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RobBobDaCornMan
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5 months ago

BSOD When Launching BF2042 (Steam)

I am getting the BSOD when launching BF2042 (Steam). Any help would be much appreciated.

I have tried the following:

Disabling and enabling Memory Integrity

  • Uninstall/Reinstall EAC
  • Admin Privileges / Security Privileges
  • Renew Certificates for EAC.
  • Updated Drivers
  • Ran /sfc scans and no issues
  • Verify Game Integrity in Steam
  • Secure Boot Enabled
  • Overclock only enabled in AWCC when in performance mode

PC Specs:

Alienware M18 R1 Laptop

Windows 11 Pro v24H2

13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX (2.20 GHz)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU

Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.7 GB usable)

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

WinDbg BSOD Crash Information:

KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (1e) Arguments: Arg1: ffffffffc0000005, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: fffff80685fc90f6, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: 0000000000000000, Parameter 0 of the exception Arg4: ffffffffffffffff, Parameter 1 of the exception

*** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for eaanticheat.sys

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4 Replies

  • victor85paul's avatar
    victor85paul
    Rising Newcomer
    5 months ago

    Thanks for the detailed info. Based on the KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (1e) BSOD and the involvement of eaanticheat.sys, it’s very likely that EA’s Anti-Cheat (EAC) driver is misbehaving or conflicting with something on your system.

  • RobBobDaCornMan's avatar
    RobBobDaCornMan
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 months ago

    I went into the BIOS and disabled all the Turbo settings and everything is working fine now. Thanks for the help!

  • e4rthdog's avatar
    e4rthdog
    New Rookie
    4 months ago

    Yeah i have seen that. But the fact that for many , disabling a perfectly stable OC or vendor CPU turbo features, made it work, seems wrong. It shows how sensitive the EAAC is but it should behave like this. There are many low level kernel applications that hook up to Windows and they don't cause BSOD. The issue is for EA to acknowledge this though.

    On the other hand, i completely flashed my BIOS with the newest version and loaded defaults, and that did not work also, so it must be a combination of things.

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