Re: battlefield 3 freezes my computer

When you are in BF3 what do you have the video card settings in game at? If your on med etc turn it down to low video settings in game.

Do not have any open programs on your PC on when in game other then firewall and what you need to run the game. Then try BF3 again.

Edit... Also keep the first settings I gave you  as they will help run BF3 more smooth

still freezes ☹️ ☹️ !!but it lasted more time than before

Try this ....

Nvidia BF3 settings ....

First step open Nvidia Control panel under 3D settings go to Adjust image settings with preview

Pick use my preference and set it to performance and hit apply.

Next go to Manage 3D settings, Program settings tab and add BF3 

Once BF3 is added in Program settings tab make sure all this is in place..

Ambient occlusion- not supported
Anisotropic filtering- use global settings off
Antialiasing - FXAA - not supported
Antialiasing- Gamma correction- use global settings on
Antialiasing-Mode - use global settings off
Antialiasing- setting - use global settings none
Antialiasing- Transparency - use global settings off
CUDA- GPU's - use global settings ALL
Maximum pre-rendered frames - Use the 3D application setting
Multi display /mixed GPU acceleration- set to what your display is
Power management mode- Prefer Maximum Performance
Shader Cache- use global settings on
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample Opti.... - use global settings on
Texture filtering- Negative LOD bias - use global setting Allow
Texture filtering - Quality - use global setting Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - use global settings on
Thread optimization - use global setting Auto
Triple buffering - use global settings off
Vetical Sync - use global settings off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames - use global settings 1

Reboot PC just to be safe.

In game for video settings put it all to custom and put everything you can to low  then be sure to turn off ....

1-antialiasing deferred off
2- motion blur off
3-ambient occlusion off

on left side be sure vertical sync is off

Now test BF3

things got worse!!!!!!!!i played for about 10 seconds and it freezed

Sorry about this just set it all back to default in  Nvidia Control panel In game still keep it all on low to try to keep it from crashing.

thanks a lot for the advice and for your time man although problem is not solved yet :/

I removed the solution and not sure why it was solved but I removed it. So lets rule out your windows making the issue....

Test your windows for errors
This works in all windows O/S vista Win7, Win8 and Win8.1 windows system file checker :] Copy and past this to note pad and put it on your desktop. As open programs can give you errors when you run this.

...... sfc /scannow ..... ever hear of it if not your going to love this .... it will inspect all the important windows files as well as the windows DLL files. If windows system file checker finds any issues with the windows files and windows DLL files it will replace them. This little tool as well as the event viewer saved me and fully helped me fix my BF4 issues as well as saved my .... many a format since I found it. This is the best toy they ever put in windows :]

For win7 go to start left click in search type cmd and right click cmd pick run as admin

For win 8.1 right click start bottom left of screen and pick command prompt admin

1 - Open administrator command prompt and close web pages and programs like origin.

2 - Type or copy and paste in sfc /scannow and hit enter, This takes 5 min to 15 min SSD vs HD

3 - This can go one of a few ways ..... no errors ... it fixed some errors ..... could not fix all errors...... does not finish checking and errors out ....... and the last one could not fix errors at all :/

4 -After its done reboot and do it again even if you had no errors the first time or had errors, could not fix ... run sfc /scannow again and when its done a second time reboot. You need to do this a and get no errors 2 x in a row ...

5- So if you ran it 2x and no errors your safe you can stop now for now lol, If you had errors first time but not the second then run sfc /scannow again and when its done reboot. You need to get could not find any errors 2 x to be safe. If it still finds errors try and run it a few more times until it finds no errors 2x AND ALWAYS REBOOT BETWEEN RUNNING sfc /scannow

6 - If you get a message indicating that it can not be repaired and you ran sfc /scannow more then 3x in a row on win vista or 7 mm you need a format or try repair win 7 :/ But after format or repair and all updates are done run sfc /scannow to make sure your windows is stable same deal 2x error free reboot between them.

If your O/S is Win8 or Win 8,1 then you can run this next command / line in administrator command prompt. Sadly this does not work for win vista or 7 :/ It will restore the health of your PC and you dont lose anything and it will also fix errors in the registry :]

dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ------- ONLY works for windows 8 and 8.1

7 - When its done reboot

4gb of ram is minimum.   I have 6gb with win 7 and sometimes i'm using over 4gb when running the game...

when playing bf4 i'm using almost all of my 6gb and would recommend 8gb.

The game has a known memory leak.  so I would recommend another 2gb of ram at least.

help??????????

stavrino14 can you post the error from the PC event viewer when you get the crash in bf3? So I can find out what is doing it to help you fix it,