PC Constantly Blue-Screening Randomly During Gameplay
Before I state the main issue, I just want to say that I have been having this issue since the Battlefield 6 Beta. And because of it, I was unable to play the beta for almost the entirety of its two week runtime. After the beta ended I decided to get back into BF2042 to tide me over until the release of BF6, and to hopefully claim some rewards from the free pass since I missed out on most of the beta rewards. Having not played 2042 since its release, I was disappointed to find I was having the same issue that I faced in Battlefield 6. I know for certain that the reason I didn’t encounter this issue back during the release of 2042 is because the EA Anti-Cheat did not exist back then. Now with that out of the way, here is what I know about this issue:
9/10 times when I play the game on Steam, my PC will BSOD, and usually throw an error like: “IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0xA), What failed: ntoskrnl.exe” or some other error (IRQL/ntoskrnl.exe is the most common one I see). This happens during random points during gameplay or when loading into a match. After checking my dump files and the Event Viewer, the issue always stems from a Memory Access Violation Error (0xC0000005) caused by the eaanticheat.exe. After scouring online searching for a solution, I believe I have tried every suggested fix I could find on here, Reddit, the Microsoft support forums, and a plethora of YouTube videos. I have tried:
- Uninstalling/reinstalling the anti-cheat and the game itself (restarting the PC between installing)
- Toggling my overlays (Nvidia, Discord, and Steam)
- Toggling memory core isolation
- Making exceptions for the game and the anti cheat in Windows Defender
- Running the EA app, game, and anti cheat as admin
- Verifying the integrity of game files
- Running hardware and memory diagnostics
- Scanning and repairing corrupted system files (there were none)
- Updating drivers and Bios
- Rolling back Nvidia Drivers
I am just so tired of debugging this game and I am posting this on here, PRAYING that someone may have a solution or is having similar issues like me and has yet to find a solution. Most of the forums I have seen similar issues on are 3 years old or older and don’t really provide any fixed that have worked for me.
If it helps my current specs are:
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
CPU: 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700K
RAM: 32 Gb
I got help from generous and patient members of the community, and we found the solution to the crashes in my case.
What helped:
- Rolling back windows update (in my case KB5064401, but i saw people name other numbers)
- Rolling back GPU drivers with clean instalation (i have 3080, so i went to 577.0)
- Reparing game in Steam once again
- Uninstalling, Reinstalling and Updating EA Anticheat
- Closing EA app and running it again with amdin rights
Dont know what hellped exactly but we did it in that order and crashes went away.
Hope it helps!
