Game:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (2010)

Duration: 11:58

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A test to see which relatively-modern games will run on this netbook. I give you Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Sorry for the crappy shooting. I don't really play FPS games.

*Basic Specs:
- Intel Atom D525 @ 1.8 GHz (dual-core, 2x 512 kB L2 cache)
- NVIDIA ION 2 (512 MB, Optimus technology)
- 2 GB DDR3 memory (800 MHz)
- Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit)
- 1366x768 pixels maximum resolution
- BIOS updated to revision 0605
- ION driver updated to version 266.58

*Running Apps:
Yahoo Messenger, uTorrent, Avast (Silent/Gaming Mode), Fraps

*NVIDIA settings:
Triple Buffering (enabled), Maximum Pre-rendered frames (5), others on default

GAME SETTINGS:
Resolution - Native (1280x720)
V-Sync - Enabled
Effects - Low
Soldiers - Low
Vehicles - Low
Overgrowth - Low
Undergrowth - Low
Static Objects - Low
Terrain - Low
Shadows - Low
Bloom - Enabled
HSAO - Disabled
MSAA - 0
Water - Low
Main Quality - Custom
Texture - Medium
DX Version - 9
Aniso - 0
Detail - Medium
Renderahead Limit - 5


*Framerate: ~11 to 36 fps
*Playability: Poor to Fair

*Remarks:
Performance of the game is surprisingly better than I expected, especially when one of the minimum requirements is a dual-core processor. Like any other 3D game, larger environments yield lower framerates. But with tons of things on the screen, I was awed how the framerate stayed above 10 fps. Probably DX9's handiwork. Had to change it from "auto" since DX10 constantly gives on-screen glitches -- can't even see where I'm going with those around. Although, DX9 still isn't free from graphical glitches. In fact, when you die and start again, your gun becomes invisible. Not completely, though, the scope remains -- but it's funny to look at. Voices stutter and repeat themselves on default settings, so I changed it to "low" and that fixed it so far.

The game still looks gorgeous, even on low settings. Framerate may be improved by doing several things. It can be attained by lowering the settings even more, closing unnecessary processes, updating the graphics driver further, defragmenting the HDD, overclocking CPU/GPU, upgrading Windows 7 to 64-bit and make full use of the max 4 GB memory capacity, downgrading to Windows XP for an optimized, less demanding OS, among others.

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