Guys, I found a fix. You need to go into BIOS and set the XMP profile with a frequency slightly lower than it was before. Initially, I had it set to 4000 MHz and I changed it to 3733 MHz. After that, there were no more crashes. Give it a try, it should help.
I wonder if this will work for DDR5
if i update my XMP profile it will effect my more games?
Forgot to update
Disabling XMP fixed the issue. Then I updated my BIOS and now the game doesn't crash even with XMP
So BIOS were the culprit
To answer your question, disabling XMP might lead to a small drop in performance. I would suggest using CapFrameX to monitor the changes in performance.
Since the last Update on February 26, I have 339 CrashDump files for the same amount of total Game crashes. (see attached pic)
Before that, BF2042 was functioning fine. This Problem happens exclusively with BF2042.
Weird thing not only did the Support never ask to send him one, but the CrashDump files are also unsupported extension types in the EA system.
On the other hand, you can upload different Data types. Usually, those CrashDump files provide detailed information on the crash cause...
Today EA support forwarded me this link in this forum.
Normally I don't like fiddling with the BIOS system.
Dezzerrr, can you pls give me a snapshot of the settings in your BIOS for Comparison, every PC hardware setting is different from another.
Many Thanks in advance...
PS Also in this Forum the upload of CrashDump files is prohibited! Why?
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Hi, i fix this problem so .. uninstal Drivers and instal
Revision Number
Adrenalin 25.3.1 (WHQL Recommended) or Adrenalin 25.3.2 (Optional), last update is broken on my PC at BF 2042
and now everything fine ;) only for me maybe :/
IN THE ORDER I TRIED THEM FOR MY AMD GPU, INTEL CPU
a. Verify Game
b. Updating Bios to the latest version
c. Updating Graphics Card
d. Make a user.cfg file and do the following
Thread.ProcessorCount 14
Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 20
Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
Thread.MaxProcessorCount 14
Finding how to adjust the CPU core and processors, matching system (14 was my Core, 20 was my processor, go to task manager under CPU)
e. In AMD adrenalin, changing the GPU frequency to the factory recommended for the max, and set min to 1500.
f. Deleting Game, reinstall
g. Updating Config Filecertifies this version had better chance.
h. Rolling back Graphics Card, specifically to WQHL version of AMD 6700xt, since windows
i. Deleting EA Desktop Cache in Appdata Roaming
j. Deleting EA Desktop Caches in Appdata Local
k. Clearing Computer storage by 150+GB making sure it wasn't the SSD being slow and shutting down
l. Checking the Battlefield2042 Crash dumps, Go to Users > YourUser > Documents > Battlefield 2042 > Crash Dumps & take most recent one.
m. With the above Downloaded WinDbg to read the Crash Dump what the problem was related too, found it was related to the AMD software, so I figured the graphics card update was unstable and rolled it back to a previous window certified version. Maybe something else from dump for you.
n. Run as Administrator also.
- Worked after those attempts, confident rolling back drivers fixed the issue.
*Did not try and set CPU affinity or priority
Don't have NVIDIA but I imagine googling GeForce and the prompt after would show you how to do it. Before this point my game would be fine in menu, game loads quick and after 3 mins crashes, going on for 2 weeks. These fixes worked all of them, I believe most beneficial was rolling back the AMD driver as you can read the crash dump after downloading Windows' WinDbg. Also altering the CPU core and processor count to match your system, the Caches files important also. Either way try them all see if it helps.
Which driver version did you rollback to?
For my 6700xt I installed the most recent before and experienced crashes, the bad driver was:
Revision Number -Adrenalin 25.5.1 (WHQL Recommended)
File Size - 772 MB
Release Date - 2025-05-08
I rolled back to the following driver going under “Previous versions” for the drivers:
Revision Number - Adrenalin 25.3.1 (WHQL Recommended)
File Size - 772 MB
Release Date - 2025-03-06
For my AMD drivers this worked for BF2042, though for BfV this may be too far back and you have to download a more recent version, same for others games since the downloaded drivers are older, may have to switch between drivers to play new games and 2042. Not that big of a deal really, If you have NVIDIA can try and rollback the same way but a different version, should help
