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simplemod400 - Crashing I can get into a map, and play a whole round, but when the map is over, and next map starts to load, I just crash back to windows. Running win7 x64. Just wondering before I uninstall and reinstall and patch back up to 1.7 if anyone has any ideas as to why I might be crash at rotation only. It's quite common if you don't have the next map in the rotation. Do you use the >XI< Downloader? It's a good way to keep your maps up to date as a new rotation goes in every month. One way to avoid the crash to desktop is to hit [ESC] to return to the game menu then rejoin the server.

2cuteSue NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! OMFG!!! IM DOOMED!!! I loved how the mines stayed active even after you got killed... Now they gonna disappear!!!!! WELL IM FUKED!! Yeah, that's the change I don't like either! I looked on mines as my compensation for continually being killed by aircraft (that they made harder to shoot down for some reason!) and snipers (at least one can sneak up on them for a revenge knife kill though). Ah, what the heck - I never thought my k/d ration would get anywhere near 1:1! I'm hoping the update won't introduce further problems like the last patch did... I have one enduring issue with the game freezing if I exit to the battle log then try to join a server again. Similarly, I sometimes have to make two or three attempts to join a server when I first start the game as it just sits there saying "Loading level" but never finishes. At least they recognise that it isn't the best idea to bundle a game update with the Karkand DLC. Yes, many of us bought the Limited Edition that includes an unlock for this but thousands will not have done and yet have to endure the long download. The size of the update could eat seriously into bandwidth allowances imposed by ISPs. Fortunately, I have 60GB per month.

Reproduced from the Battle Log: "We will release an update to the PC version of BF3 on Dec 6th -- that is, Tuesday morning around 8AM GMT next week. This coincides with an upgrade of many of our central systems which will be down for some hours starting around that time. It will be both a client update -- approximately 2GB in size -- and a server update. The client/server combination will be incompatible with older clients/servers. All players will be prompted to download the update once it has been released. All RSP companies will begin upgrading their servers at the same time. The client update is large because it contains most of the content for Back to Karkand. This is not ideal, so we aim to make potential DLC content in the future as optional downloads. Bugfixes Fixed a problem with spawn timer now showing blue border on startup and lost spawn point Fixed a problem where player who joined queuing on End of round got spawn screen stuck on screen, but unable to do anything with it untill next round loaded Fixed a problem where camera would change to 3rd person on killcam when killcam was turned off in server settings Fixed stat references on several dogtags Fixed for surveillance ribbon not counting TUGS Fixed a missing combat area lines on the minimap for Grand Bazaar conquest small Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree Fixed a problem where placing C4 with the russians soldier was playing US faction VO Fixed a problem where TV guided missiles could be shot into its own helicopter and destroy it Fixed a problem when attempting to fire lock on weapons without a target Tweaked the chat, it should now be a bit easier to read Fixed several vehicles that did not properly shoot rockets and guns towards their predictive sights Fixed the G17 Supressed Laser not working properly Added alternate HUD colors to help colorblinds Added a network interpolation setting. This allows users with good bandwidth reduce latency, but might increase some stuttering. The user can find what works best for his connection by tweaking the slider. Increased the Spawn protection radius on TDM Fixed a problem with smoke on land vehicles, Missiles should now miss more often Fixed a problem where users could end up with IRNV scope in any vehicle Fixed a problem where player dies if vaulting over a ledge and into water while sprinting Fixed several crashes and increased general stability Fixed a problem where the user was unable to revive two players that have the bodies one over the other Fixed so you can assign an axis and use as a digital input. This makes it possible for the player (on pc) to assign one of the sticks on a gameped to be used for throttle/brake. Fixed a problem with the Kill camera acting up when suiciding from parachute Fixed air radar was showing to much. now lasertagged, heatsignature above threshold, enemy missiles and capture points are only visible on air radar Fixed a problem where the game would enter a technical hang if the user pressed pause menu and tilde at the same time Fixed a problem where you could get green flashes on screen You can now reassign cycle weapons Fixed so the weapon zooms automatically after bipod deploy is gone when using zoom toggle Fixed a problem where the parachute would stay stuck in air if the owner was killed Balance Tweaks Fixed several weapons so they are properly suppressed and hide the player on the minimap when fired. Tweaked Tactical Light so it is not as blinding over longer ranges. Tweaked the IRNV scope so it is limited to usage only at close range. Reduced heat masking effectiveness of Spec Ops Camo. Fixed a bug where Ammo spec would give additional 40mm grenades instead of Frag spec. Increased the number of additional 40mm grenades from Frag spec. Fixed so AT mines only live for 20 seconds after a player dies to prevent infinite mines. Increased the Time to Live on sniper caliber rounds to allow extreme distance shots. Fixed several weapon descriptions, calibers, and fire rates. The weapons themselves have not changed. Fixed so the M9 and MP443 pistol can be equipped by the opposing faction when it is unlocked at 100 kills. Fixed Laser Guided Missiles missing their targets if the target is moving too fast. Reduced the effectiveness of Stealth on Air Vehicles. Reduced the effectiveness of Beam Scanning for Jets. Reduced the damage done to Armored Vehicles and Infantry from AA guns. Increased the damage RPGs and Tank shells do to AA vehicles. Slightly decreased the accuracy for all weapons on fully automatic, burst fire is now preferable at mid to long range. Increased the effective accuracy of long bursts for LMGs when using a bipod. Slightly increased the range of the 44magnum bullets. Increased the close range damage of 4.6x30mm and 5.7x28mm bullets. Increased the reload time of the Mortar from 3.5sec to 4.8sec and increased the time it takes before a shell hits the ground. Reduced the aimed accuracy bonus given by a Suppressor for the MP7, P90, PP2000, PP-19, and UMP45. Increased the range and FOV for designating targets with the SOFLAM and vehicle Laser Designators. Decreased the effectiveness of 12g FRAG ammo when equipped on semi-automatic and automatic shotguns. Slightly Increased the power of Fighter Jet Cannons against all vehicle targets, especially Helicopters. Decreased the power of Miniguns against Jets and Helicopters. Increased the power of Stingers against Jets. Flares reload times for Jets and Helicopter Gunners have been increased. Tweaked the AN94 so its burst fire better conveys the real world advantage offered by this weapon. Added Single Shot to the AN94 as an available fire mode. Slightly increased the recoil on the M416 and removed the Burst Fire mode (this weapon incorrectly had burst fire, which was not authentic). Tweaked the spawns for TDM on Kharg Island, Grand Bazaar, Caspian Border, Seine Crossing, Operation Firestorm, Damavand Peak and Noshahar Canals Moved a tank spawn in US base on Caspian Border so it would not be destroyed by a falling tree Tweaked the Gas station Capture area on Conquest on Caspian Border Tweaked the max vehicle height on Noshahar Canals Min player requirements Also, it will once again be possible to reduce the number of players required to start a round to 1 both in ranked and unranked mode. We changed it back after getting a lot of negative feedback from both individuals and the RSP companies. Our plan for the future is to introduce a warm-up mode, where players can move about and play the game, but with scoring disabled; then, when the number of players goes above the threshold -- that's when the real round starts."

Sonovabich Also to be honest, seeing a lot of the crap that gets typed in is hard sometimes, either because you are engrossed in the game or it is just too hard to see with it being light blue, well it is for me at least, but all help is greatly appreciated. As for the auto assign i will look into that m8, i had no idea that other servers were doing it, maybe Rugger can sort it. Is the chat logged to a file that can be viewed afterwards? Does the console currently post our few rules automatically so any racists, trolls and bigots are forewarned?

Love the ray guns! Wish I could find them more easily.

Pink just isn't your colour... Hope it was a good one whatever you really unwrapped!

I'm puzzled. I thought FN was Belgian. Were they bought out?

RD ROFL.....Wonder if alcohol is/was involved in this at some time .... I hope we learn more about the people involved as they'd be prime Idiot material!!!

SgtHarryWeezer Ditto on the Salvation Army. I manage an annual fund-raising effort that last year raised nearly $60,000. This money goes to our local Salvation Army, which screens applicants for help and sends food vouchers to the neediest families in a six-county region. I've worked with the SA for 27 years and there is no better organization to bring help to where it's most needed. Please don't pass by those buckets without dropping in what you can. One of the best, traditional sights and sounds in our town centres, at this time of year, is the SA band playing carols. They help us get in the real Christmas spirit, certainly. They are, also, the only local church that has put a flyer through our door recently saying, "We're here for you". In my view, they are the closest thing to saints walking our streets. God Bless every soldier of the Lord!

This is insane...

My wife has a saying: "We are all just one step away from the street." That's not a warning of something that is about to happen but the understanding of how fragile our lives really are. As the years have passed, I have become more disenchanted with the way that Christmas has been perverted by big business into a glorified shopping fest. I now refuse to participate in an orgy of greed and self-indulgence. I am no Scrooge but celebrate in moderation, these days, and, as important as getting gifts for those we know and love, we also give "gifts" to those we don't know yet still love. A favourite charity for many years has been the Salvation Army whose befriending of the friendless, help to the poor and homeless and provision of companionship and hot meals on Christmas Day to the lonely elderly warms the heart. We support them year-round and especially their Christmas Appeal, just launched. So, people, please do consider supporting their work, this Christmas and beyond. You'll find them here: USA: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf UK & Ireland: http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf Canada: http://www.salvationarmy.ca/ Europe: http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq %5Cwww_sa.nsf/vw-sublinks/AEF86859F933F7F180256D4B00469A20?openDocument Australia: http://salvos.org.au/

GorillaXI Here ya go DeeJay. It is the JSF-35 that you want to hover in. (Why did the UK government scrap our Harrier fleet! Grrr!) Knowing my luck, I shall continue to spawn far away from the aircraft and next to a beach buggy!

1Deerhunter 2_MANY_BEERS For christ sake start ya bastard. LOL +1 brings back memories I could have done with some of this when I owned an Italian car - a FIAT! (That stands for "Fix It Again Today"!)

Ooooh! Jets that hover like choppers! Carnage!

Shamu So, now I now who is shooting me. Never worry about language on this site, in fact your English may be better than some of the British accents we hear. Oi! What you talkin' abart, yer daft septic? (A "Septic" is an American - 'septic tank' = 'yank' )

For those problematic cars...

Welcome, Kilo, my friend! A worthy recipient of the tags!

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...

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.

My vote for the nastiest food commonly available here (UK) goes to the doner kebab. Every town across England has at least one Turkish/ Kurdish kebab shop and this sliced lamb from a rotating spit is usually served in a pitta bread with salad and chilli sauce. It is usually eaten when the consumer is drunk and has no interest in how long the meat has been on the spit, or how often it has been heated up and cooled down again... I haven't bought one for years having been put off them permanently by the discovery of a beetle crawling through the last one I bought! "Research by the UK's Food Standards Agency in 2006 found that 18.5% of doner takeaways posed a "significant" threat to public health, and 0.8% posed an "imminent" threat." Full BBC feature article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7841890.stm

What relation is he to you, Maz?

I think the wheels on this boat are better...

General Philip Sheridan?

Uninstalled the game and Origin, deleted all temp files, fixed the registry then reinstalled Origin and downloaded the whole game again. It took 2½ hours after which I managed to get on the clan's Conquest 64 server at the third attempt. I played for about two minutes and the game stopped working. I have now admitted defeat and shall wait for the next patch whenever that may turn up. If some kind person could post in this forum when that arrives, I'd be grateful.

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