Hello, I've been struggling with this problem for six months now. It manifests itself strangely: you can play for a couple hours and everything will be fine, but then it crashes the 6th or 7th game because of it. It freezes so completely that I have to reboot the computer with the button. Sometimes resetting the secure boot keys helps, but not always. What's interesting is that before the freeze, the FPS can drop from 120 to 50-40 for a few seconds, followed by the game crashing. During the freeze, the Windows log shows an error message saying "You need to update your secure boot keys/CA," but updating them doesn't solve the problem. Also, if I wait a few seconds during a freeze, I get a BSOD with the stop code "DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION."
OC: Windows 10 22H2
MB: Gigabyte X870E elite wifi 7
Processor: Ryzen 9800X3D (No overclocking)
Graphic Card: RTX 5090 (Undervolted, Driver 591.86)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 2x32 6000MHz
The game is installed on an SSD, which passes all integrity checks.
P.S. Undervolting the video card didn't affect this issue; I tested it with the stock card and it didn't help. Moreover, these issues don't occur in more demanding games like CB2077, Wukong, RE9, etc.
Based on how you describe the issue (hours of gameplay without problems → sudden FPS drop → freeze → BSOD with DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION), it’s very likely caused by a driver timing out under load rather than a Secure Boot issue (that key-related message is almost always secondary).
A solution that often works in these cases is the following:
Clean GPU driver reinstall
Updating the drivers is not enough: it’s better to completely remove them using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and reinstall them from scratch. If the problem persists, try a slightly older, more stable version.
Check the storage drive (SSD/NVMe)
DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION is often related to storage drivers:
Temperatures under load
The FPS drop before the freeze may indicate throttling:
Disable any overclocking
Even RAM XMP/DOCP profiles can cause crashes during long sessions.
Check RAM
Run a test with Windows Memory Diagnostic or MemTest, as RAM errors may only appear after prolonged use.
In general, the fact that it happens after several matches suggests a problem that builds up over time (heat, memory, or driver instability), rather than an immediate hardware failure.
Good luck😉
The issue is on the developers side... It's not an isolated case, something in the code of either bf6 or the javelin anti cheat creates the issue.
I guess it's not something trivial, probably a bug cause by a third-party library used by Dice. Or maybe an error in their code base. We don't know.
Finally I don't recommend to modify the bios configuration of your pc or other tricky move with administrator right etc... We need to be patient and let the pro do their jobs.
In an other hand I think the problem is wide and it is during for a lot of days now, I hope EA will compensate us with XP boost or a charm for my weapon/s
