Battlefield 3

[demo]

So I've been doing a bit of investigating, and it turns out BF3 does indeed use HT rather well.

Messing around with a dual core i3 @ 4GHz and HT on and off changes FPS by more than 30-40fps! Then comparing the i3 with HT to an i5 without HT they produced practically identical results.

It seems BF3 only needs a chip with the ability to run 4 threads, it doesnt matter if 2 of them are virtual.

Anyway, its the first game I've come across that uses HT lol, and I know people have been turning it off to make it run smoother, as did I with my hex-core chip, but the dual core is smooth as butter with HT?!

[Dungeoncrawler]

So let me get this staight, when the pc servers are down I cannot play a single-player game?

[Sharkfood]

All of BFHQ is down as they are pushing a patch right now.

They claim to have fixed a ton of the black-screen and new server join bugs. Let's hope this does fix them! They also promise some general loading optimizations, etc. Can't wait for this to finish!

Patch is 483MB here...

[Dungeoncrawler]

Has the battlerecorder/spectator modes been confirmed?

[logical]

Patch notes:

—- Client-Side Changes:
– Visuals, Stability and Performance Fixes:
• General performance and loading time improvements
• “Black Screen” fix for an issue occurring on some PC Configurations
• Stereo and Rendering Support for Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards
• Adjusted the “stuttering” encountered on some PC configurations.
• Fixed several Crashes when joining MP and Co-Op sessions
• Fixed multiple problems when using multiple monitors (Eyefinity / Surround).
• Fixed visual corruption issues on certain Nvidia Cards
• Improved loading times for certain textures
• Added console command “GameTime.MaxVariableFps” to limit max FPS
• Added console command “UI.DrawEnable” to hide UI for screenshots / videos
– Balance and Gameplay Adjustments (PC)
• Fixed a problem with high speed mouse movement
• Added back some missing Growlers on Kharg Island Conquest Large
• Added back EOR sound for SQDM and TDM
• You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position
• Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it(note the affect this will have on Hardcore mode!)
• Spawn protection now should work in Conquest. You should no longer spawn on points too close to enemies
• You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM
• Combat areas on Kharg Rush tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after 1st base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun
• Fixed a problem with revived players not suffering suppression
• Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in COOP
• Added joystick deadzone setting
• Fixed sound for when climbing ladders
• Fixed an issue with some weapon sounds in first person
• Fixed a swim sound loop error
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry
• Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns against jeeps.
• Reduced the physics impact of AA guns and Jet Cannons, players under attack from these weapons should no longer lose control.
• Increased the damage of the 44 Magnum slightly.
• Increased the range and minimum damage of the .357 Round from the MP412 Rex.
• Increased the range of all .45cal and 9mm weapons.
• Slightly increased the range of the P90 and MP7 and PDW-R.
• Slightly increased the range of the 5.56mm PDW-R and decreased the minimum damage at long range.
• Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles.
• Decreased the maximum damage and maximum range of the G3 and SCAR-H 7.62mm weapons.
• Reduced the damage from FIM-92 and SA-18 IGLA missiles against aircraft.
• Increased the damage and range of the 40mm BUCK rounds.
• Reduced the damage .50cal weapons do against Helicopters.
• Updated T90 canister shell tweaks to match Abrams canister shells
UI Changes (PC)
• Added round duration and ticket summary at EOR
• Advanced squad polish – should be more intuitive
• Significant changes to the Join Squad functionality (see below)
• Fixed a problem regarding keybindings while playing
• You should now get a better error message when being disconnected via Battlelog
—- Server Update Highlights
• EOD Bot exploit fix
• Several crash fixes
• Anti-stat padding measures taken, disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
• Improved team kill kick configuration
• Support for unranked servers. Unranked servers do not report players’ scores to Battlelog, but server administrators can freely control all settings
– Share your profile and stats with new Battlelog functionality
• Ability to share your Profile and Stats pages to Facebook, Google+, and Twitter
• User Profile and Stats pages on Battlelog can now be accessed without being signed in to Battlelog if you know a user’s URL
• Single sign on from Battlelog to Origin. If you’re not logged in to Origin and join a game server, Battlelog will automatically sign you in to Origin in the background and join the game server
– Quick notes on Squad changes in the Nov 22 update
• Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option
• Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 squad members
• Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM
• Disable Privacy flag when 1 man squad
• Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when squad drops to 1 player
• All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad Selection screen
• Players who choose not to join squads will also show up as Blue in the “Not in a Squad” line
• Squads that are currently empty will display as white — if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text

[Fat_Daddy_Cool]

Logical, the patch has it been released already, I tried to update and it comes back with already up to date.

[nutcrackr]

patch is out, i just restarted origin and it downloaded 400mb+ and then installed.

[anthony256]

I had to use non-native resolutions before, in my Portrait NVS setup but now it's just completely broken.

Sigh.

[Sharkfood]

Played a few games with the patch...

There is still a periodic crash-on-join for MP.. (Battlefield3 has stopped responding.. [close] ).

Game seems to play ok- some people were saying the TV missiles are majorly broken.

Also, you have to manually join a squad now, so remember to squad-up when joining.

Overall, performance feels good but not really noticing much as it played good for me before. Seems sniper with SV98 is a bit nerfed.. I nailed a couple guys twice from range and it didn't kill them...

[warmonger180]

for the first time since BF42 I havn't been able to play a BF game

[nutcrackr]

Load times faster for me, few servers had some bad rubberbanding (think old tehran highway x5) apart from that feels much the same. Tested out some TDM and the spawns may be better. Tended to put me in quiet areas or places with other buddies.

[Chubz]

Chat window is still too large and the squad joining interface is really the same crap. It's going to be humorous watching DICE fumble around, trying to sort out their miserable UI they've stuck us with. I'm sure it will take at least 10 patches for those goofballs to get it right. Why it's so difficult to make the chat window like it was in BC2 or BF2, I don't know. And the squad system should have more squads to choose from, not exactly enough squads to fit 64 people.

[spindoctor]

just played a round of rush in the losing team as defenders. the game was 16v8 for the last 3 sets of m-coms. how many games has it been since dice had fully functional team autobalancing? their incompetence is astounding.

[Mangler]

So are helicopters and jets untouchable after this patch?

[wc326]

Originally Posted by spindoctor

just played a round of rush in the losing team as defenders. the game was 16v8 for the last 3 sets of m-coms. how many games has it been since dice had fully functional team autobalancing? their incompetence is astounding.

remember playing bc2 with like 5 vs 30+ or something.

[Gerard]

Originally Posted by Mangler

So are helicopters and jets untouchable after this patch?

Wouldn't suprise me as the idiots at dice listened to all the day 1 whining about stingers and have promptly nerfed them,. Regardless of the fact that jets with stealth and flares were virtually untouchable by stingers pre patch.

Dice really do love their little kneejerk reactions to whining, i'll give them that.

[wonder squirrel]

Slightly increased the minimum range of the Mk11, SVD, and M39 EMR 7.62mm rifles.


Does that mean they will do less damage at close range? As it is it takes a headshot to get a kill from a single shot, point blank+

[wc326]

downloaded the patch, and press ready to install.

it will stated the file is installing or something.

after the install is done, and under the BF3 icon on origin. it will say i need to install again wtf ...

what the heck is going on i can't play this thing.


apparently, when i try to find my bf3 shortcut exe file on my desktop. and it was delete.

what did ea do to my game with this patch.. this sucks if i have ot reinstall this thing and have to redownload all the patches

[night]

"
disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
"

[RSViper]

Originally Posted by night

"
disallowing ranked servers to run obscure settings
"

You have to have a minimum of 4 people now to start a match that's scored. It used to be that you could have 1 person in the server and they could cap all the points or blow all the m-coms and would get the points even though there were no other people in the server. It's nice that people can't stat pad, but at the same time it's going to be harder to get a server going from 0 people.

[Uber_Tiny]

Not only are they nerfing our way of getting rid of air support from the ground, but they are boosting them to take out ground pounders even easier.

"Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry"

Some of the stuff in the release notes just doesn't make sense.

[Mangler]

Originally Posted by Uber_Tiny

Not only are they nerfing our way of getting rid of air support from the ground, but they are boosting them to take out ground pounders even easier.

"Increased the damage of Helicopter Miniguns, AA guns, and Jet Cannons against infantry"

Some of the stuff in the release notes just doesn't make sense.

It's like they never takes into consideration just how overpowered their buffs are when there are actually good players piloting the helicopters and jets.

[Uber_Tiny]

Oh my, only two pages in to the feedback section of their forums on the patch and not one post so far is good.

[Dave]

They ****ed something up on the server patch too. Servers are randomly not showing up in battlelog.

[Gerard]

Originally Posted by Mangler

It's like they never takes into consideration just how overpowered their buffs are when there are actually good players piloting the helicopters and jets.

Im starting to wonder if they even play their own game. I remember BC2 everyone complained about the tracer dart being too slow, on the next patch the damn thing literally travelled at light speed. They just seem to go to extremes all the time, if somethings too powerful it gets its balls chopped off in the next update so its worthless.

Any chance of you chucking a brick at their offices?

[Arioch]

The 3D looks great in this game from the short time I tried it out. Yes, convergence is locked but at least it is true dual rendering 3D here. Now back to Skyrim....

[night]

Originally Posted by RSViper

You have to have a minimum of 4 people now to start a match that's scored. It used to be that you could have 1 person in the server and they could cap all the points or blow all the m-coms and would get the points even though there were no other people in the server. It's nice that people can't stat pad, but at the same time it's going to be harder to get a server going from 0 people.

that is an obvious fix, but no reason to not start the game, it just shouldn't score. wasn't that in a previous game?

[wc326]

hmmm, i am still stucking at ready to install loop after this patch.

what can i do

i have delete and reinstall the damn game, this stupid origin thing that doesn't even work......................

[{0}Salamander{0}]

Crashed, then crashed again.

Good one DICE...

[Sharkfood]

Originally Posted by wc326

hmmm, i am still stucking at ready to install loop after this patch.

Can you right-click on the game in Origin? See if there is a Repair Install option as this might work if it's available.

Another thing you might try is to search in your Battlefield 3 folder (where the game is located) for your BF3.exe. If you see a file called bf3.exe_DiP_STAGED, rename it to bf3.exe.