BFBC2: Poorly Ported to PC

[Zenode]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

 

[Abedeus]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

Then either your PC is crapped to death with spyware/viruses, or your GPU sucks. 8600 is almost... what, 4 series old? 2 if you don't count laptops. My 9800GT is the previous generation and I bought it when Fallout 3 came out. So sorry, don't buy crappy pre-mades or crappy GPU/CPU combos. Or you won't be able to play the newest games.

Like someone said - pebkac.

 

[The Aimless One]

Running just fine over here.
Yeah there's connection and server browser issue's, but the game runs fine.
Fun as hell too!

 

[Icedshot]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

Then either your PC is crapped to death with spyware/viruses, or your GPU sucks. 8600 is almost... what, 4 series old? 2 if you don't count laptops. My 9800GT is the previous generation and I bought it when Fallout 3 came out. So sorry, don't buy crappy pre-mades or crappy GPU/CPU combos. Or you won't be able to play the newest games.

Like someone said - pebkac.

Dont condensend on people because you think you're all high and mighty. BFBC2 DOES have performance and optimisation issues. I can run Just Cause 2 on max, which looks a hell of a lot nicer that bad company, and runs dead smooth, whereas bad company gets choppy on medium sometimes.
Its hardly pebkac if its an issue with his hardware, or the company that badly ports a game.

 

[Dhell]

umm i still have no probs gaming.. hell i could even play crysis on low-medium...

 

[MGlBlaze]

I haven't been experiencing any problems with BFBC2 for the PC.

Well, okay, I was getting blue-screens, but that's because the game didn't quite agree with my overclock. I turned it down and I was good to go.

That said, though, there ARE performance issues with the game. I can't run it at 1680x1050 and had to turn it down to 1440x900. I also had to turn down the Anti-aliasing to 4x and the AF to 4x as well. Anything higher and the framerate started to chug. Still looks pretty damn nice, though.

 

[Wolvaroo]

I've come to expect any multiplatform game on the PC to just be a terrible port. As some fellow mentioned earlier, I'll only be buying like 2 games a year. But they RAWK!

...And why does it always have to be about new games anyway? I have more fun with the good oldies. Games get worse with each passing year and I'll probably just have give up on the hobby within the decade.

 

[Abedeus]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

Then either your PC is crapped to death with spyware/viruses, or your GPU sucks. 8600 is almost... what, 4 series old? 2 if you don't count laptops. My 9800GT is the previous generation and I bought it when Fallout 3 came out. So sorry, don't buy crappy pre-mades or crappy GPU/CPU combos. Or you won't be able to play the newest games.

Like someone said - pebkac.

Dont condensend on people because you think you're all high and mighty. BFBC2 DOES have performance and optimisation issues. I can run Just Cause 2 on max, which looks a hell of a lot nicer that bad company, and runs dead smooth, whereas bad company gets choppy on medium sometimes.
Its hardly pebkac if its an issue with his hardware, or the company that badly ports a game.

Somehow, I doubt the game is more popular than both of the consoles put together AND it's a bad port.

And if it's an issue with his hardware... Well, he bought it. And if someone bought it for him, then I guess it's his fault for trusting other people.

Point is - 8600GT is an almost 3 year old card. Tests showed that 8600GT is 20% faster than 7600GT, a card of even older generation.

You can't buy a 25 year old Ford and expect it to run as fast or burn as little as a new Mercedes.

 

[Icedshot]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

Then either your PC is crapped to death with spyware/viruses, or your GPU sucks. 8600 is almost... what, 4 series old? 2 if you don't count laptops. My 9800GT is the previous generation and I bought it when Fallout 3 came out. So sorry, don't buy crappy pre-mades or crappy GPU/CPU combos. Or you won't be able to play the newest games.

Like someone said - pebkac.

Dont condensend on people because you think you're all high and mighty. BFBC2 DOES have performance and optimisation issues. I can run Just Cause 2 on max, which looks a hell of a lot nicer that bad company, and runs dead smooth, whereas bad company gets choppy on medium sometimes.
Its hardly pebkac if its an issue with his hardware, or the company that badly ports a game.

Somehow, I doubt the game is more popular than both of the consoles put together AND it's a bad port.

And if it's an issue with his hardware... Well, he bought it. And if someone bought it for him, then I guess it's his fault for trusting other people.

Point is - 8600GT is an almost 3 year old card. Tests showed that 8600GT is 20% faster than 7600GT, a card of even older generation.

You can't buy a 25 year old Ford and expect it to run as fast or burn as little as a new Mercedes.

The game is popular because (at least for me) its a fantastically good game, and i think the consoles have both outsold the pc now, so kind of invalid.

The point is, i can play better looking games better and faster than this one, which means that at some level, its been badly made somewhere.

 

[Abedeus]

You are either lying or are using some shitty, basic CPU and GPU with what, 1GB RAM?

Nope not lying and i have 4GB RAM updated drivers

And yes it is a Quad Core Q6600

Then either your PC is crapped to death with spyware/viruses, or your GPU sucks. 8600 is almost... what, 4 series old? 2 if you don't count laptops. My 9800GT is the previous generation and I bought it when Fallout 3 came out. So sorry, don't buy crappy pre-mades or crappy GPU/CPU combos. Or you won't be able to play the newest games.

Like someone said - pebkac.

Dont condensend on people because you think you're all high and mighty. BFBC2 DOES have performance and optimisation issues. I can run Just Cause 2 on max, which looks a hell of a lot nicer that bad company, and runs dead smooth, whereas bad company gets choppy on medium sometimes.
Its hardly pebkac if its an issue with his hardware, or the company that badly ports a game.

Somehow, I doubt the game is more popular than both of the consoles put together AND it's a bad port.

And if it's an issue with his hardware... Well, he bought it. And if someone bought it for him, then I guess it's his fault for trusting other people.

Point is - 8600GT is an almost 3 year old card. Tests showed that 8600GT is 20% faster than 7600GT, a card of even older generation.

You can't buy a 25 year old Ford and expect it to run as fast or burn as little as a new Mercedes.

The game is popular because (at least for me) its a fantastically good game, and i think the consoles have both outsold the pc now, so kind of invalid.

The point is, i can play better looking games better and faster than this one, which means that at some level, its been badly made somewhere.

Yeah, the console version outsold the PC version, but there are still more PC players than on both consoles together...

That makes a LOT of sense. Also, just because you or even a hundred of people have problems with the game, doesn't mean those 2-3 millions have them.

 

[Glyver]

I have a dual core (2.5 GHz) and an Nvidia Geforce 9800 GT, the game runs smooth on highest with anti-aliasing. It does get choppy sometimes, maybe because most of the game is played in one big cloud of smoke.

 

[Asehujiko]

Here's a hint: game runs great on a quadcore.

Quadcore=technological upgrade over dualcore.
PC=all about being able to upgrade mid generation.
Taking full advantage of new technology=good.
You=whiner.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

Durr durrr durrr baww baww bawww, it's a good game.. you guys just have rubbish computers 8)


I'm pretty sure it could run on an intel P4 decently too... you guys need to upgrade, that's why you got a computer right?

 

[k3v1n]

well, it runs fantastically on mine, while I play on multiplayer, my only problem is that it gets weird errors while I play singleplayer...but wth, this is a game for multi mostly...

 

[BloodSquirrel]

A lot of people with dual cores are complaining of poor performance in BFBC2. Me included. Running an E6600 at 2.8ghz. More than adequate... unless the game is a bad port and only uses a small fraction of most people's available GPU power.

Some people are reporting, through the use of an EVGA Precision tool for overclocking, that their GPU is being utilized to about 1/3rd full capacity or less. If you search the web there are tests and screen shots out there.

The reason for this is that the xbox uses a triple core processor at 3.2ghz, but only has like 256mb of video ram and a weak GPU.

That's the first thing I thought when I started checking my performance issues, that this game wasn't nearly pretty enough to require such high end hardware... and it turns out it isn't. It's just made like shit.

I bought it for my new PC. It looks FAR better on PC than it does on Xbox. There's really no comparison. In fact, it's best looking game I've ever played (I was thinking about buying Crysis just to give it a run through on my new machine, but BC2 has sort of quenched that thirst)

Edit: to add some details; I'm running it at near max settings (1920X1080) on a $200 graphics card. That's about what I'd expect for a brand new release.

Yeah i have to run BF:BC2 on 1024 x 768 with Low Graphics for it too run smoothly

(Quad Core 2.4GHz Nvidia 8600Gt) it sucks i can run everything else smoothly except this and i love this game

8600GT? That's an old card, and it wasn't high-end even when it was new. I just got rid of my 8800GT. It couldn't run Dragon Age (which isn't even close to BC2 graphics wise) at 1920x1080 resolution.

To put this in perspective: you're basically running it at equal or better settings to what it runs at on consoles.

 

[ender214]

A lot of people with dual cores are complaining of poor performance in BFBC2. Me included. Running an E6600 at 2.8ghz. More than adequate... unless the game is a bad port and only uses a small fraction of most people's available GPU power.

There's your problem. You need to upgrade to quad-core. You can't expect a game to run well if you run it below recommended settings.

This game wouldn't need a quad core if it was properly optimized and utilized the GPU as it should. There is no reason that this should run worse than Crysis besides bad design.

Maybe. Duo-Core is usually good enough to pull of most PC games respectfully. But still, if you want your PC to be able to replace a console, quad-core is the way to go.

 

[Delusibeta]

When you consider that Bad Company 1 didn't have a PC port, Bad Company 2 is infinitely superior on that front.

 

[Aphroditty]

I'm interested to see how you've worked that one out exactly.

Alright, let me lay it all on the table:

PC gamers have been complaining (rightly so) a lot lately about their versions of multiplat games being gimped or getting the short end of the stick. Many PC games are multiplat. Furburt declared that he would just buy non-multiplat games. So I came to the stunningly hilarious conclusion that eventually the number of games a PC gamer will be able to buy will be whittled down to two or three per year. I wasn't being serious, as I hoped my good-natured exchange with Furburt demonstrated, I was employing hyperbole--which is a kind of exaggeration employed for effect, rather than literal truth.

 

[A13X T3h NubCak3]

errr wtf? i have a dual core and my pc is very crummy..
but Bad Company two runs perfectly

 

[shadow skill]

What kind of processors do you all with problems have?