BF3 freezes

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:00

Hi All sorry if this is in the wrong place. Just started MP this morning and have played about a dozen games, but in all the games after about three minutes the screen freezes and I have to press the tower button to get back to desktop. Am I missing something I should be doing in this. I play BFBC fine and the Beta played OK. any ideas will be appreciated.

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:13

Just to add a bit more, win 7 device manager says I'm using driver version 8.892.0.0

Quick Mustard · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:15

What temps are you getting on the CPU and GPU?

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:19

Quick Mustard said:
What temps are you getting on the CPU and GPU?

thanks for your reply just going to down load msi afterburner to find out

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:24

larryddd said:
Hi All sorry if this is in the wrong place. Just started MP this morning and have played about a dozen games, but in all the games after about three minutes the screen freezes and I have to press the tower button to get back to desktop. Am I missing something I should be doing in this. I play BFBC fine and the Beta played OK. any ideas will be appreciated.

Are you using a VPN to play, or are you not in the UK?

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:24

A noob question here do I run afterburner while the game is playing to find out

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:26

El_Commi said:
Are you using a VPN to play, or are you not in the UK?

no I'm in the Uk and I'm not using a VPN

Quick Mustard · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:26

Yep, make sure you have the monitoring stuff activated in settings to view all of the stats in the top left corner.

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:31

larryddd said:
no I'm in the Uk and I'm not using a VPN

MP servers shouldn't go live till this evening. Midnight tonight afaik

I'm still getting the release date check.

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 13:34

Quick Mustard said:
Yep, make sure you have the monitoring stuff activated in settings to view all of the stats in the top left corner.

thanks for the reply how do you activate the monitoring stuff in options. my GPU temp is 44 and the usage is 100.

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:06

Have installed 11.9 drivers and am still getting freezing. any ideas. thanks

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:11

What happens when your system freezes?
Any error message?
What is battlelog doing?

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 15:22

El_Commi said:
What happens when your system freezes?
Any error message?
What is battlelog doing?

The screen just freezes after about five minutes, there's no error message and windows is still running in the background when I press the tower button to come back to windows its still there, so I assume battlelog is still running. cant understand it.

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:11

larryddd said:
The screen just freezes after about five minutes, there's no error message and windows is still running in the background when I press the tower button to come back to windows its still there, so I assume battlelog is still running. cant understand it.

Hmm- I'll ask about.
Looks like it's been fully released early

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:20

El_Commi said:
Hmm- I'll ask about.
Looks like it's been fully released early

Thanks for your reply, one thing I can do is play the single player OK it goes great, which makes me think its not the graphics card because if it was surely I couldn't play the single.

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:28

Have you tried it in a clean boot environment?
If single player works fine, it could be a connection issue with battlelog.
Are you using wireless, what are your pings/tracerts like when the game crashes?

no one I've asked seems to be having the same issues atm I'll keep asking tho.

larryddd · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:39

El_Commi said:
Have you tried it in a clean boot environment?
If single player works fine, it could be a connection issue with battlelog.
Are you using wireless, what are your pings/tracerts like when the game crashes?

no one I've asked seems to be having the same issues atm I'll keep asking tho.

Thanks for your help El sorry if this is something I should know but what is a clean boot environment.My pings I believe are low. Would punkbuster in any way affect my game.I believe there are monitoring stuff you can have on your screen do you know which keys they are.sorry for all the dumb questions.

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:40

El_Commi said:
MP servers shouldn't go live till this evening. Midnight tonight afaik
I'm still getting the release date check.

I came off VPN the moment I activated and its worked fine lol

El_Commi · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:44

larryddd said:
Thanks for your help El sorry if this is something I should know but what is a clean boot environment.My pings I believe are low. Would punkbuster in any way affect my game.I believe there are monitoring stuff you can have on your screen do you know which keys they are.sorry for all the dumb questions.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
It's a basic step the EA support guys will ask you to try if you call them.
Punkbuster shouldn't. I would recommend trying to update it manually if you haven't done so already.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php

What do you mean by keys btw?

Lee- yeah, looks like they came up early and I'm stuck in work :<

lee20010 · 27 Oct 2011 at 16:50

El_Commi said:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
It's a basic step the EA support guys will ask you to try if you call them.
Punkbuster shouldn't. I would recommend trying to update it manually if you haven't done so already.

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bf3.php

What do you mean by keys btw?

Lee- yeah, looks like they came up early and I'm stuck in work :<

I meant like on the 25th, I came off VPN as my whole internet was laggy, and ive always got a server lol

I'm at work till 5:30. Will hit BF3 then