EAAntiCheat is broken, making the game crash and the computer blue screen.
For several months now, whenever I manage to get BF2042 working, it's always through shaky workarounds and manipulating critical settings.
Since purchasing the game, I have been experiencing a major stability issue caused by the wreck that is EAAntiCheat. Systematic crashes within the first two minutes of launching the game without any error reports, or blue screens ‘IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL’ pointing to eaanticheat.sys.
I had the same problem with BF1, and last May, I managed to get BF2042 working again after several days of troubleshooting with the help of GPT. Adjusting PCores, updating the BIOS, downgrading graphics drivers, downclocking my components... I can't even remember which combination solved my problem.
Last night, my game crashed, displaying an error message (for once) indicating that I needed to update my graphics drivers. So I innocently updated my drivers, and since then, I've been getting blue screens again with ‘IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL’ pointing to eaanticheat.sys at launch. After reactivating memory integrity (which I had to disable for the previous fix), I find myself back in the same situation I was in before last May: crashes without error messages within two minutes of playing.
I'm really fed up. I've spent so much time since the release of their anti-cheat system troubleshooting, testing and performing risky manipulations that EA should pay me to do their job. It's truly scandalous for a company with so much money to offer such a pitiful experience, even more when mistreating its studios.
If you have any solutions to offer, I'm all ears. I'm out of ideas. As things stand, there's no way I'm buying BF6, a new game ruined by this miserable anti-cheat system.
My last hope lies with the gaming community, which has to suffer the consequences of this kind of production logic. Thank you for your time !
Hey, thanks for your reply. I already tried to reinstall Javelin, it never has fixed anything but that's the quickest to try. Did not work. I tried a lot of fixes, beginning with the easier ones.
By mentionning the BIOS in your reply, I checked if there was another update since May and found out yes. I decided to try to update it again. It's a really critical thing to do for me as my old electrical network sometimes shut down for no reason. The last time in May, it hasn't resolved my issue, but I gave it a try.
With BIOS up to date, memory integrety enabled, and my CPU downclocked (because intel 13th generation), and ECores disabled (UC16 to UC23) on Intel XTU, I managed to play this evening.
I'm still amazed at how nerdy you have to become to just play a game.
Thanks again for your time. I hope my post will help some of you.
