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Bad Company 2 Slow PC Load Times Fixed by ATI Beta Drivers

by Alice O'Connor, Apr 15, 2010 7:00am PDT

ATI has released a new driver set, the Catalyst 10.4 Preview, aimed at fixing long level load times in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for players with Radeon series 5 video cards, available in Windows 7 and Vista and Windows XP flavours from FileShack.

ATI warns that these drivers won't work on HD5800 Eyefinity 6 products, while ATI's Terry Makedon says on Twitter that a fix for series 4800 cards is planned for next week.

Bad Company 2 recently received a second map pack and PC gamers apparently do still have Battlefield 1943 to look forward to, which EA says is due "soon."

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The fileshack download from West seems to be corrupt - this is for the Vista/7 drivers. Got an error upon extraction both times.

Apr 15, 2010 10:51am PDT

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The fileshack download from West seems to be corrupt - this is for the Vista/7 drivers. Got an error upon... : crummynz
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  i got the same thing from the east coast server. i'm downloading from ati now (from here http://support.a... : Mansmells
  - thanks for the link :) : exmx

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3850. performance seems a bit better, but load times still take forever.

Apr 15, 2010 7:09pm PDT

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3850. performance seems a bit better, but load times still take forever. : genocidalrobot
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- these drivers are only for the 5xxx series : Mansmells

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Yay, ATI.

Always guaranteed to have the glitchiest and buggiest software out there.

sigh, if only nVidia would catch up hardware wise I wouldn't feel so obligated to buy ATI. :p

Apr 15, 2010 9:27am PDT

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Yay, ATI. Always guaranteed to have the glitchiest and buggiest software out there. sigh, if only n... : Telnik
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Running a 4850 I was always one of the first in the game, usually within the first 3 people.

Apr 15, 2010 8:35am PDT

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Running a 4850 I was always one of the first in the game, usually within the first 3 people. : myatomicgarden
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- I run the same card, and the load times are outrageous, so hopefully this next fix their promising fixes... : ReckHavoc
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  you running in dx9? : gokart.
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    I think dx10, i tweaked my ini when i first got it, i cant remember all what i did though, so maybe i hav... : myatomicgarden
    - you're running XP so you're DX9. : spaceyme

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Who cares, what about getting the so promised to be fixed server browser and friends network?

Apr 15, 2010 9:00am PDT

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Who cares, what about getting the so promised to be fixed server browser and friends network? : HellraiserZlo
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I am ashamed to ask, but how do you extract this file?

Apr 15, 2010 4:05pm PDT

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I am ashamed to ask, but how do you extract this file? : TheMongbat
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  you don't extract a .exe (unless you want to hack it) : The_Turbinator
  - Sucker's not dling as an EXE. That's the prob. I'll toss an .exe extension on it and see what happens. : TheMongbat

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Wtf! Only 5k series..I have a 4890 and the loading is slow too...assholes!

Apr 15, 2010 10:33am PDT

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Wtf! Only 5k series..I have a 4890 and the loading is slow too...assholes! : Slork
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  According to ATI the BC2 fix for the 4XXX series will be out sometime next week. : TehShadow
  - Hopefully, always wondered why upgrading from an 8800GT to a 4850 increased my load times. : ReckHavoc
- I have a 4890 and the load times don't seem that bad... I'll be about 10th in game or so : Xencer

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just installed it, the performance difference is noticeably better, for the first time im the first one to be in a game, usually im like the last one

Apr 15, 2010 11:19am PDT

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just installed it, the performance difference is noticeably better, for the first time im the first one t... : hanged_man
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- Me too. Huge difference. Prior to installing the 10.4 beta i would enter the game when a control point ... : legsbrogan

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Weird. It worked at first, but it's right back to loading slow again.

Apr 15, 2010 10:28am PDT

Weird. It worked at first, but it's right back to loading slow again. : burning eye

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well that explains why I was always the first person in the game with my GTX 285

Apr 15, 2010 10:13am PDT

well that explains why I was always the first person in the game with my GTX 285 : NukemFornever

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I had no clue this was a bug...just figured it took longer to load the super high resolution stuff...well sweeet.

Apr 15, 2010 8:03am PDT

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I had no clue this was a bug...just figured it took longer to load the super high resolution stuff...well... : sreyes22
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The Video converter that comes with this driver is great.

Apr 15, 2010 8:30am PDT

The Video converter that comes with this driver is great. : Cashh

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I have two PCs.. one is a newer PC with a nice quad core and 4 gigs of DDR 3 ram.

The other is a dual core Athlon - a bit dated, with 4 gigs of the best DDR 1 ram i could find.

They both have GeForce 260s in them, and the one with the better ram and processor loads within 5-10 seconds of a map I feel as though i am almost always the first into the map.
the other one loads after like 1 minute and the gameplay is horribly sluggish. I feel as though processing power and ram are the important factors here.

Apr 15, 2010 7:57am PDT

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I have two PCs.. one is a newer PC with a nice quad core and 4 gigs of DDR 3 ram. The other is a dual ... : kwix
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- and on that note, if anyone has any fixes for making the game run better short of buying new hardware, i'... : kwix

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with my 8800gts512 i load so fast I'm usually one of the first 3 players to hit the ground...

Apr 15, 2010 7:54am PDT

with my 8800gts512 i load so fast I'm usually one of the first 3 players to hit the ground... : fausto412

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Was this issue intermittent? I perceive no slow down in loading levels when playing this game. I'm using 2x 5870's.

Apr 15, 2010 7:11am PDT

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Was this issue intermittent? I perceive no slow down in loading levels when playing this game. I'm using ... : axiomatic
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  You don't really notice it until you see how quickly things load with an NVIDIA card. : Sapiens
  - Yeah, this is probably it. It was completely painful going from an 8800 to a 5800. The hotfix works great... : skinlab133
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  No intermitency. The graphic driver was always compiling the shaders as a part of loading the level, inst... : Turin Turambar
  - With that explanation, with the fact that it is fixed with video drivers he might not notice it as much i... : TheDaFox
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    Got it. Thanks guys. It really didn't feel that slow though. It will be interesting to see if I can immed... : axiomatic
    - Its noticable on my friends ATI card compared to my GTX260. My game loads in about 6-7 seconds, where h... : Shadowdane

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