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How To Enable The Network Performance Monitor In Star Wars Battlefront

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In this tutorial you will learn how to enable a network performance monitor in Star Wars Battlefront. When the overlay is enabled, you will see all kind of data that will help you to benchmark your network performance and the performance of the server and netcode. How To Enable The Network Performance Overlay First you have to open the Battlefront console with the tilde key (~). Now you type in the command “NetworkPerfOverlay.Enable 1” without the quotation marks, and then you just need to confirm your input with the return key. The network performance graph should now be visible on … Continue reading How To Enable The Network Performance Monitor In Star Wars Battlefront

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Star Wars Battlefront Beta First Impression

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I know, I really know,  a game in a beta is never perfect, that is what the beta test is for, but Electronic Arts is really known to have the worst beta tests, and also the worst releases, that is a sad truth. This article will be a short one, I just want to write down my first impression, some negative things I noticed, and a few positive things. Problems I Noticed Very Early Trying to play multiplayer, it often happens that you see the message “Could not find any server”. In case you get into the multiplayer matches, it … Continue reading Star Wars Battlefront Beta First Impression

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EA And DICE Still Try To Fix The Broken Battlefield 4 Netcode, Did They Achieve It With The Latest Update?

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DICE promises in a recent blog entry on their official site that they are still working on the broken Battlefield 4 netcode. They say that they released an update for the PC, PS3 and X360 platforms that is aimed to … Continue reading EA And DICE Still Try To Fix The Broken Battlefield 4 Netcode, Did They Achieve It With The Latest Update?

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Battlefield 4 Update 9 with less crashes and better netcode?

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DICE has just released another Battlefield 4 update. They state that they have once again eliminated some problems that caused crashes. They also mention that they optimized the netcode. There was a problem where many people have been killed behind walls and so. They say that they have eliminated this kind of network sync bug and they mean that Update 9 will improve the network smoothing functionality as well. Here are the provisional patch notes of Update 9: 1)Reduce the number of crashes We believe this update will solve a large portion of the most commonly occurring game crashes, and … Continue reading Battlefield 4 Update 9 with less crashes and better netcode?

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Crashfield 4, Lagfield 4 or should we call it Bugfield 4?

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Battlefield 4 is released since over a week now but the release week was and still is rough. My friends and me realized that we never played such a broken piece of software until Battlefield 4 came out. Seriously? Yes I say it absolutely honest. Not even a single beta game of the tons I played was that broken like the fully released BF 4. It´s not that only my friends and me had to experience it. The forum of Battlefield 4 was and still is full of people who had major problems with the game. The most common problems … Continue reading Crashfield 4, Lagfield 4 or should we call it Bugfield 4?