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FelipeStephan
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6 days ago

BF6 Causes Complete Blackout on RTX 5070

I’m reporting a critical technical issue that occurs exclusively in Battlefield 6.
The problem results in a complete system freeze, requiring a forced shutdown at the power supply.

Issue Description

While playing Battlefield 6, the system suddenly freezes and the following occurs simultaneously:
Screen goes black
Monitor loses signal
Keyboard lighting turns off
Audio stops
System becomes completely unresponsive
The PC remains powered on (fans spinning), but the OS is entirely frozen.
A normal restart is impossible — only shutting down at the PSU works.

This behavior occurs only in BF6 and has never happened in any other game or application on my system.

System Specifications
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12GB
RAM: 32GB
PSU: Cooler Master 850W 80 Plus Gold
Motherboard: Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite
OS: Windows 11

Troubleshooting Already Performed

The following actions were tested with no change in behavior:
BIOS update
NVIDIA driver reinstall (Studio & Game Ready) using DDU
Game reinstall
Steam file integrity verification
Tested both DX11 and DX12
Disabled all overlays (Steam, Discord, NVIDIA)
Cleared NVIDIA shader caches
Updated AMD chipset drivers
Tested with only one monitor connected
Switched PCIe settings (Gen3/Gen4)
Stress tested GPU with FurMark (no issues)
Full Windows reinstall

None of these actions prevented the black screen/system freeze in BF6.

Problem Summary
The issue is exclusive to Battlefield 6
The system freezes at a hardware/driver level
No logs or crash reports are generated due to the hard lock
No other games or benchmarks reproduce the problem
Behavior is consistent across multiple tests

Request

Please investigate a potential compatibility issue between Battlefield 6 and the NVIDIA RTX 5070 (50-series GPUs), or any engine-level condition that could cause a total system freeze.

I’m available to provide logs, DxDiag, crash dumps (when applicable), and additional tests if required.

Thank you.

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  • MentalReaper's avatar
    MentalReaper
    Rising Scout
    4 days ago

    I have the same exact CPU and motherboard (with latest BIOS F21 and latest chipset drivers), and 32GB of DDR4. Like you, my system passes all the stress tests without as much as a hiccup. Regarding the chipset drivers, they're almost 6 months old (latest) at this point and I'm quite sure AMD is not going to release a new one anytime soon.

    GPU RTX 3070 with NVIDIA driver 581.80. 

    I am noticing a trend with a lot of systems running Zen3 Ryzen 9 CPU (especially the 5900X like ours) experiencing the dreadful black screen crash. Had one crash occur after playing one round of Gauntlet, after which headed into training grounds (shooting range) and into gun customization. After the crash, repaired game files in Steam and played 6 Gauntlet matches, after each reenacting the same things that could have triggered the crash. Nothing happened.

    Fast forward to release of update 1.1.2.0, the crash is now occurring within 20-25 minutes. It can happen after having played a round of gauntlet and messing about in the menu or when I'm in the settings and messing about there for over 20 minutes without ever having gone into a Gauntlet round. Whatever that you've done (repairing game files, clearing shader cache, etc, etc) does nothing.

    I haven't tried this fix personally but will give it a shot:

    1. Disable PBO (not to be confused with disabling PBO limits, disable the PBO feature entirely)
    2. Disable Core Performance Boost or CPB

    It's a crapshoot but worth trying since it is not hard to undo if things don't work out. 

    There is also a registry edit that can be done to the Timeout Detection & Recovery (TDR). It's a reaaaally old Reddit post. May or may not help. As always backup registry before making any changes.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_4/comments/1xzzn4/tdrdelay_10_fixed_my_crashes_since_last_patch/

    Best of luck to you and the rest of us having this similar issue.

    Hopefully someone chimes in with a concrete fix to our woes. Cheers.

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