Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Developer(s)	EA Digital Illusions CE
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts
Engine	Frostbite 1.5
First release date	March 2, 2010

Battlefield

Battlefield 1942	2002
Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
Battlefield Vietnam	2004
Battlefield 2	2005
Battlefield 2: Special Forces
Battlefield 2: Euro Force
Battlefield 2: Armored Fury
Battlefield 2142	2006
Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike
Battlefield Heroes	2009
Battlefield: Bad Company 2	2010
Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam
Battlefield Play4Free	2011
Battlefield 3	2011
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand
Battlefield 3: Close Quarters
Battlefield 3: Armored Kill
Battlefield 3: Aftermath
Battlefield 3: End Game
Battlefield 4	TBD

Key points

Intrusive SecuROM DRM was removed post-launch.

Active community

Hard to mod for

General information

Battlefield Wiki

Planet Battlefield

Steam Users' Forums - Covers all the Battlefield games

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Steam		No SecuROM DRM.
Origin		No SecuROM DRM.

Improvements

Modding is possible

Although Frostbite is a relatively modding-unfriendly engine, a nascent modding community has formed and was able to extend the map border, create new in-game items and tweak weapons and vehicles. They have even released modding tools.

Emulator Nexus

MordorHQ

BFEditor.org

These are the main modding forums.

FPS Boosts

If you need a few tweaks to boost your framerate, try changing these vars in your "settings.ini" file:

RenderAheadLimit=0
HSAO=false
Overgrowth="medium"
Undergrowth=”medium”
Water=”medium”
MSAA=”2"
Shadows=”medium”
Textures=”medium”
Aniso=2

Force DirectX Level

Go to the "settings.ini" file and change:

DxVersion=#

from auto (default) to 9 if you want to force DX9, to 10 to force DX10, and to 11 to force DX11

Game data

	Location
Configuration files location	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\BFBC2\
Save game location	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\BFBC2\GameSettings.bin

BF:BC2 Config creator

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
Origin
GameSave Manager

Video settings

In-game options menu.

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)

Field of view (FOV)

Go to the following folder:

%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\BFBC2\

Find the settings file named settings.ini, then locate where it says Fov under the Graphics section. Now input your desired FoV and then save the file.

Be aware that the field of view in BFBC2 is calculated vertically. For more information Field of view.

Windowed

Windowed mode can be toggled in-Game by pressing Alt+Enter. You can also activate windowed mode by changing the line Fullscreen=true to Fullscreen=false in the settings.ini file.

Input settings

In-game key map settings.

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Controller support		Controller settings are present within settings but do no function correctly

Controller support

No native controller support Use a controller emulation program such as XPadder • Link A controller emulation program, such as XPadder, can be used to create controller support. A XPadder profile can be downloaded here. This brings with it the problem of the right analogue stick pausing the game, which can be fixed by extracting this archive into your download directory.

Issues and Fixes

TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.

Hard crashing

After an undetermined amount of playtime, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 may crash your entire computer (Screen freezes, hard drives stop and speakers will freeze on a sound. There have bee many proposed solutions to this issue, some of which still need confirming:

Confirmed working

• Run a System Repair through command prompt. Enter 'sfc /scannow' in a command prompt window.

Unconfirmed solutions

• Change the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 .exe compatibility settings to Windows XP.
• Lower the sampling rate of your speakers.
• Update Audio Driver.
• Update PunkBuster.
• Reinstall PunkBuster.
• Stop your audio manager process.
• Disable your audio driver (Realtek users).

Unable to update

1. Start the game and log-in to your account
2. Hit CTRL+ALT+Del to bring up task mgr
3. Run the Updater program
4. When you receive the error "can't replace bfbc2.exe because it's in use. Close the file and try again".
5. There will be 2 buttons: retry and cancel.
6. Go to Task Mgr and end the BFBC2.exe process
7. Click on retry
8. Success?

No Servers

If you're not seeing any multiplayer servers deselect all filters except for Punkbuster and click search.

Blinking black screen

Go to

%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\BFBC2\

Open settings.ini and find the HSAO line. Change it to

HSAO=false

That's it. No frustrating blinking black screen.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows XP	Windows 7
Processor (CPU)	Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz	Intel Core 2 Quad or higher
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	15 GB	15 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB Video Card (GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900)	512 MB Video Card (GeForce GTX 260/ ATI Radeon 4870)