Battlefield 2042 Crashes whole PC?
I have been playing BF 2042 without any issues for over a year, but since yesterday afternoon, when playing, my PC randomly crashes (and then automatically starts again)... I have not replaced or go...
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From my experience a PC resetting mid game is usually caused by a CPU or RAM error issue.
In my case the reset was being caused by overclocking RAM which caused memory timing issues. I also had to adjust CPU voltages for the memory controller before things became stable.
When my compy was unstable I would run MemTest86 and MemTest86+ all day long and my computer would pass the test with zero memory errors.
Then I downloaded https://hcidesign.com/memtest/ and my computer started throwing multiple memory errors during the test.
Basically you launch a bunch of MemTest windows to speed up testing by using more CPU power. Be careful not to test more gigabytes of available physical RAM than your system has because MemTest will start testing the Windows Page File on the hard drive!
Press alt + ctrl + del to see how much available physical RAM is available. If you have 20 gigabytes of available physical RAM then you'd launch 10 HCI MemTest windows with each windows testing 2,000MB of RAM.
10 windows X 2,000MB = 20GB of RAM being tested.
Another thing to try is disabling CPU overclocking features such as AMD Precision Boost Overdrive, Curve Optimizer Voltage Offsets, and AMD EXPO™ Memory Overclocking Technology.
Thanks a lot for your reply! I ran your test with 100% coverage and received 0 errors, so it does not seem to be that...
Today I had a nice stretch of about 5-6 games of normal playing before my PC crashed, right after it crashed and started again I went back to BF2042 and my PC crashed in the main menu while search for a game, i repeated this 3 times and it always crashed while still in the main menu. This leads me to believe that IS some kind of overheating issue... I logged all data in HWiNFO for my last 2 tries but all temps seemed to be fine right before the crash, everything below 60C...
After the final crash I also once again ran a full power stress test with 100% CPU and 100% GPU usage in OCCT and there were no crashes, with both CPU and GPU getting much hotter than during the crashes. I am so perplexed man...
If the system restart isn't caused by a hardware issue then that only leaves a software issue. The fastest and easiest next step is to plug a different storage drive into the computer and do a minimal install of Windows, Nvidia GPU drivers, and Battlefield. Launch the game and see if the PC restarts in the middle of the game.
This way you can save your current Windows install. I would unplug the storage drive with your valuable Windows install to prevent it being deleted on accident.
If the PC doesn't restart after a fresh Windows install then you've narrowed the problem down to a software issue on the old Windows install. If the computer continues to restart after a fresh Windows install then you've narrowed the problem down to a hardware issue.
