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RogueZeroRendar
5 years ago

Re: Star Wars Battlefront II frequently crashes on startup when Discord is running

Now that is incredibly interesting and detailed. I really hope this proves useful to EA/DICE and that it enhances their games in the future. I wouldn't expect them to fix this for this game in the foreseeable future, but considering the nature of this issue maybe this report proves useful for other Frostbite titles.

BTW, as a long time dweller here, it's pretty often the complaints of Discord's Gaming Overlay messing up with this game since the early days and throughout all this time. @kevinshurtz do you have this overlay enabled when this issue happens on your end? Could you check if disabling Discord's Gaming Overlay makes this issue stop happening?

I don't think I've seen this being the cause of the game not launching, bur Discord's Gaming Overlay can cause many different issues, from lacking of control in the menus, to your camera not moving ingame, or it only moving until a certain angle and not past it and some more. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the culprit again.

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  • kevinshurtz's avatar
    kevinshurtz
    5 years ago

    Thanks for the reply @RogueZeroRendar!

    I think your theory concerning Discord's Gaming Overlay may be spot-on.  I don't really use Discord that much, so I'd never really fiddled with its options.  After turning off Overlay for Battlefront II, I've found that the game starts without issue.

    Additionally, I've found that starting Discord with Overlay turned on at any point after the game has already started causes it to crash, so it's not exclusively a startup issue.  Moreover, I found that if Battlefront II is started while Discord is open but Overlay is off, and if Overlay is then turned on (while both applications are already running), Battlefront II will crash.  The Overlay "toggle" button in the Discord settings menu acts like a self-destruct button for the game.

    I also hope that EA/DICE can benefit from this for future titles.  I don't use Discord that much, so this isn't a huge loss for me; I can just keep Overlay disabled for Battlefront II and continue playing as usual.  Thank you again for the insight!

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