Battlefield 3 has stopped working.

I found a fix that works everytime I've had this.

"BF3 has stopped working"

I started to get that message on Windows 7 64-bit and had no idea what the hell it was.Turns out it's a new update that didn't install correctly.

If you get it:
1 - open origin
2 - right click on Battlefield 3
3 - select REPAIR INSTILLATION

This will go through and check your instillation and in my case it also found an update and installed it.

Hope that helps anyone else with the same issue.
 
I cannot play more then 2 rounds without this , such a shame as i bought a new GPU just to play this :(

ill give the above fix ago and see if that helps
 
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If you're getting disconnected a lot you should try updating your router firmware. Just please make sure you have a copy of your current firmware so you can roll back if you get issues.

Back when we beta tested BC2 I would get non stop disconnects but updating my router firmware fixed it without issue.

I also found conflicts between the game and REALTEC audio drivers. You can test by disabling your sound devices in DEVICE MANAGEMENT, then playing the game. Turned out my motherboard sound drivers were causing me to crash.
 
trentlad said:
I found a fix that works everytime I've had this.

"BF3 has stopped working"

I started to get that message on Windows 7 64-bit and had no idea what the hell it was.Turns out it's a new update that didn't install correctly.

If you get it:
1 - open origin
2 - right click on Battlefield 3
3 - select REPAIR INSTILLATION

This will go through and check your instillation and in my case it also found an update and installed it.

Hope that helps anyone else with the same issue.
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Thanks I didn't know about this.

I'd get that message for every 1st game I tried to join. I would have to Task Manager the .exe and then connect again. Worked ok for every other connection I do.

After following your steps it's repaired the install and found a 50MB update, which is nice. :) Have yet to try BF3 and see if it's fixed the issue, but I'm confident.
 
I know this thread's ridiculously old now, but was there ever a fix? I've tried loads of things (disable origin overlay, underclock gpu, return cpu to stock, turn graphics settings down, disable cloud sync, update pb) and I still get a 'bf3 has stopped working' crash between 1-15 mins of playing. I remember just giving up when it came out and decided to wait for patches to fix it... apparently they never came -_-
 
Cheers, most threads I've seen describing the same issue as mine (which only affects MP, strangely) are from people running ATI cards. I've got a GTX 570 with the latest firmware, so the fixes involving driver updates/rollbacks are no good to me :(
 
I only have problem with CO-OP (like many do). Co-OP is cancelled every time I am trying to play with friends: Loading, than screen goes back to desktop and battle-log says: game cancelled! Very frustrating and silly as some people pay full price for a game and can't access game with friend! This problem is since day one and DICE has done nothing so far. Shame and disappointment.
 
Hadnt played for ages and tried to yesterday and no matter what i put or didnt put into the server browser filters, it only fibds 1 or 2 matches with players and the rest are empty, probably a problem with my end, any ideas would be good ta
 
Yeah disabling upnp wouldn't work for me. I did a clean install of the latest NVidia driver (which crashed Windows 8, unsurprisingly) but after a restart, I haven't had the game crash on me since. since.

Now I've got a new issue (which has happened a few times before when playing BFBC2) where after playing for a long period my computer makes a long 5 second bleep sound, then powers off after a couple of seconds. I think my mobo's on its way out anyway... it's almost 5 years old and routinely throws stupid little tantrums :D
 
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