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Mollikye's avatar
11 years ago
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Spawning without Gun, Invisible Players, Missing Sounds

Hey,

I've had this issue with BF3, BF4 and am still having it with BF Hardline (not surprised).

I play battlefield both at home, and at work during my lunch hour. On my work PC, I do not get these issues.

Here's what happens:

During a match, if I switch loadouts, I will spawn without my primary gun, however, if I switch to my pistol, my pistol works fine. Switching back to primary doesn't fix the issue, and it actually still renders my pistol, but says I have 0 ammo, and I can't shoot. It seems that my primary gun just fails to load. If I wait a bit (sometimes for minutes), it eventually pops up.

I often get the same issue with battle pickups. I'll pick one up, and it doesn't load, says 0 ammo, doesn't shoot.

When I have this issue, I also tend to see a lot of players as just a floating gun. Their player mesh doesn't render, I just see their gun, and their name over them / their dorito.

Along with these symptoms is a major lack of sounds. Most sound effects / barks seem to stop working. Usually, once my gun finally shows up, it's accompanied by a flurry of other sound effects kicking in.

But as I've said, I've been having these issues since BF3. When I had the issue in BF4, I tried fully re-installing the game, and that seemed to fix it for a while, but it very recently came back. So I tried fully re-installing again, and this time it didn't help.

When I played the Hardline Beta, I immediately had the same issues. I would really like to know what's causing this / how to fix this. It's really frustrating that I don't experience these issues on my work PC, but I get them on my home PC (which is way better than my work PC!). 


PC Specs:
CPU: Intel i7-3960X
GPU: GTX 780 (x2) SLI
RAM: 16 GB 2133 MHz (Quad Channel)
Motherboard: ASUS P9X79
And I of course have the game running off an SSD.

  • Looks like I fixed it! I had been going on the assumption that all of this was some how related to audio, and audio taking too long to load or something.


    I searched BF4 + Realtek Audio, and sure enough i saw a thread of people talking about lowering their audio format in the realtek audio manager to fix some issues they were having.

    Seems to have fixed my problems!

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  • It's caused by textures not being fully loaded by the time you spawn. The only solution I know of is waiting until they fully load (which takes 30-60 seconds). I heard that it's more common on i7 processors, but I have no idea if it's reality or some sort of wild rumor.

    Ah, you can actually shoot the gun even when you don't see it or when it says that it has no ammo.

  • Mollikye's avatar
    Mollikye
    11 years ago

    Waiting for my own gun to spawn is one thing, which already sucks, but constantly getting killed by players I can't see is another. It's extremely annoying and sometimes lasts for entire matches where I just see random players as nothing more than a floating gun.

    Not having even half my sound also really sucks, cause sometimes I can't even tell when I'm getting shot at. Especially in vehicles. I don't hear the vehicle damage or the lock sounds.

    It's stuff like this that's really making this game very unplayable for me lately.

  • Looks like I fixed it! I had been going on the assumption that all of this was some how related to audio, and audio taking too long to load or something.


    I searched BF4 + Realtek Audio, and sure enough i saw a thread of people talking about lowering their audio format in the realtek audio manager to fix some issues they were having.

    Seems to have fixed my problems!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    It also happens on console. It has happened to me quite a few times on XBox1.

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