BF6 causes system reboots (BugCheck 1001) – EA Anti-Cheat driver fails to start
Battlefield 6 is currently unsafe to operate on my system due to a failure of EA Anti-Cheat at the kernel driver level.
During BF6 gameplay, my PC has experienced repeated full system reboots accompanied by Windows BugCheck 1001 and Kernel-Power 41 events. These are kernel-level crashes, not application CTDs or performance issues.
Evidence:
• Windows Event Viewer shows BugCheck (Event ID 1001) reboots occurring during BF6 gameplay.
• EA Anti-Cheat is registered as a kernel driver but cannot be started. Attempting to start it fails with:
“The system cannot find the file specified,” indicating the required driver binary is missing or cannot be loaded.
• Windows system integrity checks (sfc /scannow) report no violations.
• The instability stops when Battlefield 6 is not installed or launched.
This appears to be an EA Anti-Cheat installation / lifecycle failure on Windows 11 (build 26200), leaving BF6 running in a degraded and unsafe execution state that leads to kernel crashes.
If anyone else is experiencing system reboots (not just CTDs), please check:
sc query EAAntiCheat
I’ve opened a support case with EA and am sharing this here for visibility and correlation.
