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  Ruckus Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Update your graphics drivers, or alternatively, roll back your graphics drivers. That first error you posted specifically mentions Graphics Driver crash as a probably cause. You could be using an old version that hasn't been updated to work with BF3.

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  Fandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  i've been having similiar issues with shogun so I updated my drivers like two days ago, i know they're current
  
  i just did some fiddling and set it's vram way higher and the single player seems to be running without crashes now, only it's a terrible slideshow that runs at ~2fps, if that. i know my rig meets the reccomended specs.
  
  [edit] yeah, multiplayer is now an unplayable slideshow that lasts a little while before it crashes
  
  the weirdest thing here is that when i first booted it up it ran fine for an entire match, then i quit and tried running it with gamebooster and fiddled with the settings, and all this started

  Fandyien on December 2011

  

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  Ruckus Registered User regular

  December 2011

  You could try and find a way to run it in DirectX 10 mode and see if that helps.
  
  Probably either a selection in the Graphics settings or a launch option.

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  Tasteticle Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Fandyien wrote:

  i've been having similiar issues with shogun so I updated my drivers like two days ago, i know they're current
  
  i just did some fiddling and set it's vram way higher and the single player seems to be running without crashes now, only it's a terrible slideshow that runs at ~2fps, if that. i know my rig meets the reccomended specs.
  
  [edit] yeah, multiplayer is now an unplayable slideshow that lasts a little while before it crashes
  
  the weirdest thing here is that when i first booted it up it ran fine for an entire match, then i quit and tried running it with gamebooster and fiddled with the settings, and all this started

  
  Have you tried rolling back your system to a time before you did anything with game booster, then re-installing BF3/the latest drivers?
  
  I tend to shy away from 'performance optimizing apps' because they tend to alter some pretty fundamental shit that could fuck up your system royally
  
  Granted this was a few years ago but I very much doubt they have gotten any better in that regard

  
  Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
  

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  Fandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular

  December 2011

  yeah, I reckon I have to try something like that
  
  because looking at my computers specs I ought to be able to run bf3 just fine on high, but its absolutely unplayable. just a horrible slideshow. am i bottlenecking somewhere or is it a software issue like i suspect?

  

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  kaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Fandyien wrote:

  yeah, I reckon I have to try something like that
  
  because looking at my computers specs I ought to be able to run bf3 just fine on high, but its absolutely unplayable. just a horrible slideshow. am i bottlenecking somewhere or is it a software issue like i suspect?

  
  1) Everything works fine.
  2) You fiddle with gamebooster.
  3) Everything doesn't work fine.
  
  Might running gamebooster have something to do with this? Why don't you uninstall gamebooster, uninstall bf3, then reinstall bf3?
  
  

  
  

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  Fandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  kaliyama wrote:

  Fandyien wrote:

  yeah, I reckon I have to try something like that
  
  because looking at my computers specs I ought to be able to run bf3 just fine on high, but its absolutely unplayable. just a horrible slideshow. am i bottlenecking somewhere or is it a software issue like i suspect?

  
  1) Everything works fine.
  2) You fiddle with gamebooster.
  3) Everything doesn't work fine.
  
  Might running gamebooster have something to do with this? Why don't you uninstall gamebooster, uninstall bf3, then reinstall bf3?
  

  
  mostly because I don't want to endure the long patching process and horrible stuff again, but obvs i will if another solution can't be found
  
  i'm probably going to try reinstalling it, but is there any chance that changing the vram settings could have fucked it more, somehow? specifically increasing the vram it uses
  
  or am i just expecting too much from my computer in general here
  
  [edit] i just tried a little experiment and set every possible setting to it's lowest and got roughly the same amount of lag, and the same weird first-person gun-arm bugs i was getting at high settings, where it looked like not farts
  
  so the conclusion i am drawing from this is that the game itself is being affected in some weird way and that my computer can probably handle this reasonably well with it's hardware
  
  so i guess i should uninstall BF3, uninstall gamebooster, run a virus scan, then reinstall it and hope that does something?

  Fandyien on December 2011

  

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  TychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Changing the VRAM settings? What specifically did you do?

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  Fandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular

  December 2011

  i did what this guy reccomended, it fixed my crashin' problems
  
  i'll just quote this from the battlelog forum because i'm not sure how linking there works
  

  "* In Windows 7/Vista go to Start menu. Go to Accessories. Locate the command prompt shortcut and hover mouse over it. Right Click on the shortcut then select Run as Administrator.
  * In the command prompt type this exactly:
  bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2500
  Then hit enter.
  * Make sure you get a message back confirming the change was made. To verify the entry is there you can type just bcdedit, hit enter, and you should see the entry now listed.
  * Then close the command prompt. You just told Vista to increase user virtual address (userva) space to 2500MB.
  * Changes take effect on reboot.
  Now reboot the PC because Windows needs to set the userva at 2500 which only happens after startup.
  If you skip any step it will not work. When you have rebooted you should be good to go. Run the game as normal with the original game shortcut.
  TO UNDO THE CHANGES
  Open command prompt as administrator and type: bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva. That deletes the entry.
  Reboot and you are back to normal. "

  

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  kaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Fandyien wrote:

  i did what this guy reccomended, it fixed my crashin' problems
  
  i'll just quote this from the battlelog forum because i'm not sure how linking there works
  

  "* In Windows 7/Vista go to Start menu. Go to Accessories. Locate the command prompt shortcut and hover mouse over it. Right Click on the shortcut then select Run as Administrator.
  * In the command prompt type this exactly:
  bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2500
  Then hit enter.
  * Make sure you get a message back confirming the change was made. To verify the entry is there you can type just bcdedit, hit enter, and you should see the entry now listed.
  * Then close the command prompt. You just told Vista to increase user virtual address (userva) space to 2500MB.
  * Changes take effect on reboot.
  Now reboot the PC because Windows needs to set the userva at 2500 which only happens after startup.
  If you skip any step it will not work. When you have rebooted you should be good to go. Run the game as normal with the original game shortcut.
  TO UNDO THE CHANGES
  Open command prompt as administrator and type: bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva. That deletes the entry.
  Reboot and you are back to normal. "

  
  Glad you could fix it w/o the reinstall nightmare! Hopefully people will be able to find your detailed instructions if they encounter the same issue. What do you think the issue was?
  

  
  

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  Fandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular

  December 2011

  those totally aren't my instructions, i got them off the battlefield 3 game forums. i have no idea why it fixed the issue, really, i just know video ram is good and my crashes had something to do with it
  
  i'm currently wondering why it runs at an absolutely horrible, buggy pace no matter what settings i have it on

  

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  Tasteticle Registered User regular

  December 2011

  Your specs are a-ok for BF3, and basically it seems things shit the bed after you used game booster
  
  Uninstalling game booster may not be enough
  
  A lot of these optimizing aps alter the core functionality of certain areas of your computer - or at least, back in the XP days they did - so you will most likely need to roll back your system to a time before you even used game booster
  
  Then make sure game booster is uninstalled
  
  Uninstall/re-install BF3, its patches, and any related drivers for your card
  
  Bonus points for running a defrag/spyware scan/malware scan just for kicks
  
  Then I think your problem should be solved

  
  Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
  

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  Essee The pinkest of hair. Victoria, BCRegistered User regular

  December 2011 edited December 2011

  I'm 80% sure Gamebooster doesn't make any permanent changes to your system, I think it just temporarily quits things when you run it. My fiance just started using it for Skyrim and I made him carefully go through the settings to make sure it wouldn't do anything dumb (and also see what the point of the dang thing was because I disable all sorts of extraneous things when I fiddle with our computers), so I would certainly hope it didn't do anything else sneaky in the background. I don't think it does anything permanent to your system, or if it does it's clearly laid-out in the settings 'cause I think I notice that stuff. But if Gamebooster is running every time you're trying to play BF3, certainly there's a possibility that it's temporarily shutting down something it shouldn't and messing things up. Have you looked at what it's told to do in the settings when you run it? I mean, uninstalling Gamebooster should, I think, guarantee it's no longer doing anything to interfere, but you could take a look in the settings to see if it's been doing something dumb in case you still want to use it.
  
  Edit: I just remembered... There's an option in Gamebooster to increase the priority of the game process. I personally recommended my fiance not enable that option because I remembered from previous experience it has a chance to cause instability instead of just making the program run better. That's probably one of the first options you should try disabling if it's enabled.

  Essee on December 2011

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