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Aiml3ssCalam1ty's avatar
Aiml3ssCalam1ty
Rising Novice
13 years ago
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Reporting Bug- Changing ANY setting value, whether its a Key Binding or Adjusting the Volume...

When binding a key that is already bound to another action it prompts you with the question "Do You Want To Bind Anyway?" When clicking "Yes" the Game stops working, shows a 'see through mesh' of the terrain, and kicks you from the server.

Also, simply changing the volume "Do you want to save this setting", 'Yes' = Kick


This did not occur before I was kicked for "idling too long" while changing controls and graphics settings.

System Info (if needed)

3770K

GTX 780

8GB 1600 CL8

GA-Z77X-UP4 TH

256GB 840 Pro SSD

X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

battlefield 4
  • BFDomush's avatar
    BFDomush
    13 years ago

    The game has a settings file leak, where it gets slower and slower every time you make a change in settings. To reset it delete all files in your My Documents/Battleifeld 4/settings directory and start over. You'll have to rebind all keys as well, which also count towards your max # of settings changes.

    You can make roughly 20 changes to your settings before the game will start locking up on every change, so keep that in mind.

    THIS IS A MAJOR BUG WHICH EA HAS YET TO ACKNOWLEDGE

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  • BFDomush's avatar
    BFDomush
    13 years ago

    The game has a settings file leak, where it gets slower and slower every time you make a change in settings. To reset it delete all files in your My Documents/Battleifeld 4/settings directory and start over. You'll have to rebind all keys as well, which also count towards your max # of settings changes.

    You can make roughly 20 changes to your settings before the game will start locking up on every change, so keep that in mind.

    THIS IS A MAJOR BUG WHICH EA HAS YET TO ACKNOWLEDGE

  • Aiml3ssCalam1ty's avatar
    Aiml3ssCalam1ty
    Rising Novice
    13 years ago

    %100 Correct, thanks alot! I would have been up all night trying to figure that out...

    Sorry for the late thanks, had to go to work ^_^

  • BFDomush's avatar
    BFDomush
    13 years ago

    Here's an update to the above:

     

    ** TEMPORARY SOLUTION: **

    The game has a settings file leak, where it gets slower and slower every time you make a change to any jet keybindings in settings.

    To reset it delete the PROFSAVE_profile file in your My Documents/Battleifeld 4/settings directory and start over.

    You'll have to rebind all keys again, which also count towards your max # of settings changes.

    This is an issue with both jet and helicopter bindings

    THIS IS A MAJOR BUG WHICH EA HAS YET TO ACKNOWLEDGE

     

    For those who are PC savvy, here is a regex to find/remove all of the invalid entries in the PROFSAVE_profile file

    ^GstKeyBinding\.[a-z]+\.Concept.*\.(([4-9][0-9]*)|([0-9][0-9]+))\.[a-z]+ [0-9]+$

     

    My PROFSAVE_profile file had over 327,000 invalid entries in it

    So, if you know how to do regex search/replaces, you can bind as many keys as you can until the game crashes, then do a search/remove using the string above, then continue binding your remaining controls. If it locks up again, rinse and repeat until your bindings are all set. I only had to do it once, but YMMV.

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