The AT Battlefield Bad Company 2 F.A.Q.

[JE78]

discussing this game with my friend and he says it looks cool, but we're not sure he can run it.

He's got a AMD Athlon 64 3400 @ 2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 7800 GS 256MB. He can run MW2 ok, but not sure BC2 will work. Any ideas?

Upgrade if he's got the cash. Thats an old system and the game will probably run with lots of lag even on low settings.

 

[GullyFoyle]

If your PC can't handle BFBC2, and you can't afford to upgrade...

At Toys R' Us online or B&M, buy Battlefield Bad Company 2 for the PS3 or Xbox for full price ($59.95) and get one of the titles below for 1/2 off.

Mass Effect 2
Dantes Inferno
Army of 2
Left 4 Dead 2

Savings: $30

 

[fatpat268]

Hmm... I'd love to try it out, but as it is, my computer is probably at the lowend of the spectrum for BC2. I know I need to upgrade, but damn, I need money!

 

[GullyFoyle]

Hmm... I'd love to try it out, but as it is, my computer is probably at the lowend of the spectrum for BC2. I know I need to upgrade, but damn, I need money!

I have basically the same machine. My 8800GT is a factory OC model, and I OC'ed my e8400 to 3.6 after playing the beta.

I play at 1280x1024 and Medium settings and got FPS in the 30's before OCing, now it's in the 50's after OC'ing.
You could have trouble if your res is set at 1920x1080, but lower it should be quite playable.

 

[TheJTrain]

I had a E6600 with a 800 GTS 640 and 4 gb's of RAM and it was barely pulling 30 frames per second on low...

Just as another data point, I have a E6600 & 2GB of RAM, w/a GTX260 set @ 1600x1200 and the only time it got "chuggy" was if I was in the middle of some big explosion like an M-COM station going up or a tank exploding right in front of me.

 

[TheJTrain]

Did UbiSoft and those other companies offer refundable activiations? IIRC, for some of the previous games, if you activate it too much then that's it, you'll have to buy a new game. I would never support a company with a policy like that. With BF:BC2, I don't think I'll ever be able to stop the activations as long as I'm the only one using the CD-Key. Obviously I'm not looking to pirate or share the game, but it's nice to know that I'll always be able to play the game and not worry about being locked out permanately.

Over the course of time the different publishers tried different things and sometimes even altered their strategy on a given game. Initially EA's implementation of Spore & Mass Effect 1 did NOT allow revocation of activations - so, as you say, X activations and that's it. After a little while and lots of consumer complaints, they released a revocation utility that you can run (before you uninstall the game in question) to "refund" an activation. That didn't change the underlying "only X activations and that's it" mechanism, but it made it a bit more flexible by allowing refunds. If you had a hard drive crash and never had a chance to run that utility, too bad. Recently it got a little better by integrating the revocation into the uninstall process. Other publishers like Atari never even went that far; Riddick: Dark Athena had 3 non-refundable activations and that was it, period.

You're right about BC2 - even if they take the activation servers down in the future, you'll be able to install the game fresh again, you'll just have to leave the disc in the drive when you play (which is the way I'm going to be doing it).

 

[fatpat268]

I have basically the same machine. My 8800GT is a factory OC model, and I OC'ed my e8400 to 3.6 after playing the beta.

I play at 1280x1024 and Medium settings and got FPS in the 30's before OCing, now it's in the 50's after OC'ing.
You could have trouble if your res is set at 1920x1080, but lower it should be quite playable.

Yea, I think I could manage at a lower resolution like 1440x900 or something like that. I did the same thing for Arma 2 to give it a playable framerate.

 

[CottonRabbit]

You can now start preloading if you bought from EA store.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Anyone's game shipped from Amazon yet?

 

[zerocool84]

So since the retail version before the patch that comes later in the week is the same as the beta, does that mean the graphical settings are still going to be all at medium until the patch?

 

[Tab]

So since the retail version before the patch that comes later in the week is the same as the beta, does that mean the graphical settings are still going to be all at medium until the patch?

No, there's a noticeable difference between high and medium. They just didn't include high-resolution textures in the beta.

 

[mafia]

Anyone's game shipped from Amazon yet?

I ordered it from Amazon also, and it hasn't shipped yet. Which shipping speed did you select?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Anyone know when we can preload this game on Steam?

 

[Tab]

Anyone know when we can preload this game on Steam?

Tomorrow.

 

[zerocool84]

Tomorrow.

Is it being released at midnight on Steam???

 

[guskline]

already preloaded it as I bought it from direct2drive

 

[guskline]

Downloads began at 10 AM PST

 

[DarkForceRising]

Has anyone tried running this on an Athlon II X4 635? I've been toying with the idea of an upgrade, and I'm curious how it would do.

 

[minmaster]

release date delivery from amazon FTW! couple more days!

 

[mafia]

release date delivery from amazon FTW! couple more days!

Same here. It was only $5 for release date delivery! and they haven't shipped mine yet. I might get a free upgrade to one day shipping.

 

[Jschmuck2]

I ordered it from Amazon also, and it hasn't shipped yet. Which shipping speed did you select?

I have Prime, so release date shipping every time.

 

[minmaster]

prime ftw!

 

[happy medium]

I'm on the 4th level. Well worth the wait.

Runs at 25 min, 44 avg, 75 max with my system @ 1600x1200 all settings high.

I'm playing the retail version. Not beta.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Sigh. Retail performance is currently identical to beta performance.

 

[zerocool84]

Sigh. Retail performance is currently identical to beta performance.

In this thread GullyFoyle already said that until the patch comes, the performance is going to be the same as Beta.