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gewoongerwin
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago

Battlefield 2042 keeps crashing and I don't know what to do anymore at this poin

I've got some massive problems with Battlefield 2042. The game is literally unplayable and I have tried everything that I know of. 

Whenever I try to either start the game or load in a match, the game crashes without any errors whatsoever. It just closes or sometimes even freezes my computer. 

I've built myself a new pc, i9 14900K, RX 6800 XT and 64Gb of DDR5 RAM. So I would say plenty of power to run Battlefield 2024. When it does SOMETIMES run, and that is very rare, I get a steady 180fps. I even took out one of my ram sticks to try it and the game still didn't run. I know ram and the i9 14900k is a bit tricky, but all other games and benchmakrs run fine. I did have some stability issues with my CPU but after limiting the TDP to 300W and the P core 1 and 2 clock speed to 5.7Ghz it ran completely stable. I'm not running any overclocks on either the CPU or the GPU. XMP is enabled, but didn't make a difference for BF2042 with or without it. 

I've tried everything, I reinstalled Windows 3 times, both Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Currently back at Windows 10), installed all the correct drivers I need, all the Windows updates and drivers, every driver is up to date. I even installed Intel Chipset drivers provided by my motherboard's manufacturer. 

I have verified steam files, disabled all the in-game overlays, my temperatures are all good to go, nothing is overheating. BF2042 is the ONLY game on my computer that has this issue, all other games run just fine. 

I've done the clear cache and clean boot stuff in Windows, didn't help. I closed all apps and RGB software etc in the backgtround through taskmanager, didn't help. I added BF2042 to my firewall etc, you guessed it, didn't help. 

I just don't know what to do anymore at this point, and the strange thing is that right after I built this system it did run for a little bit, but now it's unplayable and I did not make any changes in my bios whatsoever. The only thing that I have disabled is Secure Boot (Because of other OS's running on this computer) but I believe that should not be an issue for Windows 10. (Other OS has it's own M.2 ssd so there's no interference with that either, boot entries are set correct)

I really enjoy the game when it does run, so please, is there anyone that could resolve my issues? Thanks a lot in advance!

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  • gewoongerwin's avatar
    gewoongerwin
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 years ago

    Also, I forgot to mention, I did go through all the possible solutions with EA customer service chat, but eventually they asked me to post here, hence why I'm making this post.

  • @gewoongerwin 

    Have you checked that nothing is heating up ? I9 14900K is extremely difficult to cool. Check the temperatures of the I9 14900K and its power section as you manage to fire up the game.

    Windows likes to shut down applications if it detects a threat to the components.

    Something else you can try to do is dump the DXcache of the graphics card. If you have Nvidia, you can find how to do this here.

    Post (#463)

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/S6-Stuck-on-Black-Screen-during-Pre-or-End-of-Round-gt-Requires/m-p/13190832#M55576

    GL

  • gewoongerwin's avatar
    gewoongerwin
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 years ago

    Thanks for your reply! I am very certain nothing is overheating. I know it's difficult to cool, but I've got an NZXT 360 cooler and 10 fans total in my case to get rid of the heat. 6 set as intake 4 set as exhaust. The CPU, when the game does run, doesn't get over 72C at it's peak temperature so for this CPU that is an acceptable temperature as far as I know. 

    I am using an AMD card, so I'm not sure if that DXcache dump works then?

  • mxxmmllm's avatar
    mxxmmllm
    2 years ago

    <P>Set Load Line Calibration to 4, SA Voltage 1,34, CPU VDDQ 1,43 CPU VDD2 1,42 fixed it for me</P>
    Do not touch any cpu voltage or anything. That is just my attempt with a 14900kf and a MSI z690 Unify X and 32 gb 7000 mhz c32 Ram + Watercooling.
    Do not damage your cpu and use overvoltage

  • @mxxmmllm 

    I understand that by forcing him to set such high voltages, you will be financially responsible for possible damage to his processor? What you wrote applies to OC, not to the stock processor, and these voltages are at least dangerous + the voltage can jump up by +0.05, so if u set Vcore 1.34, then Vcore jump for some ms/sec to 1.39 (very dangerous Vcore)


    Generally, you should not exceed Vcore voltage of 1.3 if you want to have a processor that will last for years. From what I know about this processor, the Vcore voltage of 1.27 or lower is used on the stock I9 14900K, the default is probably about 1.3.


    To lower temperatures, I recommend reading how much to lower the voltage of CPU System agent clock and CPU VCCIO. These 2 parameters have a high impact on the processor temperatures, and sometimes even lowering these 2 voltages improves its stability.


    I have been overclocking Intel processors for 14 years (versions without K and K) and when I see that someone advises such high voltages, it means that they either have a budget motherboard with a too weak power section, or they really want to unknowingly damage their processor and someone else.

    Fairy tales that a given processor requires mega voltages have always been debunked since the 14th generation of Intel.

    @gewoongerwin 


    Don't change the voltages in the BIOS, just read about undervolting, but if your temperatures are OK, don't change anything.

    BF2042 sometimes has a problem with GPU caches, if you have AMD, you have to find where AMD generates its game cache.

    GL

  • Welcome to my world, BF2042 is the only  game I own that keeps crashing.

    sometimes I can play 2 games full, then crash to desktop with Dx error, sometimes in just mid game

    tried all of the internet solutions and EA said "nope you are not going to play our game"

    ryzen 5800x + rtx 3080 ti + 32gb 3600mhz

  • ToOldAndGray's avatar
    ToOldAndGray
    2 years ago

    If you have wifi on your motherboard and you use kable, remember to turn of wifi..

    That was my problem, playing with out problems now

  • I had the same problem, try to turn off wifi on your pc so you only are on cable, fix my problem 

  • MrSeltz's avatar
    MrSeltz
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I had the same problem for days. I tried everything short of a new windows install. This is what worked for me.

    navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Battlefield 2042

    You will see this:

    preloader_l.dll_b

    EAAntiCheat.GameServiceLauncher.dll_b

    EAAntiCheat.GameServiceLauncher.exe_b

    Rename each and remove "_b " from the extension

    Then select all

    Go to properties

    Set each file to read only

    I couldn't find a fix anywhere not even from Dice/Ea. I hope this helps someone out there. Cheers

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