- February 19, 2010
- Written by Mark
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PC Games hardware as done a really nice and in-depth Q&A interview with the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 PC version producer, Anders Gyllenberg. In the interview pretty much every technical aspect of the PC version of BFBC2 was talked about, from the use of DX11, ATI Eyefinity support, AA support, Multicore CPU support, and most interesting to us the physics used in the game. As we know BFBC2 uses the Havok Physics engine to produce some impressive physics and destructible environments in the game but PCGH asks why they chose a middleware physics solution such as Havok and asks what his opinion is on GPU-Accelerated physics. Read the rest of the interview here.
If you are interested in the impressive physics in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 be sure to check out The Physics and Destruction of Battlefield Bad Company 2 and also Entire Buildings Collapse in Battlefield Bad Company 2 With Destruction 2.0 for some impressive videos from the PC Beta of the game.
From the PCGH Battlefield: Bad Company 2 technical background Q&A:
PCGH: Frostbite Engine uses Havok physic engine. Why do you decide to work with a middleware solution? Does Frostbite support an advanced destruction system [yeah, we know it do so 
“Destruction 2.0”] like terra forming or other physic that influences gameplay? What is your personal opinion about GPU-accelerated PhysX or physics in general?
Anders Gyllenberg: Havok is a good base for us and we have built many layers of our own on top of it to support destruction and our large-scale multiplayer worlds. One interesting feature and quite unique feature is the destructible terrain – it actually affects gameplay and allows the player to take cover in the craters created. We are currently performing all our physics computations on the CPU cores in parallel. CPU/GPU hybrid solutions are an interesting future prospect.
Read the rest of the interview here.
Tags: Battlefield Bad Company 2, BFBC2, Destructible Envinroment, Destructible Terrain, Destruction, EA Games, Frostbite Engine, GPU-accelerated Physics, GPU-accelerated PhysX, Havok Physics, Nvidia, PC, Physics, PhysX, PhysX Middleware, PS3, Xbox 360
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