I would like to collect your BETA Impressions. So we can decide if we will go BF BC2, and the poor mates without Key would also benefit from it.
So my first impression
Great ingame Sounds, much better than in MW1
Very nice graphic -> good frames with max Settings with GF 8800GT+ (but was laggy, so i will tell more when lagproblems are gone))
Very laggy on the first day (what a surprise)
Game closes sometimes without warning. Its a typical Battlefield bug, maybe its kind of a running gag.
Game and Beta is SecuRom protected, and you need a EA Account.
You can make diffrent Profiles/Soldiers with one Account
For a beta its great, so I am very very keen on the game itself. DICE did a great job and they react very quick on the first serious problems...its so good to see them taking care a lot more about the community than F'** Activ.
I like the gameplay and that there are so much different vehicles.
and you really have to have a good teamplay to move forward. its always a hard fight to capture the spots or defend them.
I think it will be a lot fun to play scrims
and weapons are mostly very well balanced (what I experienced up to now), even the noob tubes. you really have to hit directly to have damage.
what I miss is prone and lean...but this is a hot topic in the beta forums...
Concerning frames:
I have 4 GB RAM (well, my 32-bit OS can only work with 3,2 GB, but nevermind), an Intel Core 2 Quad 9450 CPU and an overclocked Radeon 4870 1 GB, so one could say it's a good system; but when I turn everything on in the graphics options of the game Fraps says I only get around 30 fps, when I switch off AA and AF my framerate increases to about 40. That's about the framerate I had with Crysis running on a 8800 GTX back then, lol.
Anyone else experiencing relatively low frames with everything on "high"?
Concerning response:
I somehow have the feeling that especially when moving your weapon and pointing at different targets it responds somewhat sluggishly and spongily, in MW 1 I have the feeling of getting a "more direct response" from my inputs.
What's your feeling about this?
Yes Mark i get the same problems and it seems that DICE know about this and will fix it for release.
I am running an i7 920 @3.6ghz, 6GB of ram and a GTX285 and i get 25-40fps and sluggish mouse response with everything maxed.
Even with an fps of around 60-80 it can still feel laggy but like i say DICE will resolve this.
Dunno what size screen you got but @ 1680x1050 you don't need much AA so 1x is fine, also AF 16x does not have much of a hit.
HBAO looks nice but needs optomising so leave it off.
As in all games Shadows cause a huge hit so lower it.
As much as i refuse to lower graphics settings on a machine i only built last February, it seems that time does not stand still and even though BFBC2 needs MAJOR bug fixes and optomisation i still feel new hardware is needed, the achilles heel of the PC gamer.
Good to know that I'm not the only one around with these kind of problems. Yes, I've read that the HBAO-version running on the beta is not finalised yet, so turning it off when playing the beta may solve some issues.
From what you wrote about your system it's probably a high-end system, or at least at the lower ranks of today's high-end specifications (what you don't seem to have is SLI, lol, then it would probably be top-notch). Sure, shadows consume a lot of computing power, but hey, are we playing Quake or what?
I hope that Dice will get these major issues fixed until release, this is still a beta version, after all.
I have a dual Core 2,8, GT8800 overclocked and 4GB DDR2 Ram
If i put all Settings on high i have about 25-30 frames
If I use medium its about 40 fps
Think BF has problems with the quadcore, read somethin about change core settings for troubleshooting but
i just scaned the article so dont remember very well.
Update: Switching off HBAO greatly increased my framerate, switching off AA and AF added even more, of course. On top of that, the mouse responds much more accurately now.
Good to hear its running much better for you Mark, and to be quite honest the game doesn't look much different with lower settings, i prefer to have high FPS than lots of eye candy.
I played a few hours tonight and really annoyed the opposite team as the Heli gunner. I was so proud i took a screenie
Not bad! Got the "best player Button" only few times. I flied only two times as gunner in the apache. the first time the pilot sucked, the second time was very cool. Like that powerful MG with explosion Ammo. VerY powerful.
At the moment apache is very strong with a good crew
Currently, I'm still running around in the map like a chicken with its head chopped off, not quite sure what I'm doing and why, or what I'm supposed to be doing.
Basically, I try to frag any member of the opposing team as soon as I see one, seems fairly reasonable to me at the moment. Already collected some dogtags, lol.
-With q you can(anyone knows why it doesn't work sometimes?) mark enemy Soldiers or vehicles or ask a friendly for ammo(assault), healing(medic) or pick-up(vehicle). till now this request are only accoustic, so they are mostly ignored particularly when you play the Russian side. In BF2 the also wrote a textmsg on the screen
-As Assault Noobtube is very powerful....
-Its possible to blast an Objective with C4 instead of arming the bomb (very imba) some sniper just put all ther c4 on a
quad, drive to b and let them explode. So b is down in a few secs.
-Its also possible to blast an objective by destroying the house where its within.
-Sniperbullets are affected to gravity
-40mm Nades (noobtube) do dmg to tanks, I already destroyed one with it, but the tank had probably 5 HP. but its good to know, that is works
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Yeah, thats very reasonable 
