At the same time, there was very little difference in graphics quality or detail. We must agree with DICE's assessment of recommending a Radeon HD 4870 or GeForce GTX 260 graphics card as a minimum if you want to enjoy all the eye candy this game has to offer.īattlefield: Bad Company 2 doesn't scale down very well, as we saw roughly a ~5 fps performance gain when going from the high to the medium quality preset. 2Īnother example using the GeForce GTX 260 saw a 47fps average when testing with Battlefield: Bad Company 2 at 1680x1050, while playing Crysis allowed for just 33fps with AA/AF disabled.Īdd to this the fact that two years have passed since Crysis was released, and the average gaming PC has got a lot faster in the process. The exact same hardware averaged just 48fps in Crysis Warhead with AA/AF settings disabled. For example, at 2560x1600 using maximum visual quality settings with 2xAA/4xAF the Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire setup averaged 74fps in this new game.

Conclusion: Demanding, But Not Another CrysisĪlthough Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a very demanding game, it is not nearly as horrible on hardware as Crysis.