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Battlefield 3 Beta

Well, today is the day a lot of us have been waiting for. The Battlefield 3 Open Beta is now open! Free to play so it's like...a free fps shooter until oct 10. Can't wait omgawwwd. Downloading now. SO EXCITED >;o

September 29, 2011

19 Comments • Newest first

ShiroNoYami

[quote=heyitsmexD]Your graphics card is not strong enough to run BF3.[/quote]
... or he just forgot to update his GPU drivers

Reply September 30, 2011
heyitsmexD

[quote=jorden27]@CookiesOrNo: It says I have DirectX 11. I don't get it, when I try to join a server it gives me this error "Failed creating D3D device of at least version 10.0 on adapter...", and says "This is typically caused by not having the minimum required DirectX support in the GPU. For Nividia GPUs, DirectX 10.0 support is required. For AMD and GPUs from other vendors, DirectX 10.1 support is required". I have no idea what to do, I might as well just take it to a technician and hopefully he will get it fixed before the beta is over.[/quote]
Your graphics card is not strong enough to run BF3.

Reply September 30, 2011
jorden27

@CookiesOrNo: It says I have DirectX 11. I don't get it, when I try to join a server it gives me this error "Failed creating D3D device of at least version 10.0 on adapter...", and says "This is typically caused by not having the minimum required DirectX support in the GPU. For Nividia GPUs, DirectX 10.0 support is required. For AMD and GPUs from other vendors, DirectX 10.1 support is required". I have no idea what to do, I might as well just take it to a technician and hopefully he will get it fixed before the beta is over.

Reply September 30, 2011
ShiroNoYami

@carbonium: One of the devs twitter out that despite the different settings you can choose in the menu, the beta client is basically locked at medium settings since they didn't add in all the extra textures and stuff used for high settings in order to keep the download smaller.

EDIT
@CrownedSorrow: basically no problems at all except when I try to get in to the Caspian Border map. There are some bugs (obviously) and some texture issues, but other than that, it runs like a less buggy version of the Alpha.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
TShasIssues

Holy, I just finished downloading the beta and Ive been trying to find a game for almost 20mins...

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CookiesOrNo

[quote=jorden27]I have recently discovered that I don't have the 10.1+ DirectX version. Even though, I'm running on a 64bit Windows 7 (I thought DirectX 11 was suppose to come with it). Tried to download it, didn't work. Gonna have to call a technician or something, so I might not even be able to play the Beta . Hope I could still play in one of the last days, but I doubt I will. Just gonna watch videos in 1080p fullscreen on YouTube pretending I'm playing.

/mental illness FTW.[/quote]
Hmms, it should come with it. Go run---> dxdiag and click ok then check if you're on DX 11

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
jorden27

I have recently discovered that I don't have the 10.1+ DirectX version. Even though, I'm running on a 64bit Windows 7 (I thought DirectX 11 was suppose to come with it). Tried to download it, didn't work. Gonna have to call a technician or something, so I might not even be able to play the Beta . Hope I could still play in one of the last days, but I doubt I will. Just gonna watch videos in 1080p fullscreen on YouTube pretending I'm playing.

/mental illness FTW.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
Chat

How to get into Caspian servers

Use Google Chrome as your default browser
Start BF battlelog server browser

Hit SHIFT+CRTL+J

copy and then paste:
launcher.verifyPassword = function(game, gameServerGuid, plaintextPassword, callback) { callback(true); }

press enter

select server - don't enter a password - i.e. leave password field blank -

go play! without the need for any password

Now all you need to do is find an Open slot to get into a server. But don't fret because there is usually an 0/64 server opened up every ten minutes or so.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CookiesOrNo

The graphics doesn't matter for now as it is nerfed as stated by DICE to compress to beta file to be smaller.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
NubForPresident

If you're on PS3 and can't download the beta, then make a new account and make your region somewhere in europe. Then once youre done making the account download the beta from the PS store because Europe already has the beta. You can sign off and go on your main after youre done downloading.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
costosito

psn is in maintenance should be good no, supposed to be from 9-11 am,pst.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CrownedSorrow

[quote=ShiroNoYami][url=http://i.imgur.com/g4iNV.jpg]So i herd u liek medium settings...[/url]

...because that's what the beta on PC is locked to[/quote]

How is the PC version? Console version is full of bugs and glitches right now

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
ShiroNoYami

[url=http://i.imgur.com/g4iNV.jpg]So i herd u liek medium settings...[/url]

...because that's what the beta on PC is locked to

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CrownedSorrow

[quote=timesealer62]i'm on the ps3, and i see it in the psn, but it says i can't access the content for some reason. D: i thought it was an open beta, not a beta in which you had to have MoH.[/quote]

PS3 users have to wait for the weekly update from Sony.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
WinterWish

[quote=FlyingFiish17]Umm... Bf3 come out on 25th of October not on 10. -.-[/quote]

My roommate has been playing it all day yesterday..

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
vaelietta

[quote=FlyingFiish17]Umm... Bf3 come out on 25th of October not on 10. -.-[/quote]

[b]BETA[/b] is from today to the 10th. I never said anything about the actual release. derp.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CrownedSorrow

Oh wait nevermind. You're not on the PS3 then :x.

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
vaelietta

Yes..I do ;p

Reply September 29, 2011 - edited
CrownedSorrow

Whattt. Do you live in North America?

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