Bad companyb 2 Bugs and issues Thread

FWIW, I had frequent problems logging in to EA and not once was able to join a game until I ran it in compatibility mode (in XP, I'm using vista64) and as admin. After that, no problems other than the server list taking a craptastically long time to load up.
 
So, not sure where to begin, but back during the BFBC2 Beta I was experiencing a strange behavior every time I would play the game and then Esc out of it I would get where my mouse courser on the screen would be cut in half vertically with a thin line through it. sometimes it would be cut in thirds. This would only happen after leaving the game. I thought it was just an Issue with the Beta and didn't think much of it really. But now I have the full game. and am having the same type of issue but worse. I am including some screen shots and a video of what I see hoping someone can give some Ideas of what is going on. I may just head over to the EA forms and ask there also . but I know there are a lot of Gurus here that might give some better insight.

It only happens after playing BFBC2.
My system is stable. with good temps. both GPU & CPU
10.2 drivers for GPU

Here is the video



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in singleplayer, the F2000 gun, if you use the whole clip then the shooting sound persists through the forced reload.
 
some things are probably mentioned

- in SP, when I click "Exit Game," it doesn't do anything, but if I click "Resume Game" after clicking "Exit Game," then I actually do exit the game.
- I can't favorite servers through the default server browser (it gets stuck with the loading animation). if I provide a search term though, then I can favorite servers.
- got a CTD while doing the above.
- I get texture corruption from the terrain. almost always occurs in vehicles.
 
Servers just crashed again. Weird. Typical of EA though. At least the game is fun.
 
I have constant CTD on a fresh Win7 build, and especially if I try to use a UAV. NOW, to pour salt on the wounds, suddenly the game is reasking for my CD key, after having played it already since release (when I put the CD key in already originally). EA, I swear... As far back as I can remember, even in the old UO days, their games are bug ridden, and it really makes me want to never buy another EA game. It is really ridiculous. :(
 
Can't login AGAIN.

I've never experienced a game with so many logon issues.

Really, really poor show so far.

Managed to play for all of an hour tonight and did well on a map I've never seen before.

I'm remaining patient but it's wearing thin....
 
Sent EA an email regarding the login issues, sure I know they know about the issues but it feels cathartic!
 
It's pretty sad when the game itself is quite nice, but the constant login issues, crashes to desktop, and etc. bugs actually diminish the quality of play when it IS working because you know that at any moment you will suddenly lose connection to the server, or get a crash to desktop, or that your score will not unlock or save properly to your stats, and etc. It really takes away from what would otherwise be a great game. This is a common story for EA, and they are shooting themselves in the foot.
 
Managed to login again. Try again guys

I wonder for how long this will last. Up and down like a pair of prostitutes knickers so far
 
i get same issue as mckie and ctd with a atikmpag.sys error. cant see the pings on the server list. server list loads slowwww. i may have to go back to nvidia im losing patience fast. it mainly crashes between levels. or when i exit the game windows will crash all together. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Well, I discovered a glitch on the map Laguna Presa where you go to point A where the helicopter crash site is at. I was hopping around after getting off the off road quad and I fell through the burning cockpit of the heli and I could not get out, 2 other team members spawned on me and was also stuck, LOL, by the time that the enemy decided to attack A point, they cannot take it and we won the game because they cannot kill us from inside:p
 
madcoder said:
It's pretty sad when the game itself is quite nice, but the constant login issues, crashes to desktop, and etc. bugs actually diminish the quality of play when it IS working because you know that at any moment you will suddenly lose connection to the server, or get a crash to desktop, or that your score will not unlock or save properly to your stats, and etc. It really takes away from what would otherwise be a great game. This is a common story for EA, and they are shooting themselves in the foot.
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I never had a CTD. maybe if you have an ATI card and the drivers crashes other then that I don't know.
 
LOCO LAPTOP said:
I never had a CTD. maybe if you have an ATI card and the drivers crashes other then that I don't know.
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Nope its the servers having the issue.

again its EA/DICE back-end problem. On my own server I rent I CTD sometimes. Sometimes I am able to join.

It's just that bad right now. No need to blame drivers.

All I can say it...have patience
 
DASHlT said:
Nope its the servers having the issue.

again its EA/DICE back-end problem. On my own server I rent I CTD sometimes. Sometimes I am able to join.

It's just that bad right now. No need to blame drivers.

All I can say it...have patience
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I see. Well then I cross my fingers so I dont crash.

Blackstone said:
Now I am getting punkbuster kicked from every server.
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Update punkbuster
 
If you are having PB issues you guys might wanna try the RubberDuckyGaming server. It seems to not be kicking me and it is a very good server.
 
When I have been able to get into a server, I have to wait ~30 minutes to respawn.

Here's what happens:
1. Die
2. Spawn select screen comes up.
3. Choose spawn point and click the Enter Battle Button
4. Enter Battle button greys out and any action happening on the screen totally freezes (you can still move the mouse but moving it over buttons has no effect (ie: mouse over))
5. Wait for 15 seconds and my character "spawns"
6. The enter battle button is click-able again and you can see action on screen
7. It sits here for 10-15 seconds. During this time my character is spawned and vulnerable to attack (if it's a hot LZ, I die almost every time)
8. Then the spawn select menu goes away and I can play, until I get killed and then I get to wait another 30ish seconds when everyone else can spawn almost instantly (and when I click the enter battle button, the spawn timer has elapsed and it says ready).
 
I know, the whole spawn thing really gets me agitated . There is to much of a delay spawning on someone . what looks good one second ends up being a bad situation the next second . Get killed, repeat as necessary.
 
It's hit or miss for me the last few days. If I can get into a decent server and play a few map rotations, it's one of the best games I've ever played. The trouble is, that only happens 50% of the time. The rest is spent trying to actually connect, or getting kicked after I do manage to get in. Having that happen multiple times, then waiting 90 secs or more for the stupid browser refresh is aggravating. I know they will sort it out, but yeah...i've given up trying on more than one occasion.
 
Yep load of crap. wife and daughter went shopping and sons taking a nap thought i might get to actually play abit but nope now i get pb errors and i updated manually even deleted pb files and updated again.

This is a massive joke. any word on 360/ps3 i bet there playing like crazy...
 
Last night was the first time I've had a chance to attempt to play this game and now that it's the weekend and I can't get it to work...I'm pissed. I preordered this damn game and I NEVER preorder games. I was so excited and now I can't play :mad: :mad: :mad:
 
bL33d said:
Yep load of crap. wife and daughter went shopping and sons taking a nap thought i might get to actually play abit but nope now i get pb errors and i updated manually even deleted pb files and updated again.

This is a massive joke. any word on 360/ps3 i bet there playing like crazy...
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I actually went out and bought the PS3 version. and didn't have any issues. other than the fact. I am so used to my eyefinity set up it was rather strange playing it. and I haven't played my PS3 in so long it is taking a bit to get used to the controller again.
 
bL33d said:
Yep load of crap. wife and daughter went shopping and sons taking a nap thought i might get to actually play abit but nope now i get pb errors and i updated manually even deleted pb files and updated again.

This is a massive joke. any word on 360/ps3 i bet there playing like crazy...
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console versions have some server issues too but I'd consider them minor compared to the PC
 
Does anyone else get a huge performance hit while in DX10? The game isn't unplayable but it's hard to be competitive online with any type of FPS hit. I haven't checked my FPS exactly but I can feel some serious FPS lag while in DX10. Even in absolutely low settings.

The weird thing is I have two friends with pretty much the exact same setup as me (8800GT, gigabyte p35 boards etc) and they have zero problems, says the game runs perfectly fine maxed out for them. This is the part I don't understand, obviously I'm having some kind of conflict or something.

For now I'm just disabling DX10, seriously I can't even tell a difference between the two.

System in sig, running Win7 pro 64.
 
Cyper said:
Does anyone else get a huge performance hit while in DX10? The game isn't unplayable but it's hard to be competitive online with any type of FPS hit. I haven't checked my FPS exactly but I can feel some serious FPS lag while in DX10. Even in absolutely low settings.

The weird thing is I have two friends with pretty much the exact same setup as me (8800GT, gigabyte p35 boards etc) and they have zero problems, says the game runs perfectly fine maxed out for them. This is the part I don't understand, obviously I'm having some kind of conflict or something.

For now I'm just disabling DX10, seriously I can't even tell a difference between the two.

System in sig, running Win7 pro 64.
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have you truied playing the game on thier system? sometimes fps lag is subjective. what is unplayable to you may be acceptable to them. Same thing with AA, some people cant play without AA on, others dont care at all as they dont see the jaggies (untill they are showin what to look for lol)

Go to your settings.ini folder and switch to dx9 mode, I know I had to with my gtx260, just couldnt play wiht a reasonable fps at medium or high settings in dx 10.
 
Ragenrok said:
have you truied playing the game on thier system? sometimes fps lag is subjective. what is unplayable to you may be acceptable to them. Same thing with AA, some people cant play without AA on, others dont care at all as they dont see the jaggies (untill they are showin what to look for lol)

Go to your settings.ini folder and switch to dx9 mode, I know I had to with my gtx260, just couldnt play wiht a reasonable fps at medium or high settings in dx 10.
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They are just people I know online so I am not able to play it on their systems. However I know them enough to tell that they would be able to notice the lag as well. I know I said the lag isn't unplayable but it's damn near, it's pretty bad. I already set DX mode to 9, that was the first thing I did.

I just don't understand it, the game isn't that amazing looking, it looks nice but not amazing. And like I said the DX10 features are barely even noticeable if at all compared to dx9.
 
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Cyper said:
Does anyone else get a huge performance hit while in DX10? The game isn't unplayable but it's hard to be competitive online with any type of FPS hit. I haven't checked my FPS exactly but I can feel some serious FPS lag while in DX10. Even in absolutely low settings.

The weird thing is I have two friends with pretty much the exact same setup as me (8800GT, gigabyte p35 boards etc) and they have zero problems, says the game runs perfectly fine maxed out for them. This is the part I don't understand, obviously I'm having some kind of conflict or something.

For now I'm just disabling DX10, seriously I can't even tell a difference between the two.

System in sig, running Win7 pro 64.
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I'm not for sure what DX mine plays at.

I see my DX is set to auto. so whatever the game plays at by default is probably what I've been playing at.
Just from the experience with my system. and I don't have an Overclock on my CPU either so that could be part of my problem. I might be bottlenecked. but still .

I can have the graphic settings on preset High ,and single player becomes to laggy and is un-playable. Mutiplayer gets laggy when in high action scenes with a lot of smoke and dust. but is playable with the high preset. don't ask why it's different in multiplayer . I don't know. but it does become unplayable at times

I had a chance to play around with fraps a little . Just to try and find a good setting I could comfortably play at and still try to keep some quality although I would be hard pressed to notice much difference really.

but here are A couple of benchmarks i did. You can see that the preset high settings didn't fair to good. I know my setup is really different . but you can see that this game can really tax my system on high settings. The only other games that do the same is arma II and crysis.

Preset High settings

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
2172, 163044, 3, 125, 13.322.
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Preset Default Medium

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
12513, 184789, 12, 152, 67.715

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
20575, 297584, 39, 151, 69.140
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Preset Default Medium (then set some textures to high leaving the rest on medium) Game crashed to desktop!!

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
9082, 156295, 31, 83, 58.108
 
DxVersion=auto is the default setting, which if your card is DX10 capable then it defaults to DX10. Setting it to 9 completely makes the game playable for me 100%. No stuttering, hitching or lag.

I don't notice any graphical differences between the two, no reason it should be cutting down my performance by 50%. Specially when someone with an identical system to me has no problems with maxed settings in DX10.

It's really kind of frustrating.
 
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