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N3tRunn3r
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5 months ago
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BF2042 crashes by loading up, since BF6 Open Beta Client has been installed

On Steam, since yesterdays install and setup of BF6 Open Beta, BF2042 crashes at the title screen before entering main menu whenever the loading crosshair indicator appears at the center of the screen. Crash happens when the title screen stays at a smaller windowed screen as well as whenever it goes to full screen automatically.

I tried to verify gamefiles, repaired EAAntiCheat, deleted BF2042 settings, deleted various caches and temp files, re-downloaded and re-installed BF2042 on Steam, tried to run it through EA App ... but nothing. Same crash happens on title screen shown below.

BF2042 creates a 3 MB encrypted crashdump each time, which I wont share here on public. BF6 Open Beta Client on Steam still runs without any issues.

Clean Win11 Pro 24H2, i9-14900HX, RTX 4090, 2x16GB RAM, latest NVIDIA Drivers v580.88

 

  • I do not want to go further into details, so after analyzing, switching and testing "various" stuff, only a revert of NVIDIA Drivers helped in my case. By the installers integrated clean install checkbox and the drivers revert from v580.88 to 577.00

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  • OhLookItsRich's avatar
    OhLookItsRich
    Rising Newcomer
    4 months ago

    Totally forgot it made me update my drivers before running bf6, downgrading to 577.00 worked for me. Thank you

  • N3tRunn3r's avatar
    N3tRunn3r
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 months ago

    NVIDIA fix for BF2042 and BF6 has been released: v581.42 - WHQL

    The NVIDIA GPU fix is finally released which prevents crashes on startup of BF2042 as well as BF6. And of course some enhancements. So we can finally update our NVIDIA Drivers from v577.00 to v581.42 !!

    Downloads and more to read here:

    Desktop: GeForce Game Ready-Driver, Driver Version: 581.42 - WHQL
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/drivers/results/257133/

    Notebook: GeForce Game Ready-Driver, Driver Version: 581.42 - WHQL
    https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/drivers/results/257134/

    Game Ready for Battlefield 6

    This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 4 technology including Battlefield 6 . . . 

    Fixed Gaming Bugs

    Battlefield 2042: Increased GPU Crashing when calling CDXGISwapChain::Present() [5446395] . . .

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