Bad Company 2 PC Beta Delayed

[-Shifty-]

Re: Bad Company 2 PC Beta Delayed

So when is the beta then? I didn't catch the part when they give an ETA.

[=98=]

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Early 2010. Pushed back as normal lol.

Whenever an ETA comes out for a PC game, push it back 2-3 months and you're roughly there.

[Dronetek]

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Rarely played in anything over 32 anyway on my end and lower player count doesn't automatically mean the gameplay isn't good. I'm just happy to have a new BF title for the PC.

Except the game play is and has always revolved around large scale, open ended battles. Its what made Battlefield special.

[=98=]

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Except the game play is and has always revolved around large scale, open ended battles. Its what made Battlefield special.

But this is Bad Company 2, the sequel to Bad Company 1 that didn't revolve around 64 player servers and huge landscapes.

BF3 will come.

[Crandaddy]

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Have you seen The dx11 tessellation benchmark from unigine? And the alien model for the upcoming Aliens vs predator game? It makes everything before it look flat and lifeless, and graphics these days already look pretty good. and we haven't even seen what bad company will do with dx10 or 11, and it already looks almost as good as crysis on the PS3.

The amount of destruction is so taxing on the system that the player count has to be reduced some to allow extra resources for the Destruction Engine. With Destruction 2.0 you just cant have both 60 player games and people being able to pick apart the landscape piece by piece, most Pc's out there would just crash and burn if that were attempted right now. IMO were lucky to have 32 players and im sure this is going to be a game that will have very high specs. Until the Destruction engine has been refined and tuned many many times, BF games using the frostbite engine will simply not be able to support huge games, one of the many reasons why we WONT see it in BF3.

" we can now confirm DX11 support"

In 11 Days of DirectX 11, (Kevin Strange, AMD Developer Relations Account Manager) hints about the video card & operating system that they see for the future of DirectX 11.
"Windows 7 is an excellent OS for gamers (but please use the 64-bit version!)
"Give me 2-3x the computer power and 2 GB video memory (for frame buffers & textures)"

That is this a hint of requirements to come...

As it has been said in this thread, there will be many players on one map mixing:
DirectX 9c,10 & 11
Windows XP, Vista & 7
32 Bit & 64 Bit
Video Cards with 256MB, 512MB, 896MB, 1GB, 1792MB & 2GB (and so on)
Cable, DSL & Fiber...

That is a BIG mix...

Leaves a lot to think what the future requirements could be...

[imported_ATM743]

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In 11 Days of DirectX 11, (Kevin Strange, AMD Developer Relations Account Manager) hints about the video card & operating system that they see for the future of DirectX 11.
"Windows 7 is an excellent OS for gamers (but please use the 64-bit version!)
"Give me 2-3x the computer power and 2 GB video memory (for frame buffers & textures)"

That is this a hint of requirements to come...

As it has been said in this thread, there will be many players on one map mixing:
DirectX 9c,10 & 11
Windows XP, Vista & 7
32 Bit & 64 Bit
Video Cards with 256MB, 512MB, 896MB, 1GB, 1792MB & 2GB (and so on)
Cable, DSL & Fiber...

That is a BIG mix...

Leaves a lot to think what the future requirements could be...

current dx 11 cards (only ati's 3 cards) have 1gb or more of video ram.

in that article, they were talking about the future for them as a developer and imaging when each card would have a minimum of 2gbs of dedicated video memory

[=)BiT(= Evant3k]

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You only need a lot of video card memory when you run on a huge resolution, 2560x1600, other then that 512mb is sufficient.

[=98=]

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You only need a lot of video card memory when you run on a huge resolution, 2560x1600, other then that 512mb is sufficient.

512mb isn't really enough for new, texture heavy games. 1GB I would is the industry standard (In PC gaming that is) for new games.

[Leopardi]

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512mb isn't really enough for new, texture heavy games. 1GB I would is the industry standard (In PC gaming that is) for new games.

512mb is enough if you're still running on a 17" CRT @ 1024x768.

[=98=]

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512mb is enough if you're still running on a 17" CRT @ 1024x768.

Agreed, but that's pretty dated technology and probably not what the vast majority of people playing BC2 will be using.

[old sch00l]

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What's really holding the industry up is LCD/next tech - screen lag on this generation screens is pretty unacceptable to the old-school.

What? One 24" claims 0. pffftt

[Rambo]

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yeah zero is pretty pffft:laugh:

my new one claims 2ms but it is pretty quick to come back from a screen saver:|:

[AmericanDad]

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DX 9 compatibility - Is that the same thing as in Call of Duty 2 where you could go into video settings and change the shaders back to older versions to get it to run on weak systems? Can we drop the shaders down a notch to dx 9 in BC to get extra frame rates but lose the eye candy?

[RYKUU]

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But this is Bad Company 2, the sequel to Bad Company 1 that didn't revolve around 64 player servers and huge landscapes.

BF3 will come.

Exactly BFBC2 is not BF3, people have to remember that.

[PPSKevin]

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too bad its only on ps3