Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[owly-oop]

I can't play this game. Whenever i launch it, the "updating bc2" steam window pops up and steam just locks up. Can't do anything with steam, it's frozen. I don't know if it's actually doing anything other than sitting there

Edit: Nevermind i got it to work somehow :O

 

[Psy]

It seems that this might come be coming to Mac also.

Both men were happy to hear about Valve’s Mac support. “I love it,” Mr. Taylor told The Escapist’s Greg Tito, and Mr. Troedsson tweeted: "Steam for Mac - Gabe, we like it." The Universal Gaming Database (UGD) asked Mr. Troedsson to elaborate and he said: "We're currently investigating the possibility of making BFBC2 [Battlefield Bad Company 2] available on Mac." UGD noted that BFBC2 on Windows brings more players online than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox editions combined. The last Mac title released by EA DICE was Battlefield 2142 during the summer of 2008.

Source

 

[drp]

i still dont understand why these guys dont use steam's server browser, instead of reinventing a wheel (a broken wheel at that)

 

[Psy]

Because they (EA, most likely) don't want the game to be tied to Steam.

 

[drp]

Because they (EA, most likely) don't want the game to be tied to Steam.

they should drop that publisher and go with Valve

 

[Matt4019]

Didn't valve publish their games for console through EA?

 

[chickenm4n]

Didn't valve publish their games for console through EA?

when EA published to the ps3 without valve really wanting it, the two companies had a falling out

 

[Icarus]

Buggy as hell. It's hard to find a low ping server, because I am unable to even view pings!

ARGH.

 

[eyefork]

Buggy as hell. It's hard to find a low ping server, because I am unable to even view pings!

ARGH.

Right click the game's executable, go to Properties, click the compatibility tab, tick "Run as administrator". Should fix that problem.

 

[Ida]

Right click the game's executable, go to Properties, click the compatibility tab, tick "Run as administrator". Should fix that problem.

Two problems;
1. This doesn't actually fix it for me.
2. This makes W7 require permission to launch anything within Steam.

 

[Icarus]

Right click the game's executable, go to Properties, click the compatibility tab, tick "Run as administrator". Should fix that problem.

No dice.

 

[eyefork]

Two problems;
1. This doesn't actually fix it for me.
2. This makes W7 require permission to launch anything within Steam.

You didn't make Steam run as administrator did you?

Anywho if that doesn't work then I'm out of ideas. I had the same problem with the beta though and that's what fixed it for me

 

[Ida]

Yeah, it worked in the beta for me as well. :/

However, running the game shortcut as admin makes Windows assume that it should also run Steam as admin, which makes it request permission all the time.

 

[Terr]

Theoretically you could use some tools to figure out what it's trying to do that needs admin access, and maybe hack something up in the registry so that your non-admin user can do it. Really it sounds like DICE's responsibility to fix it.

Maybe it has something to do with "raw sockets" in XP. I wonder if there's a way to grant just that right to a non-admin user... Apparently you can open the door to raw sockets for all users, but that enables certain nasty malware possibilities.

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I don't have BC2 and the demo doesn't run, so I cannot test this myself. (Well, I could, but I'm also too lazy to make a test app that uses raw sockets.) But for those who are brave of heart and who won't accidentally wipe their own registry and cry about it, I have a suggestion. Using regedit, create or alter this registry key:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\AllowUserRawAccess

The type should be DWORD and use 1 or 0 for true or false. Set it to true.

Reboot, see if things work.

 

[Impulse]

I got it to work on windows 7 by puting this into command prompt, it should also work on windows vista but no earlier os, this basically disables ECN

netsh interface tcp set global ecncapability=disabled

 

[Eyce]

Turn off User Account Control in your Control Panel.

Lets me see the pings perfectly fine through glorious Windows 7.