For those using mid-range or low-end graphics cards it appears that a quad-core processor is a must for playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2. That said, those with high-end graphics cards are likely to have a quad-core processor anyway, so dual-cores are out then. Those with graphics cards such as the Radeon HD 4870 or GeForce GTX 260 should look into forcing the DirectX 9 rendering mode if they are unhappy with their current level of performance, as we did see reasonable performance gains when doing so.
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Angelius |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 08:36 AM
Thanks for the article it has helped me quite a bit. I had changed to DX9 and it is smoother which is great and doesnt look much worse. Is there much difference between DX11 and DX10? Thanks Angelius |
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Dave |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 08:52 AM
Changing the audio did nothing for me either  Seems the best move is to upgrade to a quad-core if you have not already. |
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ProX |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 10:12 AM
I did not know you could force DX9, but then I never googled it  Thanks for that and nice work as usual. |
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Ray |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 02:50 PM
Great stuff thanks. The only thing missing are some screen shots of what Directx9 looks like compared to Directx10. If you could add that for me it would be great. |
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GamerRO25 |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 04:17 PM
I play this game at maximum settings !! 1920x1200 8AA and i get a avg of 100fps with a core i7 4ghz and 2 x 5870 . some said it is more demanding than Crysis but it is not true, at the same settings i get "only" 45fps ! I liked bc2 and it has nice graphics I am glad they are pushing for quad core cpu\s and faster graphics cards. |
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reisada |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 04:20 PM
would you please make a a guide like this for Metro 2033 when its released please? this was very helpfull, thanks and continue the good work |
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Steve Posts: 76 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 03/18/2010 11:12 PM
Thanks for all the great feedback guys. I will add some DX9 vs. DX10 quality shots for you soon and reisada I will look into doing a similar article for Metro 2033. |
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Jorie |
Posted on: 03/19/2010 04:26 AM
Very nice !!!! Can you perhaps add some core 2 duo 7xxx and 8xxx family cpu's. I think a lot of gamers actually still has this. Thanks. |
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Dingo |
Posted on: 03/20/2010 08:27 AM
just wondering why no 1920x1200 res in the CPU performance page. Perhaps that could be added in aswell? im just wondering because i plan on building a desktop and wanted to see if their is a (big) difference between 965, 750 and 920 cpus at that res. Any way thanks for the guide! |
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Banakon |
Posted on: 03/20/2010 01:45 PM
nice review Steve, you should include the performance of a Tri-core AMD. |
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Ironhammers |
Posted on: 03/21/2010 09:50 PM
Excellent post! Can really appreciate the work that must have gone into testing all those different setups! Keep up the good work! |
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mostafa007 Posts: 1 Joined: 2010-03-23 |
Posted on: 03/23/2010 02:02 PM
thx man , i really needed that guide i still have a core2 E6600 @3.4 GHZ , actually most of the games runs at max without a problem "except AA in some" but bc2 runs like crap :P even on medium settings "i have GTX260 + 4GB ram" i'm using win7 64-bit. so after ur article i found out that its a CPU issue , actually i dont wanna upgrade my cpu these days , so i thought about installing windows XP  , may be that will fix the problem and man !!! , running the game on XP on max settings @1920*1080 except AA is off and i get more than 50% performance gain compared to win 7 i didnt make any benchmarks actually , but through my online playing fps didnt drop lower than 30 in most cases and averaged @ 50 to 60fps |
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Gustav |
Posted on: 03/25/2010 12:37 AM
Great article. But I'm wondering what kind of GTX260 did you use? The 216 core or 196 core version? And I guess it was stock clocked? |
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Steve Posts: 76 Joined: 2010-02-08 |
Posted on: 03/25/2010 01:27 AM
Posted by Gustav on 03/25/2010 01:37 AM
The 216 core version, we will never use the 196 core again. Yes, it was standard clock speeds. Thanks for the feedback. |
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leexgx Posts: 8 Joined: 2010-03-29 |
Posted on: 04/03/2010 11:35 PM
the DX9 setting was very useful to use i have lost AA thought getting an GTX480 soon so slow should not be an issue |
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