BF4 PC Beta is crashing during loading screen
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Again this guy calling people stupid for how they choose to spend their money.
SMH...
I have no choice out here in the bush with my yagi antenna and dongle connected to a router to pay Half of my months quota just to download beta. So yea im a bit gutted too but comon guys it happened in BF3 to me also. Chill out its not the end of the world. Read my post a couple of pages back on punkbuster and see what you come up with.
This is not a place for discussions like "Is it worth spending my money only for beta access". Please keep focused on the topic, which means the actual issues and data collection.
Cheers
Basti
As previous users reported.. I capitalized upon, I believe I may have isolated the issue.
One user had said to put PnkbusterA and PnkbusterB into compatibility mode, (prefferably Windows 7) as well as administrator priviliges. I had done this last night before I retired. Essentially, it finished loading, and the game started to generate what looked to be a spawn point inside a building.
At this point the screen was the loading screen, but with a 50% opacity, the other bit was as I said the spawn point.
That gave me hope.
This morning, it went back to doing what it was doing. I ran the PBSVC diagnostic, it was reporting that Pbuster had not obtained full explicit control. So, basically Punkbuster cannot do its job due to some entity restricting its access to my PC.
I went ahead and disabled ALL antivirus, firewall, and proxies. There were no variables to restrict Punkbusters access to the internet and or my PC. It still was unable to connect, thus it has to be something else.
I think it is the ATI/AMD Driver, because now I am trying to REINSTALL punkbuster, unfortunately it will not even connect to the update server. So something is keeping Punkbuster from connecting....
@EA wanna pay me commission? I did the work of your IT department...
Recap: The issue lies with A: Punkbuster, B: Sound Card, C: AMD drivers.
- I was able to connect to the pb update yesterday by following the instructions on the page for pbsetup.exe. When it says you have to first put pbsetup.exe in its own folder, it means first. When I redownloaded the .exe and put it in its own folder, I was able to update pbsetup.exe and get the files for bf4 on downloaded.
Could it be audio drivers problem?
I've got freeze, updated my Creative SB Z drivers and get into http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/40/1380656703-dsc-0252.jpg screen.
Before i didn't even get it, just freezed screen.
My config is.
CPU Core2Duo E8400
MB Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R
RAM DDR2 Corsair XMS 4gb (2x2), 5-5-5-15
Video GTX 660 Asus
Audio Creative SoundBlaster Z
Win7 Home premium x64 sp1 fully updated
EA NEEDS TO DIFFERNTIATE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED THE GAME AND THOSE WHO NEVER HAVE.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO LOAD THE GAME. NOT EVEN ONCE. STOP SUGGESTED THE SAME GODDAMNED FIXES TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALREADY SPENT HOURS TRYING THEM ALL.
x9100 CORE 2
9800m GTS (331.40)
Windows 7 sp 1
4gb ram
Not a powerhouse, but my specs exceed the minimum specs.
Loading screen freezes. 100& cpu utilization. Sound stuck in loop. Task manager shows BF4 as still running.
FIX THE GODDAMNED PROBLEM EA OR CHANGE THE MINIMUM SPECS. If you guys can't ensure that everyone with at least minimum specs gets past the loading screen, even on a beta, then that is **bleep**ing pathetic.
Can't wait to see what happenes when DICE has access to the metal of the gpu Vis-à-vis Mantle.
