sporadic black screen, then lock up.

[GhostOfGallipoli]

have to ctl alt del BF3 to re gain control.

anyone else having this issue/ solved it?

[Pe_Pa_Possum]

Do you get it when changing levels?

Because i have that happen when the next level is loading in multiplayer

[GhostOfGallipoli]

no i'll get it mid stage...no set sort of time for it either....may be fine for multiple rounds. may not last the round next time

[CGSDR]

I also get this message, randomly, sometime in the beginning, sometime in the middle of the round, and sometime in the end of the round just after the "Your Team Win/Lose" message. But I seem to able to have it temporary fix by kill BF3.exe process in task manager, restart and re-join the game back, this usually happen once or twice when you try to first join the game.

[Emrico1]

no i'll get it mid stage...no set sort of time for it either....may be fine for multiple rounds. may not last the round next time

Yep same issues here. Random lock ups and crash. I think it is purely BF3's issue as I can launch again straight away.
Not too worried, probably a broad issue that they will sort out eventually.

[5tacK]

PC specs?
Video settings?

[GhostOfGallipoli]

560ti
8gig ram
i7 2600k

just auto detect settings....high or whatevs

[Lone-Star]

only had this happen once

[GhostOfGallipoli]

and now i have tried to repair the install and origin says installing...then fucks out

[foRsakEn]

I just changed from ati which improved with the v3 beta drivers to a nvidia and hasn't crashed or frozen yet. Ati drivers are terrible but playable.

[Marak2.0]

no i'll get it mid stage...no set sort of time for it either....may be fine for multiple rounds. may not last the round next time

I get the same issues, you can see a tooltip that says graphics has crashed and recovered. Only multilayer crashed for me.

[5tacK]

Try turning off that antialiasing deferred setting. My screen was mostly black with that on.

I thought they were all night maps :(

[Emrico1]

Try turning off that antialiasing deferred setting. My screen was mostly black with that on.

I thought they were all night maps :(

Might try that BF3 driver again and do that thnx.

[GhostOfGallipoli]

reinstalled, thought i'd fixed it as i got through a whole round then bam....rejoin, then again

[Emrico1]

Just noticed I had 4x high def audio devices from the 580 install. Deleted, hope that was it...

[GhostOfGallipoli]

issue fixed.


needed new bios flash for the 560

[Zenith]

Getting BF3 lockups mid game, playing #6 last night and twice in a round. Screen will freeze and audio will loop. CTRL ALT DEL to get out thou have had it lock.
Rig is i5 2500K @4.2 and 6950 shader unlocked @840 I might take the OC off the CPU incase I am undervolting it, but would expect a harder crash from that.

I suppose I should update punk buster manually also

[Growler]

not 1 crash or lockup.

i5 2500k @ 4.4
6950 shader unlock and OC

Running ULTRA everything but AA off.

11.10P3 and CAP4.

If you are having lockups I would say it is either a driver issue, try the latest 11.10p3 with 11.9cap4 , or 11.9 WHQL with 11.9cap4.

There have also been reports of onboard sound causing issues, do you have a sound card or USB powered headphones, if so completely disable onboard audio in bios

[Sanzie99]

I had issues at end of map where it would crash, turns out it was Asus programs such as AI Suite, Smart Doctor, OSD Gamer, etc, etc. Maybe try having a look at apps like this as this may be causing issues.