Thought I'd just drop back in with another update.
So, it's been almost a month and I've not had one single crash to desktop in BF2042. This is pretty much the most stable it has ever been.
So, in summary, I do believe that the BIOS update to rectify faults with "defective" 14th Gen i9 CPU's has been the saviour.
After updating the BIOS, it did seem to royally screw over my installation of Windows 11 within my primary profile. I would literally get entire lockups of the system for perhaps 15 -20 seconds. Intensive Memory and M.2 Sector scans revealed absolutely NO faults there. Strange that a BIOS update would do this however, there are QUITE a lot of BIOS settings that directly hook into the OS so clearly the OS didn't like the changes made.
A secondary profile created was significantly more stable and experienced almost no locking up. Prior to the BIOS update, the computer would have no lockups at all but BF was a mess (just BF, no other title or app).
Anyway, I finally got round to running a full disk partition deletion, re-creation and brand new installation of Windows 11.
Since doing that, everything has been running absolutely sweet. No system, lockups, extremely fast and responsive and and ZERO crashes of any form in BF2042. I can even flick to a browser window again mid-game which was something I was unable to do for some time either.
This hopefully, will resolve any issues you're having.
Thanks again to those who offered assistance and of course OskooI_007 for mentioning the defective Intel CPUs.
Hopefully my experience and final resulting success will help others.
And just for fun, here is the offending PITA machine 😁
This was taken at the default preset but I soon changed it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYRfMZVuMCI
This is the current colour set up (BF colours 😉- Yes I do like RGB stuff haha )
