So, after quitting the 3 games that were good and relaunching the game I've been getting a whole new issue consistently.
The game completely freezes with audio buzzing. Only way to get out of this is to do a hard reset (power off/on) PC.
I'm using an RTX 5080 now. Driver version 591.74 (driver installed using the reset option).
Nvidia App game optimizations are disabled. All overlays are disabled.
I've tried resetting the graphics category (holding c button) and,
Disabled the following:
chromatic aberration
vignette
film grain
vsync
Screen mode to borderless
World/Weapon blur to 0
Graphics preset to High
Frames limited to 120 (monitor is an ASUS 4k Oled, Gsync enabled, 240hz refresh)
DLSS off
No frame gen.
Other unrelated settings: EXPO is disabled (motherboard setting to auto)
Unfortunately, the game is still crashing for me, although this is much worse and according to Copilot, the game is causing a driver deadlock. The entire system freezes during gameplay or shortly after spawning in world.
This is absolutely frustrating and disappointing. It's like EA isn't even testing this game.
I'll do some more of my own testing, but I have a day job and don't get paid to deal with this nonsense.