>Tweaks for Bad Company 2

I was having some issue with performance, soundfield distortion and FPS issues, and I found some information online that seemed to help my situation, so I thought I would pass them along:

First off, here’s my setup:

  • MSI P6N-SLI Deluxe mobo
  • e4300 Core2Duo OC’d to 2.84ghz stable
  • 4gb (2x2gb) Nvidia SLI-ready 800 DDR2
  • 2 320gb Western Digital Caviar Blues running in RAID(0) (totalling 600gb+ storage)
  • Nvidia 8800GTS (640mb) eVGA video card (OC’d to 620core/1014mem)
  • Antec 900 case with 2x80mm fans front, 200mm fan top, 1x80mm fan back
  • 6mbps Fiber internet (ATT Uverse – correct ports opened on router)

Improving FPS rates:

  1. Go in game and set your graphics to custom. After doing so, exit the game completely.
  2. Go documents>BFBC2>settings.ini (edit with notepad)
  3. If on WinXP or win7 users with not-so-good video cards, scroll down and turn DxVersion=auto to DxVersion=9
    (Windows 7/Vista may want to use DX10 for higher detail, if the card supports it)
  4. Turn HSAO=true to HSAO=false
  5. Turn BLOOM=true to BLOOM=false
    (That is, unless you want the effect, which I love the added realism, even given the hit it takes on FPS)
  6. If you want more fps, turn MSAA and Aniso to 0
    (Note:  some have indicated that setting this below 3 [8x Anisotropic filtering] causes worse FPS)
  7. FOV is your field of view. You can increase this number, based on calculations to screen size, but it may hit your GPU hard. Use [ THIS ] link if you want to adjust your field of view.
    (can improve how much you see left and right, but distort the image that you see)

Improving sound issues:

  1. Go documents>BFBC2>settings.ini (edit with notepad)
  2. Set Quality = low
  3. Set speakercount = 2 (if using headset)
  1. Go documents>BFBC2>GameSettings.ini (edit with notepad)
  2. Set SoundSystemSize to 2
    (unless your soundcard supports XiFi (mine doesn’t, but was still set to 3 by the game for some reason)
    SoundSystemSize=1 and your game will use software mode to process audio.
    SoundSystemSize=2 and your game will use hardware mode.
    SoundSystemSize=3 and it will use XFI mode

Another snippet I found that seemed to help was this:

Add +fullproc to your desktop shortcut for BC2, which should show up like this under properties:

(This will force the game to use both processors, and not just a single core)

I will add more stuff as I find it but feel free to give your own input as to what helped you!


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2 Responses to “>Tweaks for Bad Company 2”

  1. JSawyer says:
    April 28, 2010 at 12:29 am

    http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2010/01/22/an-audiophile-s-guide-to-bf-bc2-full.aspx

    I don’t think BFBC2 does any HW sound processing (no DirectX etc.). This snappy old 1-core Athlon can run Crysis ok but to date this game staggers like it’s on a 386.

    • Skirmish says:
      April 28, 2010 at 8:12 am

      Yeah…. having to process all of the audio, plus all of the textures and models through a single core Athlon would definitely bring the system to its knees. I’ve been surprised at how well my OC’d e4300 has done with the game, with FPS consistently in the 60′s… There again, I have it overclocked to 2.85ghz stable, which is a significant jump from the 1.8ghz an e4300 is out of the box.

      The sounds are definitely more robust in this game over MW2, but at the cost of CPU useage…

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