We are seeing positive signs that the reported scenarios of freezing for PC players have now been resolved.
As such, this issue is now classed as being closed.
If you keep seeing Freezing issues please post below.
/Atic
Toggling Borderless, DLSS and Raytracing and none of it worked.
Just a thought, what client are people using?
When the game freezes Origin crashes which can be seen in the event log and was just wondering if it might be an Origin issue. So guess I'm asking, anyone using EA Desktop alone?
@EA_Atic I am having the same issue, playing through Origin on PC. Over 340 hours of playtime, never had this issue before. Now all of sudden, started happening two days ago, after loading screen in a server the game freezes and becomes unresponsive so I have to use task manager to close out. Unplayable. I've tried rolling back GPU driver, no change. I turned off all my overlays (Nvidia Geforce, Discord and Origin) -- no change. I tried "repairing game" through Origin, no change. I installed the latest update last night and the game still crashes, so the update didn't fix it either.
RTX 3070 on latest drivers October 6, 2022. (tried on older drivers from April 2022 which previously worked well for me, still crashes).
Well, me too.
I played 1 round of Tactical Conquest (got spawn trapped, naturally) and quit out of that to play BT. Game froze while at A on Breakaway. A fuel tank exploded right as it froze, fwiw.
R5 2600
16GB DDR4
5700XT running 9/22 WHQL drivers
DxDIAG attached.
Freezes after a couple mins in any match. Have to ALT CN DEL and quit the BF2042.exe
On Steam
Using The newest Nvidia drivers
Thought Breakthrough was working fine until just now. Game slowed down and dropped frames and then froze on over head map after I died. Using newest Nvidia drivers, Win 10 and 1080ti at 1440p. 32gb RAM. Using Origin as well. Been playing game all year over 500hrs and never had this problem, not even in the Alpha or Beta. I have to End task in task manager.
Thanks. Guess we can rule that out.
DICE TeamHey everyone, Thanks for information given so far.
This topic is dedicated to freezing/crashing issues that started on Tuesday the 18 October 2022, If you seen issues prior to that please make a separate topic.
We are still gathering information while investigating the issue, there is some information we need from you.
Marking this as solved to highlight that we are investigating the issue.
We will continue to update this thread.
/Atic
Good afternoon, Please see the Crash dumps attached. I currently only have 2 files within it as I thought deleting all of 2042 and re-downloading it would fix this issue. Issue started with origin I removed all of origin and BF 2042. I then download the EA- app and the some freezing issue consist.
Hey EA / DICE, When will a fix for this be released?!? I can't play at all now for 2 days. It's ridiculous. I've done everything from deleting bf2042 documents, uninstalling and reinstalling video card drivers for multiple different version to even a format reinstall. Nothing works. I freeze at load of every single map. Push a hotfix that reverts back to the previous version until you fix what you broke!
Same Issue. Please update.
The game constantly crashed for a couple of days I was unable to play at all. No crash dumps have created a game just drop the framerate to 12 and then stop. need to kill the BF2042 process actually to close the game. Clearing the cache from the BF2042 folder in the Document seems like it helped for a couple of hours, but after that same issue started happening.
For me, BF2042 is unplayable. Also no application crash report in Event Viewer at all.
I am using Steam.
The freeze is not actually a crash - it's still running. I am not getting any crash dumps in \Documents\Battlefield 2042\CrashDumps
I've had the 'freeze' during loading going into a match (mainly) or mid-game.
To diagnose, by running Process Monitor (sysutils) - the game is very much working - still - it's griding through a lot of I/O (seems to be verifying game files, reading .cas files, and finishing with reading the BF2042.exe fully - which is odd since the game is fully loaded already, so I suspect some kind of pre-game binary validation or the game spawns itself).
It then moves to doing some minmal local network coms (looking like a tiny bit of UDP traffic, 384 bytes), then talks to an aws server (ec2-34-248-202-243.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:https).
This is where it gets interesting - it tries that connection to the AWS server three times (before I gave up and killed the process), at exactly two minute intervals (see attached picture). At this stage (even before the aws server connection, the game appears to the user to have crashed already (the loading spinner (4 green cubes) stops moving)
I'm not sharing the PWL file publicly, it contains potentially private information, will only do via direct message or other non public channel.
This is fairly new behaviour, I noticed it first around the time of the new patch. I've had minimal issues with stability until recently.
So, this seems to have done the trick - clearing my cache at C:\Users\xxx\Documents\Battlefield 2042\cache
No Crash Dumps, Launching via Steam
Getting this freezing error constantly as soon as a map is done loading and I begin to hear the voiceovers, the game freezes, I can hear audio and teammate audio for a while and I am forced to alt+F4 .
I'm including a DxDiag
I recently started using the EA launcher (previously used The Origin). The game started to freeze from 18/10/22 after the update.
Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K 3.61 GHz
Ram: 64.0 GB
GPU: NVIDIA DeForce RTX 3070 Ti
System: Windows 11
I also noticed that another window is opening up when I start the game, this never used to happen before.
The EA support very offered the usual troubleshooting which I’ve done and the issue persists.
Please advise.
Ill get rid of stuff in the cache folder and see if that helps me
I don't believe there is anything wrong with anyone's PC or that there is anything we can or need to do to fix it. It is completely coding errors in the last update. Nobody should uninstall, reinstall or empty cache folders. Just sit tight, let DICE know your displeasure and wait for them to fix it.
@AOD_Fiveacre wrote:
@EA_AticI haven't been able to complete a round in 2 days. It's been freezing randomly since the last update, and there have been pretty awful stutters every 10 - 15 seconds as well. I updated to the EA App this weekend as well and since then the game has basically become unplayable.
Same here
