BF3 patches - client and server


  1. mickey megabyte
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    BF3 patches - client and server


    ---- Client-Side Changes:

    -- Visuals, Stability and Performance Fixes:

    • General performance and loading time improvements
    • “Black Screen” fix for an issue occurring on some PC Configurations
    • Stereo and Rendering Support for Nvidia and AMD Graphics Cards
    • Adjusted the “stuttering” encountered on some PC configurations.
    • Fixed several Crashes when joining MP and Co-Op sessions
    • Fixed multiple problems when using multiple monitors (Eyefinity / Surround).
    • Fixed visual corruption issues on certain Nvidia Cards
    • Improved loading times for certain textures
    • Added console command “GameTime.MaxVariableFps” to limit max FPS
    more client changes...

    Here is a near-complete changelist for the game servers:

    * Support for unranked servers (vars.ranked)
    * Ranked servers have a few settings as read-only (see documentation)
    * Unranked servers allow changing of all settings
    * Reintroduced vars.allUnlocksUnlocked for unranked servers
    * The game server will parse all of Startup.txt even if an error is encountered
    * vars.roundStartPlayerCount / vars.roundRestartPlayerCount handling rewritten to be more natural
    * vars.maxPlayers cannot be used to go past the server's max number of slots any more
    * Security updates to the game server
    * Fixed several server crashes, hangs, and a 10-second stall - all of which which would make the server drop every player
    * vars.gamePassword can only be invoked during server startup, not while the server is already running
    * vars.teamKillCountForKick 0 will disable team kicking instead of kicking people frivolously
    * banList.add would sometimes crash; fixed now
    * EOD bot scoring exploit fix
    more server changes...

    update through origin or battlelog, patch size is about 500 megs.
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  3. pparks1
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    According to EA forums and the Battlelog news comments, this patch is causing all sorts of problems. Most notably
    --black screens (ironic since they say it fixes black screens, but many have never seen one)
    --crashes 20-30 seconds into games.

    I'm a bit frustrated with BF3 at present. They did something over the weekend which broke access to battlelog.battlefield.com for many ISP's around the world. I was down for 3 days before they got it fixed. I lost connection early Saturday morning and didn't get it back until 4pm Monday. Without hitting battlelog, you cannot actually startup a multiplayer game or see a server list to play on. Real bummer.
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  4. mickey megabyte
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    what other changes would you like to see in next patch?

    i would like:

    • squad voip - in-game! not through battlelog or sonar or anywhere else, but IN-GAME!
    • colour blind mode - just like in BC2 - that orange and green look way too similar to me (and a lot of other folks)
    • fiddly bipod need improving!
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  6. pparks1
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    I think everyone want's a good VoIP system built-in.

    A few of my buddies and I use a mumble server, but it's not open to the public...so we can only talk to each other and not anybody else on our team. For a game based on teamwork, they really seemed to have really limited the experience with this decision.
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  7. mickey megabyte
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    i've just tried the patch.

    the first time i tried to connect to a server, it failed and i got an error message.

    so i rebooted, tried again and i played five minutes without problems. seems a bit smoother too.

    however, ymmv!
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  8. badger906
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    i played for about an hour earlier. i dont think i noticed any change lol. was playing caspian boarder, which is known for frame rate killing.
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  10. mickey megabyte
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    anyone know where the patch gets downloaded to?

    i want to save it so i don't have to re-download it in case of possible future reinstall.

    there's an update/patch folder in the main game folder, but i don't think it's in there.

    or, maybe it doesn't get downloaded as an .exe file?
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