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03-17-2010, 11:41 PM
Astros Fan

I think he has a 5850 already. My game runs great!
03-18-2010, 12:26 AM
Kamakazie

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeysg

Slap on a GTX285 or HD5850 (at least) and I think you should be able to do 1080P/1200P. It's not the CPU that's holding you back, it's the GPU I suspect....what GPU do you have anyway?:confused:

At the BC2 forum over at Steam, I see some complaining that their good rigs - dualies with GTX275/HD4870/HD4890 rigs have problems running at high detail. This is even though their vid cards seem more than capable enough, turns out their CPUs is holding them back, not the GPU. BC2 runs better on quads than dualies (unless you OC the heck outta the dualie) since some work, including sound from what I've gathered, is offloaded to the CPU. In your case, your CPU should be able to handle these additional work easily, so I believe the GPU may be the limiting factor.

With my HTPC, my Q6600 handles it easily enough, if I were to stick a 5870 in it, I'm pretty sure I can do BC2 @1080P full bore.....well, perhaps at 2xMSAA, 4xMSAA tops.

I have a 5850 :P

System:
Q6600 @ Stock
Radeon 5850
Sound Blaster Audigy
2GB DDR2-800 RAM (Downgraded from 4GB recently due to a bug with the Audigy drivers)
03-18-2010, 08:17 AM
tituswolf

I think you should ditch the audigy, go on board sound, put your 2gb of memory back in and oc that processor.
03-18-2010, 09:29 AM
Dark Sonic

Game runs awesome with everything on high, 1x AA, 8x AF with HBAO turned off @ 1680x1050. I'm running in DX9 mode due to a glitch where ATi cards have extremely long loading times.
03-18-2010, 10:13 AM
Kamakazie

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Originally Posted by tituswolf

go on board sound

I refuse.
03-18-2010, 10:55 AM
dimmy32

on board sound for games ? Thats crazy talk !
03-18-2010, 11:08 AM
Learux

I am using onboard sound, thought I give it a try. I believe that in BC all the sound is generate by the CPU.

I am curious if there would be a difference with using a dedicated soundcard.
03-18-2010, 11:11 AM
Kero-chan

awesome! i havent updated any drivers or changed any settings and i go to play my game today and it just crashes to desktop every time. yay! way to break crap w/ an update -__-
03-18-2010, 11:31 AM
fastitocalon

Pretty much glad i'm playing on 360 from this last page lol.
03-18-2010, 12:30 PM
taggart6

I play off headphones so no reason to use anything but on board sound for me.
03-18-2010, 12:57 PM
tituswolf

I use my onboard and noticed no difference between it and my audigy 2. My priorities are ram > sound card
03-18-2010, 01:06 PM
dimmy32

you wont see much diff, unless you have pretty good speakers....
same goes for headphones !
03-18-2010, 01:29 PM
Kamakazie

Quote:

Originally Posted by taggart6

I play off headphones so no reason to use anything but on board sound for me.

Are the headphones crappy or just USB? Your sound card does make a difference if this isn't the case.
03-18-2010, 02:00 PM
Dark Sonic

Not if they're USB.
03-18-2010, 02:33 PM
fastitocalon

I use the G35's, they are a bit heavy but they sound great and are usb so you don't need a sound card.
03-18-2010, 03:29 PM
Kamakazie

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark Sonic

Not if they're USB.

Edited my post for clarity. :)
03-20-2010, 05:06 AM
Kero-chan

so i got my game working again. i started from a previous checkpoint in sp and the game didn't crash to desktop anymore. weird bug...
03-20-2010, 05:45 AM
mikeysg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kero-chan

so i got my game working again. i started from a previous checkpoint in sp and the game didn't crash to desktop anymore. weird bug...

I started from the beginning again and it works w/o a hitch after that. Weird bug, the latest update did that....fortunately for me, I was far into my 2nd time round into the game when I did the update.
03-20-2010, 12:34 PM
dimmy32

same thing happened to me. I didnt mind starting the game from the beginning anyways. :p
03-20-2010, 04:05 PM
Nater

I don't see why anyone would bother with the single player portion of this game. It's not very good, for one. It feels like it was thrown together to support the console release. Some of the dialog, not to mention the entire plot, is very lame.

The multiplayer, however, is amazing. I wasted about two hours on the single player while the servers were down, that's it.
03-21-2010, 02:52 AM
Snakespy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nater

I don't see why anyone would bother with the single player portion of this game. It's not very good, for one. It feels like it was thrown together to support the console release. Some of the dialog, not to mention the entire plot, is very lame.

The multiplayer, however, is amazing. I wasted about two hours on the single player while the servers were down, that's it.

BC1 was the exact same. SP wasn't even worth playing IMHO
03-21-2010, 03:01 AM
mikeysg

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snakespy

BC1 was the exact same. SP wasn't even worth playing IMHO

Well, different stroke for different folk, right? I've always been an SP mode player, cannot grasp the concept of online play, 'sides, I don't want some 14-year-old screaming I suxor in leet language.:o

That's why I'll always play SP, no pressure from anyone else, just me and my rig taking it easy.:D
03-21-2010, 03:42 AM
Snakespy

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeysg

Well, different stroke for different folk, right? I've always been an SP mode player, cannot grasp the concept of online play, 'sides, I don't want some 14-year-old screaming I suxor in leet language.:o

That's why I'll always play SP, no pressure from anyone else, just me and my rig taking it easy.:D

That's why you play in parties with your friends and mute everyone else ;) Nowadays I find it hard to even play SP. Since I'm like "oh, this person's on and lets play this" Pretty much the only time I do play alone is if none of my friends are on or if they are playing something that doesn't sound fun at the moment. But I do agree, different strokes for different folks.
03-21-2010, 07:38 AM
Kero-chan

i'm kind of enjoying the sp. i definitely spend a lot more time playing online, but the dynamics of sp are a bit different. my favorite parts are w/ the drones; similar to cod4 and the gunship.
03-23-2010, 12:28 PM
Nik00117

I love the game, the beta didn't get my juicies going at all. It was fairly buggy and really annoying to play form some odd reason that I can't pinpoint however it appears that DICE went back and made it so much smoother.

The enviroment really changes things. The other night I was sniping out of a window, and started getting shot to my left and I thought "***? Theres a wal to my left"

Turns out something blew the wall away and I was exposed.

Also a good team makes ALL the differnece.

The medic class is epic, I haven't played singleplayer yet though. So Glad I got this vs MW2.

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