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Lowyat.NET: Latest topics by -ZeN- http://forum.lowyat.net/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:30:39 +0800 FeedCreator 1.7.2 COD: MW3 http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1726702 From PCGamer News that linked from Steam that I noticed today.<br /><a href='http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/21/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-being-developed-by-three-studios-out-november-this-year/' target='_blank'>http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/01/21/call-of-...mber-this-year/</a><br /><br />"Activision have recruited three studios to work on the next Call of Duty title. Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software.<br /><br />The LA Times report that in the wake of Infinity-gate (where Infinity Ward co-founders Jason West and Vince Zampella were fired last March), the Modern Warfare developers have been sufficiently affected enough by staff losses that extra help has been sought from Sledgehammer Games. Read on for more detals.<br /><br />Sledgehammer – a studio recruited by Activision to work on a Call of Duty spin-off game – are now helping Infinity Ward out on the single-player component of their current title, which is tipped to be Modern Warfare 3 (no surprises there).<br /><br />Wisconsin-based Raven Software have also been brought in to work on the multi-player element, according to the article.<br /><br />This will be the first time in Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty history that aid has been sought for development on a project, with all previous Modern Warfare games being produced solely by the IW team. With the loss of many of Infinity Ward’s staff, it comes of no surprise that Activision are doing all they can to ensure that this year’s Call of Duty title is out on time, which will most likely be in November once more. However, this action will probably delay the production of Sledgehammer Games’ own Call of Duty title. "<br /><br /><br />1 thing for sure, no SG or MY server, then GG i not buying it. Unless ofcause there's super ton of fun in multiplayer or uber campaign la. -ZeN- Call of Duty Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:12:09 +0800 Which race are you in StarCraft II? http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1507844 I think most likely is Terran around 50% then 30% Protoss then 15% Zerg then 5% Random I guess. -ZeN- StarCraft Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:46:50 +0800 StarCraft 2 War Room http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1507101 <b>This is the War Room</b><br /><br />The only objective here is to improve ourself to be better in the Multiplayer part of SC2.<br />There should <span style='color:red'><b>ONLY</b></span> be discussion and sharing information of below 4 things.<br />1. Strategies - General Tips and so on. (Strategies section are general tips and hints. Can include links to online guides or unit information.)<br />2. Build Order - Build order discussion. (Recommended to be using the Build Order template at below sample)<br />3. Replays - SC2 replays or sc2 replays commentary. (Post youtube link or share replays among players by uploading to Hotfile or SC2 Replays site if you have the account)<br />4. Patch - Discuss unit changes and so on after patch.<br /><br />I will ever try my best to arrange and organize useful information to this 1st page. So please dont spam too muchmaking it hard for me.<br /> <br /><b>Example Build Order format :-</b> (Taken from <a href='http://www.shokzstarcraft2guidereview.com/shokz-starcraft-2-terran-planetary-fortress-strategy-guide/' target='_blank'>Shokz SC2 PF Rush Guide</a>)<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('29500ca1fdabef297b423df2488100f5')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="29500ca1fdabef297b423df2488100f5" style="display:none">10/11 Supply Depot<br />12/19 Rax<br />@30% Rax<br />Send out SCV<br />13/19 Refinery<br />14/19 Engineering Bay<br />@4:30 Roughly 150 Minerals/150 Gas<br />Load up SCVs into Command Center<br />Send all SCVs to opponent base<br />Float both the Command Center and the Rax to opponent base<br /><br />Start making buildings as soon as resources allow.<br />Possible to proxy/hide the E-Bay from opponent’s scout.<br />You may get some gas for repairing the Command Center.<br />Building a refinery is also feasible for this strategy. But keep in mind if your opponent sees it there is a much higher chance they will sacrifice early economy to get more defences – thus this “standard” style opening has a slightly higher chance of succeeding.<br /><br />Scout the enemy base and keep your scv inside his/her base – you need to know the building locations for the right positioning once your Command Center arrives.</div> -ZeN- StarCraft Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:16:30 +0800 LYN BFBC2 (PC) Unofficial Support http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1345629 Well, Battlefield Bad Company 2 is quite bugged, so I opening this thread to post up problems and solutions.<br />Do not troll or whine too much in here, just post your problems, best with screenshot and detail description.<br />So that we can try helping if we know the solutions.<br /> <br /><b><span style='color:red'><i>(Disclaimer: Most of the info I compiled to my own text file before, forgot info is from where.)<br />But the server grayed out bug of possible solutions is I myself tested and found, and confirmed by Gest it work for him.<br />Updated: ayyam also tested and works for him too.</i></span></b><br /><br /><b>*Spoiler tagged all answers for shorter post easier viewing.*</b><br /><br /><b>Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Q&A from EA BC2 blog<br />BY: Bazajaytee POSTED: Mar 15, 2010, 01:58AM</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('78628bfc70d77a41f12c84086043cdee')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="78628bfc70d77a41f12c84086043cdee" style="display:none">We have had a lot of questions about Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on all platforms about the issues some have had. Here we will answer some of the more common questions, some will help you get in game, others will give an insight to what we are working on.<br />This Q&A isn't a definitive list by any means and we are aware of and are working on more than these issues: <br /> <br />Connection issues to EA servers<br />EA Online has been adding more capacity to handle the high number of player connections to EA servers. This is an ongoing process but we currently have enough capacity to handle all BFBC2 connections.<br /> <br />Manually install PunkBuster on PC<br />If you are getting an error that Punkbuster hasn't installed correctly for reasons such as Windows admin permissions not allowing Punkbuster to be installed, then go to www.evenbalance.com and download PBSetup.exe. When prompted, point PBSetup at your BFBC2 install directory and then check for updates. A PC restart maybe needed once this is done for Windows to pick up Punkbusters location.<br /> <br />PunkBuster kicks with the following error message : « punkbuster kicked player 'PLAYER NAME' (for 0 minutes) ... RESTRICTION: Service Communication. »<br />This is a Windows Vista/Windows 7 permissions issue that affects all Punkbuster games. To solve this issue download and run PBSVC from <a href='http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe' target='_blank'>http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe</a><br /> <br />When clicking on a server to join, nothing happens.<br />This is fixed in a patch going out on PC today.<br /><i><b>Details of possible changelog:</b></i><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('7d2f630aa537802f21b5808b0622f2c0')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="7d2f630aa537802f21b5808b0622f2c0" style="display:none">*UPDATE* We have had to pull 522174 from release as QA found some last minute crash bugs on two of the multiplayer maps. The team is working on releasing it as soon as possible but can not confirm at this time if it will be today. <br /><br />As some of you will have seen there is a new patch on EA download servers v522174. <br />This isn't quite live yet but it will be shortly, also we are working on putting together the changelog for the patch and I'll add that to this post once I have it. <br /><br />Single Player - <br />Fixed: Graphical issues on some systems on SP_03 (at start and when displaying background mountains at “Up river”) <br />Fixed: Character voice issue during cut scenes in SP_03b (only affected Spanish) <br />Fixed: Hang when killed using TOW Launchers in SP_05 <br />Fixed: Graphical issue on some systems on SP_05 (displaying background mountains) <br />Fixed: Voice volume in cut scenes on SP_06 <br />Fixed: Unexpected dialog at start of SP_08 (only affected Italian) <br />Fixed: Random crash in SP_09 cut scenes <br /><br />Multi Player - <br />Fixed: Server Browser - Joining a password protected server results in a connection timeout <br />Fixed: Server Browser auto updating server list when reopened causing a timeout issue <br />Fixed: Server Browser showing “all servers” when re-entering browser on the History or Favorites tab. <br />Fixed: Password issue during Friend invites <br />Fixed: Password text field issue on joining a password protected server <br />Fixed: “Flickering” ship on Arica Harbor <br />Fixed: Clan tags that use numbers in them displaying a “0” on the Select Spawn Point screen <br />Fixed: Display issue on long server names <br />Fixed: Mortar Strike icon not updating (Beta issue) <br />Fixed: No “Exit Game” menu option appearing at the end of some rounds. <br />Fixed: Flickering user rank icon (appeared as an animated gif) when user reaches rank 10. <br />Fixed: Flickering trees and “Red Box” on Laguna Presa <br />Fixed: User is logged out when failing to create a new soldier <br />Fixed: Zeus stationary weapon not appearing in stats <br />Fixed: Zu23 not appearing in stats <br />Fixed: BMD3 AA not appearing in stats <br />Fixed: Friend request displaying incorrect Veteran stats <br />Fixed: End of Round screen displayed incorrect “UAV_Station” – now displays correct localized text. <br />Fixed: K/D ratio displays in the Front End <br />Fixed: K/D ratio displays correctly when “comparing” <br />Change: Server browser now defaults to list via Ping first <br />Change: News Ticker font support for Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese <br />Change: New message for server full (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”) <br />Change: New message displayed for attempting to join a password protected server without providing a password (reported as “I get no message when I try and join a server, it does nothing”) <br />Change: Displays version number on Front End Legal Screen <br />Change: Display of weapon icon during loading screen</div><br /> <br />Server Browser bugged: All the following browser issues are things the team is currently working on improving.<br /> <br />Too slow This is caused by the current browser system. - A new system is being developed by the BFBC2 PC team to improve the server browser<br />Displaying inaccurate number of players connected on game servers - This is caused by the difference in server status between when the refresh was initiated and when the results display.<br />No ping displayed - This is caused by Windows admin privileges. To view ping in the server browser run BFBC2.exe with administrator privileges.<br /> <br />High pings even on local game servers. We're actually showing game latency instead of ping.<br />This is basically how far behind the client is compared to the server. We try to keep the server a small portion in front of the clients so they in most cases can use replicated data until they get the next ghost update from the server. If they get a lag spike they will start predicting the state when they run out of information, however, the basic idea is to smooth out the experience compared to everything having to be corrected when the predictions are slightly off.<br /> <br />After being disconnected, some people got their stats temporary reset.<br />The team is investigating this issue, we have no solution at this point. Please report any stat loss here: <a href='http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/961412-do-you-get-missing-stats.html' target='_blank'>http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlef...sing-stats.html</a> <br /> <br />When people try to reconnect to their profile, the game asks for the serial number again<br />This has been fixed on the entitlement side hence no patch is needed. A really small number of people got affected by this.</div><br /><br /><b>Where can we get original BFBC2 in Malaysia?</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('e5b1b89c7f734176b060bc7fb1a57f26')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="e5b1b89c7f734176b060bc7fb1a57f26" style="display:none">Tropicana City Mall's Gamer's Hideout, The Software Boutique @ www.tsb.com.my, Lowyat's ALL IT Hypermart.<br />For more, refer to <span style='color:blue'><a href='http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1344732' target='_blank'>LYN - Where to buy BFBC2</a></span></div><br /><br /><b>What is the difference between Limited Edition and the Normal Edition BFBC2?</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('cfe698bf2acfe431646fd9c5da63a828')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="cfe698bf2acfe431646fd9c5da63a828" style="display:none">The LE have 6 unlocks that NE have to slowly unlocks. The 6 unlocks are:<br />1. Improved Vehicle Armor - Pretty self explanatory.<br />2. Supreme Vehicle Firepower - Additional weapon mounts for the driver.<br />3. Vehicle Motion Sensor - Locate enemy units in proximity to vehicle.<br />4. Tracer Dart Pistol - Attaches to any vehicle "to track, lock on, and fire rockets onto moving targets even beyond line of sight"<br />5. Battlefield 1943 M1A1 Submachine Gun<br />6. Battlefield 1943 M1911 Pistol<br />There was the Beta key for the Closed Beta that ended, and also most gotten an extra key to unlocks AKS74U, and some gotten Tshirt & Poster.<br />LE is subject to stock availability only. (Most likely no more, but maybe can find in some less well known game shop.)</div><br /><br /><b>I always gotten Kick after connected to server (Kick on Connect bug, below steps works for some) <span style='color:red'>*Updated with detail steps*</span>.</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('d7bbba41f5a3d93a82d8c73e0bf6e068')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="d7bbba41f5a3d93a82d8c73e0bf6e068" style="display:none">1. Uninstall the BC2 BETA<br />2. Look in MY Documents for BC2 BETA directory. If it exists delete it.<br />3. Look where BC2 BETA was installed, if the BC2 BETA directory remains, delete it.<br />4. Try running the game again.<br />5. Reinstall the PunkBuster from the disc if you didn't install it the 1st time. (Or download the latest pbclient for BFBC2 from <a href='http://evenbalance.com/)' target='_blank'>http://evenbalance.com/)</a><br /><br /><i>DETAIL steps on reinstalling PB (from EA UK forum)</i><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('03a86a3591e400f992e63072348407b5')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="03a86a3591e400f992e63072348407b5" style="display:none">Right follow these steps all the way to the end to make sure you download missing files that are not installed by PBsetup.exe.<br /><br />1> Goto PunkBuster Online Countermeasures @ <a href='http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php' target='_blank'>http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php</a><br /><br />2> Download PBsetup (3.4) install, run and add your game.<br /><br />3> Select your game file and click check for updates.<br /><br />4> Navigate to: Battlefield Bad Company 2/PB/htm/<br /><br />5> Make sure you have the following files in there:<br />wc002158.htm<br />wa001382.htm<br />If YES skip to step 6<br /><br />If NO then goto: PunkBuster Online Countermeasures @ <a href='http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bc2.php' target='_blank'>http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bc2.php</a><br /><br />Download those files and place them in :<br />Battlefield Bad Company 2/PB/htm/<br /><br />NOTE: We discovered that pbsec.htm was missing from the BFBC2/PB directory so the following procedure is to MANUALLY install the missing file.<br /><br />6> Now do the following:<br /><br />From PBSEC.HTM @ <a href='http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bc2.php' target='_blank'>http://evenbalance.com/index.php?page=dl-bc2.php</a><br /><br />PunkBuster (Bad Company 2) Security Files<br />The following files are only needed if your PunkBuster doesn't update by itself. Right click the appropriate link below and choose "save as" to your "pb" folder - make sure the file you save is saved with the filename shown below.<br /><br />For Players Filename: pbsec.htm @ <a href='http://evenbalance.com/downloads/bc2/pbsec.htm' target='_blank'>http://evenbalance.com/downloads/bc2/pbsec.htm</a><br />For Admins Filename: pbsecsv.htm @ <a href='http://evenbalance.com/downloads/bc2/pbsecsv.htm' target='_blank'>http://evenbalance.com/downloads/bc2/pbsecsv.htm</a><br />Now PB should be properly setup. </div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><b>ATI card related problems and possible fix (white/black screen, screen error etc.)</b> - from EA UK forum<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('93bee74d68598f2e7f094f6eeea5f68e')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="93bee74d68598f2e7f094f6eeea5f68e" style="display:none">For those than can't play because you get a white screen after levels have loaded:<br /><br />Rename BFBC2Game.exe to BF2.exe in your game installation folder and launch it directly. <br /><br />This was a work-around from the BETA and works for this problem too. No idea what the problem is or why this works, but does for me at least. PB doesn't seem to mind either.<br /><br />This works due to nVidia and ATi having BF2 specific features in their drivers. So renaming BFBC2 to BF2 you make use of those features while they work on updating drivers. nVidia did release drivers but then they had to pull them for tech reasons.</div><br /><br /><b>BFBC2 FPS is so low and is unplayable.</b> (Tweaks are in the of spoiler tab below the system specs.)<br />BFBC2 Minimum System Requirement.<br />• Processor: Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz <br />• Main memory: 2GB <br />• Graphics card: GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900 <br />• Graphics memory: 256MB <br />• OS: Windows XP <br />• Free HDD space: 15GB for Digital Version, 10GB for Disc Version<br />Use FRAPs to display FPS in game.<br />Make sure you download the latest video drivers from Nvidia nd ATI. Use beta drivers at your own risk.<br /><br /><i><b>Tweaks:-></b></i><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('ca8de2c95dea304595cd1318b8904e35')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="ca8de2c95dea304595cd1318b8904e35" style="display:none"><span style='color:blue'><b><i>In Game Settings</i></b></span><br />Turn settings to native reso, or lower and set setting as Advanced then put all low and off.<br />Turn sound down from hi-fi to headset (you will have to do this each time you load the game) BC2 uses a lot CPU for sound.<br /><br /><span style='color:blue'><b><i>"settings.ini" file @ My Documents>BFBC2 folder</i></b></span> -<span style='color:red'>(best to backup the whole BFBC2 folder 1st)</span> <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /> <br />Change sound quality to low (also changeable in game menu but resets every time to hifi)<br />Change DXVersion-auto to 9 to force DX9 eg: DXVersion=9<br />Change Bloom=true to false<br />Change HSAO=true to false (also settable in the in-game “advanced” graphics settings)helps esp with quad core<br />Change renderaheadlimit to 0 instead of 2<br />- Undergrowth=”medium” – Put this to low, if experiencing frame-rate issues.<br />- Water=”medium” – set this to low does help.<br />- MSAA=”2? – This is Anti-aliasing, this will always use up a lot of a gpx cards resources. Set this to “0?<br />- Shadows=”medium”- you can also set this to low to improve performance<br />- Textures=”medium”- Setting this to low can improve FPS<br />- Aniso=2 – Set this to 0 to disable Anisotropic filtering.<br /><br /><span style='color:blue'><i><b>To force the use of all processors:</b></i></span><br />- Add “+fullproc” without the quotations to your desktop shortcut or Steam game’s “launch options”. <br />EG: "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Battlefield Bad Company 2\BFBC2game.exe" +fullproc<br />-You can go to Task Manager and manually heighten the priority to force it to use more CPU.<br />1. Start the Task Manager, then click on "Show Process from All user" (make you into admin mode)<br />2. Start your BFBC2game client, alt+tab to task manager, right click on the BFBC2game.exe process<br />3. Set Priority -> High<br /><span style='color:red'>*Do use this at own risk, if set too high or push your processor too hard without good ventilation or cooling solutions, it might overheat and cause problems.</span> <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /> <br /></div><br /><b>To fix sticky controls (for those who get key shadow/lag with wasd etc):</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('7ab876767d79ef94ac7ab8832d37e6d7')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="7ab876767d79ef94ac7ab8832d37e6d7" style="display:none">- Delete the joystick controls under foot (options->controls->foot), then it works fine</div><br /><br /><b>For sticky/laggy mouse issues:</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('1d5d7561663adebee05cd9a160f9aafc')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="1d5d7561663adebee05cd9a160f9aafc" style="display:none">- Disable mouse acceleration in the game’s mouse settings, and turn off Vsync in the graphics settings.<br />*Update: I read in some other place that you just click on the command of joystick that you can to clear and press "Delete".*</div><br /><br /><b>What ports should I open for multiplayer if I’m having connectivity trouble?</b> (from EA UK forums)<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('22eedece33d59f55344dfc4c0186615b')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="22eedece33d59f55344dfc4c0186615b" style="display:none">- Port: 80 TCP<br />- Port: 18121 TCP<br />- Port: 18126 TCP<br />- Port: 18126 UDP<br />- Port: 13505 TCP</div><br /><br /><b>TIP - Faster Server Browsing</b> (from EA UK forums)<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('9fdeb9f614fc1bcec10f1ac02e39b341')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="9fdeb9f614fc1bcec10f1ac02e39b341" style="display:none">To help speed up your server browsing these tips can help you get results quicker.<br />Use Favourites/History when possible<br />If you use the server browser then <br /><br />Use the server browser<br />When it starts to search click CANCEL<br /><br />Select the options:<br />Ranked<br />Not Full<br />Not Empty<br />No Password<br />Leave Punkbuster checked<br />Hit Refresh<br />You can use your friends list in game to connect on them without accessing the server browser.</div><br /><br /><b>If your game is constantly Crashing:</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('1bcdc19c70f1bd46ad749fc932aa89dc')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="1bcdc19c70f1bd46ad749fc932aa89dc" style="display:none">- Make Sure you are running the game as Administrator</div><br /><br /><b>Server being grayed out in Server Browser, Favorite Server & History List. </b><i>(Direct copy from my own post @ <span style='color:blue'><a href='http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1324766&view=findpost&p=32229916' target='_blank'>Server Grayed Out possible fix by ZeN</a></span>)</i> <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /> <br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('f3c442bb9b10317ee4074b95fde0a79c')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="f3c442bb9b10317ee4074b95fde0a79c" style="display:none"><span style='color:blue'><b>To All Brothers in Arms :- that have problem connecting to server due to grayed out problems. (Server name show, without map, ping & join button.)</b><br /></span><br />I had the same problem, server browser after found the MBT server, it is grayed out, in fav, it is grayed out, in history, it is grayed out. So... I just click on the play now, a few time gotten the cannot connect to EA Online problems, but finally get through. Play less than 5 minute, i exit the game.<br />Then, i notice at my History, the server i just joined is not grayed out, but the MBT server is. So i was suspecting that something got to do with the "History recorded for the MBT server". <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/icon_question.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='icon_question.gif' /> <br />Thus, i open the gamesetting.ini file @ My documents>BFBC2 folder. As below:<br /><br />FavoriteGames=4013601797,de76fdb3-0668-4ef1-b4a0-d256bd75f8a4,MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 1;<br />RecentGames=1915849124,0a5719cc-970a-4f9e-a5f7-5153a009c632,[HEX] Conquest ALL MAPS Mon Server 03;43661219,54f58214-8301-4954-ab27-5b7c2929bf9e,=US= United Soldiers;4013601797,de76fdb3-0668-4ef1-b4a0-d256bd75f8a4,MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 1;<br /><br />As you can "see" above, there 2 other server there, which when i see in game history list, No problem at all, but the MBTserver at below the 2 server is grayed out. So i thought what the heck, must be this code snippets for the MBT is causing problem. <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /> <br /><br />So, I backup the gamesetting.ini file and changed the <br />FavoriteGames, and RecentGames cvar to "Empty" as below:<br /><br />FavoriteGames=Empty<br />RecentGames=Empty<br /><br />Then.... I go in the game, i go to Server Browser, when it loading data, i click cancel. Then i direct put in "MBTCENTRAL.NET" to search. Will get cannot connect to EA problems sometime, but when it does pass through and show up the MBTserver, the server is not grayed out anymore, all the ping, map, and join button works. And i happily join and played a very nice game with those MBT members and some LYN members for almost 3 hours.<br /><br />I have not tested it fully, but as for now, i purposely exit game, then go in and login again and my MBTserver at the history list is working well, no grayed out problem. I tried twice also is still there, so... you guys can try yourself as what i did, but do remember to backup your gamesetting.ini file ok?<br /><br />Alternatively, Maybe, here is a direct "history" record of my current gamesetting.ini. Maybe can just copy and paste it replacing your history list in gamesetting.ini and might work. <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/icon_rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='icon_rolleyes.gif' /> <br /><br />RecentGames=1774763778,a82442d9-2071-4b8c-a0df-6badaf218ab7,MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 1;<br /><br />Anyway, Hope all this will help. <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sweat.gif' /></div><br />*Not sure, but maybe manually patching the PunkBuster might have solved this server grayed out bug also, anyone try that and work then do let me know also.*<br /><br /><b>The Stationed Shielded MG's view hole is black, cant see anything:</b> -- Picture provided by lightonokira<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('d4175fdc54770416fd9244afaadfb174')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="d4175fdc54770416fd9244afaadfb174" style="display:none"><img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_IxyzyBp0XMo/S5Da8pJnuyI/AAAAAAAABdE/anh5Ri_2bgM/s800/BFBC2Game%202010-03-05%2018-18-10-32.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><img src='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_IxyzyBp0XMo/S5Da7o56M7I/AAAAAAAABdA/nyV_KoMs3qc/s800/BFBC2Game%202010-03-05%2018-18-20-25.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /><img src='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_IxyzyBp0XMo/S5Da7E1PB0I/AAAAAAAABc8/lfz3fwRplvg/s800/BFBC2Game%202010-03-05%2018-18-12-04.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br />Yes, it is a bug. the small tiny view field of the glass is black. Anyway, I not too sure but I believe it is because some one rocketed the stationary MG. So the decay actually covered on the glass whole thing dark. That's why we see it as the MG glass is dark.<br /><br />NOTE: Some might thought we can snipe through the small tiny hole at the stationed Shielded MG, but there is actually a bulletproof glass. That why no matter how accurately you snipe, you wont get shot through that hole.<br /><br />*UPDATE* -- It also might be dx9 specific bugs due to texturing or decays. Solution will be setting your dxversion = 10, or 10.1, or 11 at the settings.ini file. </div><br /><br /><b>Game freeze when exiting OR game process still exist in Task Manager process list after exit game. -(I got this problem, confirmed.)</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('daaf8813465a8d9698d1a0e93a591e39')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="daaf8813465a8d9698d1a0e93a591e39" style="display:none">Some might have experience that the game freeze while quitting, then need to manually end the process at task manager.<br />Some the game didn't freeze while exiting, but the game process is still stuck at Task manage process list eating up resources.<br />Only solutions so far is to start your task manager before the game, minimized it. <br />Then if freeze during exiting, then alt+tab to task manager end it. <br />If didn't freeze while exiting, then check your task manager to see if the process still stuck there eating up resource or not.</div><br /><br /><b>Modifying the FOV in settings.ini & bug known:</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('cd7aad2cde92f7f925a6608430a114d1')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="cd7aad2cde92f7f925a6608430a114d1" style="display:none">1. Go to My Documents>BFBC2 folder, open the settings.ini file.<br />2. Modify the FOV field from FOV=55 to any value between 55~200.<br />3.The sample FOV value respective view in game. <img src='http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/173/bc2fov.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> <br />*Bug: "Reported by some, and I tested and notice also.*<br />The change of FOV will some how cause the view of your iron sight and the normal view to be "out".<br />When I zoom, then unzoom, my cursor sort of being "much left side" during unzoom. Your aim was like "run" when you unzoom.<br />Certain FOV values will make the 4x scope's red aiming reticule appear INFRONT of your gun's scope while sprinting/turning.<br />Iron sights/Gun models not really scale with FOV.<br /></div><br /><br /><b>Weapons Stats:</b> - Thanks to OmniAtlas for sharing<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('e186f5fb46a108dfa12e734c19025687')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="e186f5fb46a108dfa12e734c19025687" style="display:none"><img src='http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff301/DenKirson/WEAPONS.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><br /></div><br /><br /><b>Weapons Unlocks points and info:</b> - from other forum that is from other forum that is from other forum that is from...<br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('e537b047aa12f2959d85dffe51749af4')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="e537b047aa12f2959d85dffe51749af4" style="display:none">Assault Class Weapons <br /><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('42b61e9084a0627b3b2a9a753cb503d7')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="42b61e9084a0627b3b2a9a753cb503d7" style="display:none">AEK Vintovka (Unlocked from Start) <br />Basically an AK-47 without the branding. Fully automatic and not super accurate. <br />Damage - 11/22 <br />Accuracy - 13/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 17/22 <br /><br />XM8 Prototype (Requires 3,000 Assault Points) <br />Experimental and fancy looking. Fully automatic. <br />Damage - 12/22 <br />Accuracy - 15/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 16/22 <br /><br />F2000 Assault (8,000 Assault) <br />Bullpup design makes it more portable and offers increased rate of fire, at the cost of accuracy) <br />Damage - 11/22 <br />Accuracy - 9/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 19/22 <br /><br />STG.77 Aug (20,000 Assault) <br />Low accuracy and high mobility, just like the F2000. <br />Damage - 14/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 15/22 <br /><br />AN-94 Abakan (28,000 Assault) <br />Like the AEK, but fires 2-round bursts of semi-automatic fire. <br />Damage - 15/22 <br />Accuracy - 15/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 <br /><br />M416 (35,000 Assault) <br />Fully automatic assault rifle, a more portable variant of the M16. <br />Damage - 15/22 <br />Accuracy - 15/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 <br /><br />M16 A2 (47,000 Assault) <br />Classic assault rifle, notable for its high accuracy and 3-round burst. <br />Damage - 11/22 <br />Accuracy - 17/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 17/22 </div><br /><br />Engineer Class Weapons <br /><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('62b946c416c86f7aa47965428287fc29')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="62b946c416c86f7aa47965428287fc29" style="display:none">9A-91 Avtomat (Unlocked at Start) <br />Fully automatic carbine, used in close quarters. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 <br /><br />SCAR-L Carbine (3,200 Engineer) <br />Fully automatic and highly mobile. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 <br /><br />X8 Compact (6,500 Engineer) <br />Compact version of the XM8 assault rifle. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 10/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 16/22 <br /><br />AKS -740 Krinkov (Unlocked at Start) <br />Like a mini, silenced version of the AEK. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 13/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 15/22 <br /><br />Uzi (26,000 Engineer) <br />Staple sub-machine gun with an extremely high rate of fire. <br />Damage - 8/22 <br />Accuracy - 9/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 19/22 <br /><br />PP-2000 Avtomat (32,000 Engineer) <br />Sub-machine gun with the highest rate of fire in the game. <br />Damage - 7/22 <br />Accuracy - 9/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 22/22 <br /><br />UMP.45 (43,000 Engineer) <br />Good stopping power and decent accuracy make this a good all around weapon. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 13/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 </div><br /><br />Medic Weapons <br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('ea1adefe086d5a70f4925ff336a2da7e')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="ea1adefe086d5a70f4925ff336a2da7e" style="display:none"><br />PKM LMG (Unlocked from Start) <br />100-round belt that fires 7.62 rounds with high accuracy. <br />Damage - 11/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 14/22 <br /><br />M249 SAW (3,300 Medic) <br />200-round belt with high rate of fire. <br />Damage - 10/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 16/22 <br /><br />Type 88 LMG (8,600 Medic) <br />High recoil and low mobility, but it has great range. <br />Damage - 12/22 <br />Accuracy - 11/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 14/22 <br /><br />M60 LMG (25,000 Medic) <br />Good all-around light machine gun. <br />Damage - 13/22 <br />Accuracy - 12/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 15/22 <br /><br />XM8 LMG (34,000 Medic) <br />Based off the XM8 assault rifle model, but with increased damage output due to a larger magazine. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 13/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 16/22 <br /><br />MG36 (42,000 Medic) <br />LMG with a bi-pod and built-in scope for added accuracy over long ranges <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 14/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 16/2 <br /><br />MG 3 (57,000 Medic) <br />Capable of firing 1,000 rounds per minute, this is the LMG with the highest rate of fire. <br />Damage - 7/22 <br />Accuracy - 9/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 22/22 </div><br /><br />Recon Weapons <br /><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('b4a4f03cd033260df68dc1d17bb18053')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="b4a4f03cd033260df68dc1d17bb18053" style="display:none">M24 Sniper (Unlocked from Start) <br />Bolt-action rifle with slow rate of fire, but good accuracy and damage. <br />Damage - 19/22 <br />Accuracy - 20/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 3/22 <br /><br />Type 88 Sniper (2,200 Recon) <br />Semi-automatic rifle, good for mid-range targets, especially when equipped with a red dot sight. <br />Damage - 14/22 <br />Accuracy - 17/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 6/22 <br /><br />SV98 Snaiperskaya (6,000 Recon) <br />Bolt-action rifle with 10 round clip, good for long range targets. <br />Damage - 13/22 <br />Accuracy - 18/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 6/22 <br /><br />SVU Snaiperskaya Short (15,000 Recon) <br />Silenced, shortened variant of the SV98 with lower damage but a higher rate of fire. <br />Damage - 13/22 <br />Accuracy - 18/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 6/22 <br /><br />GOL Sniper Magnum (21,000 Recon) <br />Sniper with the best accuracy in the game. Great stopping power, as well. <br />Damage - 18/22 <br />Accuracy - 22/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 4/22 <br /><br />VSS Snaiperskaya Special (26,000 Recon) <br />Silenced sniper rifle that lacks range but features an extremely high rate of fire. <br />Damage - 9/22 <br />Accuracy - 14/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 13/22 <br /><br />M95 Sniper (34,000 Recon) <br />Highest damage per shot in the whole game. This is the ultimate one-hit weapon. <br />Damage - 22/22 <br />Accuracy - 18/22 <br />Rate of Fire - 1/22</div><br /></div><br /><br /><b>MBTCENTRAL.NET Server VIP Slots FAQs</b> - Taken from Gest's Post on MBT VIP Slot thread<br />#MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 1 VIP slot is FULL, Reserve your VIP Slot on Server 2 @ <a href='http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1344452' target='_blank'>MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 2</a><br />*MBTCENTRAL.NET BC2 Server 1 Administration @ <a href='http://forum.mbtcentral.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1106' target='_blank'>http://forum.mbtcentral.net/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1106</a><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('36aa92c94dd44ef5189e41a362557fe4')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="36aa92c94dd44ef5189e41a362557fe4" style="display:none">The following are common questions for Bad Company 2, if you have a problem please check the list below before submitting a support request <br />•Pings aren't showing in the server browser<br />•PunkBuster filter in the server browser doesn't work<br />•Server Name filter is case sensitive<br />•Server list doesn't always display all server<br />•Daemons for BC2 are not supported<br />•Server Descriptions / MOTD isn't displayed correctly<br />•What the the available settings for Bad Company 2 servers?<br />•How does reserved slots work in BC2?<br />Pings aren't showing in the server browser<br />Currently pings in the server browser use ICMP echo, which is often blocked by firewalls both on machines e.g. windows firewall and on routers. If your client isn't displaying server pings check to ensure that your firewall isn't blocked.<br />In addition windows Vista and Windows 7 users may need to run BC2 as an administrator to enable pings to work<br /><br />PunkBuster filter in the server browser doesn't work<br />The filter option for PunkBuster in the server browser currently doesnt work, it always returns zero results.<br /><br />Server Name filter is case sensitive<br />If you use the server name filter to find your server be aware that it is currently case sensitive so searching for "multiplay" will not return servers with "Multiplay" in the name<br /><br />Server list doesn't always display all servers<br />There is a known issue that is preventing all servers being listed all the time in the server browser, the workaround is to refresh the list and if this doesn't help to restart your server<br /><br />Daemons for BC2 are not supported<br />Due to security and other general problems related to running third party Daemons we will not be supporting them. All functionality that is provided by these daemons can be achieved in standard rcon based utilities so there's no real need for them anyway<br /><br />Server Descriptions / MOTD isn't displayed correctly<br />Currently server MOTDs set in ServerOptions.ini -> ServerDescription don't display correctly, this is a bug in the BC 2 client<br /><br />What the the available settings for Bad Company 2 servers?<br />The official documentation for the Bad Company 2 server can be found here: <br />•Official Bad Company 2 Server Documentation<br /><br />How does reserved slots work in BC2?<br />Adding players to the reserved list in Bad Company 2 is done by adding their player names to the reservedslotslist.txt one per line. Once added please note that when the named players arent in the server the number of available slots effectively be reduced by the number of players listed. So if you have 32 player server and 10 players in reservedslotslist.txt with 4 of those named playing your server will max out at 26 players, with only the remaining 6 players listed being able to join.</div><br /><br /><b>After patch, SP campaign CTD after load up:</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('c2531887801cc3e049bdad8f584b117b')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="c2531887801cc3e049bdad8f584b117b" style="display:none">Due to the updated patch, it sort of screwed up the save file.<br />Since is only checkpoints, so there basically only 1 save file, and it is screwed, so what do we do?<br />Ok, just go to mission select the mission you are on and restart the level.<br />Then the checkpoint save file will be replaced.<br />Then u can use the "resume campaign" again on this new checkpoint.<br />Should work la, and as i remember it should be checkpoint style right?</div><br /><br /><b>Properly setting up your game of Bad Company 2:</b><br /><div class="spoilertop" onClick="openClose('03c4ba61f655ffd64dfadb84ac064a31')" style="font-weight: bold"><u>» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «</u></div><div class="spoilermain" id="03c4ba61f655ffd64dfadb84ac064a31" style="display:none"><img src='http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/313/radco2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></div><br /><span style='color:green'><b>Will be updating more soon. <img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/icon_question.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='icon_question.gif' /></b></span> -ZeN- Battlefield Series Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:27:54 +0800