Client R11 Beta Patch (795745)

[MikaelKalms]

What's this?

DICE has produced a candidate for the next game client update for BFBC2 PC. If this is deemed good enough, it will become the official patch, and will be pushed out to everyone. For now though, the patch is still in Beta.

House rules:
You install and run the patch at your own risk.
The Beta client can only play against a couple of special Beta game servers.
You are expected to report problems and overall impressions in this forum (BC2 PC Patch Feedback - Electronic Arts UK Community).


Should I install the Beta Patch?

If you are technically minded and you want to try it out, feel free to do so.
If you just want to play the game, wait until the full release takes place.


How do I install the Beta Patch?

First off, this will only work with the non-Steam version. The updater will refuse to update over the Steam version.

• Ensure that you have at least 12GB free disk space.
• Download the offline-updater archive here (http://static.cdn.ea.com/dice/u/f/bf...tch_795745.exe) - total size 2,616,282,167 bytes
• Locate the directory where you have installed BFBC2 -- usually it is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2".
• Make a copy of that directory. Name that copy "BFBC2 - R10". This is your backup, in case you want to play the non-Beta version of BFBC2; if so, launch BFBC2Game.exe inside of that directory.
• Lauch the offline-updater. It should decompress some files to a temp directory; locate your BFBC2 installation directory; ask if you want to update to version 795745; then spend ~15 minutes applying the update.

How do I run the Beta Patch?

Launch "BFBC2Game.exe" in your "Battlefield Bad Company 2" directory.

THere are about 10 test servers up - some in Amsterdam, some over on the US East coast.


What are the changes?

• Removed some memory leaks
• Fixed crashes when the game attempted to render lots of content (high detail, high FOV or multiple-monitor modes)
• Chat window no longer causes lag spikes
• Chat window reworked opacity & visibility-time is controllable through settings in settings.ini
• Clantag is remembered when using auto-login
• Banner URLs can be up to 252 characters in length
• SecuROM wrapper removed from non-Steam version
• Minor performance improvements
• Reduced rubberbanding on >24player servers

What should I look out for?

Any problems that you didn't use to have with the old version, but has with the new version.
Especially the process of installing the patch seems to be fragile. Describe your experience.


Ok, then what?

DICE will monitor this forum. Depending on the response we either pulalalala out to everyone or continue working on it.


Some thanks

Thanks to those players who have helped us by running special debug builds on their own machines over the past year. Also cheers to the folks in noobgroup for doing the first round of validation of this latest patch.

[N3MBOT]

and as always kalms brings good news , thanks.

just a minor question if you dont mind answering.
BF3 will have a new backbone to run instead of the plasma BC2 uses, right?

are there any plans or chances that BC2 may be moved to that new setup also? im guessing that it wont serve to run BF3 only, right too?

[LukLuk1992]

Thank you very much for keeping the work up! Currently downloading the patch, we'll see!

[dimanish]

Thanks Mikael!

[MikaelKalms]

BC2 will not be moved to a newer backend.

[PortomantacoZ]

Client R11 is in public beta

Wohaaaa I've jumped on my chair when I saw this

Congrats, people! I have Steam version so will wait for final release. I wonder - how long did it takefrom DICe to produce this patch?

Cas

[N3MBOT]

Originally Posted by MikaelKalms

BC2 will not be moved to a newer backend.

thanks for the answer Mikael , im going to try out the patch this weekend and leave my feedback here.

[Triumph2407]

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[xnorb]

Originally Posted by Triumph2407

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Q/A is done in romania, BETA testing is still the job of us users.

[IG Calibre]

I take it, its straight forward back up of existing BFBC2 folder, then apply patch & I can delete the updated folder after testing and just revert back to back up?

[MikaelKalms]

Originally Posted by IG Calibre

I take it, its straight forward back up of existing BFBC2 folder, then apply patch & I can delete the updated folder after testing and just revert back to back up?

Correct. If you follow the instructions above, you will have both R10 and R11 fully functional on your machine at the same time.

[psycho063]

This might be a reason to reinstall BC2. Thank you Mikael Kalms.

[RudeBwoy90]

Nvm.

[IG Calibre]

Originally Posted by MikaelKalms

Correct. If you follow the instructions above, you will have both R10 and R11 fully functional on your machine at the same time.

sorry what I meant to say was do I need to back up the existing BFBC2 folder in my docs as well?

[f0CUS]

Originally Posted by IG Calibre

sorry what I meant to say was do I need to back up the existing BFBC2 folder in my docs as well?

Probally...
It adds stuff to the settings.ini file

[LukLuk1992]

Waiting for players to join some beta servers

[Knifey4]

Am I right in thinking I can use my steam CD key to activate and install the game via origin and update to beta on the origin install?

[karumbadon]

What about some balance changes? I'd like to see increasing recharge time for heli's smokes. 20s is a joke against this killing mashine tbh.
Also there is a bug with red point for MG36 on hardcore. And such an annoying stuff like the lack of sight for stationary weapons. Fix it plz .

[Slarlac249]

this is excellent news! I have one question, will the game only see beta servers if this patch is installed or will it still see all?

[N3MBOT]

Originally Posted by Slarlac249

this is excellent news! I have one question, will the game only see beta servers if this patch is installed or will it still see all?

only the beta servers with R11.
just do the backup to play it normaly on R10.

[PortomantacoZ]

Originally Posted by Knifey4

Am I right in thinking I can use my steam CD key to activate and install the game via origin and update to beta on the origin install?

Yeap! You can DO THIS

Cas

[MikaelKalms]

Originally Posted by f0CUS

Probally...
It adds stuff to the settings.ini file

Ah, right. R10 and R11 will both use Documents\BFBC2 to store settings. If you switch between R10 and R11 without switching Documents\BFBC2, then you might lose your current SP savegame progress within a level (have to replay latest mission from start), your custom keyboard layout, and perhaps a few other minor things.

I have alternated between launching R10 and R11 a lot over the past week, without managing the Documents\BFBC2 directory. It doesn't stop the game from working.

[MikaelKalms]

Originally Posted by Knifey4

Am I right in thinking I can use my steam CD key to activate and install the game via origin and update to beta on the origin install?

You have to be careful when doing this. Having the game installed on Steam and Origin on the same machine at the same time doesn't work so well, because both systems think that they "own" the registry entries for the game + the stuff in the Documents\BFBC2 directory. This is important because the offline-updater looks in the registry to find out where BFBC2 is installed.

Because of this, I recommend that you don't try to do it. Rather wait till the real patch goes out on Steam.

[psycho063]

Allright, the Serbian community is notified. Let the testing commence!

[Knifey4]

Originally Posted by MikaelKalms

You have to be careful when doing this. Having the game installed on Steam and Origin on the same machine at the same time doesn't work so well, because both systems think that they "own" the registry entries for the game + the stuff in the Documents\BFBC2 directory. This is important because the offline-updater looks in the registry to find out where BFBC2 is installed.

Because of this, I recommend that you don't try to do it. Rather wait till the real patch goes out on Steam.

To be honest I'm happy to uninstall the steam version as steam demands the game must install to my slower yet bigger HDD and Origin will allow me to finally have it on my SSD. I take it by uninstalling it from steam and then installing it through origin I wont have any issues with residual files?