 is updated to the latest version as well.

 

If those drivers do not help, I would suggest trying 263.00 with the linked modded INF. Uncompress the 263.00 package, and in the /drivers dir, replace the INF file there with the new one you downloaded.

http://download.laptopvideo2go.com/nvidia/260series/26300_win7x64.exe

http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/infs/260series/26300_win7x64/NV_DISP.INF

or use 260.99 WHQL for Notebooks:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-260.99-whql-driver.html

 

OK, will do, but second link is bad.

 

Both links can be found here:

Drivers | laptopvideo2go.com Just scroll down to bottom

I also added a link for 260.99 WHQL above

 

Can I also use the 263.00 on notebooks to try out?

UPDATE:

263.00 - SAME PROBLEM
260.99 - SAME PROBLEM

 

Maybe a defective GPU?

 

Try uninstalling your graphics driver and restart, then run a driver cleaner like Driver Sweeper and restart, and next install a driver from LaptopVideo2go.

 

Was thinking that, but then why does GTA IV and FEAR run just fine? (I'll try and install some more games later, such as crysis, to see if I can emulate the problem in another game).

I'll try this as soon as I can. Got to go to work now.... If anyone else has any suggestions, please post!

 

The G73 should run BC2 silky smooth the G72 Runs it High to Very high so it wont be the laptop driver related IMO.

 

Also make sure you're using a high performance power plan, or make sure your power settings for the plan you're using are set for high performance...

PCI Express Link State Power Management: Off
Min processor state: 0
Max processor state: 100
Graphics: Max performance (don't know the exact setting for NVidia)

 

mine was set to all of that except min was 100. changing it did nothing.

Btw, the BC2 .exe is running in 32-bit mode per the task manager. Is that normal?

Im thinking of just reinstalling windows using the recovery partition and then doing nothing but installing BC2. Won't install any other programs, won't update drivers, won't download windows update.

If the game STILL fails to work, then I may just update the BIOS from the current 202 to 203. Not sure what the change log is tho.

If that fails to work, then idk....

BTW, my brother has a copy of the game too. I even tried using his disc to install the game, in case mine was corrupt, but it still did the same thing. Also tested the game with both the version on the disk, as well as after updating. SAME THING.

Any more suggestions would be great!

UPDATE: Further info

I checked HWinfo32 and looked at my GPU core load, which tells you current, minimum utilized since program start, as well as maximum.

Running BC2 caused only a max of 4%. Running FEAR (older game) all maxed out for a minute or two, maximum was virtually full utilization (99%).

UPDATE: PARTIAL FIX

OK, so after searching Google for general problems with BC2 with nvidia cards, I was able to force directX 9. Went to C:/Users/Username/My Documents/BFBC2 and opened the settings.ini file. originally the option was "DxVersion=auto". Changing it to 9, and game loaded fine and ran perfectly. Tried putting in 10, 10.1, and 11 and those had the same problem.

So I would like to be utilizing DirectX 10/11 in BC2, so I now assume it is a DirectX problem. Anybody have a suggestion?

Along with that, if i do put it back to auto, it does it's lag thing, but if i press CTRL+ALT+DEL, and I am presented with the full screen selection of starting task manager, log off, etc, i can hear the sound running at normal speed, then i will click "cancel" to bring back the desktop, and it will start to lag again, but the video will now be "caught" up with the normal speed that it ran for that short while. May be because it is not rendering when I do that since it is not visible?

 

Seems fluid that an nvidia 1.5GB card cant stream DX 10 AND DX 11 Processing cores its not right its a fairly new card to notebooks but that card should do BC2 easy i suspect high tempretures ? or just a bad release driver.

Just been reading an article it was a pop up saying nvidia have indeed or are indeed improving with later driver releases the 460M has driver and optimization problems according to something i just read which will gradually get better over the core of 5-6 drivers which release every 1-2 Month.

 

Ok thats good. So apparently it is "normal" that this card is having trouble with some DX 10 and 11 games? Because like I said in the above post, forcing DX 9 causes the game to run perfect.

I was just wondering on how people on youtube and such are playing BC2 on their G73jw's. Are they forcing DX 9? If not, then I am wondering two things.

Is it a software problem with DirectX or something? If not, is there a HARDWARE problem with my 460M that is causing DX 10 and DX 11 games to crap out? Guess I will have to try and run a game that normally runs DX 10 and/or DX11 (like BC2 does).

Does GTA IV normally run on DX10+? From what I am reading, it is DX 9, but I wonder if it utilizes DX10+ (like BC2) when it is available.

Thanks in advance.

 

If it was defective GPU there were more problems than low FPS on one game. GTA cant be played on highest possible settings even in JH!

 

I used the Asus Live Updater to update to that nVidia version. Upon restart my resolution got totally messed up. Now I can't even find my nVidia card on my computer. It's like it's gone and need to know how to get it back.