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Yep. and she's cool with me playing - the PC is in the living room, so she'll have to listen to me swearing at you guys on TS!!

Some screenshots. Medium & High res settings. (snow in med/jungle in high)

Just had 5 minutes to jump into a server using Play Now, to see how it all looks and I was most surpised. The visuals are awesome, even on my crappy 8800GT, was playing in the Laguna Presa map, with lots of lovely jungle, water & a big ass Dam!! Will have to re-install fraps shortly and take some pics.

Nope - all installed & game patched & PB updated!!

Woot - 04/03/2010 - 11:20am - Mine has arrived!!

Post here if/when you get your copy of BC2 in the post. unfortunately, my postie doesnt come til after 10, so I be waiting....

hopefully there will be the same stat sites popping up that they had with BF2, so we can stick up some nice gfx of everyones stats on the main site!!

While checking out the Battlefield blog, I noticed they mentioned about stats on the main BC2 site, so after taking a look, it appears that you can see all your soldier stats directly on the BC2 website without having to fire up in-game. Site: http://battlefieldbadcompany2.com/en-gb/soldier Just login with your in-game username email/password from the beta/full game.

lucky bugger - yeah that card will romp through it dude... hope you have win7 64 bit installed too & over 4gb ram - uber pc then!!

Yeah I was going to post this too - I have nvidia cards in both my machines I will be playing BC2 from. Although thinking about upgrading my box over at GF's to Win7 and a ATI 5770.

lmao - me got slim too!!

EA UK have now opened the non-beta PC forums for BF: BC2. Check it out here: http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/

Posted on the EA UK forums by one of the developers. So expected an update once you try & run the game!! The best bit about that short announce is that it now has a proper adjsutable FOV (Field of View) and you can now make it approx 80-100. Normally most FPS games we play run on 85-90 such as cod4, graw.

yeah I think there will be a few of these tools for rcon as dice have released the full server protocols. combattesting are also working on a remote admin tool too.

you keep beating me to post all this stuff. lol!! I got an email on Saturday from game too saying they would be processing orders early due to high volumes of orders!!

yeah have been following this on several site. the. ew ghost recon game is confirmed to be using it too!! I bet the pirates will crack it in about 5 minutes though!

Yep, another client is heading your way on auto update (within the next 15 minutes) and Steam (in about 1 hour when Valve presses the button when they get into the office). This will be the LAST update before the Beta closes on the 25th and any issues found in here will still be taken and looked at to be fixed on the retail version of the game. Here is the usual changelog from Kalms (I'm sure some of you will be happy with this one ) Quote: Likely fix for "5-minute disconnects". Try it out, and say whether it helps or if you are still getting booted (if so: after how long? and always after the same amount of time?) What happened on some machines was this: When you are logged in, your game client has TCP connections to two of EA's master servers. During a game, there isn't much traffic on all those connections. Therefore, the master servers send dummy transactions every 150s. This is so your game client knows that the connection hasn't been broken. Well, guess what? It seems that they don't send dummy transactions to all players. Why not? Nobody knows. So what the R4 client does, is that when it has seen 160s of idleness on a connection, it sends a dummy transaction. This was enough to get rid of the disconnects on the test machines. Oh, and: when the nearest known problem location is in Poland, the master servers are in the US, and you have no direct access to either machine... then debugging is a convoluted process. Workaround for speaker setups. If one of your speakers has lower volume (or is totally silent), try with one of the following lines in your Settings.ini: SpeakerCount=2 SpeakerCount=4 SpeakerCount=6 Again, let us know if it doesn't help. Rather few changes this time around - it's getting more and more difficult to "lift" changes from the retail version into the closed beta version. Also, you may have read about people being able to crash others' machines with long clantags and nasty chat messages? There is server-side filtering in Server R8, and RSPs begun rolling those out a few hours ago.

I've also been looking at the a new rig as mine is now 3 years old and was very tempted by the ATI 5850 gfx card, but the 5800 series are still way too expensive at the moment, because ATI cant get enough of the chips made, so we have a shortage of cards & high prices. I'd wait until March/April when Nvidia announce the new GF4xx (Fermi) range of cards and what the prices/horsepower is compared to the ATI's. As for CPU's. I've been looking at the i5-750 as its a decent price and very overclockable. If you have the extra cash, I'd look at a i7-920 D0 which is also very overclockable. Yoyotech currently do an £800 system baseed on the i5-750 & 5850 called the Firebird, which recently got added to the PC Pro A-List. Although you being JJ, you'll probably want the higher spec machine!!

Yay, a new beta R3 client has been released this morning and is available by the updater. Details of the changelog are below:

Posted yesterday over on the CM forums, it appears that CM has now officially killed Op Flash Dragon Rising off!! What a waste of a great game, but we should have known not to expext the world from a console port, which is what it turned out to be.

We should hopefully have a new BETA client soon, once all the maintenance has been sorted out on the EA master servers. Quoted from the EA forum:

Your fired!!

Moved to the correct forum. Had already created a specific forum for this game. On a side note - the BETA is for XBOX360 only at the moment - they may or may not have a PC/PS3 beta later on. I think this is going to be an xbox360 exclusive for a few months title possibly??

After a few weeks of laziness on my part, today I have updated our forum & gallery software to the latest versions. I'll also be looking at a new skin for the forum and hopefully adding in a better view when viewed from a Mobile device, such as iPod/iPhone!! Please let me know if you find any problems with either the Forum or the Gallery. Thanks.

Ubisoft have finally announced the latest incarnation of Ghost Recon, subtitled: Future Soldier - which should be with us around Xmas time if they are to be believed. The announcement was an xbox360 exclusive for now and only mentions xbox360 specifics, but later on today - Kimi (the community manager) also posted that it will be on PC & PS3 too!! The release is below: Also have some graphics too...