Battlefield 3 locks up

[[JiF]{zs}wids67]

Had this happen about 5-6 times now... map starts to change and dose not complete.
I end up with the game frozen on a black screen, so press ctrl alt delete... no joy..
then press windows key and desktop task bar to see whats going on 3 things on taskbar
origin (still running fine) internet explorer (running battlelog fine) battlefield 3 (icon flashing but clicking it just take me to a white screen)

origin and battlelog shut down but the bf3 game wont have to retart computer to get it to go.

Anyone else have this happen?

Wids

[[JiF]Mike]

Have you defragged your hard drive recently? A good free program to do it is Smart Defrag. It's one of the first things I do whenever strange things like that happen.

[[JiF]phantomx]

this actually happened to me last night. just the once. windows eventually came up with an error box and I could shut down the game.

[[JiF]Gib]

I too had it happen once last night.

[[JiF]Lt Gav]

Every night Wids at least once!
I use task manager & kill the BF3 process. Can usually the load up again almost straight away.

[[JiF]{zs}wids67]

Good to know it's not just me (if you know what i mean)

Cheers wids