Well i'll be damned

Dice are currently getting people to test a new client patch for bc2 the patch is currently in beta.

if you want to test it follow the link below, but there are only a few servers to test it on, whether there are any oz servers is anyone's guess

R11 Beta Patch

Dice are simply asking if you test to reply to the forum post where you downloaded the patch from, hopefully some improvement will come before bf3 rolls out

Odd that they're doing it so late.

Yeah but this is DICE we're talking about. I mean they bought out a 2142 patch that took 2 & 1/2 years to make.... and released it about 14 months after BC2 was given to everyone.


Why even bother? They'll give us this BC2 patch about a month after BF3 is out. Pointless. Almost like theyve got nothing better to do, so lets waste some time on a project thats essentially dead anyway! YAY!

Battlefield Blog

So the patch is finished, coming out wednesday.

its a giant motherfucker: 2.6GB

hopefully it improves the game a bit until the bf3 beta is released

Nice work Bubba.

What a crock of crap though the size 2gig. For what? The below? I know they said they are rolling all patches into 1 but why the hell do we want to download it all again when we already have the other ones. 2gig so the game can remember the clan tags for auto log in.

And 4 weeks from bf3. And 4am UTC. Thats about 2pm AEST isn't it? So when get home have to spend next hour downloading rather than playing.

And servers will be rolled out with it. So only those servers updated with the patch and the patch you have will be shown. I can see this causing some issues.

That's my rant over.

You are being vague. Exact changelist please!
Ok, here goes...

Removed some memory leaks
Fixed crashes when the game attempted to render lots of content (high detail, high FOV or multiple-monitor modes); this should particularly help multi-monitor users
Chat window no longer causes lag spikes
Chat window reworked opacity & visibility-time is controllable through settings in settings.ini
Clantag is remembered when using auto-login
Banner URLs can be up to 252 characters in length
SecuROM wrapper removed from non-Steam version
Minor performance enhancements
Reduced rubberbanding on servers with more than 24 active players
PrintScreen takes a screenshot, file stored in Documents\BFBC2\Screenshots directory

Manual Patch Download

link to the patch from games on net, but i will let you know if you download this and install it before the servers have been updated set to start at the wee hours of the morning today, you will not be able to find any servers etc, so hence not being able to play the game so maybe download it and wait for awhile and then install this bad boy

Cheers mate. Im gonna be offline til tomorrow so I'll get myself all updated NOW then just log in tomorrow for trouble free gaming...

Because thats how it always works right? As easy as 1 2 3 with no hidden issues or fuck ups.

patch is out servers are being updated so get on it

roger!