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IorchOfMadriz

Rising Newcomer

3 months ago

Crashing to Blue Screen During Match

I've been playing Battlefield 6 since launch with no issue.

My PC is a fairly new but well tested rig and I've never had such an issue with this game or any other until now.

i7 14700k

MSI RTX 5070 12 GB ventus 3x OC

Gigabyte z790 aorus master

Kingston Fury beast ddr5 5600 mhz 2x32 GB

WD black sn850x nvme ssd 4TB

BF6 bought through Steam and installed on an external F drive (WD black 8 TB HDD)

For about a week, I had been having issues where out of nowhere during a match my PC would suddenly go blue and reebot. I initially thought it could be the heat (I live in Madrid, Spain and it does get quite hot) but even with AC blasting and keeping tabs on CPU and GPU heat I figured out it was actually the EA anticheat.

I will be adamant and crystal clear. I use no cheats or exploits, no weird software or apps. Nothing. I have no changed any significant setting on my PC since launch either.

I tried following the reccomended steps to troubleshoot this: repaired/reinstalled the anticheat, repaired and then eventually uninstalled and reinstalled the game (twice now), I scanned my PC for corrupt files (nothing came up), I checked the anti-virus to see there was an exception made for it, checked the BIOS to see it was set on UEFI and secure boot, my VPN is obviously off whenever I want to play BF6, I uninstalled the EA app altogether since I got the game on Steam.

I am at my wit's end.

I haven't been able to play since saturday. I've lost whole afternoons on this. I'm of course also missing the temporary gane mode, the daily rewards, the challenges...

I've been playing Battlefield for 18 years. I had never gone through such pains.

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anticheat

crashing

steam

25 Replies

JonnyLTC
New Novice
2 months ago
不幸的是，我成了最新的受害者。自从7月27日开始我就遇到了问题，现在完全无法正常玩这款游戏。
JonnyLTC
New Novice
2 months ago
Unfortunately, I’m the latest victim. I’ve been having problems since July 27th, and now I’m completely unable to play the game normally.
Agrikaan
New Rookie
2 months ago
I now believe that this is a "perfect storm" between faster INTEL 14xx CPUs, buggy EA Anti-cheat and draconian Windows 11 security features. Running on my W10 partition gives far fewer BSODs, perhaps 1 in 10 matches, as well as one CTD in those 10, if I use XTU do downclock the CPU while playing BF6. After the following actions, I went from 1 BSOD per 1 game to 0 BSODs and maybe 1 CTD per 20 matches in W11, and never under W10.
I have disabled almost all W11 security features except AV, especially CORE stuff and PROTECTED folders etc.
I made exclusions for the EA-AC and the BF6 exe to negate ALL security features for those applications.
I downclocked my CPUs cores from 57 to 50 in BIOS.

Using the XTU works also, but that still gave me BSODs now and then, even when computer was idle, with a BIOS warning after reboot. So I believe this BIOS change made my system more stable overall, especially under W11. That's my theory of the blame-game between Intel 14xx + EA-AC + W11, and why none of them recognizes this or takes responsibility for it.
moralsup
Newcomer
2 months ago
I played on launch without issue. Now im back on BF6 and im getting random BSODs. Dump file says its easy anti cheat related.
Im on an intel 14900k cpu, and based off of the other replies in this thread, it seems im screwed. Again. I already RMAd a 13900k before this one. Never buying Intel ever again in my life.
The-Lee-Unit
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago
Same thing here, all route lead to a bug in the anti-cheat. I've been able to play since launch without issues. However since the sea map updates, everything's fallen to pieces. At first I could play for an hour with a crash, then 30 minutes, then 5 minutes, now I can't even get on the main menu. Everything in the crash dumps lead to eaanticheat+4b480f3 causing the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD.
I'm unable to repeat this on any stress test for CPU and GPU and have a fully functional and clean memtest. This is 100% bugged software.