Crashing to desktop after short audio cutout
I was having issues for a long time with BF6 crashing to desktop or sometimes BSOD-ing my PC. struggled with it for a while, was looking at the dump files through WinDbg and it wasn't providing anything conclusive. Started looking around, Windows event viewer shows an error with AUDIODG.exe, and I found a forum thread (don't remember where) that stated this is due to (presumably) conflicts with audio software.
The (temporary) fix: turn off all audio effects through windows and any audio apps (headphone/speaker apps, mixers, etc.). I have tried this and it works. I'm not thrilled with it and I hope it is addressed soon, but in the mean time I hope this helps anyone else experiencing seemingly random crashes to desktop. The issue is always preceeded by a short, five to ten second audio cutout, the game will run for another minute or so, and then the game will crash. It can happen after anywhere between 10 minutes to multiple hours of playtime, with no obvious trigger.
The original forum post reccomended restarting after resetting the audio to windows defaults, but I have not found that to be necessary for my setup. In my experience I can have custom mixes on my headphone app, and when I want to play battlefield I set "Audio Enhancements" and "Spatial Sound" to "Off" in Settings>Sound>[your audio device], under "Advanced Settings". When I want my sound profile, I just return "Audio enhancements" to "device default effects".