Me and everyone I play with still have that "first time playing crash" - where you try to join a game and launch, but your game crashes before it loads. BF3.exe not responding or something. Happens only the first time, fine after that

11/21/2011 12:51:08 AM

I've never seen any kind of crash like that. Whenever mine crashes, it takes the whole system out with it. Everything goes smooth and by the numbers until the game just decides to give up. No error reports generated, no nothing I can use to try to troubleshoot. It's just a complete frame lock and is often accompanied by what would be best described as a techno grinding noise coming from my speakers. I had originally thought that this would be sound card related since so many people have pointed the finger at Realtek, so I went and got a PCIe sound card. After experimenting a little bit last night, the game is still crashing. I'm really running out of things to try here.

11/21/2011 8:14:48 AM

Patch day coming this week apparently for PC

http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/battlefield_bad_company/archive/2011/11/18/incoming-battlefield-3-update.aspx##

Quote :

"So what’s in the PC patch? You’ll see improved polish, stability, weapons balancing, squad control functionality, user interface enhancements, and several feature enhancements that address feedback the community has provided to date – plus we’re removing the so called “negative mouse acceleration” that some of you have experienced. Regarding cheating and boosting, we continue to analyze data to identify and hold accountable (ban, wipe stats) players that cheat or boost. We’ve received questions about what to do when faced with unsportsmanlike conduct in Battlefield 3 – the best course of action is to click the warning sign next to their profile name in Battlelog, or head to the EA Help Desk and report your issue. These leads will enable us to follow up on the report."

11/21/2011 10:39:37 AM

Possible Tactical Light Fix

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/battlefield-3-pc-patch-incoming-image-of-possible-tactical-light-fix-included.ars

11/21/2011 1:15:05 PM

it was announced a while back about the tactical light

11/21/2011 5:28:13 PM

^ are you trying to be an ass, or do you just come across that way?

11/21/2011 5:37:02 PM

I'm becoming increasingly worried that the problems I'm having running this game aren't related to the game itself, even though I have no evidence to the contrary. I've changed video card drivers 3 times now, but since I've never run anything in SLI before, I just can't say if these problems are somehow related to that. I'm gonna set up the Tribes Ascend beta just to have another new game for comparison.

11/21/2011 6:04:24 PM

try running in single card setup

Quote :

"^ are you trying to be an ass, or do you just come across that way?"

If I wanted to be an ass I would have just typed old



[Edited on November 21, 2011 at 6:07 PM. Reason : _]

11/21/2011 6:06:29 PM

Well thanks for posting it earlier , because I didn't see it.

11/21/2011 6:21:45 PM

EA must have changed something this week with bf3... a config file or something, because my SLI doesn't work anymore. It was working perfectly last week with no crashes or anything. This week, crashes first launch, ea disconnect 2nd launch and finally it works on the 3rd, but I have to run in single gpu mode only.

11/21/2011 7:40:10 PM

this page validates my reasons for going to xbox360 and not PC for my gaming.

11/22/2011 12:21:47 PM

cool story bro

11/22/2011 12:38:24 PM

^^^ What type of crash are you having?

I did install the Tribes Ascend beta yesterday just so I could have something to compare gaming performance to, and it ran just as smooth as silk. Here's hoping that the forthcoming patch may resolve my issues, because I just don't feel like it's my computer's hardware which is causing problems.

11/22/2011 1:48:07 PM

half my clan has similar issues with bf3 crashing, most of them are also running sli/cf setups. same setups work perfectly for most other games like dirt 3. really sucks that I'm having to play at half speed.

11/22/2011 4:27:10 PM

Patched. Played. Crashed.

Turned off SLI and tried to run on one video card. Worked great for about 20 minutes, then got disconnected from EA servers. After a restart, now I can't get any game on any server to run, as the game manager just says "Loading Level..." and nothing ever happens. I see the number of players and levels on the servers changing, so obviously this isn't a systemwide issue.

I don't know why I don't completely hate this game already.

11/22/2011 4:33:53 PM

you make me glad I didn't bother with SLI

11/22/2011 4:36:18 PM

I'm dealing with a ton of driver crashes, I'm afraid my RMA'd 570 is having issues.

Drivers wiped.
Clean driver install.
Underclocked.
Undervolted.

Still get artifacts and driver crashes just watching youtube videos.

I hate MSI.

11/22/2011 4:47:59 PM

lol, my clanmate with the 4x 480's has rage quit off of bf3 and bought mw3, even though he said he completely hates it and raggs on how mw2 looks better. He's like "it just works on my rig. I'll wait till bf3 is fixed".

11/22/2011 4:50:29 PM

Well, looks like my hardware is fucked somewhere. Tribes Ascend just crashed in the exact same way that BF3 has been doing. Only problem is that I have no idea how to troubleshoot this kind of issue now since it's been related to games only. Never any trouble with anything else.

11/22/2011 6:04:19 PM

anyone else having problems getting the patch to download? Every time I click update game it just sends me to the webpage to buy the game. WTF???

11/22/2011 6:04:28 PM

close and reopen origin worked for me. its only 500mb so it was a fast download, so far so good. No instant open crashes.

11/22/2011 6:20:42 PM

^^me too, but ^ worked

[Edited on November 22, 2011 at 6:24 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2011 6:22:33 PM

I ended up having to right click on the game in origin and click repair which updated it. Everything seems to be working good now.

11/22/2011 8:13:57 PM

Best loadout for jets, IMO:

Air Radar
Extinguisher
Rocket Pods

I absolutely love flying. I can regularly place in the top 5 on my team just by flying a jet the entire round and harassing tanks.

11/23/2011 11:15:39 AM

It takes forever to get those perks for the jets.

11/23/2011 4:44:42 PM

anyone playing with one of these setups?
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/gaming/joysticks/devices/5855?ClickID=bgyfdlkdzz6kqnszmgynzzvlyeueduuqegkk

11/23/2011 6:42:53 PM

just got my nemesis medal.

never seen anyone else with one

11/24/2011 11:50:15 PM

879m headshot. I really need to get a joystick. Seems so hard to be really good with keyboard.

11/30/2011 10:36:34 AM

Finally got to play for about 2 hours last night without a crash. I'm hoping that it stays that way.

11/30/2011 10:51:11 AM

Day two with no crashing! Things are looking up.

11/30/2011 9:29:26 PM

what did you do?

11/30/2011 10:46:21 PM

I'm boss in a helo with keyboard and mouse. I have a joystick and it's tough to get used to it even with jets.

12/1/2011 3:36:51 AM

^^ Combination of lots of different things, ultimately. Fresh Windows 7 install, flash motherboard BIOS, flash SSD BIOS, flash graphics cards BIOS, uninstall all onboard Realtek devices, added dedicated sound card, install latest NVIDIA beta drivers, increased voltage to graphics cards, underclocked GPUs (which still seems stupid to me), etc. It's been a LOT of troubleshooting and there's been no one thing to which I can point and ultimately decide that it was causing the problem. I think that now that I have a baseline which feels stable, I may start gradually experimenting to see what things I can tweak and get away with.

I also configured everything in-game according to this guide:
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=1323124&mpage=1#1323124

Very, very well written.

12/1/2011 7:59:52 AM

yah! new beta drivers and evga sli fix worked for me! SLI back up and running smooth again.

Ok, EA, DON'T FUCK IT UP AGAIN!!! GRRRR

12/2/2011 6:30:43 AM

OK, I've managed to do this 3 times now, so I don't feel like this is a glitch. I can't help but feel like this ought to be patched, though. Ever been flying a jet on Kharg Island and are just getting torn up? See if you can lead your attacker out to sea and then nosedive straight at it. At the very last second, bail out. You don't need to parachute. No matter how fast you're going, no matter how close to the water you are, and no matter how late you eject (so long as you do it before your plane touches the water), you will survive the impact. If you're lucky, your attacker will be so distracted that he'll crash his plane and kill himself, and then you can just swim away and laugh. I did this by accident the first time and couldn't believe that I survived hitting the water, but it's worked consistently every time.

12/2/2011 8:58:24 AM

that graphics guide is awesome!

12/2/2011 1:26:57 PM

Quote :

"I'm boss in a helo with keyboard and mouse. I have a joystick and it's tough to get used to it even with jets."

I use an Xbox 360 controller as a jet and helo pilot.
KB+M as infantry, land vehicles, and helo gunner.

Quote :

"OK, I've managed to do this 3 times now, so I don't feel like this is a glitch. I can't help but feel like this ought to be patched, though. Ever been flying a jet on Kharg Island and are just getting torn up? See if you can lead your attacker out to sea and then nosedive straight at it. At the very last second, bail out. You don't need to parachute. No matter how fast you're going, no matter how close to the water you are, and no matter how late you eject (so long as you do it before your plane touches the water), you will survive the impact. If you're lucky, your attacker will be so distracted that he'll crash his plane and kill himself, and then you can just swim away and laugh. I did this by accident the first time and couldn't believe that I survived hitting the water, but it's worked consistently every time."

So then you're out in the middle of the water and have to slowly swim back to shore? I think I'd rather just suicide...

12/2/2011 1:59:52 PM

LOL. I'm hardheaded like that. I'll die in combat, sure. But suicide? No way. I'm perfectly happy to run to get back into the fight.

12/2/2011 9:31:22 PM

I suicide all the time. Always in water, sometimes on land if I think I can get to my destination faster buy respawning. This is battlefield, not COD, K/D ratio isn't really important.

12/3/2011 8:45:33 AM

http://mp1st.com/2011/12/02/battlefield-3-2-gb-patch-on-dec-6th-on-pc-patch-notes/

12/4/2011 2:42:57 PM

finally picked up a joystick. took a lot of remapping and a couple hours practice but I'm pretty good with the jets, the chopper is taking much longer to learn.

12/5/2011 4:21:23 AM

if it is a very close game then death is actually really important. sometimes i wish people knew to not spawn when ticket count is low and game is close. cool finally fixing that smoke and missile. and oh no nerfing my mortar xD

12/6/2011 9:39:46 AM

Ok after reading link above I know why we can't get on the game, but can anyone else not get into Origin Online? Mine will only go into Offline mode..

I know that link above says 8AM GMT which is 3AM EST, right? Or did I do the conversion backwards haha? I'm guessing I did it backwards and it is 1PM EST.

Quote :

"Decreased the effectiveness of 12g FRAG ammo when equipped on semi-automatic and automatic shotguns."

Thank God, those could do decent damage to vehicles.

Quote :

"Flares reload times for Jets and Helicopter Gunners have been increased."

Hell yeaaaaaaaaaa. Fuck youuuuuuuu ground AA










[Edited on December 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM. Reason : _]

12/6/2011 11:41:29 AM

^ wouldn't reload time being increased make it longer between times you can deploy flares?

12/6/2011 2:21:29 PM

Yes

12/6/2011 3:57:50 PM

Quote :

"Hell yeaaaaaaaaaa. Fuck youuuuuuuu ground AA"

lol, you will be saying that a lot more with increasing the time to reload flares.

12/6/2011 5:16:40 PM

I'm not so sure. I saw a guy today flying the A-10 and Su-25 over 2 consecutive games while using the ECM package, and he wasn't shot down either game. And these were on high ticket count servers, so he must have been flying for about 45 minutes straight. I made it my express point to try to shoot this guy down, but it flat out wasn't gonna happen with the Stinger/IGLA. I start to get tone, he pops the chaff, I lose all ability to get tone, wash, rinse, repeat. I think I got off maybe 6 rockets with good tone, and not a one of them came close to hitting this guy. If DICE nerfed the man-portable AA launchers, they need to seriously reconsider.

I'm pretty convinced as of today that the ECM package is godly.

[Edited on December 6, 2011 at 6:51 PM. Reason : typo]

12/6/2011 6:51:15 PM

they should have made flairs into a consumable item.. like you can only have 3 installed before you have to go back to base or some shit. Its annoying how they just have infinite amount of it. I wonder how long they increased the time to.

12/6/2011 8:13:00 PM

how's the AN-94 change?

12/6/2011 9:27:21 PM

^^ They should have made everything on a jet consumable. Oh yeah, and they should have added some fucking BOMBS.

(Although my next unlock is the AGM. We'll see how I like that.)

12/6/2011 10:57:49 PM