Black screen and or freeze

So I thought I was the only person getting this for a couple of months...turns out I'm not.

I have concluded that it must be one of these issues:

- my older CPU 4790K (which is below spec but ran fine before July) is having issues with some new instruction set that only BF2042 uses after Update 1.0

- Something in windows 10 causing a conflict (cannot upgrade to 11 with this CPU but no issues in any other title/program)

- My Broadband speed/ping. I'm running on ethernet but I only get 26mb download...however all worked fine previously.

- Easy anti cheat...not based on anything but I have no idea what it is actually doing in the background

- Server issue...it only happens on loading map or menu and don't know if there is some verification going on between server/client that is carping out.

- Game issue...which is probably only affecting 2% of players and is probably some hardware/software conflict

I have done every possible troubleshooting thing that I can...please don't tell me another basic one, I'm an IT systems guy, I have done it!

The only thing I haven't done is reinstall windows and that is not happening because I cannot get one game stable! (a mechanic doesn't rebuild his workshop because he cannot get one car working)

I have never once had a mid round/game crash (which is a miracle) but I do get the Black Screen at the end of match (after BattePass page before coming back to main menu) and I get loading issues on the map loading screen (the plus icon freezes and the sound stops)

It happens at random...I can play 10 rounds perfectly and then on the 11th it will stop. Alternatively it can happen on the first round of a session and keep happening every other round...I have ended BF2042 with task manager so many times now that I have got a batch file to do it quickly!

My defeatist thoughts are that this issue will never get addressed...not enough people have it and not enough to allocate resources to fix it. Would love to be proven otherwise but i have seen too many people sending DXdiag reports and not one single solution, just a try this!

I have liked BF2042 since the start...not perfect but getting better all the time. I hate that 6-7months in, after playing perfectly (albeit slowly on my old machine)  I have started getting these issues and I'm starting to realise that I need to look to playing something else until I get a new PC and hope it isn't an issue after that.