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maniacvvv

cjgentile

A 17 part guide? Its not that complicated...

I'm assuming the windows registry mods that give you a better ping wont be in this guide... cause you know... that would be cheating and dishonest.

Troll much?

Perhaps if you bothered to but some effort into your config and gaming skills, you wouldnt have to hack your OS registry and play with dishonor in the multiplayer servers.

There are those who can PLAY and run their systems cleanly and fairly...
And then there are those who try to gain a unfair advantage running background programs and using registry hacks instead of running clean and working on their skillsets or upgrading their hardware.

Dont bother looking in this thread for cheats or dishonorable tricks, your not going to find any

-->luckly those like you are not the majority on these fourms.

Thanks for your support, in my effort to help people run BFBC2 without issues.  

Ignore that guy; your guide is very well written and informative.  Those of us that know our way around PCs can skip over the nicely detailed step by step instructions;  inexperienced players will no doubt appreciate and find them very useful during their BFBC2 configuring.  Excellent work.

Fiko0

bro i have a question.. Do i must change in nvidia control panel the global settings or selected bfbc2 program settings?

Edit: its alright it do automaticly change it to.

Baasha

tynitty

for any surround user i think the 280,19 drivers are stable i have been useing them for over an hour with no ctd but i would recomend settin aa to 1x and application controlled in nvcp

Well, I installed the new beta 280.19 drivers and I still get CTD in BFBC2 (vanilla). I am able to play Vietnam fine but vanilla BC2 CTD for me. I've tried 270.61, 275.33, 275.50, and 280.19. All of them CTD in Surround for vanilla BC2.

Of course, my settings are maxed out and I have 16xCSAA at 8100x1600. Could turning the AA down fix it? And, it is ridiculous to have to turn down the AA when we spend so much $$$ on our rigs and games. It should work out of the box.

fakamal

Maniac, i followed your instructions to the alphabet, and it worked ! Flawlessly ... didn't crash at all so far. I gotta buy you some beers lol

But i've got 2 questions if you don't mind

The FPS is usually stable at 100+ but sometimes it drops to 45-50ish momentarily for seconds, then goes back up to 100+, sometimes not even with any heavy action around me. Is this normal or somethings not quite right?

2nd, after updating all the recommended and important updates from windows update, my speedtest.net result fluctuates.. before starting it hovers at 0, then suddenly jumps up to 4-5mbps then spikes up to 15-17mbps download speed before finally showing a result of an average of 11-12mbps download speed. my internet is a 10mbps package. However upload speed doesn't behave like this, the indication is a smooth consistent speed reading. Ping was 5ms from a usual server. It wasn't behaving like this at all right after reformating.

Just would like to know, did the update screwed up the network settings ?  

fakamal

Thanks :) 

Only thing pissing me off now is the frequent connection drop right after i join a server... a complete drop from EA itself

btk1976

Question maniac. I have seen on other sites that if you are having connectivity issues (I am guessing this is the CTD problem, which is still occuring for me although not so often as before) that you can open certain ports. Do you recommend this? If so, how do you do it? If not, then forget it. Thanks again!

Infinite Jest

Hey guys, first time posting here.  I currently have an evga 580 sc and I used your guide, maniac, for tweaking bfbc2.  It was a huge performance improvement, however, I think I should be getting better image quality at a distance.  I followed your guide almost to the T (minus AO in NVCP).  I currently have everything maxed with 32x CSAA (using an 880Mhz/2200Mhz OC on 1.050V; very stable on my card), enabling AF in NVCP, AA mode in game, multisample, and pretty much everything in the rest of your guide.  I've tried playing with bloom both on and off and don't notice any difference in draw distance quality. Using 1920x1080 monitor.  Here is what I'm talking about:

Really bad aliasing on the haybales and bland texture:


Bad quality of character models and terrain:




Am I off in left field or should I be getting better quality?  Also, is there some way to limit the amount of texture pop-up or are we stuck with this problem in bfbc2?  VRAM usage sits in the mid 800mb range out of 1.5GB.  Thanks.



(EDIT: Can't post links =( )

maniacvvv


Welcome to the EVGA fourms bro

Yeah, cant post links till your over a 25 post count I belive.... sorry

I would check your config settings file (BFBC2 folder) to see if the AF code there is correct...

As for popup, the stronger your CPU the better. Since you have some extra Vram, you could certainly add in AO and even try forcing some pure AA, it all depends on what FPS your are comfortable with and how taxed your CPU is at the higher settings.

Feel free to try things out and see what works best for you