The AT Battlefield 4 F.A.Q., News, and Discussion thread

[DeadFred]

Has anyone using Firefox been able to set their position on the Geo Leaderboard? I go there and the crosshair wont move. Im too lazy to log out and try another browser.

 

[Zargon]

Curiosity got the best of me, decided last night to ditch windows 8 completely and reinstall windows 7 and will give beta another shot this time with 320.49 drivers just to see how it runs compared to windows 8 with 331.40

Will not be running windows 8 period any more even, I hate it with a passion for everything outside of BF4 beta and while 320.49 and windows 8 gave a good beta experience, I got nothing but bull with BF3 no matter what driver I used. Stutterfield 3 is a better name and if something misses with my baby its gotta go so adios windows 8 its been nice knowing you .:|

Will update on my overall experience with windows 7 and 320.49.

Uh.,..sounds like a nvidia issue not win8

 

[imaheadcase]

Those leaderboards are addicting, I like how they ranked them like Starcraft 2 did for divisions instead of just a pure numbers standpoint. Comparing to state/country/world is awesome.

It will be interesting to see stats when Fairpoint and punkbuster are running side-by-side. I wonder how Fairpoint is vs punkbuster..like do each have advantages over the next catching cheats.

 

[DeadFred]

It will be interesting to see stats when Fairpoint and punkbuster are running side-by-side. I wonder how Fairpoint is vs punkbuster..like do each have advantages over the next catching cheats.

I just hope they work smoothly together and dont bog down the servers or cause other problems like PB is prone to do sometimes.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Uh.,..sounds like a nvidia issue not win8

I don't get all the problems I'm using a Q9650, 8GB, nVidia GTX260. Not exactly cutting edge. I'm at 1680x1050 the game looks great and runs well. There are some servers I can't join or sometimes it hangs when loading but it's really not that often. Do I have real low expectations or do others have too high expectations or something else thoughts?

 

[skipsneeky2]

Uh.,..sounds like a nvidia issue not win8

You could be right about possibly it being NVidia but personally 3 sets of drivers and the same experience is to much you know and two of those sets have ran on 7 perfectly fine for me.

Will update this post in about 10 mins, the beta just finished downloading and I will give 320.49 a run.

 

[2is]

I thought you said you already did a clean install of win 7?

 

[skipsneeky2]

I thought you said you already did a clean install of win 7?

During my testing, I went with fresh installs on both oses multiple times to be consistent on my results as i am persistent this way but early this morning I finished the last install of windows 7 and I let origin install both games and I went to sleep but I was obsessive enough that the 2 hours of sleep was enough so here I am.:awe:

Regarding 320.49,i jumped on a couple servers and well I ask myself yet again how 331.40 got approved for this game?:| Nearly the same fps on 320.49 as windows 8 on 331.40 but a tad bit more stutter but no where nearly as smooth as 8 on 320.49.

Pretty incredible how terrible 331.40 is and how wonderful 320.49 is.

 

[imaheadcase]

I have zero issue with 331.40, works great for me.

Man i just played a game that was so awesome, the more I play this the more i like it because of all the small things that make it great. I even got excused of cheating, you know I have a good game when that happens. RPG can destroy a chopper with one hit when you hit the bottom

For those who did not hear DICE is going to release a beta patch soon for performance issues.

 

[taq8ojh]

Art-like challenge:

Post your emblems!​

 

[Stringjam]

For those who did not hear DICE is going to release a beta patch soon for performance issues.

Of course they are, which makes me wonder why everybody is going nuts. People talking about ditching their hardware and OS and everything else....has it not already been stated enough times that this is a beta and the current drivers supporting it are beta as well? I don't know why anyone would go out and buy a new OS before the developer has even had a chance to address the issues that are affecting their current one. We're only 5 days into this thing!

It's going to be patched and repatched, and nvidia and amd will both probably be releasing more drivers and more fixes.

It's like people were expecting some flawless, finished experience the first day this thing was made available.

 

[taq8ojh]

I'd guess they will patch the beta exactly once so there are a few days to gather feedback about it.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Just love going on a empty server for some reason and just taking a tank to the skyscraper and dropping that building, silly I know but its pretty awesome.

 

[TheSlamma]

Of course they are, which makes me wonder why everybody is going nuts. People talking about ditching their hardware and OS and everything else....has it not already been stated enough times that this is a beta and the current drivers supporting it are beta as well? I don't know why anyone would go out and buy a new OS before the developer has even had a chance to address the issues that are affecting their current one. We're only 5 days into this thing!

It's going to be patched and repatched, and nvidia and amd will both probably be releasing more drivers and more fixes.

It's like people were expecting some flawless, finished experience the first day this thing was made available.

It's really too bad cause Open Beta is starting to become a bad thing now and I'm sorry to say it but it's the new generation of gamers. Way too entitled and think that everything should be perfect by Alpha release.

They should be taking applications for beta participation and awarding points for their next beta's based on quality feedback, doesn't mean you can't say the product is broke, but the ranting and raving we hear these days is stupid.

 

[uclaLabrat]

This is pretty crazy but it worked! Many thanks!

I practically gave up on this beta after trying everything - updating punkbuster, uninstall/reinstall/change drivers, ran Dxsetup, changed every video setting I could think of, even reinstalled BF4. Gameplay was so frustrating (freezes every 10-20 seconds or so, fps down to single digits) that I just couldn't take it. As a last resort I tried your suggestion and changed my "number of cores" to "4" (it was previously unchecked) in msconfig. I have to admit that I really didn't expect anything, but it totally solved the problem! The game's now super smooth with absolutely no stutter/freezes. I had my best games tonight and actually had a lot of fun.

Someone else that has these symptoms should give this a try. Go to msconfig>boot>advanced options. Under "number of processors", I changed mine to "4". If a number is already selected, uncheck the box (this worked for uclalabrat). Let us know how this worked. Credit to uclalabrat.

Glad it worked for you, I just posted it in battlelog forums, hopefully it helps some people.

 

[Grooveriding]

I'm loving the game but the whole battlepack thing is really, really souring me on it. Pay for the game, pay for premium and then pay for micro-transaction battlepacks if you get sick of RNG not favouring you with the unlocks you want...

Seems completely ridiculous and out-of-order for a game that is not free to play and micro-transaction supported. We're already paying for the fucking game and most likely the second game that is packaged as DLC. Then they throw battlepacks on top of that ? Never mind that part of the enjoyment of the game was unlocking that gun you wanted and then using it to progressively unlock its attachments. Now it's RNG based in these Battlepacks ? Give me a break, that is not for our enjoyment, it's to get us paying even more money.

This is really pushing it imo.

 

[QuantumPion]

For you guys with good rigs having choppiness or performance problems - try setting everything to ultra except effects quality to low. Does that improve things for you?

Also the DMR's are total shit right now. The iron sights AND the scope crosshair impact points are off center making it really difficult to hit anything.

 

[Zargon]

I'm loving the game but the whole battlepack thing is really, really souring me on it. Pay for the game, pay for premium and then pay for micro-transaction battlepacks if you get sick of RNG not favouring you with the unlocks you want...

Seems completely ridiculous and out-of-order for a game that is not free to play and micro-transaction supported. We're already paying for the fucking game and most likely the second game that is packaged as DLC. Then they throw battlepacks on top of that ? Never mind that part of the enjoyment of the game was unlocking that gun you wanted and then using it to progressively unlock its attachments. Now it's RNG based in these Battlepacks ? Give me a break, that is not for our enjoyment, it's to get us paying even more money.

This is really pushing it imo.

RNG?

 

[Zargon]

You could be right about possibly it being NVidia but personally 3 sets of drivers and the same experience is to much you know and two of those sets have ran on 7 perfectly fine for me.

Will update this post in about 10 mins, the beta just finished downloading and I will give 320.49 a run.

Its nvidias job to make their drivers work dude, not ms.

If you feel otherwise go buy a Mac

 

[Childs]

For you guys with good rigs having choppiness or performance problems - try setting everything to ultra except effects quality to low. Does that improve things for you?

Seems like a 15-30fps increase.

 

[Anubis]

im still having an issue where i can only play 2-3 games before the game just locks up and never comes back and i have to force close it

 

[Fenixgoon]

anyone else running into much slower frame rates?

i have an AMD X6 1055T + 6990 and i can run BF3 @ 5760x1080 no problem, but BF4 beta at 1920x1080 crawls. what gives?

 

[skipsneeky2]

Its nvidias job to make their drivers work dude, not ms.

If you feel otherwise go buy a Mac

Hey not to worry, I reinstalled windows 7 and 320.49 and BF3 runs better then ever honestly so whatever issues I had before disappeared.

A Mac as cool as it would sounds would not game but I promise you if it ever came to the day of Mac playing my old and new games while supporting all my hardware 100% I would gladly make the switch.

 

[Grooveriding]

RNG?

random number generator

Say you just unlocked the sniper rifle you want and you can only get the first two scopes via using the rifle, but the scope you really want is a battlepack scope.

You have to hope you get it out of a battlepack you open, it could take forever or it could happen quickly. This is a BS way to obtain unlocks imo. Some will feel forced to resort to buying tons of battlepacks to get the unlocks they want.

 

[Staples]

I find all these posts about reinstalling windows fixing the issue funny. I highly doubt Windows had anything to do with it unless it was a hacked for piracy version. Those are known to have lots of problems because they are not really able to be updated much.

I have a GTX460 and Windows 8.0. Windows updated and using latest stable NVIDIA drivers (Sep 19). Game runs just fine in med detail at 1680x1050.