Battlefield 4 (Frostbite 3)

Xalara

Golden Squire
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China Rising will never be free unless you preordered. What happens with all DLC is that Premium members get it two weeks early, then everyone else can buy it.

Tarrant, Origin isn't bad it's just as good if not better than Steam from a technical standpoint.
 

Morsakin

Golden Knight of the Realm
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I know this is really old, but I had that problem in BF3 and now also in BF4. Using MSI Afterburner I raise the GFX card (NVidia GTX 580) voltage slightly (1005 -> 1050) and lower core clock and shader clock ~5% (they are locked together). This fixes it 100%. I don't know if both adjustments are necessary, I didn't bother to test.
Both are generally required, from my experience. I use EVGA Precision on a GTX 570 Superclocked and need to up the voltage from 1015 to 1038 and downclock the GPU clock to 758 MHz.
 

Mist

REEEEeyore
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China Rising will never be free unless you preordered. What happens with all DLC is that Premium members get it two weeks early, then everyone else can buy it.

Tarrant, Origin isn't bad it's just as good if not better than Steam from a technical standpoint.
Battlelog is pretty good, but Origin is fucking horrible. It's a service that serves no purpose because it has no actual useful features. The friends list, the most basic community feature an online service can have, is so bad that Battlelog has to have it's own friends list.
 

Tarrant

<Prior Amod>
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China Rising will never be free unless you preordered. What happens with all DLC is that Premium members get it two weeks early, then everyone else can buy it.

Tarrant, Origin isn't bad it's just as good if not better than Steam from a technical standpoint.
Back when BF3 first came out it would memory leak the fuck out of my computer. I'll eventually give it another shot I'm sure.
 

Big Phoenix

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I know this is really old, but I had that problem in BF3 and now also in BF4. Using MSI Afterburner I raise the GFX card (NVidia GTX 580) voltage slightly (1005 -> 1050) and lower core clock and shader clock ~5% (they are locked together). This fixes it 100%. I don't know if both adjustments are necessary, I didn't bother to test.
I get this a lot too with a slight overclock on my 680GTX.
 

Kreugen

Vyemm Raider
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I don't find Origin any more annoying than I do loading Steam. At least it doesn't update all the fucking time. If something like that stops you from playing video games, then you are probably done with video games because there is only going to be more and more of it. You will forever be stuck playing cracked games in single player.
 

Dioblaire

And now my Watch has ended...
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Holy fuck, I forgot how bad this game can be when you play solo... Got in like five matches, only had a competent team for one of them -.-
 

Dioblaire

And now my Watch has ended...
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Anyone else getting this? "Problem contacting EA Login, please try again in a while"
 

Tarisk

Pathetic Reaction Bot
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The Derp trolling group is DDoSing the EA servers currently. Affecting all their titles that I'm aware of.
 

Devlin

Golden Squire
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They seem to be giving some sort of boost out today, maybe because the servers were down last night.

Or I'm less shitty than usual, I'm going with the former.
 

spronk

FPS noob
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i'd love to confirm xp boost but origin wants me to relogin and it won't send out the security codes by email right now, guess the servers are still fucked. thanks, origin
 

Rugjen_sl

shitlord
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Premium is Double XP from today at about 7am CST to I believe the end of Sunday night. 58 hours is what they said. Hit 110, trying to get the rest of some minor stuff through weapon battle packs...
 

Morsakin

Golden Knight of the Realm
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Premium is Double XP from today at about 7am CST to I believe the end of Sunday night. 58 hours is what they said. Hit 110, trying to get the rest of some minor stuff through weapon battle packs...
As have I, but alas, it seems that camos are not possible through them (only paints) and I've yet to receive any emblems or an exp boost past 50% from them.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Been playing this shit, really fun. I hate the starting guns, but I've been raping Wakandans with my newly acquired RPG. Very frustrating that high level (see experience, not skill) can get enhancements that make stinger missiles useless.
 

Kreugen

Vyemm Raider
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Engineers are only dangerous to vehicles in packs. I don't even bother unless I see someone else attacking. Plinking away with these pissant damage launchers is just screaming KILL ME, I'M HERE! COME ON, DO IT NOW! GET TO DA CHOPPA!

But the most effective way to use a stinger is from the door of a little bird, in between repairing. Sadly you swiftly run out of ammo because your heli never dies. Well, unless you get the scout pilots I get. You know, the "use the best vehicle in the game to fly up to a hill and jump out" or "hover 5 feet over a flag and get blown up by c4" or "this helicopter is now a submarine, have a good swim, master troll huehuehue"

I assume by starting gun you mean that dogshit PDW engis get. Yes, replace that the moment you get carbines with the AK 5C, which is actually a very good gun. Only 700 RPM but laser accurate and perfect for a silencer.
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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I actually don't mind the PDW at all, I rape pretty hard with it in close quarters, but anything over like 20m = hahahaha good luck. Yeah I've yet to find a good little bird pilot where I can do that, and whenever I DO actually do that it seems I'm almost always instantly killed by the enemy pilot (I die, not the helicopter itself).
 

Bellicose_sl

shitlord
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Sadly you swiftly run out of ammo because your heli never dies.
if you play with ppl you know get your chopper pilot to switch to support they can take a squad perk that makes vehicles restock ammo around them or get him to drop a ammo bag on the wing of the chopper
 

Sutekh

Blackwing Lair Raider
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So I have sort of a problem here, it takes like 5-6 minutes just to load in to a new server or map, I'm thinking there's something wrong here because I'm on the highest graphic settings with a pretty much constant 60FPS and no lag at all. But sometimes I'll load in to games so late that bomb's have already been blown up. Anyone know what's up?
 

Morsakin

Golden Knight of the Realm
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if you play with ppl you know get your chopper pilot to switch to support they can take a squad perk that makes vehicles restock ammo around them or get him to drop a ammo bag on the wing of the chopper
Stick it on the top of the chopper instead.

So I have sort of a problem here, it takes like 5-6 minutes just to load in to a new server or map, I'm thinking there's something wrong here because I'm on the highest graphic settings with a pretty much constant 60FPS and no lag at all. But sometimes I'll load in to games so late that bomb's have already been blown up. Anyone know what's up?
Are you using an HDD? If so, get an SSD.