Battlefield Bad Company 2 Clubhouse

[DannibusX]

I wonder how many of the driver issues are reported from people using unlocked 6950's?

AMD has always had driver issues when it comes to BFBC2.

 

[cadaveca]

I do know how to build a stable system.

NO, actually, you don't, because you had to ask me what ram to buy. Technically, I built that system.







I still love ya anyway, man. You'll just never build a rig for me.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/3960/380660.page

for sound issues if your running Realtek Audio look there

as for the update problem DICE admits there BC2 updater has been broken since Launch there not gonna fix it so keep downloading till it completes just try try and try again lol

black screen banding flickering full on black screen is the driver issue with crossfire gpus, its not the simple bloom fix flickering its more black screen with orange icons of highlighted enemies still visible its a pain in the ass it sucks no known fix currently different things work here and there but it tends to come back again eventually.

 

[TheMailMan78]

NO, actually, you don't, because you had to ask me what ram to buy. Technically, I built that system.







I still love ya anyway, man. You'll just never build a rig for me.

Yeah telling me to read the QVL is telling me how to build a rig?

 

[erocker]

I'm waiting for AMD to fix the driver issue

You'll be waiting forever as it isn't an AMD issue. I'm quite positive it is a Realtek driver issue pertaining only to certain codecs/sound processors. When I was running two GTX 460's in SLi with a Gigabyte board that had Realtek sound I got crashes. Same cards on a board with VIA sound, no crashes. Two 6950's with VIA sound, no crashes. Two 6950's on my current board with Realtek sound... crashes. Same cards on the same board with Realtek sound disabled and using a sound card.. no crashes.

I'm convinced.

 

[cadaveca]

Yeah telling me to read the QVL is telling me how to build a rig?

Yep. I directed you to a list of known working components. Seems like good advice to me!

I'm convinced.

It's quite possible, but AMD has it listed as a problem in thier release notes, so I definitely don't expect it to work on AMD cards that use Realtek Audio for their HDMI sound. They don't identify Realtek as being the cause, but they do say that the app does have at least one known issue.

Aslo, I do not have Realtek audio, nor am I using HDMI, but have issues. Now what? It's not jsut Reltek.

 

[erocker]

It's quite possible, but AMD has it listed as a problem in thier release notes, so I definitely don't expect it to work on AMD cards that use Realtek Audio.

True true.. Thing is, AMD doesn't know what the problem is and they're most likely blaming themselves for something out of their control. Poor bastards.. :shadedshu

One known common issue: Flickering.

 

[TheMailMan78]

Turn on your ATI HDMI audio. I know you guys turn it off.

 

[btarunr]

But why several gigabytes to fix a sound bug >.<

 

[cadaveca]

Turn on your ATI HDMI audio. I know you guys turn it off.

Um, actually, no, I don't turn anything off, at all. Although I did try, as that's the only Realtek chip in my gaming rig right now

But why several gigabytes to fix a sound bug >.<

My thoughts exactly. I mean...WTF...I'm not exactly blaming AMD for the problems, but I'm not exclduing them either. Clearly the app has issues.

 

[erocker]

But why several gigabytes to fix a sound bug >.<

What is the patch about?



Its main goal is to address stability problems with the game and performance issues. It is not intended to address game logic fixes.



You are being vague. Exact changelist please!



Removed some memory leaks

Fixed crashes when the game attempted to render lots of content (high detail, high FOV or multiple-monitor modes); this should particularly help multi-monitor users

Chat window no longer causes lag spikes

Chat window reworked opacity & visibility-time is controllable through settings in settings.ini

Clantag is remembered when using auto-login

Banner URLs can be up to 252 characters in length

SecuROM wrapper removed from non-Steam version

Minor performance enhancements

Reduced rubberbanding on servers with more than 24 active players

PrintScreen takes a screenshot, file stored in Documents\BFBC2\Screenshots directory



How large is the patch?



It is approximately 2.6GB.





That's huge man. Given that size, I would expect dinosaur survival mode to be included.



The patch itself contains all previous patches rolled into one. While it would have been technically possible to create a smaller patch for those who have Client R10 installed already, that would have delayed the release of the patch even further - so we thought it better to release a larger patch now, than a smaller patch sometime in the future.

There's the explaination. Laziness.

No can haz dinosaur survival mode.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

another reason sound cards work
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/...tlefield-bad-company-2-punkbuster-server.html

theres incompatibilities between punkbuster and realtek audio

even using default windows driver for audio will fix the issue

 

[TheMailMan78]

Ive used Realtek on three different boards without issue.

 

[cadaveca]

I'll will say, of course, that Mailman could very well be right...except...those of us with issues now...are using Intel rigs.

Both Crazyeyes and erocker had no issues...on AMD rigs.


So guess what kind of system I'm going to build today?

 

[TheMailMan78]

I'll will say, of course, that Mailman could very well be right...except...those of us with issues now...are using Intel rigs.

Both Crazyeyes and erocker had no issues...on AMD rigs.


So guess what kind of system I'm going to build today?

This is true.

 

[Sir B. Fannybottom]

Did dice just release another multi-gigabyte update that's impossible to complete (gets stuck midway making you redownload all over again)?

http://img.techpowerup.org/110921/bta9873kjdxc.jpg

Yeah, they said to manual install it

 

[erocker]

I'll will say, of course, that Mailman could very well be right...except...those of us with issues now...are using Intel rigs.

Both Crazyeyes and erocker had no issues...on AMD rigs.


So guess what kind of system I'm going to build today?

Yes, I had issues with my Intel rig. Using a sound card fixed it... Through the magic of spending more money.

 

[cadaveca]

This is true.

I don't get it, to be honest. Really, this game, NOW, how many months after release, still gets updates? Thank god DICE is commited to it, if only becuase issues may affect BF3 sales...at least we may have some progress with this patch, and a new driver later this month. I can only hope, as my free time allotment is going to increase really soon, and I am looknig forward to you guys PWNing me and my 360 controller real soon.

Yes, I had issues with my Intel rig. Using a sound card fixed it... Through the magic of spending more money.

Yeah, I'll just go play Dead Island. At least it works now...

 

[TheMailMan78]

Listen I know you guys hate me right now and you think I am trolling going "na, na, na, boo, boo" But I aint. Seriously. I have had NONE of the issues with Bad Company you guys have. As a matter of fact its my most stable game. Dave could be right. This might be an Intel rig thing.

Also on a side note I wouldnt troll anyone on system stability. I make my living off of my rig. Thats karma I don't want.

 

[btarunr]

Potential bug fix size: 10 MB.

^Data downloaded since the update began (2 failures already)

Thanks Dice.

 

[Millennium]

How do I manually download/install the new update?

Also, LOL @ EA Updater. Using all 4 cores @ ~30-50%? Wow, EA, nice job there. Just for downloading a patch!

 

[DannibusX]

You'll be waiting forever as it isn't an AMD issue. I'm quite positive it is a Realtek driver issue pertaining only to certain codecs/sound processors. When I was running two GTX 460's in SLi with a Gigabyte board that had Realtek sound I got crashes. Same cards on a board with VIA sound, no crashes. Two 6950's with VIA sound, no crashes. Two 6950's on my current board with Realtek sound... crashes. Same cards on the same board with Realtek sound disabled and using a sound card.. no crashes.

I'm convinced.

You know, I remember having this conversation with you a long time ago and I was getting C2D's. I switched my sound to HDMI and uninstalled realtek and had no issues afterwards.

 

[btarunr]

The updater loads the CPU more than the game itself. I guess there's some strong encrypted data streaming with NASA-grade error-correction going on. Or it's just a shit piece of code.

 

[cadaveca]

You know, I remember having this conversation with you a long time ago and I was getting C2D's. I switched my sound to HDMI and uninstalled realtek and had no issues afterwards.

But your HDMI sound over your Radeon is using Realtek too...

 

[Raptor_i]

Manually downloading Client R11 in case anyone (everyone) have issues with auto-updater

http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bfbc2/Static/BFBC2_PC_Client_R11_795745_Patch.exe