Battlefield: Bad Company 2 beta 280m/260m post patch performance

So I've preordered BF:BC2 and can't wait for it to arrive on Friday but just had a few question before it did. Namely, did anyone here try out the beta with a 260m/280m equivalent card with the optimisation patch? I heard that the game forced 4xAA and 4xAF at first and that was later made selectable for a huge performance boost and was hoping it would run well on my laptop (specs in sig).

As it's a multiplatform title, naturally I'm hoping to be able to play it on high at native res with a decent FPS of at least 30 (batman, dirt 2 and mirror's edge all do that fine).

Anyone care to share their experiences with it? I would have tried out the beta myself but my laptop arrived just as it ended.

 

Well I played the beta and I was able to get a max FPS that was above 30, I think in the 40s on high settings. Lowest was in the 20s I think. I believe the retail version will run even better so with your superior system the game should be very enjoyable on high.

 

I was playing it @ 1680x1050 medium settings with 30-70fps.
Specs:
Clevo M860tu
Q9000 @ 2ghz
GTX 260 @ 600/1320/900
4gb ram

 

Thanks for the info! I'd been hearing horror stories about crysis-like levels of system crippling so just wanted to make sure I'd made the right choice in choosing the PC version over the 360 one (I'd enjoyed the demo so much on that that I wouldn't have minded the step down graphically).

 

it will run well on your rig as its even better than mine!

I played it on both the xbox360 and the PC version and both are good but you cant beat the mouse precision and dedicated servers Plus it looks fantastic on even medium settings on the PC

 

Any idea what it will run like on the Envy 15? with i7 720 and 5830 graphics?

 

lol how will this run on my desktop??

 

Should run well. If you experience a some degree of stuttering or slow-down, then tone down the resolution by a notch.

 

Your setup should murder that game, it ran very well on my desktop maxed at 1920x1200.

 

Runs on M11x medium settings 1366x768 @ ~ 30 fps. Retail code is definitely better. Depends on map and number of players concurrently connected.

 

thanks HTwingnut been looking around for more info with M11x and final code + day1patch. Are those MP frame rates

 

That was my M11x. I will do a few Youtubes when I get a chance. And yes, those are MP framerates. Definitely an improvement, granted the few servers I was on only had from 6-10 people playing.

 

And i ll be running this on DX9 since i have win XP. I'm hoping to hit high settings native res 1440x900 on my desktop with 32 players server.. From what ive been hearing, i don't think its possible is it?

 

I have a Gateway P-7805U

It has a P8400 Processor @ 2.26 GHz, 4GB RAM, 7200rpm HDD, and a GeForce 9800m GTS...it is also running W7, how well can I expect this game to run on my rig?

 

For me it stays at 41 FPS, if it is not busy it can jump to 60. Haven't seen it drop below 35 yet. Really loving it, which is surprising, when I owned a FAILBox 360 Battlefield Bad Company came with broken 360. It was ok but nothing special, in the end it was not enough for me to return to playing it. Battlefield BC 2 on the other hand is great, could just be I like graphics and PC controls though... lol Here are some pics.

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Ran out of space on my account so I have to make a new one. lol So all the pics are from the beginning I think. Favorite quote so far... "Where are we? Hoth?" XD

 

why dont you do the xp dx10 hack? google it.

 

Will with Sli GTX 280M of course it'll run at 41 FPS maxed.

For me the retail game runs much better than the beta did. I'm getting constant 30 FPS running all high, AA x1, AF x16, V-sync and HBAO both off at 1920 x 1080 resolution. I'm satisfied enough with the performance and the game looks great.

 

This game is quite well optimised i think, i can get minimum 30fps, with everything set to medium, 2x aa.

 

I don't have any exact numbers for you, but the BC2 campaign is surprisingly playable on my ION-armed netbook. If I were to guess, I'd probably say frame rates were in the low 20's. Stuttery, but playable.

 

Sigh, preload almost finished 2 more days to go

 

Ok to answer my own question I found it pretty playable on a 32 man server with about 22 people actually playing on High Settings at 1440x900 resolution.

 

My copy just arrived early - installing it now as I type. Guess I'll finally see for myself how it runs, cant wait!

 

When I could play last night (not much due to the borked servers!) I was playing just fine at High.

 

*sigh* works great apart from a really annoying graphical glitch that affects ths HUD elements and the menu when you open it: I get huge blocks of colour and distorted overlays every time the game saves and even mid game sometimes. The lines making up the cross hairs stretch out into huge white rectangles that block my field of view. Just reinstalled it and hopefully it's fixed (didn't happen when I first booted up the initial mission but then I fiddled with some settings in the advanced graphics options and it happened at the first checkpoint).

 

I've been having this problem too, try forcing Directx 9 in settings.ini. We're probably going to have to wait for the next Nvidia laptop drivers for an actual fix.

 

Tried it - it lessens the issue but it still happens, just less frequently...

 

well i just think sticking with dx9 is worth the improvement in performance

 

here is one reason why not to do that:

http://alkyproject.blogspot.com/

it still exists and it is open source, but that doesn't mean that it works well or at all.

and by most accounts, in the cases where it does work, it is likely to introduce bugs and hurt performance significantly (even compared to dx 10 on vista / 7)

 

does the day 1 patch for bad company 2 increases performance by alot? cause im getting terrible fps on my M15x

 

I wish I could say - was forced to update the moment the installer finished so I can't compare prepatch performance. Judging by what I heard about the 'unofficial version' that could be found online prior to release, for my card at least, it seems to have worsened performance and introduced a litany of new graphical issues

 

The commercial makes me want it. Looked fun.