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    Battlefield 3, crashes/freeze in multiplayer?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by terminus123, Dec 22, 2011.

  1. terminus123

    terminus123 Notebook Deity

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    Hi, I've been experiencing crashes while playing BF3 multiplayer, sometimes it would crash in a few minutes while other times in a few hours. I've updated my drivers to 290.53 beta, and did a few alternate ways to install the drivers.

    Also I want to add, could the crashes be caused by my internet connection? but if so, wouldln't it say on my battleog I got disconnected? usually it's just BF3 has stopped working.
     
  2. philiphan

    philiphan Notebook Consultant

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    Random CTD's, BF3.exe stopped working and Connection to Server timed out crashes happen to me as well from time to time.

    Know that you're not alone, and there's a crap ton of people who can't even launch the game or experiencing unplayable graphics on 2000€ computers.

    I'd say be happy you can play it :)
     
  3. terminus123

    terminus123 Notebook Deity

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    yea, I just wanna identify the problem though, if it's internet or something computer.
     
  4. AznImports602

    AznImports602 Notebook Deity

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    It happens to everyone. It happens to me and my buddies all the time, its not just you. It seem to be on the server side too, because i had servers crash on me at time. But this occurrence have not happen too often it is like every now and then.
     
  5. junglebungle

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    I don't know how so many people are having so many problems, the game runs perfectly for me, crashes and errors must be down to failing hardware or system errors.

    OP, backup, format, reinstall OS, install drivers, install BF3.

    If its still messing up after that it's your hardware.
     
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    It's not the hardware. There's issues across the board with servers crashing, and clients hanging on startup or map changing. I've been pretty lucky, but still do get occasional server crashes or hanging during map changes.