Battlefield 3 and Windows 8 - 64 bit

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I was going to stick this in the big thread but I know it would get lost, but is anyone successfully playing Battlefield 3 using Windows 8? If so, what set up do you have?

Reason is that I am being plagued with problems, the main one being what I believe to be a memory leak after a map change. My PC starts to stutter and just freeze up. RAM usage hits 100% and more often than not, I have to turn my PC off to get out of it. I have found a fix, which is to log out then load up the map at each change, but this is a total pain.

The second issue I have, is that I just cannot play the last two map packs. I can try and load one, but I get a black screen after a few seconds and the 'Battlefield 3 has stopped working' message afterwards. I can play all the other map packs, of course until a map change, when my PC freezes up as above.

My PC is running at stock and I have both an AMD CPU & GPU. I am on the latest drivers, I have checked for Origin / BF3 updates and have tried the repair install so many times it is untrue.

Has anyone had this, or seen any fixes out there? I am getting to the point of reinstalling Win7 64.

No jokes about Windows 8 either it is a little tiresome. ;)

Cheers.
 
I have win 8 64 bit and it plays just fine m8, the only thing I had to do was download it again as it did not like being copied from my win 7 install. Apart from that no hassles at all sir. Setup is in my sig
 
i had windows 8 pro on for a week had nothing but troubles with bf3 and cod 4


just uninstalled it and went back to win7 .
 
PapaLazaru said:
I was going to stick this in the big thread but I know it would get lost, but is anyone successfully playing Battlefield 3 using Windows 8? If so, what set up do you have?

Reason is that I am being plagued with problems, the main one being what I believe to be a memory leak after a map change. My PC starts to stutter and just freeze up. RAM usage hits 100% and more often than not, I have to turn my PC off to get out of it. I have found a fix, which is to log out then load up the map at each change, but this is a total pain.

The second issue I have, is that I just cannot play the last two map packs. I can try and load one, but I get a black screen after a few seconds and the 'Battlefield 3 has stopped working' message afterwards. I can play all the other map packs, of course until a map change, when my PC freezes up as above.

My PC is running at stock and I have both an AMD CPU & GPU. I am on the latest drivers, I have checked for Origin / BF3 updates and have tried the repair install so many times it is untrue.

Has anyone had this, or seen any fixes out there? I am getting to the point of reinstalling Win7 64.

No jokes about Windows 8 either it is a little tiresome. ;)

Cheers.
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When I first installed Win 8 x64 I had problems with some games and the 13.1 drivers (Source engine games & 10,000,000). Uninstalled those and went back to the 12.11 betas and everything was fine. Give that a try?
 
There is deffo issues with win 8.

I'm on win 8 pro 64 bit with a fresh install of OS and BF3, can play the game on ultra in windows 7 but only high on windows 8 otherwise my game stutters and fps drops to like 10 20 40 odd, on high it stays around 40 and 60.

I5 3570k @ 4.4ghz
8gb ram
560 gtx
Bf3 installed to an ssd
1680x1050 res
 
Running just fine with Win 8 Pro and BF3. Did the upgrade from 7 to 8.

I've not looked at my framerate, but I can't say I've noticed a difference.
 
Works fine for me on Win8Pro with i920 at 4Ghz and dual 7970s in crossfire. In fact I've had less problems than with Win7 although that could be driver maturity now...
 
WiZZyWiGG said:
Running fine here also.

Well apart from some weird brief black screen for a second when I die...
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Change your graphics settings once,then change them back and it will be gone for good. ;)

Anyway, at work at mo so have not got much time, but thanks for the replies so far. Going to try rolling back my graphics drivers later and see how that goes.
 
My install of Win8 was fresh, as well as my drivers and I also re-downloaded BF3.

Seems strange that some get problems and some don't. I'll clean the graphics drivers properly and got back to 12.10.
 
PapaLazaru said:
My install of Win8 was fresh, as well as my drivers and I also re-downloaded BF3.

Seems strange that some get problems and some don't. I'll clean the graphics drivers properly and got back to 12.10.
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When I first installed Windows 8 it was a upgrade but when playing BF3 I would crash or Punkbuster would kick me.
To fix this I first updated the Punkbuster manually, I then ran the DirectX from Microsoft to update that.

Since doing that I not had a single issue. Apart from that I not had a single issue with any other game.
 
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