NickTheGrip Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted December 30, 2011 Hey I just bought and downloaded BF3 and back to Karkand on my PC However, no matter what type of game I try to play (multiplayer or campaing - so I can get all my controls set up without pissing too many people off) it goes to the battlelog and the starts initializing game and just sits there - forever I have tried going into the folder direct and starting BF3 that way but it simply jumps me back to Origin Any help would be greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
xCaliber Posted December 30, 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 December 30, 2011 try to close the bf3 on taskmanager/processes...see ifits running ..if it is running the back ground ..u need to kill the bf3.exe there..then try rejoining... OR log out origin and log back in origin ..will fix the issue for u .. let us know .... by the way,,bf3 starts from browser...all u have to do is double click the game in origin ..it will take u to browser and select the server u want to play ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Ok, I will give it a try - thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Blackbart Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Silly me...All your prattle about being stuck in Tenn. lately, I thought you was stuck in a city called Origin Tenn...LOL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Well thanks for that Bart you Ass - LOL Seriously, nothing I have tried works. I have checked the online forums and it seems I am not the only one having this issue. I am totally frustrated, having paid well over 50 bucks for a game I cannot even play. I even tried setting affinity for the origins program to a single core on my cpu as indicated as a possible solution then setting BF to all 8 with no success. (that seemed to work for some people) Guess I will be giving MW3 a look as I know that works just fine - THIS SUCKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wildbill72 Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 1624 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 669 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 558 Achievement Points: 5061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2020 Birthday: 04/01/1972 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Mine used to hang when i'd join a server,saying all the jargon of joining server,loading level but there was nothing on my screen only the battlelog ....then i realised the little bf3 icon in the task bar so i pressed that and into the game i went...So its possible it could be starting minimised to your task bar,sometimes it loads straight to game and sometimes it starts minimised,thats what happens with mine so its something to be aware of.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.17 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 December 30, 2011 Nick, are you running this on a 32-bit system? If you are, the following memory allocation fix may help you: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654489539637056/last/ It did the trick for me (but I also shut down all non-essential programs and processes before trying to play). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted December 30, 2011 Thanks guys. I will check into this WildBill - I don't get the BF3 icon so I dont think I am getting that far DJ - I am running this on Windows 7, home premium, 64-bit so I dont think the memory fix will work. I will also double check this though Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BigGoliath1 Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 2928 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 9 Topic Count: 17 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 118 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 5 Achievement Points: 784 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/26/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 8, 2013 Birthday: 04/02/1975 Share Posted December 30, 2011 I have the same issue sometimes. I have to open Task Manager and end the BF3 process and try again. Another tip is to right click and exit origin and try it from a fresh login. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonovabich Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.28 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.93 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 131491 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 1 Device: Windows Share Posted December 30, 2011 Nick maybe you need someone who you trust with crossloop or Teamviewer 6 and let them get onto your PC and have a look for themselves, maybe that will explain what you are seeing a bit better, of course you need someone who will have an idea what is going on, that lets me out, it will probably be a simple fix but that's easy for me to say as it ain't happening for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronXI Posted December 30, 2011 Member ID: 1102 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 12 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 312 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 10 Achievement Points: 1924 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/08/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 1, 2012 Birthday: 10/13/1983 Share Posted December 30, 2011 Sonovabich Nick maybe you need someone who you trust with crossloop or Teamviewer 6 and let them get onto your PC and have a look for themselves, maybe that will explain what you are seeing a bit better, of course you need someone who will have an idea what is going on, that lets me out, it will probably be a simple fix but that's easy for me to say as it ain't happening for me maybe cavey can help out with it. He was able to use Teamviewer to help out with issues that I had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted December 31, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Author Share Posted December 31, 2011 Well thanks for the help from everybody and especially thank you to Rockape and Sonovabitch who were helping me through PM and were offering to hook up via xfire and walk me through it. Problem is, the time I can play is late at night (Eastern time-US) when they are both, hopefully, asleep so I was determined to figure this out without bothering too many people, even though, as usual, the XI family is always willing to go out of their way and help. Anyway, this is what I figured out It seems, for some reason, Origins was downloading the BF3 files to the wrong location. It kept downloading them to the root directory in a folder called Battlefield3. Unfortunately, the origins downloader was set to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games. So I think once the game was downloaded it was looking for the files in the wrong place. I tried manually moving the files to the right place but that didnt work because as soon as Origins started up it said I had to download the game again to the wrong location. I researched online using the thread "BF3 files in wrong location" and after about 30-40 pages I found one that mentioned as a by-line "I had some old download cache files from BF2-Bad Company that kept forcing me to load to the root but once I deleted them it worked just fine" so I cleaned out every single file even remotely related to EA and it started downloading to the right location. I checked it this morning and it worked. Thanks for the help and offer of further help. It is really appreciated. See you in game (though not tonight, for obvious reasons) Happy New Year everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
wildbill72 Posted December 31, 2011 Member ID: 1624 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 22 Topic Count: 56 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 669 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 558 Achievement Points: 5061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 4, 2020 Birthday: 04/01/1972 Share Posted December 31, 2011 Its great youve got it sorted,a lot of people have had a lot of messing around to get it going but well worth it in end so see you in game sometime......And a Happy new year to ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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