Battlefield 3

[Dundas]

My handle is Warbow1 if anyone wants to add me to play with!

[Mar]

Yea, that happened to me too, I messed around with the audio settings and turning off the second option (sound ambient? Something like that), fixed it for me. I'm running a Core 2 Duo at 2.9GHz and a Radeon 5570 with 4GB of RAM on Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit. Runs smoothly at the preset High settings and 1360x768 Resolution. Only chokes during lots of smoke.

Expect lots of patches/updated drivers to be released in the next couple of weeks.
I also get TONS of lag on 64 player maps, but not on 32. Which I don't mind. I bet they'll fix it sooner or later. And it's not just me either, a couple of other guys were complaining about it too.

But all in all, one word describes BF3..... SEXY

Turned Enhanced Stereo Mode off, helped a bit I think, but the game is still running like crap on minimum settings. I'm sure it has to do with the game's sound.

[Dundas]

I have a platoon created called goesboom that my fried and I as well as Husky are in. I would be happy to open it up as a gathering place for AH players to meet up an play in. Add me and I will invite any of you.

[branch37]

Do i have to reach a certain level before I can play hardcore?

[Mar]

I apologize for continuing to slightly hijack the thread, but could anyone tell me if installing BF3 in the 64 bit Program Files instead of the 86 folder on Win7 64 bit would cause problems? I thought BF3 was going to have a 64 bit version?

[titanic3]

Do i have to reach a certain level before I can play hardcore?

Nope, if you're on PC, there's checkbox in the server browser you can turn on or off for HC mode only. I don't know about consoles though.

I apologize for continuing to slightly hijack the thread, but could anyone tell me if installing BF3 in the 64 bit Program Files instead of the 86 folder on Win7 64 bit would cause problems? I thought BF3 was going to have a 64 bit version?

It should install into whatever folder your Origin is located. No need to change any settings during install, just press install, next, accept, and you're good to go.

[Tupac]

TAEKWONDIABETES on XBL if anyone wants to add me

[Mar]

Well that wasn't it anyway, just spent two hours getting the stupid thing to reinstall, still runs like crap. EA better fix this or I'm going to be mad, there's nothing wrong with my system.

[fullmetalbullet]

Well that wasn't it anyway, just spent two hours getting the stupid thing to reinstall, still runs like crap. EA better fix this or I'm going to be mad, there's nothing wrong with my system.

what graphics card do you have?

[titanic3]

Well that wasn't it anyway, just spent two hours getting the stupid thing to reinstall, still runs like crap. EA better fix this or I'm going to be mad, there's nothing wrong with my system.

Did you try changing the audio settings? Going from War Tapes to Hi-Fi reduced quite a lot of stuttering for me. And the difference isn't that great, some even prefer the non-echoing sounds on Hi-Fi. I don't mind at all.

I also heard people having luck when changing the sound quality from their playback devices settings. And make sure you have the latest drivers.

[AceHavok]

Anyone know how to make the BF3 Origin download any faster?

[M0nkey_Man]

Anyone know how to make the BF3 Origin download any faster?

talk sweet to it

[allaire]

From the whispers I'm hearing from the net you can't AceHavok.  You are looking at the bright future of EA games.  They said it would be comparable to Steam from the complaints I have seen about the crap DL speeds I would say it isn't.

[Mar]

NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GTX+, never failed me with Crysis, and the graphics in BF3 don't even look like a challenge (minimum settings). The game craps out when there's a lot of sound mostly, turning my view makes it worse. At one point there was so much sound going on that apparently the sound system crashed for a moment and everything went silent, and the game seemed to start running better, I think.

 I've tried Hi-Fi, Headphones and Home Cinema audio settings, they all do the same thing.

I just updated everything after the game released.

I'll keep trying stuff, maybe I'm using too much RAM already, maybe BF3 hates me, maybe I need my money back. Who knows, I just don't need so much hassle at the moment.

Edit: Now I think it's a CPU problem. When I stand still everything is fine, GPU is used at about 80%, sounds don't stutter when I empty a clip. But when I turn round everything screws up, my GPU drops to 16% utilization and the temperature drops like a rock. Maybe it's the GPU screwing up when I turn and the CPU has to take over. I'm just rambling now, I don't know enough about this garbage to figure it out.

[moot]

More RAM, more cores.   That's if all your drivers and hardware really are not the culprits.  The game exploits up to 16 cores.