Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Gets Huge PC Update, Steam Players Not Forgotten

Thousands of gamers are still knee-deep in Battlefield: Bad Company 2′s multiplayer, so even if Battlefield 3 comes out in October, DICE is making sure that it supports the game. A new PC patch is to go live today, get all details below.

The patch, costing you 2.6GB, goes live today and will remove the SecuROM DRM measure from non-Steam versions of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. The patch will also fix some technical issues.

According to the Battlefield Blog, the patch will “address stability problems with the game and performance issues. It is not intended to address game logic fixes.”

“While it would have been technically possible to create a smaller patch for those who have Client R10 installed already, that would have delayed the release of the patch even further – so we thought it better to release a larger patch now, than a smaller patch sometime in the future,” said Mikael Kalms.

Here’s the full quencher:

* 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

The patch will also be released on Steam.