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Running BF3 on a 32bit system & get BF3 stopped working ?.

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jimbouk1977:
Battlefield 3 nov 22 patch crash fix
Posted on Paul's how to on November 23, 2011

For those of you who are experiencing the ‘Battlefield 3? has stopped working error ever since the last patch came out or even in general, here’s the fix, its only one command in the windows cmd :)

?Windows 7/Windows Vista
* In Windows 7/Vista go to Start menu. Go to Accessories. Locate the command prompt shortcut and hover mouse over it. Right Click on the shortcut then select Run as Administrator.
* In the command prompt type this exactly:
bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2500
Then hit enter.
* Make sure you get a message back confirming the change was made. To verify the entry is there you can type just bcdedit, hit enter, and you should see the entry now listed.
* Then close the command prompt. You just told Vista to increase user virtual address (userva) space to 2500MB.
* Changes take effect on reboot.
Now reboot the PC because Windows needs to set the userva at 2500 which only happens after startup.
If you skip any step it will not work. When you have rebooted you should be good to go. Run the game as normal with the original game shortcut.
TO UNDO THE CHANGES
Open command prompt as administrator and type: bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva. That deletes the entry.
Reboot and you are back to normal.

Windows 7/Windows Vista* In Windows 7/Vista go to Start menu. Go to Accessories. Locate the command prompt shortcut and hover mouse over it. Right Click on the shortcut then select Run as Administrator.* In the command prompt type this exactly:
bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2500
Then hit enter.* Make sure you get a message back confirming the change was made. To verify the entry is there you can type just bcdedit, hit enter, and you should see the entry now listed.* Then close the command prompt. You just told Vista to increase user virtual address (userva) space to 2500MB.* Changes take effect on reboot.Now reboot the PC because Windows needs to set the userva at 2500 which only happens after startup.
If you skip any step it will not work. When you have rebooted you should be good to go. Run the game as normal with the original game shortcut.
TO UNDO THE CHANGESOpen command prompt as administrator and type: bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva. That deletes the entry.Reboot and you are back to normal.

Game hasnt crashed once for me ever since I did this :)

Edit: What this does for those of you wondering, is increase the maximum virtual memory that bf3 can access at runtime.

This is not my post but i came across it so if you do have a 32bit system try it you never know !!!!

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