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Wish it would stop ****ing kicking me! I was 1st and doing really well (for my bf noobiness anyway) and it kicked me 'you were dc from server' -.-
Appletini is still working for me. Just be persistant.
Just played for a couple of hours. Caspian Border is good. But the lack of a decent map makes it very hard to know what is going on, everything was so hectic and noisy. There was never a break! I liked in BF2 that if you went off the beat and track there would be some quiet, it just seems too much! Also with all the stuff on screen, trees, etc, it made it very hard to see what was going on. Had one very good round though, was top player with loads of teamwork points and about 28-8 kills, inf only
Flags are to close together on such a big map, half the map is not used it's all centered in the middle and it can turn in to a meat grinder on occasion.
This brings back some fond BF2 memories.
I remember the day when i used to TK on BF2 for the helicopter, at one stage I was banned from 7 uk servers
Then i stopped doing it
Well... performance on Caspian was absolutely shocking! Stuttering sound, stuttering video, constant fps drops to under 5 on all low settings.
I'm ordering that new cpu tomorrow
Sorted! Had to use a capital 'A'
I'm ordering that new cpu tomorrow
Sorted! Had to use a capital 'A'
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Had some fun firefights just now on Caspian.
Need to sleep. May well stop playing the Beta in a couple of days and save myself for the main game. It'll be despressing having to unlock everything again
Need to sleep. May well stop playing the Beta in a couple of days and save myself for the main game. It'll be despressing having to unlock everything again
I remember the day when i used to TK on BF2 for the helicopter, at one stage I was banned from 7 uk servers
Then i stopped doing it
eugh, thanks for marring that golden period of pc gaming for me.
MSI Afterburner beta 2.2.0
http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/images/MSIAfterburnerSetup220Beta.zip
After installing, go to settings, monitoring, highlight memory usage, gpu usage, fps, etc and for each one click on 'show in on-screen display'
Start the game and information will be in the top left corner in purple colour
Cheers. Nabbed this also, found a RainMeter Plugin and knocked up an Enigma matching skin. Sits permanently visible on my second monitor for ease of reference without overlay
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Think its 1-2PM today and it will be available without a key to download in Origin.
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It'll be between 12.00 and 15.00. Open origin up and look inside the free games section for the BF3 beta. I've preloaded it from a torrent site, so i should be ready to go as soon as it goes live.
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trying to not play this too much incase i scunner myself to it, though i wouldnt mind trying caspian not for flying but to see how easy it is to take out the planes and tanks as i tend to play as infantry
Your new to PC gaming, arent youIt seems the game engine is already well optimized, so it can only get better from here.
Out of interest, seeing as you've got the same card in xfire and you're using MSI-A, is it reporting Mem as 1.5-1.9gb, or is it showing them individually?
I saw someones screenshot earlier which had Mem1 & Mem2, mine only shows Mem and seemingly combines the vRAM to give 1.8gb usually, rather than 900 & 900.
Theres a fair bit of hating on Op.Metro/Rush on here, its not my prefered game mode, i prefer the freedom like most it seems, but there are a lot of people who prefer Rush over Conquest, so i wouldnt say its to save face having included it in BC2 (as someone earlier hinted at).
IMO thats a much more interesting Rush map than those before it, in the past its basically been a restricted bottle-necking revamp of a map perfect for conquest. This one is far more complicated, and i think people (myself included) need to learn to adapt to how it works.
From a bright open outdoor area, to close quarters in poor lighting, and back outside again, you have to adapt to the surroundings, and not just stick with your original load-out and expect the game to play how you want it.
I think you'll be rewarded for considering your options more carefully based on the situation, and not being stubborn and refusing to adapt to its style of play.
Im certain 90% of my future game time in BF3 will be spent on Conquest maps, and the other 10% will be thinking it'd be so much better if this was a conquest map, but it doesnt take much effort to appreciate modes like Rush for what they are, they mix it up, make you adapt to the circumstances and hopefully reasses how you play, rather than have people who have to be in tanks/helis/jets, have to hide on a mountainside and snipe people in different servers! You want to get involved, you have to mix it up a little.
I might not want to play it, but i can appreciate it.
Casp B is stunning though, it still gives me cause to rage from time to time (frequently feel like im not getting any hit/dmg indication, so i'll just collapse in a pool of blood without ever seeing or hearing anything), but everything about this game gets me excited. It may get released with annoying bugs, but i doubt any will be enough to stop me enjoying it, i just wish more companies would push their games the same way DICE have with BF3.
On the subject of getting into the Casp B servers, you want to be sticking to the EU MPUK servers, the US ones work too (myIS worked, and MPUK too), however the EU one for i3D in Amsterdam seems to be on a different password. Easiest way to find out if the pw is right is find a full server, try to join and if it refuses the PW it may have changed, if it says its full, you know the PW is fine. Looks like it'll be changing every day at 6pm CET (7pm BST i think) from what Zh1nt0 has reportedly said (He apparently told EA UK forums the password).
You just have to wait for a server to finish the round, boot everyone out, and then let it reset itself and in that time you just keep trying to join. Its a beta, and its a map were NOT invited to play on, so when considerably more people than were ever intended to be connecting to it, are all trying to get in the few servers running that map, theres going to be a fight for those slots. Its not the games fault, its not the connection system, its supply & demand and people who shouldnt be accessing it getting in. If DICE want us to play in there properly (like Rush/Op.Metro) then im sure they'll make things better. Till then, enjoy it for as long as we have access and they decide otherwise, were not entitled to anything other than Rush/Op.M till release.
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do you guys who use headphones turn stereo mode on or off?
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