[Kibbles]

What're your system specs? Might be a conflicting software if it's not your hardware giving out.

Intel Core i5-2320 3.00GHz
Sapphire Raedon 7850 OC
8GB RAM

edit: nvm I found out it's only when I overclock, and it does it to every game when I try and overclock. Sucks because I have the same system as someone else and he can overclock just fine without an impact on the system.

[SapientWolf]

Intel Core i5-2320 3.00GHz Sapphire Raedon 7850 OC 8GB RAM edit: nvm I found out it's only when I overclock, and it does it to every game when I try and overclock. Sucks because I have the same system as someone else and he can overclock just fine without an impact on the system.

You have that Alienware X51, right? I keep saying that you guys are pushing that underpowered PSU to the limit. Power usage will go way up when you OC, and system stability will go way down.

[doomed1]

Intel Core i5-2320 3.00GHz Sapphire Raedon 7850 OC 8GB RAM edit: nvm I found out it's only when I overclock, and it does it to every game when I try and overclock. Sucks because I have the same system as someone else and he can overclock just fine without an impact on the system.

Pretty much what Sapientwolf said. If you're trying to overclock on a PSU 500 watts or under, much less with a modern, high end card, I run the most efficient parts I can in my rig, and it's all because I have a measley 300 watt PSU (madness, I know, but I get by... somehow...). For this reason, when I look at the AMD OC application, I laugh to myself a little because there's no chance in hell I'm going to be able to power that. If you can't power your system, it locks up because it's trying to do more than what it has power for and panics, so turn of your OC utility and try again.

Finally got a stationary emplacement ribbon blowing up a tank in Firestorm. The whole 3 man crew. I'm glad those things are so powerful. Otherwise, I wouldn't even see the point to having them in there. Either way, that makes every ribbon acquired at least once. :D

[Kibbles]

You have that Alienware X51, right? I keep saying that you guys are pushing that underpowered PSU to the limit. Power usage will go way up when you OC, and system stability will go way down.

Yeah, other people have been overclocking fine with the same card and system :(
edit: I just realized one of the guys has the i7 model. What? I purposely got the i5 assuming it would consume less power and because i7 doesn't do much for gaming. I do have the 330w PSU, the highest you can get. I don't know how he is doing it, and with the i7 version too. Oh well the game still runs great on Ultra with SMAA for me.

[doomed1]

Yeah, other people have been overclocking fine with the same card and system :( edit: I just realized one of the guys has the i7 model. What? I purposely got the i5 assuming it would consume less power and because i7 doesn't do much for gaming. I do have the 330w PSU, the highest you can get. I don't know how he is doing it, and with the i7 version too. Oh well the game still runs great on Ultra with SMAA for me.

Yeah, that 330w PSU is NOT going to let you overclock. There's a chance that the other guy got a bigger PSU, or even that his CPU is lower wattage (more likely the former), and we're not evaluating their systems either. That 330w PSU isn't going to do you much of anything. Switch it out with something at least 450+, and you'll have a slight bit more headroom to do that sort of thing.

[MrBig]

VFX reel of the destruction in the Close Quarters map pack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6q63GA7a0

[&Divius]

Had a fun moment yesterday: Was practicing with TV missiles on Kharg, taking out tanks but especially aiming for helicopters, so to improve my aim. I took the enemy attackchopper out twice already and when I was out in the field killing infantry I saw it was up again. I shot the TV and apparently the enemy pilot saw it coming because he banked and nosedived like crazy...right into the fully filled Z-11W with both crashing and killing 6 people in total. lol.

edit: Gave the P90 a try, really like it for my run and gun gameplay (I'm always rushing head first into enemy territory), that compliments my playstyle very much. At longer range I feel absolutely useless though. (I know its a CQC wpn)

[&Divius]

Double XP weekend for PC is currently on.

Although the weather is super nice I played a bit and got 125k pts in a single round! good stuff.

[Kibbles]

Yeah, that 330w PSU is NOT going to let you overclock. There's a chance that the other guy got a bigger PSU, or even that his CPU is lower wattage (more likely the former), and we're not evaluating their systems either. That 330w PSU isn't going to do you much of anything. Switch it out with something at least 450+, and you'll have a slight bit more headroom to do that sort of thing.

According to the x51 thread there is plenty of headroom, and the OP has the 7870 which is bigger and takes more power than my card....

[abracadaver]

Whats the best weapon AK74, FAMAS, MK416 or AEK-971 ?

[LEGGZZZZ]

Sooo I finally have enough money for a gaming pc, for those who have played, how big of a difference is the pc version of battlefield 3 compared to the console version? 64 player conquest vs 24 player? 32 player rush? Does it feel more "epic" and like a warzone in comparison? I just want to know what I could be looking forward to, especially if it's almost a entirely different game on pc.

[&Divius]

Whats the best weapon AK74, FAMAS, MK416 or AEK-971 ?

AK74 for medium-long range, because of the low RPM, AEK for close-medium range because of high RPM.

Sooo I finally have enough money for a gaming pc, for those who have played, how big of a difference is the pc version of battlefield 3 compared to the console version? 64 player conquest vs 24 player? 32 player rush? Does it feel more "epic" and like a warzone in comparison? I just want to know what I could be looking forward to, especially if it's almost a entirely different game on pc.

Yes, yes and yes. I can't even imagine Battlefield with less than 64 people.

[LEGGZZZZ]

AK74 for medium-long range, because of the low RPM, AEK for close-medium range because of high RPM. Yes, yes and yes. I can't even imagine Battlefield with less than 64 people.

Damn, I've been playing the inferior version, but still enjoying it, can't even imagine playing a 64 player server :). Time to visit the pc thread...

[Overdoziz]

I can't imagine flying in a plane/chopper on a 64 player server. Stingers everywhere.

[Metalmurphy]

I can't imagine flying in a plane/chopper on a 64 player server. Stingers everywhere.

It's so easy to out maneuver them now in a plane. Heli you just need a good gunner.

[MrBig]

It's so easy to out maneuver them now in a plane. Heli you just need a good gunner.

I really miss being able to outmaneuver a heat seeker with a jet. I don't understand why they nerfed that ability, as it is a real world tactic. Heli I'm fine with ECM as long as 3+ stingers aren't working together. I won't be playing the PC version until I get my new monitor in a week or so though :( (and pay for BF3 again)

It's going to be fun ranking up again, I got stuck in my ways with my 360 soldier. P90+MG36 was pretty much all I used.

[Metalmurphy]

I really miss being able to outmaneuver a heat seeker with a jet. I don't understand why they nerfed that ability, as it is a real world tactic. Heli I'm fine with ECM as long as 3+ stingers aren't working together. I won't be playing the PC version until I get my new monitor in a week or so though :( (and pay for BF3 again) It's going to be fun ranking up again, I got stuck in my ways with my 360 soldier. P90+MG36 was pretty much all I used.

I dunno about the 360 version, but on the PC you CAN outmaneuver them now, it was made easier after the last patch.

[SapientWolf]

I really miss being able to outmaneuver a heat seeker with a jet. I don't understand why they nerfed that ability, as it is a real world tactic. Heli I'm fine with ECM as long as 3+ stingers aren't working together. I won't be playing the PC version until I get my new monitor in a week or so though :( (and pay for BF3 again) It's going to be fun ranking up again, I got stuck in my ways with my 360 soldier. P90+MG36 was pretty much all I used.

They didn't nerf the ability to outmaneuver heat seekers. They fixed a hilarious bug that made heat seekers useless against jets.

[JonCha]

Bought the game for PC today, and got back in the house with the game on 10GB through the GamePlanet downloader. Now is downloading the final 8% suuuper slowly, despite my connection performing as fast as ever. Don't get why it's going slow, but it's definitely the program's fault and not mine.

[RibbedHero]

Bought the game for PC today, and got back in the house with the game on 10GB through the GamePlanet downloader. Now is downloading the final 8% suuuper slowly, despite my connection performing as fast as ever. Don't get why it's going slow, but it's definitely the program's fault and not mine.

What the hell is GamePlanet? Just put the key into Origin and it'll download from EA's servers. I get around 7-8MB/s on Origin, so speed won't be an issue.

[MrBig]

They didn't nerf the ability to outmaneuver heat seekers. They fixed a hilarious bug that made heat seekers useless against jets.

I don't know what the situation was on PC, but on 360 you could bank and spiral into the same direction that the missile was fired from (so you had to know that) and then you had a small chance of it missing you. It was fun, and a way to avoid barrages of op stingers pre-patch, and it was something that only a small amount of people knew about or put into practice. I don't see how it can be considered a bug since it was all happening within game parameters. Also, post-patch, DICE made it even worse than just not being able to outmaneuver the missile, but now flares only distract an incoming seeker maybe 75% of the time as opposed to working as they should.

[JonCha]

What the hell is GamePlanet? Just put the key into Origin and it'll download from EA's servers. I get around 7-8MB/s on Origin, so speed won't be an issue.

It's an online retailer for buying PC games.

And it's working in Origin, but I've got to start from 0% despite having most of the files installed. Is there no way to get those files over to Origin to speed up the process?

[RibbedHero]

It's an online retailer for buying PC games. And it's working in Origin, but I've got to start from 0% despite having most of the files installed. Is there no way to get those files over to Origin to speed up the process?

If you move the files into the Origin folder then they should be detected once you restart Origin. This works for Steam and I believe Origin too.

[Steelyuhas]

You'd think with the DLC out in "June", and June being only a few days away, they would announce a release date.

[SirButterstick]

Easiest way to avoid a Stinger or heat-seeker is to turn around back towards it, but keep it at a 45 degree angle away from your jet. Works a good 90 percent of the time.

No need for thanks for that protip, I know you appreciate me.

[ProXimity]

Double XP weekend for PC is currently on. Although the weather is super nice I played a bit and got 125k pts in a single round! good stuff.

95 and humid is nice (Illinois sucks)?

[-tetsuo-]

What is going on with the optimization of this game? Is no one working on supporting this? When B2K came out, I went from getting 50-60fps at 1080p with max settings to getting 20~fps all the time. I booted the game up today because I have been wanting to play lately and I'm getting even WORSE performance now. At 70p and medium settings I'm here with 10~fps. I can't even play the game anymore!

[RibbedHero]

What is going on with the optimization of this game? Is no one working on supporting this? When B2K came out, I went from getting 50-60fps at 1080p with max settings to getting 20~fps all the time. I booted the game up today because I have been wanting to play lately and I'm getting even WORSE performance now. At 70p and medium settings I'm here with 10~fps. I can't even play the game anymore!

That's odd. I remember most people had vastly improved framerates and load times on B2K maps, myself included. I will admit that performance can be very erratic, and I'm never fully confident in the performance.

[JonCha]

Is there another EU platoon? I read it's full.

Actually, do people even play this game?

[&Divius]

Is there another EU platoon? I read it's full.

NeoGAF Europe was cleaned a while back, you can join if you want <3

Actually, do people even play this game?

I try to play every day.

[JonCha]

NeoGAF Europe was cleaned a while back, you can join if you want <3 I try to play every day.

I've applied, thanks. My name is itsjoncharles.

And a dedicated GAF server? Awesome.

[Binabik15]

Now that I have a really fast internet connection I will try this again. Maybe I'll like it more when I don't start firing on screen long after pressing M1. Maybe not. Rush never felt as exciting as it did in BC2 and destroying m-coms is the best thing in those games for me.

Is it still going strong? I checked servers last week to marvel at my <4 MS pings and most were really empty. Might've been the time of day, though. Support is cool or are engineers still such annoying killing machines that rack up points like crazy?

[&Divius]

I've applied, thanks. My name is itsjoncharles. And a dedicated GAF server? Awesome.

Great, hope to see you soon :D (also sent a friendrequest)

And no, the EU server is unfortunately dead (RIP my old friend) simply because not enough people were playing on it. I think there are US based GAF servers though, but it all depends on ping if they are playable for us.

[JonCha]

Great, hope to see you soon :D (also sent a friendrequest) And no, the EU server is unfortunately dead (RIP my old friend) simply because not enough people were playing on it. I think there are US based GAF servers though, but it all depends on ping if they are playable for us.

Playing console games with US players isn't terrible. Don't see why this would be any different.

And this is literally the first PC FPS I've played, so as you can imagine I sucked at the beginning. Playing the campaign through and getting into the game now, even sniping. Everything's much more twitchy.

[Psycho Powaa]

Core 2 Quad Q9505 2.83 GHz
4GB RAM
GTX 560 Ti

Any reason why I'm getting loading times of 1+ minute every time I join an MP game?

[D_Star]

Because the standard maps themselves consist of nothing more than references to resources of which the maps are built from. That's why the standard maps are only like 7 MB in size.

In comparison, the B2K maps are like 700 MB in size and have most of the meshes and resources enclosed in the same file.

In other words: join the club. It's the same for everyone.

I've heard rumors of loading performance being better when the game is installed on an SSD, combined with loads of RAM.

[RibbedHero]

Found this on some forum a while ago:

1. If your RAM is 4GB or below you will have really long loading times, bumping up to 8GB should improve it alot. But you said your loading times were fine before so i dont think this is the case. 2. Your harddrive is probably fragmented crazy, a messy harddrive will decrease loading times because it becomes harder to find the files. Fragment your harddrive and see if that improves it. 3. If you're on a 64-bit operating system, there was a bug in the registry that caused long loading times. The fix was this " Open / Run regedit. Navigate to: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE/SOFTWARE/WoW6432Node/EA Games Change the GDFBinary & InstallDir paths to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3"

And I'd add to this that you should disable cloud saving in Origin.



For me the one that made the biggest difference was going from 4GB to 8GB RAM, don't know why that works, but it did.

[Seanspeed]

Support is cool or are engineers still such annoying killing machines that rack up points like crazy?

Support's definitely become more useable, although I think most people would still agree that Engineers are the best all-round class. The gun balancing has helped a lot.

[Metalmurphy]

I have 4GB and my loads are pretty fast. I do play on an SSD though.

[MrBig]

Core 2 Quad Q9505 2.83 GHz 4GB RAM GTX 560 Ti Any reason why I'm getting loading times of 1+ minute every time I join an MP game?

Yeah, get an SSD if you are concerned with load times.

[ncsuDuncan]

FYI, new Gaming-side thread:

Battlefield Premium Fact Sheet Leaked

[Linch]

The PC Performance thread seems pretty vacant at the moment but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could offer any advice for me for my problem in this thread.

I was able to play the singleplayer game completely fine, running on high/ultra.

However I get BSOD when I play multiplayer, ever since day one. I can play maybe 10 mins, maybe 3 hours, but it WILL happen.

I have made many changes to my computer in the attempt to stop this. Including changing my GPU (as it was dying, as problems occured in other games), installing a Creative sound card, doing many driver updates, driver cleaning, defrags, disk cleanups etc.

My system specs:

Windows 7 64bit.
Asus P5Q Deluxe mobo.
Radeon Hd 6870 1GB
4GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Q6600 @ 3.0GHZ

Now I know what people will say "Take off the overclocks and try" I have done this and it provided no resolution to the problem.

I have heard that my motherboard may be the problem, as it uses Realtek Audio and that can clash with Punkbuster, however I have disabled the onboard sound in BIOS, removed all drivers and tried installing an old Creative sound card running KX Audio drivers, and now I have plugged the PC into my TV and i'm running audio through my GPU by HDMI.

I still get the problem of a BSOD though. Code 124 I think it was. I'm at the end of my tether with this, I love the game, but I am unable to play it ever since launch day.

I also tried a solution involving Windows Powershell, reinstalling Punkbuster etc that I found on the EA forums, no luck.

Any help is massively appreciated.

Thanks.

[Spazo]

The PC Performance thread seems pretty vacant at the moment but I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could offer any advice for me for my problem in this thread. I was able to play the singleplayer game completely fine, running on high/ultra. However I get BSOD when I play multiplayer, ever since day one. I can play maybe 10 mins, maybe 3 hours, but it WILL happen. I have made many changes to my computer in the attempt to stop this. Including changing my GPU (as it was dying, as problems occured in other games), installing a Creative sound card, doing many driver updates, driver cleaning, defrags, disk cleanups etc. My system specs: Windows 7 64bit. Asus P5Q Deluxe mobo. Radeon Hd 6870 1GB 4GB DDR2 RAM Intel Q6600 @ 3.0GHZ Now I know what people will say "Take off the overclocks and try" I have done this and it provided no resolution to the problem. I have heard that my motherboard may be the problem, as it uses Realtek Audio and that can clash with Punkbuster, however I have disabled the onboard sound in BIOS, removed all drivers and tried installing an old Creative sound card running KX Audio drivers, and now I have plugged the PC into my TV and i'm running audio through my GPU by HDMI. I still get the problem of a BSOD though. Code 124 I think it was. I'm at the end of my tether with this, I love the game, but I am unable to play it ever since launch day. I also tried a solution involving Windows Powershell, reinstalling Punkbuster etc that I found on the EA forums, no luck. Any help is massively appreciated. Thanks.

We will need more information about the error on the BSOD screen. You can take a picture of it with your phone or provide the log from your event viewer (right-click my computer, manage)

[The Faceless Master]

changelog/patchlist/etc

[mr_nothin]

changelog/patchlist/etc

There's nothing exciting in this patch.

[AlmostMilk]

There's nothing exciting in this patch.

M26 is fixed. I would say that is pretty exciting news.

[mr_nothin]

M26 is fixed. I would say that is pretty exciting news.

You barely even run into the m26. There are no new features or game mechanics or anything that's been changed in a major way....aside from the suppression change (if you can consider that major).

[SirButterstick]

You barely even run into the m26. There are no new features or game mechanics or anything that's been changed in a major way....aside from the suppression change (if you can consider that major).

Just out of curiosity, what would you like to see changed? I mean, I figure we're getting pay-for features with the Premium service and the Expansions.

[mysocksarepink]

hey guys

what's the rumored release date for Close quarters? I assume it hasn't been announced yet... probably won't till e3

but is there a rumored release date? and is there any date for the next double xp weekend? missed the last one

*shakes fist at diablo 3*

[petethepanda]

I think the rumored dates were June 4 PS3 and June 11 PC/360. Though If that's true it probably would have been announced by now.