New Beta Client out (rc3)

[DevilsRefugee]

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc-beta/894136-new-client-r3-out-now-changelog.html

ooooooo 

[Enef]

for the lazy among us


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"
          o 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
          o We've gone through the hit detection logic, and client+server will now give more consistent results.
    * Fix for some "rubberbanding" issues
          o 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.

-Mikael Kalms

[Monkeh]

ha ha 'Mikael Kalms'!  Great name!
 

[Zofo]

Still no fix for my problem

[DevilsRefugee]

hows the steam support ticket going?

[Zofo]

hows the steam support ticket going?

Hello,

A staff member has replied to your question:

Hello John, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. Technical support for this title is handled by a third party support department - please follow the link below for instructions to contact the support provider for this title: Title: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7146-EIAL-8131 Please let us know if you experience further difficulties, or if you have additional questions or concerns.




I will say this though, if it doesn't work I will be looking for a full refund, I am a little fed up of wasting money on games that will not work for me, section 8 never worked properly, anyways its just a waiting game now, see if they sort it

[Enef]

Worked fine for me first time, that's weird :S

[DevilsRefugee]

hows the steam support ticket going?

Hello,

A staff member has replied to your question:

Hello John, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. Technical support for this title is handled by a third party support department - please follow the link below for instructions to contact the support provider for this title: Title: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7146-EIAL-8131 Please let us know if you experience further difficulties, or if you have additional questions or concerns.




I will say this though, if it doesn't work I will be looking for a full refund, I am a little fed up of wasting money on games that will not work for me, section 8 never worked properly, anyways its just a waiting game now, see if they sort it

and rightly so..

have you tried contacting ea support? If you are having trouble with games, then maybe its your computer somewhere?..Hopefully you can get it fixed.

Have you tried re-installing? (Seems obvious, but just putting it out there).

[Petor]

I have Bad Company 2 but havn't been able to play it yet.
Something wrong with cursor location, seems the actual cursor is off by a couple of inches to the right and down from where it should be. I know it's beta so I'm waiting for the next update to see what happens.

[Humbug]

wow i can actually hit stuff now playin sniper... much much better hit boxes

[frymaster]

hows the steam support ticket going?

Hello,

A staff member has replied to your question:

Hello John, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. Technical support for this title is handled by a third party support department - please follow the link below for instructions to contact the support provider for this title: Title: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Link: http://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7146-EIAL-8131 Please let us know if you experience further difficulties, or if you have additional questions or concerns.




I will say this though, if it doesn't work I will be looking for a full refund, I am a little fed up of wasting money on games that will not work for me, section 8 never worked properly, anyways its just a waiting game now, see if they sort it

have you posted here? http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/376111.page

[Zofo]

have you posted here? http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/376111.page

nah, they have admitted to knowing about the problem but not having any solution yet, thats good enough for me, doubt me posting will speed the process along in any way, thx though

[Zeus]

Using my duel core much better    30 -70FPS with odd peaks of 100+ shame about the poor SLI support  still using less than 50% of GTX295 most of the time

have you posted here? http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/376111.page

nah, they have admitted to knowing about the problem but not having any solution yet, thats good enough for me, doubt me posting will speed the process along in any way, thx though

did you try it on your lappy m8 - stupid question really as that would mean you would have to do something 

[Zofo]

did you try it on your lappy m8 - stupid question really as that would mean you would have to do something 

no but I will