Really appreciate if anyone already successful installed his/her Battlefield 3 and able to play it smoothly, kindly post your guide on how you install Battlefield 3 include those patches. I find out a lot of user having problem in installing it, getting errors and etc.

It would be even better if admin stick this post up so everyone can see and share.

I don't know what's the big problem. These are my steps :

0. Sign up for origin and log in.
1. Open DVD Case and insert into drive.
2. Run autostart.
3. Click next.
4. Enter DVD Key.
5. Click next.
6. Origin says it's "downloading" the game but zero network activity and data is "downloaded" from the DVD.
7. Change disk.
8. Click next.
9. Patch Downloads automatically.
10. Play the effing game.

How about the PunkBuster and Battlelog Web Plugin? Any idea?

Appreciate your sharing, so everyone can read and follow. Some even installed without Origin running in their system.

punkbuster is bundle with all battlefield game, when you install battlefield the isntaller will install the punkbuster together

as for the plugin for battle log, when you want to access the battle log the browser will prompt for install plugin, just click and install like how you install other plugin

does the patching take alot of time.

fyi i have screamyx slow down now....

current patch is around 400mb only.

thx dude.its gonna take alot of time to dl it at 20kb/s jeeezzzz screamyx.

Thanks for all the sharing, any of you have problem in installing and did some trick to get it done, please do share too.

Seems that a fresh installation of windows might be needed in some cases

please don't,this rig only got 1 HDD
and even the External almost full ><

Get a small HDD for Windows. I used to have a dedicated 80GB just for windows (now 60GB SSD) so that if anything I can just reformat and keep my games/programs in my other HDD

i only allocate 150GB for windows
even that feel twice before i reformat
maybe in near future when i finish setup CCTV rig
which need 4x2TB hdd
maybe can mintak tauke discount the fifth 1TB hdd

i think there is few steps but it would not be any difference

1. Update Origin (download latest origin version for BF3)
2. Insert DVD -> Click Install (it will ask for cd key etc all self explanatory)
3. Wait for 1/2 hour @ 6.5MB/s
4. Upon completion; make sure your internet is still on as it will check for patch... download the 500MB patch (if you were disconnected at this time, do step 2 again.. I had 1 hour chat with EA looking for the patch link)
5. start the game as usual

I want the link. PM me please

there is no link; hence the 1 hr chat...

same solution; resintall the game to get the link

Okay, just to share how I install mine.

1) I had Origin installed in my PC, latest version.
2) Redeem my CD Key in Origin
3) Put in Disc 1, select Language, click Install.
4) Nothing appear, no response from DVD, suspect DVD DOA.
5) Uninstall Origin, delete all Origin folders and settings.
6) Restart PC.
7) Put in Disc 1, select Language, click Install, Origin setup auto come up.
8) Finish install Origin, auto update Origin will perform.
9) Open up Origin and select on Battefield 3, click Download.
10) Actually it don't download from internet, it read from the DVD so you can see 9MB/s transfer rate for the download speed.
11) Put in Disc 2 when it request.
12) Done installation, auto update Battlefield 3 patch.
13) Done patching, start playing!
14) When launching the game, it crashed and saying DirectX issue.
15) Change Battlefield 3 compatibility to Vista Service Pack 2, working perfectly.

=\ i followed ur steps for 2 times, yet my disc installation still stuck at 100% for no reason. zzz

I also had same problem with you. "Origin is currently experiencing issues with game activation". Can't activate my BF3....

+1

Yea Origin activation is down at the moment. Thank God I managed to activate it abit earlier before it went down. Wuhuhu..

But theres still problem with the multiplayer punkbuster thingy. I keep on getting kicked out of game by admins after I got into the game for a few minutes. I tried the link at the 'news' section in battlelog and I still get disconnections.

Now I can only play non-punkbuster servers, so far I've seen no hackers, yet. Choi..