Intel CPU Test
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-- Testing
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CPU 1 - Genuine Intel - Pass.
CPU 1 - BrandString - Pass.
CPU 1 - Cache - Pass.
CPU 1 - MMXSSE - Pass.
CPU 1 - IMC - Pass.
CPU 1 - Prime Number - Pass.
CPU 1 - Floating Point - Pass.
CPU 1 - Math - Pass.
CPU 1 - GPUStressW - Pass.
CPU 1 - CPULoad - Pass.
CPU 1 - CPUFreq - Pass.
IPDT64 Passed
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PASS
Yes, I see the double post.
All you can do is run stability tests and see if Battlefield continues to be the only app that crashes. If so then it seems likely the crashing is due to software code errors by the Battlefield game developers.
HCI MemTest is the best RAM stability tester I've ever used. It blows MemTest86 out of the water. HCI MemTest found RAM errors on my system that MemTest86 never detected.
https://hcidesign.com/memtest/
The free version of HCI MemTest isn't user friendly because a bunch of memory testing windows need to be manually launched. Ideally you'd have 12 or more windows open and the CPU usage would be around 90% from all the memory testing going on. The Pro version launches multiple instances of memory tests automatically.
Thanks again for replying. I'll give HCI MemTest a go.
Incidentally, I have done a number of additional diagnostic tests / changes. I have run a BIOS update. Stupidly, I was a couple of versions behind and one of them specifically mentions 13th and 14th gen Intel CPU fixes however, given that everything else on the system was actually working fine, I work on the premise that if it ain't broke, don't fix it (at least to a degree) so didn't consider a BIOS update (Remiss on my part to be fair).
The problem here is that now, my user profile in Windows is messed up. Logging in, I get periods of freezing in general OS usage for up to 15 or so seconds and I'm now getting a GPU Driver time out. None of which occurred before the BIOS update 🤦 (looks up at the sky and exclaims FFS!!!)
However, this purely seems to be just my primary user profile. I'd already created a secondary profile on my PC a few weeks back as I wanted to see if BF2042 would crash in that profile which, at that time it did.
However, when switching to the secondary user profile last night, I didn't get any OS freezes at all so I know that is something specifically to my old one. Obviously something has become corrupted in there after the BIOS update (a bit strange).
Now, interestingly, I did log into BF2042 in the secondary profile last night and was able to play two rounds back to back with ZERO crashes. This of course doesn't mean that it won't start to crash again but I'm very much hoping the BIOS update and so called fixes for 13th/14th Gen CPU's will do the trick.
IF, I manage to get a couple of weeks stable gaming from the secondary profile, I'll completely ditch the old one (as opposed to formatting and rs-installing Windows; at least for the time being anyway).
I'll get there eventually....
That's unusual a bios update corrupted Windows. I'm glad to hear you got a couple crash free games in.
One thing I just remembered about HCI Memtest is it will start testing the page file on the SSD drive if the test size exceeds the amount of free RAM available.
I had the page file disabled on my PC so MemTest would tell me "no more RAM available" when I ran out of available free RAM. All this is mentioned in the Memtest manual on the website.
You definitely don't want to test the pagefile because then MemTest turns into a SSD test instead of a RAM test.
