How to activate game on Origin

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1. Click here to download the Origin Launcher.

2. Install Origin after the download has finished.

3. Launch Origin and you will see the following screen:

If you already have an EA or Origin account, enter your account details and login.

Otherwise click "Join Origin" on the bottom of the screen and register an account.

4. After you've logged in your account, you will see the following screen:

Click the settings symbol and choose "Redeem Game Code".

The following screen will appear:

6. Enter the code we've sent you and click on "Continue".

7. The game was now added to your account. Click on "Ready to download" to download your game.

8. After the download has finished, you can install and play your game.

ATTENTION: In some rare cases it might happen, that activation is a bit delayed and you will receive a message that your key is already in use.
To fix this bug, just restart Origin and login to your account again. After that you will find your game in your games list.

How to change language in BF3

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1. Activate and download your game on Origin.

2. Once you have installed Battlefield 3, download the DLL files and all English language packs:

DLL files (all languages) (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\)

English Language Pack (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\Data\Win32\Loc\)

English Language Pack 2 (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\) (December 6th Patch)

Note: If you haven't changed the directory during installation, you will find the Battlefield 3 directory here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\BATTLEFIELD 3\

Additional languages (English language pack is still required, so download both):

German Language Pack (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\Data\Win32\Loc\)

German Language Pack 2 (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\) (December 6th Patch)

French Language Pack (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\Data\Win32\Loc\)

French Language Pack 2 (Extract and copy to \BATTLEFIELD 3\) (December 6th Patch)

More languages coming soon!

3. Final step: Change the language. You can do this either automatically or manually.

Automatically

Download, extract and double click the patch file of your desired language. It's a simple reg-file, which will change the registry settings to your desired language.

English Language Patch

German Language Patch

more languages coming soon!

Attention: If you have changed the Battlefield directory during installation, you will have to do the manual way!

Manually

1. Click Start and enter 'regedit' in the Run box. Press enter.

2. Find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\EA Games\Battlefield 3] and replace the highlighted fields:

(If you have 32bit Windows, find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\EA Games\Battlefield 3] instead)

Field 1:

English: GDFBinary_en_US.dll German: GDFBinary_de_DE.dll French: GDFBinary_fr_FR.dll Italian:GDFBinary_it_IT.dll Spanish: GDFBinary_es_ES.dll Polish: GDFBinary_pl_PL.dll Japanese:GDFBinary_ja_JP.dll Czech: GDFBinary_cs_CZ.dll

Field 2:

English: en_US German: de_DE French: fr_FR Italian: it_IT Spanish: es_ES Polish: pl_PL Japanese: ja_JPCzech: cs_CZ

3. Find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Origin Games\DGR01609244] and replace the highlighted fields.

English: en_US German: de_DE French: fr_FR Italian: it_IT Spanish: es_ES Polish: pl_PL Japanese: ja_JPCzech: cs_CZ

That's all! Enjoy the game in your desired language!

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