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Anonymous
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13 years ago

Battlefield 3 randomly freezing during multiplayer, needs hardreset ?!?!

I purchased BF3 Premium a couple weeks ago and finally got the chance to play it, but whenever I login to a server after 10-15 minutes the game randomly freezes and makes this famous BRRRRRR sound. I...
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13 years ago

I'll give it a shot but what I was trying to say is what is the point of playing with 1 CPU when you have quadcore, or what is the point of disabling the sound card and play the game without sounds.

I mean it is ridiculous in my opinion, I have been reading a lot of threads and stuff, I have not seen or heard a "legit" fix for this from EA side. There is no patch, there is no suggestions, nothing. This is a high profile game with a ton of users, and I am a premium user, how come there is noone assisting people including me on this issue, I do not understand

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
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    13 years ago

    Well, as far as I know this is not a general issue. Thus it's a specific issue with your combination of software, hardware and settings somehow. Now Battlefield 3 has had quite a lot of different obscure specific issue, more than most titles, probably due to the game using a new graphics engine and backend and the fact that it was rushed a bit.

    Now, lets see if we can fix your problem, have been in a somewhat similar situation myself. Here's my suggestions for you:

    • Yes you should disable you soundcard in the bios and try without sound - Realtek soundcards often cause problems in general.
    • Have you downloaded the latest drivers to your Realtek soundcard from Realtek's homepage instead of your motherboard manufacture's site? In any case, try switching between then.
    • Make sure your network adapter driver is updated - same deal as the soundcard, try both the motherboard+chipset manufactures' newest drivers
    • Now I know you say it's not a heat problem, how little heat is that? Anyways, sensors are only usefull to a certain degree - try removing your gfx and remove dust and insert it again.
    • Try running a CPU stresstest, sometimes the thermal paste between CPU cooler and and CPU is lacking in a certain area of the chip and you will need to remove the CPU and remove the old thermal paste and apply some new.
    • Run a RAM test like Ramtest86+ for some hours to see if you crash due to a memory error.
    • Try to clean your computer using a program like ccleaner

    Hope to hear back from you on how it went 🙂 Good luck!

    Please accept solutions if they are correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you.

    Cheers
    -Carbonic 

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      13 years ago

      Thanks for the reply,

      Like I listed in my initial post, I have already tried all of these steps. I just bought my new videocard and ram and like I said I tested those with games like Crysis 3 in very high settings for long hours. Not a single issue. GPU heat is 55-56C max which is around 10-12 degrees below the maximum it should be, so this tells me there is no problem on that side. Also I have pretty decent Zalman cooler spesifically for my CPU and again, my CPU heat is nowhere near maximum.

      I already updated everything on my PC and setup a new OS so there is no problem on that either. I downloaded PB, Realtek drivers etc. from their own websites... This is not a problem related to any sort of drivers, OS etc. It is all tested and newly installed many times.

      Any other suggestions?

      • Carbonic's avatar
        Carbonic
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        13 years ago

        In all fairness, no you have no tried it all.

        Testing in Crysis 3 is not a proper test, it doesn't use the same amount of memory and doesn't use the memory in the same way, the same can be said about the CPU. You need to do proper tests, the whole "other games work" argument will not make BF3 work.

        Also, just because the build-in motherboard temperature probe says a temperature, it can't measure the entire CPU, thus a proper CPU test with 100% utilization over some hours is needed as well.

        This problem can easily be related to drivers, you still havn't confirmed that you have tried BOTH the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer AND the chipset developer for both your chipset+network adapter+soundcard.

        Have you tried downgrading your gfx driver to an older version? The newest driver should have some problems.

        Please accept solutions if they are correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you.

        Cheers
        -Carbonic

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