Which graphics card for Bad Company 2

Danny · Ask Me About Stoppie School Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Karma :

hey all,

Been playing bad company 2 recently, but my graphics card seems to be struggling and I have to have the settings set to medium or lower.

My current setup is:
quad core 2.4GHz over clocked to 2.8
4gb DDR2
Windows 7 64x
Nvidia 8800GTX over clocked to almost Ultra spec

I'm looking for a card that will be able to play the game at 1920 * 1200 at or very near max settings.

Mr.Everready · World Chat Champion Joined: 28 Mar 2003 Karma :

What sort of money are you likely to spend ?
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Danny · Ask Me About Stoppie School Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Karma :

As little as possible really.

Spending £150-200 wouldn't be an issue, if we're talking £400 then I may have to have a rethink.

Hetzer · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Karma :

I'm maxed out at 2560x1600 with a GTX285, haven't seen under 30fps so far. You might get away with a 260 in that case (around £170).

If you have £200 to spend maybe look at one of the cheaper 275s.
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Danny · Ask Me About Stoppie School Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Karma :

This one looks ok:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-116-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1410

Reckon that'll be able to run it at max settings?

SoND · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Karma :

What quad core do you have? This game is very cpu heavy and an older chip might be holding you back a little.

GTX275 should be easily ok. I have a GTS250 1gb running DX9 high 1680 x 1050, never drops below 30.

If you're struggling turn off HBAO, it's a massive drain on gpu power and you won't notice the difference in the middle of a fire fight.

DX9 will also run a fair bit faster than DX10. You can force it on by locating the settings.ini file and changing Dxversion=auto to Dxversion=9.

You should find this in My Docs\BFBC2\settings.ini
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MarkJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Karma :

Watch out buying nVidia 2xx cards, they don't make them any more! I had trouble recently trying to buy a 275. If you search the net you'll see the majority of places don't have any in and can't tell you when the next lot will be in either. I managed to get a Palit GTX275 from www.custompcwarehouse.co.uk, but if you do this I recommend you call them first as they don't have stock levels on their website. Got my 275 for £178 delivered, and it's ace.

Danny · Ask Me About Stoppie School Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Karma :

The CPU is an Intel Core 2 QUAD CPU Q6600
2.4GHz stock, over clocked to 2.8GHz

Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

Pfff FUCK NVIDIA!!! buy a ati 5850....
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Rob W · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Karma :

Nothing to do with a card, but I've been so long out of building PC's that I would think that the PC you have should piss playing BC2. Pretty much the sort of spec I'd knock together (bar the GFX card) to play some PC games on myself. I dont believe the CPU could hold that system back, how can a quad core on 64 bit W7 be throttled?

Confused

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Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

becasue its a 2.8 single core when it comes to games ? ..... possibly a dual. there is no quad core optimimisation about atm ..
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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

if you are running windows xp, a utility called gamebooster, is excellent, it turns off all necessary programs so speeding up your pc, really makes quite a bit of difference

on my vista pc it makes it crash though, although im hoping to solve this by figuring out which thing needs to be left running
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SoND · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Karma :

Ati is totally gay. Yeah the 4870x2 is quick but put that against a 295 or SLI the rest of the 2xx and it's not that much different.

The 8800 will really be stretched for running max settings, recommended is a GTX260.

Yeah the GTS250 isn't THAT much different than the 8800 it's still slightly better. Run it in SLI and it's faster than a GTX280.

For BC2 in particular, it prefers nVidia. Ati has slow as f00k loading times for no good reason. ;P
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Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

ok then it runs of a quad i dont play it neve liked these games . next point is the fsb of your cpu.... more fsb more ur gpu is utilised i had a q6600 running @3.2 and that still held back a 8800gtx.

and compare a 4870x2 to a 295gtx.... yeahhhhhhhh or an sli'd 2xx gen... there both mles newer cards ... i tell you what go crossfire a pair of 5870's and find a nvidia sli setup that freforms the same. or has dx11 oh wait they dont....
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Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

go here...
https://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality-update-3/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-1920x1200,1702.html

Real results no fan boy BS ...

oh whats that a single 5850 beating your 280's?
or whats on top.... yeah a SINGLE PCB ATI. beats sli 280's.... on andrapes the 285...

want to come ack with factual comments about preformance other than BS myths?
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Rob W · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Karma :

Somebody hit a nerve have they?

Laughing

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Welshd1k · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2006 Karma :

Bazza....

Lest look here. your comparing a old generation ATI vs a new generation Nvidia... i men a 4870 is £100 new now ...

and new ati 4890 ...

dude go do some research new 4890 ?? NEW IS 5XX series.....

so coem back with a comparrison of 5850 vs gtx 260 then 5870 vs gtx 275/280 and then 5970 vs 295 ...

i love how the 295 gets compared to a 4870... LOL go put it against a 4870x2
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