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Battlefield 3 stops responding

2K views 14 replies 11 participants last post by  yanks8981 
#1 ·
Hey everyone,
About an hour into playing, Battlefield 3 crashes (not a display driver crash). I suspected my GPU overclock at first so I reverted to stock and the game crashed again.

Error info:
Faulting application name: bf3.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f26de8a
Faulting module name: bf3.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4f26de8a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00f8b8a2
Faulting process id: 0xe3c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd0705766ead74
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3\bf3.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 3\bf3.exe
Report Id: c0fc42ea-72ff-11e1-b20c-001fbc0d6c20

Extra info:
-Punkbuster is up to date
-All notifications/Origin overlays are disabled
-No unusual background process
-Fresh Windows 7 installation
-In game settings maxed out
-nVidia Control Panel settings "maxed" out
-Using Chrome to launch BF3
-FXAA mod
-nVidia 295.73
-RAM is Prime95 stable (16 hours) and Memtest stable (lots of loops).

I'm wondering if 6GB really is enough for this game. I haven't tried the SET BCDEDIT tweak because it shouldn't be needed on a 64-bit OS.
Anyone getting weird crashes too?
 
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#3 ·
I'll have to monitor my ram usage the next time I play. But I seriously doubt it's the ram unless you have other programs running which is also eating it.

Try a reinstall. Maybe it was the clock that crashed it the first time. Then when it crashed it corrupted the install. That's the first thing I would try.

It may not like the SLI? Have you Googled that? Just an idea.

I'm also using 295.73 drivers and I don't have any issues. Not to mention that I've recorded loss-less 1080p videos while playing.
 
#4 ·
My game crashes every 2-4 rounds religiously. Whether I'm OCed, stock clocked, low settings, high settings, whatever. It really doesn't matter... I haven't seen anyone able link it to anything that I've seen... Although, something about it screams Origin Overlay... the origin overlay also gives me issues where the game sometimes won't go full screen... it stays windowed.

Same thing too... BF3 has stopped working... :/
 
#5 ·
I recently got a DirectX Device Hung crash along with the display driver recovering, caused a lockup. It seems that I get that regardless of my overclock and there's no way I'm going to downlock under stock speeds just so that a poorly finalized game stays stable. I'm really hoping the new patch fixes this crap.
 
#7 ·
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Originally Posted by GanjaSMK View Post

It's a pretty broken game in its current state, that's for sure. And sadly the patch is still some time away...
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Yea... what's up with that? Patch hits PS3 first and leaves us all hanging?

Does the patch hit PS3 on the 27th? Any rumored date for PC?
 
#8 ·
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Originally Posted by DaClownie View Post

Yea... what's up with that? Patch hits PS3 first and leaves us all hanging?
Does the patch hit PS3 on the 27th? Any rumored date for PC?
They were paid by Sony to make the PS3 top priority. It's just how Microsoft paid Activision to get the CoD maps out on Xbox 360 a month before any other platform.
 
#9 ·
BF3 crashes to desktop about every 30 minutes in multiplayer for me, plays fine in single player. Pretty unfortunate, it's a really fun game. Too bad I can't play more than a round and a half at a time though. Here's to hoping that the new patch will magically fix all of our issues!
 
#11 ·
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Originally Posted by KEITHRH12 View Post

have any of you tried diffrent drivers? or you might just have disable you sli/cf. try that. before re-intalling the game, i'd make that my last option
Many people with crashing issues have been crashing since the game launched, and have used every driver since then in an effort to thwart this crap. Many of us don't have SLI or CF going either (I personally am running a single 5850).
 
#12 ·
Little update for ya'll. I lowered my Paging File from ~6GB to 512MB-1024MB and the lockup happened within a minute, I was able to kill BF3.exe fast enough to regain control over the system (otherwise I need to hard reset) and see the error and it was complaining about running out of virtual memory, even though I had 2GB of unused RAM. Event Viewer blamed it on Origin.exe. So I now increased my paging file to 9GB on a separate HDD and this weekend will determine if my problem was caused by the paging file all along.
 
#13 ·
Here is a list of what causes my bf3 instabilities.

1. Oc which you ruled out.

2. My portable hd spinning up. Some times randomly the desk would slightly vibrate as it sped up and bam game freeze or crash.

3. Realtek audio drivers

4. On stable ocs sometimes monitoring software was causing the video driver to crash ony old 570. But you said it wasnt a driver crash.
 
#15 ·
I've had this happen a couple times too with my CF 7970s. It seemed that it didnt happen with a single 7970. All settings are at stock. I am interested to see if anything is discovered here.
 
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