Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Template:Infobox Battlefield (series)
Key points
- Intrusive SecuROM DRM was removed post-launch.
General information
Availability
Mods
Modding is possible
Although frostbite is a relatively modding-unfriendly engine, a nascent modding community is rising and was able to extend map border, create new in-game items and tweak weapon and vehicle, releasing even modding tools
these are the main modding forums
Game data
Video settings
Input settings
Controller Support
Instructions |
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Issues and Fixes
- TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.
Hard crashing
After a 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).
Changing 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 Mode
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.
Unable to update
- Start the game and log-in to your account
- Hit CTRL+ALT+Del to bring up task mgr
- Run the Updater program
- When you receive the error "can't replace bfbc2.exe because it's in use. Close the file and try again".
- There will be 2 buttons: retry and cancel.
- Go to Task Mgr and end the BFBC2.exe process
- Click on retry
- Success?
No Servers
If you're not seeing any multiplayer servers deselect all filters except for Punkbuster and click search.
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
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