This topic is only for the freeze issues during loading screen. If you experience other issues, like a crash with a network error message or a crash during the game, please check our board first.

We merged several topics in this one to help our team gathering your feedback and provide information and updates for you all.

If you want to provide us details about your issue, please post your hardware and software specifications (we would need your driver built and your version of windows).

Please keep all in mind: This is a Beta.                

The reason for this Beta is to test our gameclient out to its. We are collecting your data and working on this issues, as we are preparing the game for the launch, just be patient.

Please try following workarounds before you reply in this topic. Some of those workarounds are collected from our community. I am sorry that we are not able to give everyone kudos here in this post.

Possible fixes:

Windows 7:
Update Windows to the latest version, SP1 is recommended and helped several people to fix this issue. We have the highest rate of solved issues with this workaround.

If you are playing the Battlefield 4 Beta with a Radeon or Geforce card, please make sure to install their respective Beta drivers:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-10WINBetaDriver.aspx Radeon 13.10 Beta Drivers
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-331-40-beta-drivers-released Geforce 331.40 Beta Drivers

Please keep in mind that some graphic setups, especially from your graphic card control center, can cause trouble.
Go to your custom settings of your video-card software. Disable all extra options for enhanced graphics and set the preferences for AA and anisotropic to “use application settings” or even disable it. Disable especially all graphic boosts from your Nvidia control center or ATI catalyst application.
Check your task manager; disable ALL not needed third party applications.
If you are running SLI or OC cards, disable your SLI Bridge aka your overclocking option (if possible).

You can find the file to manually change your graphic settings under: C:\\Users\\User X\\Documents\\Battlefield 4\\settings

Make sure BF4.exe is added to the whitelist of your firewall. We recommend to disable all firewall/antivirus software before launching the gameclient.

Update Punkbuster manually: http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
Put each PunkBuster exe into Compatibility Mode. For 64 bit OS's the PunkBuster exe's are located here:
C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\PnkBstrA.exe
C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\PnkBstrB.exe
Put your BF4 exe into Compatibility Mode as well.

Cheers
Basti

This topic is only for the freeze issues during loading screen. If you experience other issues, like a crash with a network error message or a crash during the game, please check our board first.

We merged several topics in this one to help our team gathering your feedback and provide information and updates for you all.

If you want to provide us details about your issue, please post your hardware and software specifications (we would need your driver built and your version of windows).

Please keep all in mind: This is a Beta.                

The reason for this Beta is to test our gameclient out to its. We are collecting your data and working on this issues, as we are preparing the game for the launch, just be patient.

Please try following workarounds before you reply in this topic. Some of those workarounds are collected from our community. I am sorry that we are not able to give everyone kudos here in this post.

Possible fixes:

Windows 7:
Update Windows to the latest version, SP1 is recommended and helped several people to fix this issue. We have the highest rate of solved issues with this workaround.

If you are playing the Battlefield 4 Beta with a Radeon or Geforce card, please make sure to install their respective Beta drivers:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-10WINBetaDriver.aspx Radeon 13.10 Beta Drivers
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-331-40-beta-drivers-released Geforce 331.40 Beta Drivers

Please keep in mind that some graphic setups, especially from your graphic card control center, can cause trouble.
Go to your custom settings of your video-card software. Disable all extra options for enhanced graphics and set the preferences for AA and anisotropic to “use application settings” or even disable it. Disable especially all graphic boosts from your Nvidia control center or ATI catalyst application.
Check your task manager; disable ALL not needed third party applications.
If you are running SLI or OC cards, disable your SLI Bridge aka your overclocking option (if possible).

You can find the file to manually change your graphic settings under: C:\\Users\\User X\\Documents\\Battlefield 4\\settings

Make sure BF4.exe is added to the whitelist of your firewall. We recommend to disable all firewall/antivirus software before launching the gameclient.

Update Punkbuster manually: http://www.punkbuster.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
Put each PunkBuster exe into Compatibility Mode. For 64 bit OS's the PunkBuster exe's are located here:
C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\PnkBstrA.exe
C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\PnkBstrB.exe
Put your BF4 exe into Compatibility Mode as well.

Cheers
Basti

My BF4 beta crashes on joining a server.

When I join a server, it goes into the loading screen, then stops and comes up with \"bf4 beta has stopped working\" This is really bad and I feel really sad as I have been waiting all day for this to come out and now I cant join.

My BF4 beta crashes on joining a server.

When I join a server, it goes into the loading screen, then stops and comes up with \"bf4 beta has stopped working\" This is really bad and I feel really sad as I have been waiting all day for this to come out and now I cant join.

Welcome to the Battlefield 4 Beta Madness!

The beta is now in it's first stages and a lot will happen. ONE thing that will sadly not happen is that everything will go smooth. It's a beta, it's designed to find weak points and bugs so the launch of the real game will go smooth. You cannot expect a beta go smooth and everything to work, even if you payed extra to be in the beta.
You can expect all kind of problems like, beta not appearing, downloading, installing or starting. Servers, Battlelog, Origin etc. might also go down or be unstable.

Now, what you can do is:
-Wait! No reason to post questions about things not working if 1000 others have already done so.
-Search for solutions (using the handy dandy searchfields) on Battlelog and AnswersHQ (trust me, 2000 people had this problem before you did 😉 )
-Look at Twitter, Facebook, Google+. Battlelog and AnswersHQ for status updates from Battlefield
-Wait for EA and Dice people to identify and fix the problems as they occour
-Look at similar BF3 problems - it's the same engine, many solutions will be the same.
-Chillax, all good things come to those who wait 🙂
-Realise that you are not directly contacting EA, if you wanted to contact EA, even after reading all this and also knowing that the wait-time is going to be huge, then use the search bar to see how, there's a gazilion posts where it's mentioned.

Also: General information links:
General Beta Information: https://help.ea.com/uk/article/battlefield-4-beta-information
Exclusive Beta Information: https://help.ea.com/uk/article/battlefield-4-exclusive-beta-access-information
Battlefield 4 Premium Information: https://help.ea.com/uk/article/what-is-battlefield-4-premium
Battlefield 4 Preorder Information: https://help.ea.com/uk/article/battlefield-4-pre-order-overview
Preorder Code Redemption Issues: https://help.ea.com/article/battlefield-4-pre-order-code-redemption-issues
Beta Not Appearing Information: https://help.ea.com/article/battlefield-4-beta-preload-delay

I HAVE DONE ALL THAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW TORTUROUS IT IS TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS PLAYING WHILE YOU GET STUCK AT THE LOADING SCREEN!?!?!?!?

\"TORTUROUS\"??

Dude it's a game,relax

one does not simply \"chillax\" after being severely dissapointed, frustrated and angered by something as this.

my pc stats:os 64 bit intel core 2 duo cpu e 7500 3 gb ram gpu nvidia geeforce gtx 260 can i play it or no?

I have it too. This sucks. I was so excited for this **bleep**.

it's happening to me to i just started to reinstall it

Has it worked?

Happening to me too... I'm so maad... part of my clan is playing and i'm here pushing F5 on a forum...

how many of you have windows 8 system , my friend running it just fine on windows 7 , mine have same problem with you guys (windows 8 )

windows 7 here

anyone try this from bf3? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umR5vLcPwo

Worked for me!

Tried;

Service Pack 1 (already had it)

Repairing game.

Uninstalling game, reinstalling game.

Updating Nvidia beta drivers

Rolled back to previous nvidia drivers

No such luck unfortunately. Still 'hangs' then ultimately crashes on loading screen.

Will just patiently wait for fix, its only a beta.

I did that, no go.  

Had a guy help with the punk buster,   it kinda helped  but still no go,

So the best results is downloading the setings from oneone else that changed the settings to windowed mode, and yet still crashes, I think it's really poor programing by dice and EA.  

I got all windos updates, Drivers and catalist updated. 

so why it not work?  simple someone did not do there job right. 

friends that have big cards and big rigs still have issues. 

same problem Windows 7 here

no!! 

Good idea, though i rarely have luck with that, its worth a shot, ill report back shortly. 

Ok, I am going to keep this message as clear as possible.

First, my problem, like most of you, is this.

I go to Battlelog through the BF4 Beta on Origin and it opens up Battlelog. Great.

Next, I find the serer that I want to join and press \"Join Server\". (NOTE THIS IS IN MOZILLA FIREFOX).

The blue bar at the bottom pops up saying joining for about a minute, BF4.exe opens up in Windows Task Manager (Windows 7)

and then after that minute, the blue bar disappears, BF4.exe disappears in Windows Task Manager and that's that.

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Now to possible, I repeat, POSSIBLE solutions.

A) Before you make any assumptions, make sure your PC is 64-bit.

B) Make sure you have CORRECTLY UPDATED your graphics card. https://twitter.com/repi/status/384970844058841088

Go to the link in this tweet and choose the correct link to proceed.

C) Make sure BF4.exe is allowed through your firewall.

If you are not very good with computers, then simply look these options up and how to execute them correctly.

Hope this helps and guys, reply tp this message so I know if this worked for any of you. I have not yet tried these things but I will once I am able to in a couple of hours. Thank you and good luck.

Why can't those ******* make it as minimum as everyone can run this....aaach im so mad, frsutrated and everything bad i can be....i was so excited!

because they want to make it better, why would a company dumb down the specs for the few pussies that cant afford the hardware. Get a job **bleep**

@talonkek @hive

No, I will not relax. What do you think I bought Premium for? The frickin dog tags? NO. I bought Premium for \"exclusive access to beta\". A beta I can't play. I'm not running some goddamn Chinese netbook with linux, I'm running completely modern and namebrand hardware. There is NO viable reason I shouldn't be able to START the **bleep**ing game. This is **bleep** that should be taken care of in Alpha.

Everytime EA launches a game this **bleep** happens. And then EA just sticks their heads in the sand at all the pissed off players. Almost 24 hours and 50 pages of this exact same problem and nary a PEEP from them.

I've gotten a lot of different error messages.  I get teased by a loading screen with music then... wait for it.... nothing but a frozen rig.  My latest error message is a direct x message

Same here man.

Here are my specs:

Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit (6.2, Build 9200) (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Alienware
System Model: Alienware 14
BIOS: A01
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4800MQ CPU @ 2.70GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16102MB RAM
Page File: 3526MB used, 14878MB available
Windows Dir: C:\\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 120 DPI (125 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

Thanks guys, thanks for making me so excited to play the game. Thanks for making me so excited I preordered the more expensive version to play it early. And thanks for effectively making me waste my money. At this rate I will be getting a refund.

i was going to buy it tomorrow ! and not FU CK İT    Peh!!!:   i couldnt even play beta... how will i open original game :D

if anyone gets it to work, please tell us, dont leave us here ☹️

I fixed it, Nvidia has released a new kind of hidden beta driver on their website to download. Its not in anything other there download page, no optimus, no video check. 🙂

I tried this also, did not work.

Yes I finally got it to work after the 'can't find server' or just hangs when try to start. And the EA answer  - restart the computer.

What I did was to Repair Install. It took over 4 hours due to the stupid d/loader Origin uses but it did the trick.

To Repair Install, right click on BF4 icon on your Origin My Games page and select it from the list.

Then cross your fingers and do something else for a while.

EA/ORIGIN/DICE WILL YOU PLEASE GET RID OF THIS ATROCIOUS GAMING PLATFORM AND COPY STEAM ONLINE GAMING PLATFORM