BFBC2 horror

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 650

I wouldnt go by that M8 as far as i can work out its bullshit, most duels and quads are running at 80/100% flat out when playing this game but only 50/60% GFX , due to the nature of the port from the consol i5/i7 are having a much easyier time of it

Joined: Nov 21, 2007 Posts: 650

Just read that having steam running when you start BFBC2 can cause this, fix is to exit steam before executing the game

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:31 pm

|2es-rembrandt wrote:

Just read that having steam running when you start BFBC2 can cause this, fix is to exit steam before executing the game

Trouble is I got the game from Steam! You might say I have made some progress though Laughing

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:35 pm

I have a friend with exactly the same problem with steam Chaos King, have you had any joy yet?

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:26 pm

Not yet M8, I have a support ticket in with steam but they don't exactly rush with their answers. The hard copy I ordered from Play is here and I will be installing later. This should clarify if it's steam or not!

***Ok, a quick edit here. I am now the proud owner of two copies of BFBC2 (total cost £61) and neither works. In fact I couldn't even uninstall the disk copy without it locking up my PC, and I had to do a system restore to get rid of it. Whatever EA have done it runs head on into something on my machine and it don't like it. Anyone want to buy an expensive doorstop? Laughing

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:06 pm

OK, figure this if you can. Neither disk or download version of the game will run on my new machine. Out of curiosity I rebuilt my old machine which was a 3.2Ghz Pentium 4 with 2gig of RAM and an old X1600 graphics card. Now it may not win any awards for quality, but the game runs and it's playable. I went on a server with a few players on and had a passable game experience. So when I've played around to squeeze a bit more from it I will finally get to join you ingame! Very Happy

The downside is I will have to run two machines until (if Rolling Eyes

) I can get to the bottom of the new PC issue.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:51 am

My m8 got his working by changing direct x version setting in the ini from auto to 9.....

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/378249.page#4057073

Joined: Oct 04, 2005 Posts: 511 Location: Kent

what op sys did you use on the rebuilt pc ?

if it was XP or at least NOT the new 7 then id use thwe old spec pc but install the new 7 and see if it then goes tits - if it does its the o/s if it doesnt its one of the new h/ware bits

Joined: Dec 17, 2006 Posts: 224 Location: Scunthorpe UK

Hi Chaos,

Rembrant is right, you need a bit more voltage to your cpu and perhaps ram aswell
I had same problem running my cpu and ram under volted as you have mensioned your cpu is, knock it up to its rated 1.36vcore and I bet your problem goes away Very Happy

Gaz!