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Helpful Links

Here are complete GPU/CPU metrics to show you what you what performance should be getting with your equipment
Download FRAPs to display your FPS - Frames per Second in game. I recommend 60FPS for smooth gameplay
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General Comments

This game is CPU intensive with things like sound thrown at the processor the game will not work on single core. Quad core is ideal but not necessary.

Performance should be much better for everyone now with full optimization and it will get even better after some patches and will become more stable.

The net code will also get better. Already the servers are at R9. If you get can not connect to master EA server then just keep trying. If you have CTD's and other problems see our troubleshooting section. A lot of it is driver or quite frankly EA's fault not your machine.

All the items here should still work and help especially turning off shadows and going to dx9. these will really bump up your FPS.

Make sure you download the latest video drivers from Nvidia and ATI. Use beta drivers at your own risk, but they do sometimes help. Make sure you have other programs like browsers and xfire turned off if you have performance problems.

Backend Tweaks and Settings.ini

In Game Settings

Lower your resolution and turn effect and other graphic options to low
Turn sound down from hi-fi to headset (you will have to do this each time you load the game) BC2 uses a lot CPU for sound. I

Settings File is located - Here

Change sound quality to low (also changeable in game menu but resets every time to hifi)
Change DXVersion-auto to 9 (to force DirectX 9)
Change Bloom=true to false
Change HSAO=true to false (also settable in the in-game "advanced" graphics settings)helps esp with quad core
Change renderaheadlimit to 0 instead of 2 *New in Retail

Other settings.ini changes that you can try: (from BadCompanyTwo.Com)

Undergrowth=”medium” – Put this to low, if experiencing frame-rate issues.
Water=”medium” - Not really any water to traverse, 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.

**You can also use Gossamer's Bad Company 2 Launcher Tool to adjust these settings**

To force the use of all processors: -

Add "+fullproc" without the quotations to your desktop shortcut or Steam game's "launch options". (This brings a small amount of extra CPU power, I know what EA Repi said in beta:)

You can go to Task Manager and manually heighten the priority to force it to use more CPU See Picture

To fix sticky controls (for those who get key shadow/lag with wasd etc):

Delete the joystick controls under foot (options->controls->foot), then it works fine

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).

Downgrade Audio for Better Performance (From TylerCiggy)

Downgrade your soundcard frequency soundrate TO 44KHZ AT 16BIT AND uninstall AC3 FILTER -For ATI Video Cards, disable Catalyst AI (in the 3D section in the advanced Catalyst Control Center). Only do this if you are using this sound fix. @To Win 7 users 1.- Go to control panel 2.- Go to SOUND option 3.- Double click in your audio current output 4.- Go to advanced options 5.- Change your sample rate to the lowest. @To XP users 1.- Go to control panel 2.- Go to Sound & Audio Devices 3.- Click the Audio Section Properties 4.- In the Sound Play section, click in the "Advanced Properties" button 5.- In performance tap, downgrade the "conversion quality sample rate" or something like that

If your game is constantly Crashing: -

Make Sure you are running the game as Administrator. Keep in mind the game is still unstable on 64bit machines so it may be the game/drivers/servers

If you have an ATI Card:

Set Catalyst A.I to max (about Catalyst AI)

Mouse/Joystick Issues

For sticky/laggy mouse issues:

Disable mouse acceleration in the game's mouse settings, and turn off Vsync in the graphics settings.

To fix sticky controls (for those who get key shadow/lag with wasd etc):

Delete the joystick controls under foot (options->controls->foot), then it works fine

Mouse is way off in game:

Looks like the game has a conflict with desktop DPI scaling in Windows Vista and 7. Just to clarify, this is nothing to do with mouse DPI — I'm talking about the visual DPI of the OS. If you have a higher operating system DPI set (very common if you play on a TV) the menus will become almost unusable, with the cursor not reflecting what'll actually be clicked — the click zone ends up considerably to the left of the cursor, making clicking stuff on the right third of the menus impossible. This can be rectified on the user side by going here or where ever game is installed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\battlefield bad company 2 beta Right click BFBC2Game.exe, then Properties, then Compatibility, and tick Disable display scaling on high DPI settings.

To Fix Yaw Left/Right On Joysticks (from Necromancer on Steam)

1. Open Documents\BFBC2\Input\air.dbx with Notepad

2. Search for the string ConceptYaw

3. Below it look for this section:

Code:

%MINIFYHTMLb63a83d4216248cf130de3f42ff3441965%

4. On the line 1 change 1 to -1

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.

Ports/Server Browser Tips

What ports should I open for multiplayer if I'm having connectivity trouble? (from EA UK forums)

**Link**how to port forward**

port 18390 TCP
Outgoing port 18395
TCP Outgoing port 18395
UDP Outgoing port 13505 TCP
Outgoing port 80
TCP Outgoing

**Unconfirmed** UDP 22000 (This is only for LAN)
UDP range 23000-23009
#GameSpy Master Server UDP Heartbeat: Allow UDP Port 27900
# GameSpy Master Server List Request: Allow TCP Port 28900

Also if you are having problems there are beta drivers available that are supposed to fix some problems (ie reflective water with ati cards)..check the forums

To help speed up your server browsing these tips can help you get results quicker.

Use Favorites/History whenever possible

If you use the server browser then Use the server browser When it starts to search click CANCEL Select the options:

Ranked
Not Full
Not Empty
No Password
Leave Punkbuster checked
Hit Refresh

You can use your friends list in game to connect on them without accessing the server browser. Also the filter is case sensitive. To look for a specific server open the server browser hit cancel and then add the text of the server you are looking for in the filter. For example to look for our servers you can type "frag" or "fragworld" in the filter and it will be faster than a full refresh

How to adjust your FOV -Field of View

In your Settings.ini we showed you before in My Documents/BFBC2 the default is FOV=55

You can adjust that up to 120 (per repi)
The FOV in the settings.ini file is the vertical FOV, people usually talk about horizontal FOV
You have to convert your desired HFOV to VFOV using this calculator: **LINK** FOV calculator.
- Enter your screen resolution in pixels (e.g. 1920x1200)
- then the desired HFOV
- click calculate
- it will show you the VFOV setting you need to put in settings.ini. -Thanks to Renegade from UK forums for this info

Here is what the changes will look like.

TroubleShooting

1) Crash to Desktops

make sure you have the latest drivers esp video drivers
make sure you are running the program as an administrator (running steam as administrator too)
change DXversion to 9 in settings.ini

2) Low FPS

adjust your settings.ini files as instructed (dxversion, shadows, resolution, sound, renderforward etc)

3)Connectivity Problems or Server List with very few servers

Open Your ports
check your firewall and antivirus

4) Getting Kicked by Punkbuster (from BFBC2 Forums)

Reinstall Punkbuster
If you’re using Steam, go to File, Settings, In-Game Tab and uncheck Enable Steam Community In-Game.
Go into your installation directory for BC2 (default for xp: C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\ or win7: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\). Check to see if the following exists

\pb\ 3 files: pbag.dll, pbcl.dll, pbsv.dll \Punkbuster\ 1 file: pbsvc.exe

Download the lates version of pbsetup and when unpacked, transfer the pbsetup.exe to the desktop
- Delete the PB folder in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2 - BETA
- Run PBSETUP from the desktop and add BFBC2
- If you recieve an error towards the end of the update where it’s something along the lines of:
- “HTM MD5s do not match security information. Please try updating again later”
- Check your antivirus software for quarantined items associated with punkbuster.

5) Extreme brightness and glare esp from water

Turn off bloom in settings.ini
update your driver

6) Connection lost , can't join games or see friends online, any other server browser problems

Try closing BFBC2 and opening it up again (make sure it closes as it always doesn't)
delete all values for Recent Games and Favorites in your gamesettings.ini file in your mydoc BFBC2 folder
Also try manually updating your game by going to your bc2 install folder and running eaupdater.exe or bfbc2update.exe

Please Rate this Guide and Provide Feedback if it helps or doesn't

Please Let us Know how this guide worked for you.

What your FPS was before and what FPS and FOV you are running now.

Let us know if it didn't help.

Thanks

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+2 #24 Prabu 2010-08-30 08:47

weird problem...
however i move the mouse leftwards or rightwards the character looks only on the right side and if move up or down it looks only upward.. and watever key(w,a,s,d) i press, the character moves right.. tried resetting all controls, but no use. help needed.

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0 #23 MarKen 2010-08-26 14:34

i have the problem where my joystick(logite ch extreme 3d pro) turns the wrong way BUT the code you listed (%MINIFYHTMLb63a83d4216248cf130de3f42ff3441965%) is not under CONCEPT YAW(or anywhere else on that document? UPDATE?

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0 #22 promotional 2010-08-25 00:54

Very good selection of such a beautiful website, thanks for sharing and keep adding more and more websites.

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0 #21 Brayden 2010-08-07 00:55

My Game Runs Fine, But I Cant Delete The Joy Stick Controlls ? Help Please .. My Joy Stick Controlls Are Messing With It .. I Cant Look Left Or Down.. So Idk How To Fix It .. When I Go Into The Settings I Can Only Change A Joy Stick Controll Not Change It .. Help Please :) I Really Want To Play It

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0 #20 Zero 2010-06-17 14:43

Awesome Job

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0 #19 bob 2010-04-16 18:17

Intel Quad Core i7 860
6 gig Kingston 2000mhz ram
HD5870 crossfire with HD5770
1920 x 1080

cranking 150 fps
system running at 32 degrees constant

WIN

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0 #18 triggerpapi 2010-04-16 18:17

ts just FOV. The tweaks will be different for everybody

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0 #17 Gazz 2010-04-16 18:16

yooo all pretty interesting with these changes? is the picture in the FOV screenshot what it looks like with all these changes made or just the FOV?

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0 #16 triggerpapi 2010-04-16 18:16

The objects being black are 3 possible things.
1)brightness/contrast settings
2)a video driver issue (most likely)
3)Direct X

Its most a driver issue. With ATI in the past ive even had to goto 3rd party or beta drivers esp with the newest cards. You could also try reinstalling Direct X just in case its that.

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0 #15 LiPang 2010-04-16 18:16

If you can not fix it with configuration (and with your gfx card HD5770 you should use dxversion=11) it might be a problem with the gfx card driver. Try to get support by AMD.

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