PC Game Client Hard Freezes after 1-2 minutes
Hello, I'm aware the Open Beta hasn't started yet, but I'm already encountering a pretty catastrophic technical issue with the game client on PC via Steam.
I have the game fully installed, set up with Secure Boot and fully launched into the main menu. However, after around 1 to 2 minutes, the game suddenly hard freezes with all menu music completely cutting out and no longer responds, forcing me to kill the game in Task Manager.
The game also seems to crash if I tab out on Borderless mode (which is default). I've solved this by switching to exclusive Fullscreen, but this does not fix the systematic crash after 1-2 minutes. The crash seems to happen at exactly the same time every time, though I haven't timed it out exactly.
I have attempted to idle on the splash screen tabbed in, tabbed out, or doing various actions like doing my keyboard settings, but my game freezes without relation to what I'm doing in the main menu.
Checking with my Task Manager, the game is using a reasonable amount of resources (around 40-45 % of my CPU and 25 % of my GPU), but when the game hard freezes suddenly shoots up to 80 % CPU usage. The game seems unrecoverable from that point.
I am above the minimum specs as stated on Steam, and while my CPU is slightly under Recommended stats (AMD Ryzen 5 5600X owned compared to AMD Ryzen 7 3700X recommended) I believe my system should be performant enough to run the game without a hard hardware crash
I've tried to look for a crash or dump log but can't seem to find one in my AppData folder. I'm ready to provide it if asked. Obviously I'd prefer to be able to actually play on the 7th, as I suspect this hard freeze is going to block me otherwise.
Partial specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6 Core Processor
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB VRAM
RAM: 16x2 GB DDR4
SSD: NVMe
Okay, after testing on my end, I can confirm this is actually the solution, at least for this problem, thank you Shopmill for going the extra mile to figure it out properly. Now that I recall, I remember modding Rimworld heavily in the past and messing with that specific setting. It looks like you need to disable "Randomize memory allocations (Bottom-up ASLR)" for Battlefield 6 to make your game not crash, probably due to Javelin Anti-Cheat shenanigans. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ATTEMPT TO DISABLE THIS SETTING GLOBALLY, THIS COULD BE DANGEROUS. ONLY EXEMPT THE BATTLEFIELD 6 EXE AS SHOWN HERE
For your information, Battlefield 6 Open Beta is in a folder called "Glacier Events" on Steam, and the exe is named bf6event.exe.
If you're still crashing after this, I'm so sorry I couldn't help you fix it alongside me, but this at least seems to cover crashes specifically where the game boots up properly but then crashes either immediately or after a minute (probably when the anti-cheat tries to check through your memory and Windows blocks it)
Marking this as solution for the time being, feel free to make another thread if you still crash after this
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