How are you connected to the internet ?
How many connections on the same line ?
What do you have running in the background ?
Does it crash on BOTH monitors ?
Your specs say you should be able to run this game "standing on your head", so obviously it is NOT your PC provided it is configured correctly and you have a handle on what is running.
You have a powerful PC, why do you feel the need to overclock it ?....unless you are launching a space shuttle, you probably do not have to.
"Lots of colourful fans and funky stuff"...Do you watch the PC tower or the monitors ???.....all the glitz and led's is just for sales purposes...turn it all off, you don't need any of it.
"disabled XMP"....this is apparently required for windows 11 to run ?
An "intermittent" fault also points to other than the PC.
That's not a bad start for you.
Hi, thanks for replying.
Internet Connection is a 1gb downstream / 100Mbps upstream connected directly via Ethernet to an Asus ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 Router. There are various other devices utilising wifi connectivity however, I play late at night and as such, all other devices are in an unused state. My own speed tests confirm a good solid connection with exceptionally low latency and jitter. No unnecessary QoS settings on the router. Also, no unnecessary IP routing and firewall settings are at default. I did open up ports to see if this helped. It didn't. I closed them again as if not required, to be open, they don't need to be.
Very few background apps. Just the bare essentials. I did however, even run tests with most of these disabled (via services so they couldn't auto restart themselves).
*Note however from my reply last night, I have actually uninstalled Armoury Crate completely. Post uninstall, my game seemed to be very much more stable so this does have me wondering if this was the problem all along. This however could have been just a lucky period of stability. I will be testing this over the coming days. I remain a little skeptical at this time that A. Crate was the culprit but, I'm rather hoping it was.
Yup, as mentioned, I run a clean ship, minimal background apps, just the ones that are required for the most part. Malware / Virus checks done regularly.
Yes, switching to the second monitor does not make it any more stable. I have also disabled as many of the "additional" features my AMD Radeon software provides such as Anti-Lag, Sharpening etc. etc. All that is unnecessary. Literally running it vanilla to reduce possible issues.
The OC thing. tbh, that was part of the build with the Motherboard / CPU / RAM bundle I purchased from my local computer shop. They offer an OC'ing service with bundles and then store it as a profile for use if required. It was active by default and doesn't give any issues for any other games or uses. Of course having it running or not, is purely down to preference. As mentioned, having completely loaded factory settings for the BIOS (that is, pre-tweaks) the issue was still as bad.
Haha, the colourful fans thing is just for fun. I like it, it doesn't detract from anything I'm doing ;) Very minimal power draw. Which reminds me, I have a very good high quality PSU in the machine too.
Windows 11 does not require XMP to run. It can run perfectly happy with XMP disabled (have been doing so for a few days now). It can however improve performance on lesser powered machines when active.
It certainly does seem to point to something other than the PC as a whole. Particularly when other games are not affected.
Very frustrating and it does seem based on other peoples comments and other posts elsewhere that there is something awry with BF2042. Something it is particularly sensetive to that could be disabled or adjusted within the PC hardware or software settings, that if we could find out and amend, could possibly result in much better stability.
