Black screen after splash, shuts down...

+1 having the same issue, at about 40% percent of game starts crash to desktop without error message.

aricioi​ the Frostbite engine pushes CPU and RAM harder than most games and benchmarking software.

If there's instability in the hardware, Frostbite will find it and crash it.

If EA's kernel level anti-cheat driver was crashing the Windows NT kernel there would be a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error code. Microsoft has retired the Blue Screen of Death and replaced it with the Black Screen of Death in Win11 version 24H2. If Nvidia or AMD video card drivers were crashing the Windows NT kernel a BSOD error code would be displayed for those as well.

If a BSOD error code isn't being displayed before the system is powered off. The system is crashing so hard that the Windows NT kernel can't even display a BSOD error code because even the kernel has crashed.

A crash that hard is almost always the result of hardware errors, which are caused by unstable hardware.

I've seen posts of PCs crashing, Xboxes crashing, and PlayStations crashing. If they crash without showing a kernel panic error code before powering off, then it's a crash due to hardware errors which are caused by unstable hardware.

At least with PC it's highly likely the hardware instability can be fixed. That's not the case with consoles and the only solution is to buy a new console.

Problem Fixed by reducing RAM from 6400 to 6000

Been having the same issue and I've been troubleshooting since launch. No fix I've found online has worked and its pretty frustrating. I've racked up hours launching from steam and the splash before a black screen and a crash at this point.

New PC 9800X3d+9070xt, fresh installed Windows 11 pro, start the game from steam, just a black window, then black screen, can't even get to the menu!

I thought bf6 is a new game, maybe runs better on Windows 11, so I finally installed Windows 11 along side with Windows 10 on the same ssd, just to play bf 6.

Well, the irony is that bf6 runs fine on Windows 10, but can't even start on Windows 11, it's the same PC hardware lol.

I don't have much hope for Windows 11, but it crashes to the ground like Xbox, Microsoft is truly f**, so many **bleep**y companies nowadays.

Battlefield Attempts to play

Currently have on EA App.
All issue's consist on both Steam and EA App. (Refunded on Steam, now own on EA App)

What I've Done.
-Verified/Reinstalled game(Both Steam and EA App.)
-Storage Pool, was never a thing enabled.
-TPM is 2.0
-Drivers, updated
-Windows 11, updated
-Tried with Firewall Down.
-Tried repairing/reinstalling Anti-Cheat(still believe its the Anti-cheats fault)
-Have Restarted my PC multiple times.
-Ran all as Administrator (EA App, Anti-Cheat, Battlefront Exe.)
-Modified Exploit Protection to all being option Off for Battlefield Exe.
-Attempted launching with Wi-Fi off.
-System Requirements all meet the minimum.
-Secure Boot is on.

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I do not know what issue I am facing that everything I'm seeing from others work but with me they do not. I'm at a loss on what I can do more so if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear!

As a note, one thing I notice I haven't seen anyone talk about. When the game "closes" sometimes my audio will stop before resuming. I get that normally when a game launches and the audio is sent towards my headset(a weird quirk of my PC).

Not sure if that means anything, but all info is useful when the solution is hard to find.

leokatu​ look in Windows Event Viewer for BF6 or EA anti-cheat errors after the game closes.

As far as I can see through the Events viewer and I don't see anything big. Beyond that with EA Jav, I can't find the spot for crashes but from what I've looked into I don't think its causing it.. So yeah I can cross off the Anti-cheat as the reason. Though that leaves a mystery to me.

I noticed the issue yesterday (17th of October 2025). They pushed a hotfix the day before (version 1.0.1.6) and my Windows 10 installed an update the same day. It's unclear to me if I played with or without this hotfix that day. I tried everything I could: Uninstalled and reinstalled EA's anti-cheat using the newest version on their website, cleanly reinstalled the Nvidia driver using DDU in safe mode, repaired both the games files and Windows 10 files, reset Nvidia "per game optimisation", underclocked both my CPU and my GPU, removed the RAM overclocking in my BIOS, removed every services that are not from Microsoft (beside Steam), uninstalled the last Windows 10 update, launched the game in borderless and fullscreen modes, and so on. 

The first time the game wouldn't launch, there were errors in the Event Viewer about the anti-cheat crashing. Steam found 3 missing/corrupted files. I don't get error messages since then, but the game still closes after the splash screen. There is nothing in the Event Viewer, beside that the anti-cheat is loaded and unloaded successfully, but there are crash dumps in my Documents/Battlefield 6 folder (which I can't read because those are binary files). 

Other games work as expected.

Interestingly, I was able to launch the game twice yesterday: Once after doing nothing in particular, I just clicked the "Play" button on Steam and was able to start the solo (no freeze, no crash, got the expected FPS...), and then after resetting Nvidia's per-game optimisation (the multiplayer was working as before). I tried to reset Nvidia once again, but this time it did not work. It feels like this is totally random. It could be a network issue.

So far, according to my reading, it appears that:

• it happens on both AMD and Nvidia cards
• it happens on both Windows 10 and 11
• for some, the issue is there since the beta
• it seems to be correlated with both bf6 and Windows updates
• the game randomly launches with a low probability (about 1 / 25 based on yesterday's debuging process)