Re: Battlefield 2042 crashes/freezes my entire computer

Hey @EA_Mako ! Thanks for your fast reply. 

Well, I was able to pin down the reason for my problem. Let me explain before: After posting this thread and before you answered I tried some tricks and tips various threads. And I actually made it worse! After a while my game kept crashing either after the EAC loading screen, the loading screen just before the menu or within the menu. I installed and reinstalled some stuff, deleted folders, nothing worked. So i sat down and had a clean install of Origin, the EA Beta App, Battlefield and my GPU Driver. Then I saw your answer and was like okay, lets do a clean restart as well and give it a go. My hopes were crushed pretty fast, as the game crashed in the loading screen. I went back into my bios, reverted ALL settings back to normal. Started the game and here we go: i was able to play. I quit after some minutes and kept a closer look on some settings:
GPU was at 70% , CPU at 95-100% (every core), temps were around 70° for both GPU and CPU. My game settings were Ultra with DLSS and I got around 60 FPS. So far, so good. 
BUT I was curious since I was able to play 33h + Beta with my OC settings without one single crash and then I remembered it: I recently put the AVX Offset setting in my Bios from -2 to Auto. And guess what: THIS is the problem. The AVX Offset on "auto" crashes my game, because AVX instructions use more power (at least thats the short explenation I read online) and my system somehow cant handle the game running at 5GHZ. So now, with AVX Offset set to -2 the game runs at 4,8GHZ on all cores. GPU still at 70% ; CPU still at 95-100%, temps are around 70 and 75 and my frames are boosted to 85 - 110 FPS (same settings). 

Maybe this is a solution for other people, experiencing game crashes.

And now I do have a question: How is the AVX Offset related to my crashes? Why cant my pc handle it at 5GHZ? Also, I had the same damn problem with Apex. Had to set the AVX Offset to -2. But now, I thought well, its not the Source Engine, I can put it back to "auto". Or is this not-engine-related? 

Hey @Penguiin1337,

Thanks for all the details with this update! Glad to hear you were able to get this working again after changing those BIOS settings back. 

I couldn't really speak to why that's happening, but there are a number of other similar reports regarding the CPU usage over in this thread. That may be the best place to keep an eye out for now, though I definitely appreciate letting us know what's gotten this back to a playable state for you in the meantime.

Yes... Those "fix" you guys talk about here will not work.. You cant fix this by log on BIOS and change stuff. I bet the problem came back to you after hours/days. This is a problem for 1000+ players and its our systems that get overheated cause the game is bad optimized. This is a problem that people think they can clear PC or install other stuff but the true fact is that the only thing you can do is to wait for DICE to fix this game. The game is 2 months old and 30.000+ players have left the game cause of this problem with bad performance and bad optimizing game. 

DICE have told us that they are working on this problem. There will be an update late February that perhaps can fix some things here but overall this game is dead and the performance will never be fixed, There is a reason why 1000+ gamers and streamers and youtubers have left this game and that's also a fact.