Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Benchmarks

[Ara23]

Originally Posted by bob saget

this is the reason why i upgraded. had 8800GTS and 1680x1050 monitor.

I'm planning on upgrading later in the year once all the fancy new stuff comes out

[JasonPC]

It automatically selects the highest DX level you have. It's in a configurations file in your documents. You can manually set it to 11 but it should automatically detect it. There is likely not a big visual difference. Just some performance and shadow improvements.

[CaptNKILL]

I don't understand why people make games run so bad for benchmarks.

The results are pretty meaningless if the best card in the test is barely managing 30fps minimum. If the game is running like ass on all cards TURN DOWN THE FREAKING ANTIALIASING.

I'd rather see benchies at 1920x1200 with no AA and 4xAA. The game uses so many sprites and shader effects that 90% of the scenery is still aliased all to hell, so the huge performance hit isn't worth it at all.

I love to see massive charts like that that show a ton of information, but when someone puts that much time into something to show that 50 GPUs cannot run the game smoothly at a given setting, it seems like a waste of time.

[bob saget]

Originally Posted by Ara23

I'm planning on upgrading later in the year once all the fancy new stuff comes out

That will be a good time, though even if you upgrade now, you should be pretty well set for a couple years

[six_storm]

I need to try the BETA out with DX9 or just turn off AA/AF. But heck, AA/AF is almost completely off anyways.

[Ara23]

Originally Posted by bob saget

That will be a good time, though even if you upgrade now, you should be pretty well set for a couple years

Yeah, I should hope so! This is the only problem with PC gaming, having to upgrade every couple years and the price tag of it (vs about $500 for brand new consoles). I love it anyway.

In BC2 if I turn off EVERYTHING but the game, I get pretty smooth game play except in heavy firefights

[ragejg]

Here's some benchmarks I did:


Systems benchmarked:

1. Socket 939 Athlon x2 4800+ @ 2.4ghz, 3gb DDR400, ATI HD3850 running game in DX9 mode
2. AM3 Athlon II x3 425 @ 2.7ghz, 4gb DDR2 1066, ATI HD4850 @ 625/1985 running game in DX9 mode
3. AM3 Athlon II x3 425 @ 2.7ghz, 4gb DDR2 1066, ATI HD4850 @ 625/1985 running game in DX10 mode
4. AM3 Athlon II x3 425 @ 2.7ghz, 4gb DDR2 1066, ATI HD4850 @ 660/2100 running game in DX10 mode

I only ran the x2/3850 setup in the first test to avoid it from being embarassed any further.


Test specs:

OS: Vista 64
Driver: Catalyst 10.2
Mipmap Quality: Highest
Vsync: Off
Catalyst AI: On
AA/AF: Set to application preference


Test 1:
1280x1024, all details @ lowest, AA/AF @ 1/1, HBAO Off
Min - Max - Average:

• x2/3850 DX9:
  9 - 35 - 16.5
• x3/4850 @ stock DX9:
  43 - 129 - 81.2
• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  44 - 131 - 76.1
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  50 - 148 - 84.8

Test 2:
1280x1024, all details @ highest, AA/AF @ 1/1, HBAO Off
Min - Max - Average:

• x3/4850 @ stock DX9:
  35 - 97 - 57.5
• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  38 - 78 - 55.0
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  48 - 84 - 63.3

Test 3:
1280x1024, all details @ highest, AA/AF @ 1/1, HBAO On
Min - Max - Average:

• x3/4850 @ stock DX9:
  28 - 97 43.2
• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  33 - 41 - 36.4
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  28 - 67 - 39.1

Test 4:
1280x1024, all details @ highest, AA/AF @ 1/16, HBAO On
Min - Max - Average:

• x3/4850 @ stock DX9:
  31 - 79 - 41.2
• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  26 - 60 - 35.19
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  26 - 52 - 38.25

Test 5:

1280x1024, all details @ highest, AA/AF @ 2/16, HBAO On
Min - Max - Average:
DX10 Results Only

• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  23 - 62 - 35.07
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  31 - 49 - 41.52

Test 6:
1280x1024, all details @ highest, AA/AF @ 4/16, HBAO On
Min - Max - Average:
DX10 Results Only

• x3/4850 @ stock DX10:
  17 - 53 - 30.9
• x3/4850 OC DX10:
  13 - 60 - 32.2

[Toss3]

Originally Posted by onmikesline

because there is no option

You have to change it from the settings.ini file under "My Documents".

[onmikesline]

yeah, i think ill wait till 2 more days to see what fps i get,

[ragejg]

Basically I can easily infer that you're trying to say that you've already pirated it.

I give you a pre-emptive thumbs-down. If I'm wrong, sorry, but it looks like a spade, so I'll call it a spade.

[wysiwyg]

BF games are mainly MP and for that a key is needed

SP is normally slapped on so i cannot see the need to warez it

[Yaboze]

Is this the first DX11 game?