Has anyone else started getting complete system freezes since Season 3?
Has anyone else started getting complete system freezes since Season 3?
I’ve had Battlefield 6 since December and until Season 3 (which started about a week ago) I NEVER had a single crash, freeze or technical issue with the game. I played through two entire seasons without a single problem on this exact same setup. Now suddenly the game completely hard locks my entire PC.
There is no crash message, no DirectX error, no BSOD, nothing. The game freezes and forces me to manually press the reset button on my PC because the whole system becomes unresponsive. Sometimes the mouse cursor still moves, sometimes not, but Windows never recovers.
Another thing I noticed is that right before some freezes I get the “packet loss” warning icon on the top left corner of the screen. That is ALSO something I never experienced before Season 3.
What’s weird is that this ONLY happens with Battlefield. Other demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077 and UE5 games run perfectly fine for hours without any instability.
My specs:
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Radeon RX 7800 XT 16GB
32GB DDR5 RAM
Windows 10
Game installed on SSD
Things I already tried during the last few hours:
Reinstalled the entire game
Updated AMD drivers
Tested both current and previous driver versions
Cleared AMD shader cache
Cleared DirectX/D3DS cache
Disabled Discord overlay
Disabled AMD features like Anti-Lag, Chill, Enhanced Sync, AFMF, etc.
Disabled FreeSync
Tried fullscreen exclusive instead of borderless
Multiple restarts/rebuilds of shaders
One VERY suspicious thing is that the game keeps “verifying shaders” almost every launch now, which did NOT happen before Season 3.
At first reinstalling the game seemed to fix the issue temporarily for about a day, but then the freezes returned again.
The crashes can happen in menus, while loading, or a few minutes into a match.
I also wanted to test limiting the FPS, but I literally couldn’t even stay in the menus long enough to find the option before the game froze again.
Again: this started EXACTLY with Season 3. Before that the game was perfectly stable on this exact same setup for months.
Is anyone else with AMD hardware experiencing something similar?
