Battlefield 3 Bug Fixes And Thoughts

From the looks of it, the final release of Battlefield 3 has gone about as smoothly as you can hope for a game that popular.  Korea was the first to have access to the game with the United States next and Europe following up the rear.  You know that gamers will find a way around something if they can, though.  Since the game had a pre-download available, all players from the United States and Europe had to do was use a proxy IP address for their PC and set that IP to a Korean VPN which as a matter of fact is the best vpn for torrenting available at https://indexsy.com/best-vpn-canada/.  Once they did this, the game would scan the IP to find the person’s  location in order to find out if it should unlock itself to be playable.  A huge amount of players did this and many threads with these instructions were floating around the Battlefield Reddit.

DICE officially said that they weren’t against players doing this, but it just created a nightmare for their IT department because they weren’t expecting so many players to be able to play so soon.  DICE also released a tweet saying that players who accessed the game early would have their stats reset upon release, but the tweet was quickly erased and the stat reset never went through.

Battlelog: The Facebook of Battlefield 3.  It could have been something remarkable (and I’m not saying it isn’t), but it still needs a lot of refinement.  There are too many bugs to list, but they don’t seem too hard to fix.  Battlelog almost works perfectly when connecting by yourself.  Playing with friends, on the other hand, takes some serious troubleshooting unless you use a local VPN like vpnhut.

The next bit of news is a bit of personal observation.  After many reports of “recommended” hardware setups to run the game on Ultra, I’ve found that these are kind of misleading.  I have a single EVGA 560ti in my rig and it runs the game on Ultra with about 40 FPS and on High with about 70-80 FPS.  Just keep that in mind. Here’s the announced minimum and recommended settings, though:

Minimum requirements for Battlefield 3 (BF3):

• OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
• Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
• RAM: 2GB
• Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or     higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
• Graphics card memory: 512 MB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

Recommended system requirements for Battlefield 3 (BF3):

• OS: Windows 7 64-bit
• Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
• RAM: 4GB
• Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI     Radeon 6950.
• Graphics card memory: 1 GB
• Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card
• Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

Reported errors and possible fixes:

1. 1. Starting Battlefield 3 with Steam.  This isn’t really an error, just a little tip.
      • Add Origin as a Non-Steam game and rename it “Battlefield 3”.
   2. Cannot install Battlefield 3.
      • Simply uninstall your C++ files and reinstall them.
   3. Crash to desktop upon launch
      • Update your nVidia / ATI graphics drivers. Checkthese links for ATI users & nVidia sers.
      • Turn off SLI / Crossfire
      •  Try using only one GPU first (turn the other one off via your grpahics control panel)
      •  Disable anti-aliasing and filtering
      •  Disable V-sync
      •  Disable background apps, and turn off your anti-virus software
      •  Run through our list of general fixes (sans the Steam fixes), which will most likely resolve your problem.