Adjusting Field of View in Battlefield Bad Company 2

Matt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:53:00 +0000

Battlefield Bad Company 2’s FOV is set at 55 by default and there is no way to change it in the game. A FOV of 55 is awesome when you are sitting back fifteen feet and playing on a 50″ HDTV, however when you’re up close on your PC Monitor you really want and expect to see more. Fortunately for us we can change our FOV settings in the config files for the game! As I instructed in my BFBC2 Tweak Guide you’ll need to open the “settings.ini” file that is located in My Documents/BFBC2 (WinXP) or in Documents/BFBC2 (Windows 7 and Vista). You’ll want to load the file in your favorite text editor.

Once you have “settings.ini” open you’ll want to scroll down to what should be the last line and change the following line to your liking. I personally prefer a setting of 70, however change it to your liking! As always, before you change any settings always back up!

FOV=55

Below are a couple of screen shots showing a FOV of 55 on the left and 75 on the right.

Update 3-5-10
BFBC2’s FOV setting is the vertical field of view. Normally when referring to FOV in gaming we are referring to the horizontal field of view. So to get the correct FOV setting use this nifty BFBC2 FOV Calculator. Enter your resolution and your desired horizontal FOV and it will give you the correct FOV to enter into your settings.ini.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Tweaks and Settings

Matt — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:50:01 +0000

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!!!

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Adjusting Field of View in Battlefield Bad Company 2

Battlefield Bad Company 2 Tweaks and Settings