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    MSI GX630 and Battlefied: Bad Company 2

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by fullcircle, Apr 6, 2010.

  1. fullcircle

    fullcircle Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm having issues running this game with my GX630. I realize the game is pretty demanding, but i think I should be able to handle the multiplayer, however its pretty choppy. Has anyone else tried Bad Company 2 with this rig, and what settings have you had success with?


    CPU Type AMD Athlon X2 QL-62(2.0GHz)
    Memory Size 4GB DDR2
    Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
    Video Memory 512MB DDR3 VRAM
     
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  2. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    What are your settings?
     
    Ayle, Apr 6, 2010
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    ziddy123 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Set everything to medium? Turn off HBAO? All these things really don't have a huge loss of quality but increase the performance for me.
     
    ziddy123, Apr 6, 2010
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    Kevinmcg Notebook Deity

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    My machine specs are in sig and i still struggle to run it in some servers, some servers cant handle the game, or even when im in a 32 player game it seems my CPU cant handle it, try joining a game with lower amounts of people.
     
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    Yup, its the CPU.
     
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    fullcircle Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ive been running everything on low, even had my resolution lower than my native screen rez(1024x786 vs 1200x800) none of that has worked, seems that the game is causing multiple subfolders with settings data to be created on my D: drive (Where the game is installed) i dont know if this has anything to do with it.
     
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    ZP=WIN Notebook Consultant

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    tried new drivers?
     
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    ziddy123 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I think it's a driver issue. Are you using Catalyst 10.3B or maybe wait and see how Catalyst 10.4 will do for you.

    The idea that BC2 is so CPU intensive is a myth, it really isn't. It's optimized well to use 4 cores and 8 threads, but doesn't actually use any of the cores to the full extent.

    There is benchmarks showing that on the i7, even when they disabled 2 cores, BC2 still was incapable of using all of the 2 cores or even 1 core.
    - On this machine, the fan for the CPU NEVER goes on full when playing BC2, can't even hear it, barely feel it.

    When using the same card, and a Core 2 Duo (dual core, not the quad) compared to the i7 920, the benchmark showed 2 FPS increase
    - LET ME REPEAT THAT. TWO FPS INCREASE.
     
    ziddy123, Apr 6, 2010
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