Thread: Battlefield 3 retail patch

Originally Posted by WileECyte

Looking at my system right now, Steam is using 122,504k and Origin is 80,320k.

No idea on origin, but in my experience Steam starts off fairly small amount, and grows. Right now mine is around 32,000k but I just restarted it less then an hour ago.

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

Now that is just insulting. Of I know the game needed to be restarted, did it every freaking time, and I even attempted changing settings in the settings document manually, and nothing I changed changed ANYTHING graphics wise. And before you say it, I know Ultra doesn't work, and I wasn't trying to use Ultra, I was trying to LOWER the settings to see if my crashing stopped.

Read this article here and you'll see there are subtle changes between graphics modes, and it does in fact change, but not as drastically as you'd think.

Battlefield 3 Beta Performance Testing and Image Quality Evaluation - Day 1 | PC Perspective

They have fixed plenty of things server and battlelog side. It is 10x better than it was last Tuesday. I have only maybe one client crash so far in over 30h playing. The rest have been server crashes. I don't know anything about Steam VS Origin as I don't use Steam. Origin really isn't that bad.

Well, redownloading and installing fixed one thing and broke another, my computer stopped locking up. But it actually made the crashes more frequent, all of them display driver crashes.

So, I jumped in the BattleLog forums in a desperate attempt to find a fix. First thread on the first page of the tech support forums had a simple solution, so simple I thought it beneath me to even try, but I was desperate. Apparently a lot of people are getting display driver crashes only when sound capture devices were plugged in. And I have (had) a webcam plugged in, that has a mic.

I unplugged my webcam, and the game runs fucking PERFECT now. No crashes, no low FPS, no nothing.

WHAT THE FUCK? How does a SOUND device cause my DISPLAY drivers to crash? And only in one game?

Originally Posted by [CoFR]SirMoo

because the there are video drivers involved with the webcam too...

......sigh. If you read the post:

Apparently a lot of people are getting display driver crashes only when sound capture devices were plugged in.

And my webcam wasn't attempting to turn on or anything while playing, and I had the microphone muted and disabled since I like my headphone mic better.