Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a first person shooter that will immerse you in destructible firefights with realistic weapon physics, land vehicles, air vehicles in singleplayer and multi-player environments. In other words... Bad Company 2 is amazing!
Multi-player has not yet been tested for this guide.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Battlefield Bad Company 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Battlefield Bad Company 2. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.0
Wine Installation
Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.0 is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "install a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name your virtual drive: badcompany2
No spaces
Click Next
Select all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 2.0
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_dxfullsetup
- POL_Install_Physx
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2010
- POL_Install_vcrun2012
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
Follow all the typical Steam installation Steps
Sometimes Steam will not have any fonts due to dwrite functionality
Click the "X" to close Steam login regardless if the fonts work or not
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Bad Company 2
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Fix the no fonts and no store symptoms...
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
Strict Draw Ordering: enabled
Note: Enabling Strict Draw Ordering fixes the graphical artifacts.
Close Configure
Launching Steam Downloading Bad Company 2
Select Bad Company 2
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Find Battlefield Bad Company 2
Click Install
Uncheck "Created desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
Click "I agree"
Wait for Battlefield Bad Company 2 to download...
Click Finish
Launching Battlefield Bad Company 2
Click Play
Click "Play Battlefield Bad Company 2"
Click Play
Punkbuster Install
Click "I Agree"
Click Next
Click OK
Click Finish
Optimization
Click Options
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Overall Quality
- Advanced (custom)
Click Advanced
Adjust:
- Level of Detail
- Texture Quality
- Shadow Quality
- Effects Quality
- Anti-Aliasing
- Anisotrophic Filter
- Vsync
- HBAO
Force DirectX 9
Before you can play Bad Company 2, it will need to run with DirectX 9
Go to:
Code:
/home/username/Documents/BFBC2/Change line: DxVersion=auto
to: DxVersion=9
Note: You can also manually adjust the graphics quality
Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates
Conclusion:
One you force Bad Company 2 to play in directx 9 you will be able to play the singleplayer campain without serious issues. Sometimes the initial loading of a level can be slow and stutter, but after it loads should play smoothly on decent hardware like my GeForce GTX 950. I initially tested Bad Company 2 on my Geforce 550 Ti, but there were too many frame rate issues and stutters. My Geforce GTX 950 was able to handle the game on high settings and still played smoothly.
Gameplay Video:
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