Brink (PC) has just been released and seems like there are few issues that need Splash Damage’s attention. I won’t whine about these issues rather talk about how you can fix these and experience smooth gameplay.
In this Brink Troubleshooting Guide, I have explained how you can fix general errors, crashes and other problems. Most importantly how to fix ATI performance issues, and how to tweak the game for best performance and increase your FPS.
1# Brink (PC) ATI Driver Fix
First turn on in-game console. For this go to your steam library and find brink. Right click and choose properties. The on the General tab select SET LAUNCH OPTIONS and add this.
+com_allowconsole 1
Start up brink and open the console with tilde key, and type ‘r_shadows 0′ without quotes.
After this tweak. Download and install the latest ATI HotFix Drivers.
2# Brink Multiplayer Servers Not Responding, Connection Issues and Server Joining Problem
Forward these ports and you will be able to connect to servers just fine.
UDP/TCP 27015, 27016 and 8766
3# Brink – Blue Screen of Death Fix
Turn off motion blur in game options, this will fix this issue. Add these console graphics tweaks:
r_useHighQualityPostProcess 0
r_useMotionBlur 0
4# Brink – Crash at Desktop/Start Up
OpenGL used by the game engine seem to the root cause of this issue. At the moment, it appears that if you are forcing triple buffering through your card, it will crash the game at start up. Make sure you aren’t forcing triple buffering through the card. Also make sure you have updated Drivers.
5# OpenGL driver lost connection with the display driver
Lower the game resolution a bit and it will resolve.
6# Brink Error creating game rendering context
If on start up you are receiving “Error creating game rendering context”, and the only option you have is to quit. If you are using nVidia card, Disable Triple Buffering and If you are using ATI card, try the hotfix above.
7# Brink – No Sound
Make sure you run the game in stereo. If the problem persists, update your sound card drivers.
8# Brink – Low FPS and Performance
Install the latest ATI hotfix pr nVidia Updated Drivers which address these issues.
Disable Motion Blue.
Disable Shadows.
Disable Triple Buffering.
Optimize the game for multi cores using this console tweak:
seta r_useThreadedRenderer 2
9# Game Freezes at Save The Arc, Escape The Arc Screen
10# Brink – Texture Bugs, Graphics Issue
11# Brink – Grid Effect and Blue Tinted Screen
This issue is associated with people running the game on ATI video card. Refer to ATI Fix to resolve this issue.
12# How to Skip Intro Movies
Simply rename your assets folder.
Steam\steamapps\common\brink\base\video\assets
13# How to Change FOV
In the console type g_fov XX. Where XX is your FOV; default (and lowest) is 70.
If you face any other issues, let us know and we will try to help you out. You can check our other Brink Guides through the link.
Please note the hot fix only works for 5 and 6 series cards. Also some other handy commands:
r_useHBAO 0 (Haven't noticed a difference.)
seta image_anisotropy 0 (Untested)
seta image_filter GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST (Untested)
seta r_shadows 0 (Makes an amazing difference)
seta r_useThreadedRenderer 2 (Seems to be good btu may cause crashes and lock ups)
» Sun May 01, 2011 8:16 pm 
Anyway hopefully that helps someone. Seems like people are reporting some weird stuff happening with different PC configurations so all we can really hope for is a good ol' PC patch to fix this game up.. I know my $50 would welcome it. :/
