I just thought I’d do a quick post of my settings file from Battlefield Bad Company 2 so everyone might squeeze every bit of juice out of their older hardware.  First, look in your Documents (Windows 7 or Vista) or My Documents (I believe this is right for XP, if not let me know) folder for BFBC2 and open the settings.ini file and copy+paste the following over your old settings. BE SURE YOU EDIT THE WIDTH, HEIGHT, AND REFRESH RATE to match your monitor’s native resolution and refresh!!!!

[WindowSettings]
Width=1680
Height=1050
Fullscreen=true
RefreshRate=59.882999
VSync=false
[Sound]
Quality=low
VoipEnable=true
[Graphics]
Effects=low
Soldiers=low
Vehicles=low
Overgrowth=low
Undergrowth=low
StaticObjects=low
Terrain=low
Shadows=low
Bloom=false
HSAO=false
MSAA=0
Water=low
MainQuality=custom
Texture=low
DxVersion=9
Aniso=0
Detail=low
RenderAheadLimit=0
Fov=55

It’s not going to give you all the nice eye candy that is possible from this game, but it will be nice and playable. Finally add +fullproc to the end of your shortcut or add it to your Steam launch options. The fullproc command will give full processor priority to BFBC2.  Hopefully we see a bit more performance tweaks in the final version, however this game appears to be a BEAST on the specs.

UPDATE 3-3-10
Alot of these settings are/were carried over from the beta, however they still work, all of the settings should be pretty self explanitory. It seems the retail product runs A TON better then the beta did. I’ll post more tweaks on this blog as I find more! Most importantly, update your video card drivers to the most recent release!!!