Battlefield vetarans here!

**LA_MERC_Onji** · February 16th, 2010, 06:15 PM

Just fyi, they took the servers down today for maintenance. They are back up now, and I dont know what all they did, but it looks like the friends list is working much better! I can see friends in actual servers and stuff.

Tomorrow they are supposed to have an actual client update, so more fixes there too I hope.

**LA_MERC_YellowDog** · February 16th, 2010, 09:13 PM

Cool

I like friends

**LA_MERC_YellowDog** · February 17th, 2010, 06:22 AM

Tried out the friends app last night, I was able to link up with Wetzny and join the same server through the friends link, worked pretty good.

Much better than trying to dig through server names trying to find the same one.

**LA_MERC_th33_r00k** · February 17th, 2010, 08:03 AM

I will try it out again in a couple days. Kitchen Cabinents should be in this weekend and countertops next week. It is sheetrocked and getting taped today. I will Venetian plaster and tile the remaining of the week.

**LA_MERC_Onji** · February 17th, 2010, 09:08 AM

How not to be a noob at BC2

This is hilarious and informative

(has some bad language at times just fyi)

This is the console version, but it still applies to us pc players (instead of backbutton hit 'q'

**LA_MERC_Skitsvelvet** · February 17th, 2010, 09:51 AM

Nice! I am definitely back at noob level. Man it sucks how much WOW dumbs down your other game skills, lol.

Sitting at home today after a bad case of the Flu. I've been down with it since Thursday night. Ugh, i hate feeling like this.

At least I can work from home.

**LA_MERC_Wetzny** · February 17th, 2010, 10:18 AM

Good one!! Now for the PC version please!

**LA_MERC_YellowDog** · February 17th, 2010, 03:52 PM

Humm, I like the tutorial

**LA_MERC_Onji** · February 18th, 2010, 07:45 AM

New beta client update is out, just performance tweaks:

This update is about performance and stability again. We are not doing any changes to the game's datafiles.

* Reduced input "lag"
On machines where the CPU would out-run the GPU, sometimes the GPU would queue up several frames' worth of rendering commands.
This could lead to the game having a high framerate, but input still feeling very sluggish.

Now there's a limiter on how many frames the CPU is allowed to be "ahead" of the GPU.
Control this setting via Settings.ini. Default setting: RenderAheadLimit=2

* Performance optimizations with biggest improvements on dual-core machines
* Fixed black "masks"
o The soot on buildings with holes in them had a bugged renderpath. We switched that over to a more well-tested renderpath.
* Improved hit-detection
o We've gone through the hit detection logic, and client+server will now give more consistent results.
* Fix for some "rubberbanding" issues
o C4 should stay attached to vehicles and not rubberband around
* Reduced spikes/dips in framerate
* Various fixes for alt+tab related CTD on Dx9
* More fixes for random CTD on Dx9
* Fix for crash when you're in a vehicle that gets destroyed

There was a race condition in the code;
System 1 thought "oh hey, you're leaving vehicle X"
System 2 thought "the vehicle got destroyed, let's remove it"

If system 2 ran before system 1, chaos would ensue.
This was actually fixed in the retail version since a month, but it was only when we got detailed crash reports from the community that we understood *why* the Beta was crashing.

Likely bugs in this build
I wouldn't be surprised if it (still) has trouble remembering your settings between rounds. It would be nice to have that fixed too, but it's better to get a patch out now, and look at the settings issues afterward.

-Mikael Kalms

**LA_MERC_DocSparky** · February 18th, 2010, 08:02 AM

Thanks for the heads up Onji!

I will say that having the Friends List working is huge improvement. I'm still waiting for the "Team/Squad doesn't have a clue how to advance/defend" bug fix.