Another Battlefield 4 Update

So here we stand, another update has hit Battlefield 4 on PC. This time, I was actually able to play through two rounds before I quit for the night. I was able to hit the exit button on my own, I wasn't booted due to a crash. That said, I'm only running about 20 frames a second while I play. Sometimes it jumps up to anywhere from 60 to 90, but as soon as I round a corner or something moves, my framerate drops down to the low 20's. So, we're getting better!

I'm looking to upgrade my old video card too. After I sell my laptop to pay bills, the remaining cash will be used to buy some much needed upgrades to my poor machine. I'm running an AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor that's overclocked to 3.5ghz. There's also an ATI Radeon HD 5770 1gb video card that' been mildly overclocked as well. Follow that with 4gb of 1600mhz DDR 3 RAM and you've got a system that's starting to show its age. For those interested I'm upgrading to 8gb of RAM and I'm going between an AMD R9 280X and an AMD R9 290X. There's a significant price difference and I've got to do some creative manuvering to get either card to fit into my case, which surprised me, but it should be fun. I'll update when I decide on what I'm going with and when I buy it.

Finally, the Steam Holiday Sale has begun, so, prepare your wallets. Nothing seemed to spectacular today, but that's just my opinion. I'm hoping to maybe pick up CoD: Ghosts(not on sale) or Assassin's Creed 4(also not on sale, maybe not even on Steam) if I manage to get that new video card, but we'll see. Also, there's a website - gog.com that's got some pretty nice deals for more indie and classic games. If you haven't heard of them, I say check 'em out. Their games are all DRM free and a lot of them work on both Windows and Mac.

Take it easy internet, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah. Whatever your particular celebration of choice, Happy Whatever and play some games!

Battlefield 4 (PC) Update

After jumping through many hoops and with the help of digging through the Reddit Battlefield community I found a list of potential fixes. I tried about 90% of them and my game actually worked! However, I went from running fairly smoothly in the test range to getting 25-32 fps while playing. It's semi-playable at best, and at worst I can't hit anything. However, it did finally work and it worked for several rounds before I got too frustrated to keep playing. So, that's that. I'm going to try and upgrade my video card at some point in the nearish future. I'm looking at an AMD R9 280X. It seems like a nice little piece of hardware and should work with my current setup. *fingers crossed*

On another note, My wife bought us matching copies of Animal Crossing: New Leaf for our 3ds systems. I've gotta say, we both love the game. I've spent nearly 30 hours in my town and causing various levels of chaos in her town. I would recommend that anyone with a 3ds check this one out.

Battlefield 4 (PC) Major problems. Also, good sales.

Valued internet, I have purchased and played* Battlefield 4. I have thoroughly not enjoyed my experience with the game thus far. I should note, that the "*" next to "Played" means that I have launched the game about a dozen times and failed to complete a match or level or anything. I played in the test range for a while, things went very smoothly and I even bumped the game up to Ultra just to see how amazing it looked. It was freaking beautiful. So, I bumped it back down to low/medium and tried to launch into campaign. Here's where the problems started. I played about a minute and a half and the game locked up and crashed to the desktop. There was some kind of message about bad arguments being sent to my video card. This problem persisted no matter what resolution or quality I put the game on. I managed no more than about eight minutes into the campaign. I gave up and tried to load into multiplayer thinking that maybe there was just some slight issues in the manor of Medal of Honor. Lo and behold, upon loading into a match of multiplayer I was met with the same issues. Plus several other major problems including but not limited to, major lag, framerate crashes, and occasional moments of total brokenness. All of these things happened during my play time before my game crashed and sent me back to the desktop with the "Bad arguments" error.

I've never encountered this error message before. I have no idea how to handle it. My system setup is as follows: AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor overclocked to 3.2 ghz, 4 gb DDR3 Ram at 1600 mhz, and an AMD Radeon HD 5770 1 gb Video Card, also overclocked. I've updated drivers and tried replacing and reinstalling the drivers. I've overclocked my CPU slightly, and I've overclocked my GPU a bit. My system meets the requirements for the game and a little bit more. I'm very disappointed in this game and unfortunately cannot review it at this time since I can't play the damn thing.

On an unrelated note, this week's Humble Bundle is pretty nice. As is the Indie Gala Codemasters Sale, so check those out. Humble Bundle is featuring Garry's Mod, Magicka + DLC, Orcs Must Die 2 complete collection, Natural Selection 2, Sanctum 2, and Serious Sam 3. It's promising to add more games on Tuesday so we'll see what else shows up. Indie Gala features Damnation, Clive Barker's Jericho, Overlord, Overlord 2, Overlord Raising Hell, Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising, and Operation Flashpoint Red River. Both bundles can be currently purchased for less than $11 to get all the content.

So that's that. Have fun internet, We'll talk again soon.