PrimalFear Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Share Posted November 24, 2011 This is a windows7 64bit fix, the location may be different for other OS's, this patch messed my game up and I was unable to even join a server, and this is how I was able to fix it... Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Users\(user name)\My Documents\Battlefield 3 and rename the folder "Settings" to something else as a backup or you could just delete it. Upon restarting your game a new default "Settings" folder will be created automatically. Now start the game and see if you are able to enter a server, if so right away change your settings to something other than custom the lower the better and wait for the map to change until the screen says "Saving". Leave the server and try to join another server, if you are now able to join and play stable, adjust your settings back up incrementally. For me there was an issue with fullscreen/windowed mode, I have still not finished correcting this problem but I am now able to play with no gameplay issues. If this worked for you or not please post the results, this is only what worked for me and others might find it useful. I hope it works for you as well. NOTE: Venery found a fix with this patch where he shut down his EVGA overclock utility. X-Fire and TS is known to have issues with the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 24, 2011 It didn't work for me. Even if the game had remained running for enough time to alter any settings, I couldn't locate where one alters them... It froze even before spawning after about one minute! The in-game menus all seem to be about customising load-outs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Unchileno Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 101 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 109 Topic Count: 764 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 8133 Content Per Day: 1.52 Reputation: 6747 Achievement Points: 61498 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 01/23/1974 Device: iPhone Share Posted November 24, 2011 DEEJAYKEG It didn't work for me. Even if the game had remained running for enough time to alter any settings, I couldn't locate where one alters them... It froze even before spawning after about one minute! The in-game menus all seem to be about customising load-outs. Are you still having FUN Deejay?..lmfao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 24, 2011 UnChileno DEEJAYKEG It didn't work for me. Even if the game had remained running for enough time to alter any settings, I couldn't locate where one alters them... It froze even before spawning after about one minute! The in-game menus all seem to be about customising load-outs. Are you still having FUN Deejay?..lmfao Thanks for the helpful input. Love the game - just wish I could play it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
X-RayXI Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6888 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 1371 Achievement Points: 44109 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Share Posted November 24, 2011 DEEJAYKEG UnChileno DEEJAYKEG It didn't work for me. Even if the game had remained running for enough time to alter any settings, I couldn't locate where one alters them... It froze even before spawning after about one minute! The in-game menus all seem to be about customising load-outs. Are you still having FUN Deejay?..lmfao Thanks for the helpful input. Love the game - just wish I could play it! Can you tell me what you already tried with a list? So we can look what the issue is? Plus, what is your hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 24, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 24, 2011 X-RayXI DEEJAYKEG UnChileno DEEJAYKEG It didn't work for me. Even if the game had remained running for enough time to alter any settings, I couldn't locate where one alters them... It froze even before spawning after about one minute! The in-game menus all seem to be about customising load-outs. Are you still having FUN Deejay?..lmfao Thanks for the helpful input. Love the game - just wish I could play it! Can you tell me what you already tried with a list? So we can look what the issue is? Plus, what is your hardware. 1. Repair - no corrupt files and latest version of game installed; 2. Registry check - all good; 3. Update of AMD video driver to latest version; 4. Primalfear's suggestion. 5. Disabled Realtek HD audio driver - no change - game froze up and stopped working. Hardware: i7-860, 2.8Ghz, Win 7 Home Premium 32-bit, Radeon HD 6870 1GB video card (factory settings, no overclock), 4GB RAM Just minor niggles before the patch but able to play. Post patch, connection to servers very slow if at all and BF3 stops working within a minute of joining game. The issue is the patch so until DICE mends what they have broken, I fear there isn't a great deal one will be able to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
xCaliber Posted November 26, 2011 Member ID: 142 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 30 Topic Count: 277 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1986 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 288 Achievement Points: 13866 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 25, 2014 Birthday: 05/01/1985 Share Posted November 26, 2011 installed it ..zero erroe since ..no flickering ..fixed everything for me ..playing non-stop since then.. I guess it could be graphics card driver.. What I would do .. **try chrome as your gaming browser ..I heard it helped a lot to some ppl.... some times it could be flash player too that needs to be updated.... Option 1 : install game from scratch ..if that doesnt fix it then.. Option 2 (if Option 1 doesnt work) : back up all ur important stuff to another hard drive... -install windows again from scratch.. -install latest video driver for ur card... --dont install realteck audio driver..let windows install the sound driver...to avoid any sound driver issue with game... -if u can play the game ..t -hen go ahead install sound driver and see if u can play game or not .. -that should do it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xp3rT Posted November 26, 2011 Member ID: 379 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 14 Topic Count: 58 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 346 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 187 Achievement Points: 2721 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/13/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 17, 2019 Birthday: 12/05/1990 Share Posted November 26, 2011 The only problem I have is that I can't run xfire when the game is on otherwise the game won't launch. But that's not a big deal I just turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 26, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 26, 2011 xCaliber installed it ..zero erroe since ..no flickering ..fixed everything for me ..playing non-stop since then.. I guess it could be graphics card driver.. What I would do .. **try chrome as your gaming browser ..I heard it helped a lot to some ppl.... some times it could be flash player too that needs to be updated.... Option 1 : install game from scratch ..if that doesnt fix it then.. Option 2 (if Option 1 doesnt work) : back up all ur important stuff to another hard drive... -install windows again from scratch.. -install latest video driver for ur card... --dont install realteck audio driver..let windows install the sound driver...to avoid any sound driver issue with game... -if u can play the game ..t -hen go ahead install sound driver and see if u can play game or not .. -that should do it ... Option 2... Are you serious???!!! As with just about all PCs bought off the shelf, OS disks are not supplied. I know you mean well but I do much more with my PC than play BF3... I'd have to ask anyone suggesting radical "fixes" whether they had carried them out themselves with a successful outcome as they infer that the root cause of the problem is known (and it clearly is not). The game publishers are both better equipped and obliged to investigate the problem their developers have caused and the fact that thousands of people are suffering identical symptoms points to a problem they ought to be able to identify with their in-house test rigs. There's only so much jumping through hoops that a player is prepared to do and I have finished mine. I do not believe this is something a user can possibly fix - had that been the case, the fix would be out there and certified by a large number of players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
X-RINGCUTTER>XI< Posted November 26, 2011 Member ID: 260 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 112 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 16 Achievement Points: 602 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17, 2022 Birthday: 06/09/1979 Share Posted November 26, 2011 IT's not the game, its something on your system, slow load times are the only problem I have had and some gpu oc stability issue that was fixed with a voltage tweak. I run afterburner, EVGA E-leet, Teamspeak 3, Real Temp and task manager all while playing the game both before and after the patch. I turned off hyperthreading and this game use's 75 percent of an I7 920 quad@ 4.2 and almost 4gb of ram it's a hog of a game! I dont have x-fire anymore so can't comment on it but x-fire never worked for me the way it was supposed to anyway. I could only see and chat to my friends, it never linked to games right for me so no joining on a friend thru it! If it is the game it seems to be a memory leak issue read this link below. hope this can get someone else back in bf3. win7 32-bit users try this it worked for a friend of mine who just installed the game after the patch and his system would bf3 stopped responding even in campaign mode. if you read it all 64-bit users have done it to and smoothed out game play some too. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2222409 this fix is all over at different forums andathech,OCN,EVGA, etc. and deejay some people do fresh windows installs 3-4 times a year just for fun. Not me though LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted November 27, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted November 27, 2011 X-RINGCUTTER>XI< win7 32-bit users try this it worked for a friend of mine who just installed the game after the patch and his system would bf3 stopped responding even in campaign mode. if you read it all 64-bit users have done it to and smoothed out game play some too. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2222409 this fix is all over at different forums andathech,OCN,EVGA, etc. and deejay some people do fresh windows installs 3-4 times a year just for fun. Not me though LOL Ringcutter, you clever old stick you.... IT WORKED! Thanks a million for getting me back into the fray! You're a star! To the rest of you, I have just this to say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
tsw 8.5 Posted November 27, 2011 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 143 Topic Count: 513 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17093 Content Per Day: 3.25 Reputation: 42087 Achievement Points: 148623 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 678 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Share Posted November 27, 2011 Yes a lot of people running 32 -bit had the same prob .if you can run 64 bit i would change over .it is way better .. the game runs great for me .64-bit windows 7..16 gigs ram 1600.. 2500k .3.3.. 2 + 260 o/c ..cards never get over 62 c and with my new cooler cpu never gets over 48 c .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
X-RINGCUTTER>XI< Posted November 27, 2011 Member ID: 260 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 112 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 16 Achievement Points: 602 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17, 2022 Birthday: 06/09/1979 Share Posted November 27, 2011 I saw you in there today deejay glad it worked for you too, now I need to get those tags off your neck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
PrimalFear Posted November 28, 2011 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Author Share Posted November 28, 2011 DEEJAYKEG X-RINGCUTTER>XI< win7 32-bit users try this it worked for a friend of mine who just installed the game after the patch and his system would bf3 stopped responding even in campaign mode. if you read it all 64-bit users have done it to and smoothed out game play some too. http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2222409 this fix is all over at different forums andathech,OCN,EVGA, etc. and deejay some people do fresh windows installs 3-4 times a year just for fun. Not me though LOL Ringcutter, you clever old stick you.... IT WORKED! Thanks a million for getting me back into the fray! You're a star! To the rest of you, I have just this to say... I'm really glad your back online DeeJay, grats and see you in the servers Well done Ringcutter very cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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