PC Beta Details And Date Thur 28th

grizzly

R0ot wrote: »

Anyone know what time the servers will be up at?

I think they said 6pm at the latest.

Dcully

Darn it im itching for a game and servers are still down for me.

R0ot

UPDATE: The maintenance has been restarted due to issues on restarting the service under load. The EA servers will be down for another 75 minutes. In which time we are working on a new server and client to be released for when the servers come back online.

That was at 18:00

omerin

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Run the game as administrator..

doing that already. seems to be a fairly common problem, hopefully this server backup/update might sort it out, but i'm not holding out much hope :rolleyes:

Making It Bad

Can't get a game because I keep getting disconnected after around 2 minutes. Anyone else having this problem now, or is it just me?

R0ot

Making It Bad wrote: »

Can't get a game because I keep getting disconnected after around 2 minutes. Anyone else having this problem now, or is it just me?

Had this on one server where I got kicked for a PB error, tried another server and it was fine.

Ponster

Making It Bad wrote: »

Can't get a game because I keep getting disconnected after around 2 minutes. Anyone else having this problem now, or is it just me?

Lots of people with that problem I'm afraid.

Auvers

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC RC3 Beta Patch Released

http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/53158/Battlefield-Bad-Company-2-PC-RC3-Beta-Patch-Released

Quote:
"This update is about performance and stability again. We are not doing any changes to the game's datafiles.

• Reduced input "lag"
  On machines where the CPU would out-run the GPU, sometimes the GPU would queue up several frames' worth of rendering commands.
  This could lead to the game having a high framerate, but input still feeling very sluggish.

Now there's a limiter on how many frames the CPU is allowed to be "ahead" of the GPU.
Control this setting via Settings.ini. Default setting: RenderAheadLimit=2

• Performance optimizations with biggest improvements on dual-core machines
• Fixed black "masks"
  • The soot on buildings with holes in them had a bugged renderpath. We switched that over to a more well-tested renderpath.
• Improved hit-detection
  • We've gone through the hit detection logic, and client+server will now give more consistent results.
• Fix for some "rubberbanding" issues
  • C4 should stay attached to vehicles and not rubberband around
• Reduced spikes/dips in framerate
• Various fixes for alt+tab related CTD on Dx9
• More fixes for random CTD on Dx9
• Fix for crash when you're in a vehicle that gets destroyed

There was a race condition in the code;
System 1 thought "oh hey, you're leaving vehicle X"
System 2 thought "the vehicle got destroyed, let's remove it"

If system 2 ran before system 1, chaos would ensue.
This was actually fixed in the retail version since a month, but it was only when we got detailed crash reports from the community that we understood *why* the Beta was crashing.

Likely bugs in this build
I wouldn't be surprised if it (still) has trouble remembering your settings between rounds. It would be nice to have that fixed too, but it's better to get a patch out now, and look at the settings issues afterward."

R0ot

Anyone's game locking up more and crashing now since the last patch?

cherryghost

nope, running a lot better for me

R0ot

cherryghost wrote: »

nope, running a lot better for me

Game just freezes up for me with Win7 64bit every so often doesn't look like its anything in particular that's causing it just random.

cherryghost

im on 7 64bit too. havent had any issues with the new patch at all

jesus_thats_gre

Not had a single crash either..

Tyrant^

Cant seem to get any better than 35fps when all the action starts in the middle of the field.

Played with all the settings. Low everything 45fps. High everything 25fps.
No Major FPS gains... despite the rather ugly low settings.

1280 x 720 - No AA, no AF, No HSBAO ****e..., and Dx 9 set in the .ini file.

This is a average when your looking down the battlefield with 10 guys zerging you

My Specs:

e6600 @ 3.6Ghz
eVGA nForce 680i
OCZ 8GB DDR2 800 Mhz
Gainward GTX 285
Asus Xonar DS
Vista 64bit SP2

Hopefully it will improve with the final release... ordered a quad core just incase !

[WindowSettings]
Width=1280
Height=720
Fullscreen=true
RefreshRate=60
VSync=false
[Sound]
Quality=low
VoipEnable=true
[Graphics]
Effects=low
Soldiers=low
Vehicles=low
Overgrowth=medium
Undergrowth=medium
StaticObjects=medium
Terrain=low
Shadows=low
Bloom=false
HSAO=false
MSAA=0
Water=low
MainQuality=medium
Texture=low
DxVersion=9
Aniso=0
Detail=medium
RenderAheadLimit=2


Frames - 3713
Time (ms) - 95268
Min - 27
Max 66
Avg 23.97

Wonda-Boy

I only had one game since the patch and its flying along....I really love this beta so I hope the full game is just as good. I remember watching the jungle level on YOU TUBE and it was uber looking....

Getting back to ranking up....I hope the main game ranks you up alot slower then the beta. I dont know what it is but games that make you RANK up are so addictive. And in the beta getting to RANK 11 in a day or so is a joke. And in 2142 it was too quick aswell.

So pace the rank and keep the players coming back for more its much better. I am seriously thinking of upgrading to a 30" TFT and if this game is very good upon launch I will get one....as I expect to play it non stop...no more L4D2....:(

grizzly

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Getting back to ranking up....I hope the main game ranks you up alot slower then the beta.

Yeah, I think these type of games should rank at a rate where the average player takes a year to get top rank (but most of the weapons would unlock during the first 2-4 months).