DuckyofDeath123

Using the Windows Ping command is not going to pinpoint where the problem is arising. Since that's what I'm trying to do, I would suggest we leave the ping command to sit in a corner in loneliness for now. This is what pingplotter will look like for you. Starting bottom left above the Resume button is "samples to include". Set this to "ALL". Above that is the Trace Interval. Make it 1 second. Above that, number of times to trace. Unlimited is what we want. In the top of Ping Plotter, click the View menu, then Customize View. You get a pop=up window which lets you select things to see. Make sure you have checkmarks on: Err PL% IP DNSName Avg Max Cur Graph Then hit OK to close the pop-up window. Now, enter the IP of the EU HC server (or whatever server you like to play on). To find the IP, simply open your Favorites in Battlelog, click the server, and click "View full server page" on the right. Now, on the server info screen, look at the bottom for the settings pane. The bottom entry oon the right coluymn is "server address". XI EU HC is 91.198.152.34:25503 - but you only want the IP, not the port, so you must throw away the colon and the number behind that, leaving you with: 91.198.152.34 Put that into the "Address to trace" field, top left of the Ping Plotter window. Now, click Trace in the bottom left corner. You should now see the graph being built. If it looks like the one I posted above, with lots of red, Err and PL% even for the first entry in the table, your home network is at fault and we can look into what might be causing it. Or it might look the this one below: In this plot, the first two entries (both are in my home) are faultless and clean, with no errors or PL% ((Packet Loss %... your problem). If this is what your plot looks like most of the way down and it only begins to go red and show PL% halfway through, then your end is clean and it's going to be virtually impossible to make any hard guesses on who can fix what where when. The 'fix' then is we call your internet provider and use words like "please", "fix this for me" and "or I will sacrifice your goldfish to a god of my choosing". There's no chance you will get lucky with them though, and goldfish tastes horrible so that's no upside either.

Yeah, I keep trading killshots with you... Very frustrating :-)

Packet loss is not the same thing as framerate. Your pc can run the game smoothly ( frame rate) but you are having connection issues ( packet loss) Grab www.pingplotter.com Download the standard version Set it to ping to the ip of a server you are going to play on Set the max number of samples to include to ALL (unlimited) in the bottom left and then start playing After 30 minuten, stop playing and look at the graph pingplotter drew. If it shows packet loss and high ping to the first entry, that is your own network which is causing the problem. If it is a hop further down the list, it's something in the internet between you and the server. Grab a sample and post it. Ill check back when I get home and see what we can find. If it is your home network this could be easy to fix.

Actually, that file size depends on your selected video settings. Unlike Fraps you can set tons of things with DXtory which is why I use it. I record with dxtory using Lagarith lossless codec, so I only lose quality when I save the final edit. It is also less CPU intensive than using Fraps or even Fraps's codec in DXTory ( yep. You can.) You can also use an audio splitter with dxtory to have it record game audio, background music, teamspeak an your own voice seperately so you can filter out Killingman's allegations of homosexuality when you take his dogtags. Or blend them in, if you prefer :-) Dxtory is probably the most configurable recorder available, but it isnt free. I do like it though.

You're helping I'm pointing people to this instead of explaining what to set

I hadnt seen obs before. Looks worth a try. Thanks for that :-) Unless you do lossy compression first, this is never going to work even with 25 mbit upload. Compressing it lossy, then recompressing when you edit it is going to leave the quality so poor you mightn't bother at all, really. And of course, lossy compression is going to suck up CPU cycles which in BF4 will not leave your frame rate in good shape unless your CPU is high end. I can't record in 1080p on an i7 960, because it affects my frame rate noticeably. Also, editing the video isn't going to be a very convenient thing to do if you need to download the whole thing when you want to edit your movie. All in all I wouldn't consider doing this. You'd be better off grabbing an old 1TB disk, which is what I did. But I had one lying around from an old file server... But if you really want to try this, can you not simply map a drive to a dropbox account?

Do you want to stream your video so others can spectate in real time, or record so you can make movies later? Both are easy but you need a beefy pc and for streaming a fast network. Upload, not download.

this: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2955064765537481872/ just adds the registry entries for the file. So essentially this is manually installing the plug-in. It could work. But, in the article you link someone mentions they added batlelog to the list of intranet sites (thus lowering the security setings for it, quite probably allowing it to install where before it was being blocked due to too severe security constraints in IE11). That could work as well. I'd try adding battlelog to the local intranet zone first, manually installing the plugin through regedit second and then if they both fail, just grab firefox or Chrome since that's probably easier than rolling back the IE11 update.

Yesterday I played with some friends. Before the new patch, the Win7 user would crash every few games, my W8 rig would crash every few games, and the win8.1 rig of another player would crash every few hours. AFTER the patch, I didn't crash once. Because the serve rbeat me to it. The windows 7 user went to play something else, and the 8.1 player crashed four times in one round of Conquest. So, I'm pretty sure Windows 8.1. won't magically make the crashes go away. It might help, but there's a lot more reasons for crashes than just your Windows version. I'm not sure just how good your start button replacer will work in win8.1, that's worth googling before you try the upgrade.

And the client stability has only been better so far because the servers kept crashing before my client did... other players were still dropping out several times per match as always. By and large, I still feel DICE's approach to programming is to have a few zoo loads of monkeys hammering at keyboards and just ship whatever the compiler doesn't crash on.

Unfortunately I've been having the same periods of stability without ever updating to 8.1 so I can't really be sure 8.1 is the stability buff there. But: R9 is coming. UPDATE #9: PC Game Update Goes Live Nov 14 We are happy to report that the PC Battlefield 4 game update will go live tomorrow, November 14. The main focus of this update is threefold: 1) Reduce the number of crashes We believe this update will solve a large portion of the most commonly occuring game crashes, and the improvement in overall stability should make a big difference for many players. 2) Eliminate a network sync bug If you’ve been experiencing situations in multiplayer where it appears that you are taking damage from enemies through walls, you might have been the victim of a network sync bug. In this game update, we have identified and eliminated one such bug that caused this type of gameplay experience. We are continuing to work on more multiplayer optimizations concerning network performance. 3) Improve Network Smoothing We have made some improvements to the â€Network Smoothing†functionality that you can find in the OPTIONS>GAMEPLAY menu. The Network Smoothing slider governs a group of settings that aim to produce a tighter multiplayer experience based on your specific packet loss situation. If you’ve been experimenting with the Network Smoothing slider earlier, it might now yield better results. If you haven’t tried it before, please explore this setting and set it to the lowest value you can without experiencing graphical glitches in the game. By setting it lower, you can get a tighter multiplayer experience, depending on your specific network situation. More details upcoming Besides the above mentioned focus areas, this PC game update contains a number of other fixes and tweaks that we will detail once it’s live. This game update for PC goes live around 10AM UTC/2AM PST November 14. Your Origin Client should acknowledge and automatically download this update for you, as usual. Otherwise, you can right click your game in the client and select â€Check for Updateâ€. There will be a Battlelog maintenance downtime for about an hour as this update goes live. During this time multiplayer on PC will be unavailable. We will release full patch notes for this game update later, but the three items mentioned above are by far the most important changes in this update. We understand that stability has been rocky for some players, and hope that this update will make the game run smoother and more stable for you.

So, reliability-wise a name brand SSD is no better or worse than a name brand hard disk. Things to be on the watch for are more to do with the controller used than the brand of SSD, to be honest. At the moment, you're spoiled for choice with SSDs. The Crucial M4 and M500 are popular, but have come up as being a little unreliable in some reviews. The Samsung 840 EVO SSDs are spot-on for price/size/performance/reliability at the moment (I've bought a 500 GB one a few weeks ago). Plextor's current M5s drives are doing very well indeed in user reviews for price/performance and size/price. I would have bought a Plextor if I didn't have a discount on the Samsung drive. Don't buy a small SSD if you have budget for a larger one. Having only Windows and your swap file on there is basically investing money to make your PC start up faster, which you do once a day, presumably. If you can get a bigger one that you can fit your most commonly used programs on (this is why I got the 500 GB one, my old 160 GB Intel was too small) then you start getting more benefit out of it. It is true the SSD won't improve framerates in games, but it WILL drastically cut loading times and that is something you notice every map change in a game or with basically everything you do with other programs. The SSD shines most if you don't have to fall back on old HDDs for your everyday things. And check some shops for prices. A lot of people buy an SSD knowing it's expensive, and forget to check if it could have been €100 cheaper at the neighboring shop. And it could have been, since shops know this and prices can vary wildly.

The R8 server update isn't goign to fix the crashing clients, but today's outage of Battlelog was meant to be in preparation of an upcoming client patch which opefully will make the game stable. er. Of course, who knows what new bugs they'll introduce UPDATE #8 (Nov 12): Client patch (PC) The PC client patch for Battlefield 4 will go live in the near future and fixes a number of different issues you have helped us to identify, including a number of the most common crashes and freezes. We will get back to you with a full fix list and a specific date for this update soon. Maintenance downtime (All platforms) Nov 13, we have a planned maintenance starting at 9AM UTC/1AM PST. The maintenance will last for 2-3 hours and multiplayer for Battlefield 4 will be unavailable on all platforms in increments during this window. This maintenance is done in preparation for the upcoming client patches.

To be Commander, first of all you must be level 10. Then you just open a gameserver you want to play on and you have either one, two or three buttons to join with. Join Server, the left-most button, just joins the game as a BF4 player, which is what happens on the XI EU HC server. If the server has Spectator slots, the right-most button is "Join as Spectator". Haven't tried this, seemed boring. On some servers there are also slots reserved for the Commanders of both teams: then you can join with the Join as Commander button and play what is essentially a game of chaotic chess where the pieces go hide in a tree with a sniper rifle and tell you to go play with yourself every time you tell them to take a flag or counter aa vehicle. You can also get random points for sending drones and gunships round and about. http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/battlereport/show/1/398535194294241664/389682867/ This was my first ever Commander round. Essentially you're giving squads targets which they ignore and you call in spy drones, counter drones, and gunships, plus some other scans, and you can zoom in on the action and be utterly unable to influence it in any meaningful way. Essentially, you are the most intelligent piece of radar equipment ever to pine away lonely and ignored in a corner. I got so bored with it I made tea and a ham-cheese-pineapple toasted bagel mid way. Still got two kills. While in the kitchen. Don't ask.

Not if what he's ssaying is right, that he is trying to play the game before it's out in his own region. That's why he's being told to wait till it unlocks I guess. You can already play, just setup a VPN over which you let Origin connect, then you can play the game without having it run over the VPN. But you can't play if you region (Europe...) is still locked without tinkering with a VPN like this, which is what I guess he's saying.