Battlefield 3, 4, Hardline Windows 10 issues

Hey @Cosm0curse, 

could you please create a DxDiag for me? =) 
http://help.ea.com/de/article/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

Cheers, 
Val

Hi @EA_Valgard,

Attached is the dxdiag, thank you much!

Hello @Cosm0curse.

At first u can try reinstall PB in this way:

- download this, unpack it, run\install it as Admin, add games in a list;

- download this, run\install it as Admin;

- restart PC, close\disable programs like this, run Origin as Admin, try to play.

- also, u can try to update software for ur keyboard and mousepad Razer Synapse 2.0 and Logitech Gaming Software for ur mouse, but exit/close it before run Battlefield )

Thank you for the reply.  I did a bunch of Punkbuster fixes already due to I had a port forwarding error so had followed a guide for reinstall of PB, etc.  I do have Origin set to run as admin along with the games and have done repair game numerous times along with reinstalling.

if u do this, then what test results of pbsetup?

also give to as logs from folder %WINDIR%\system32\LogFiles\PunkBuster\

dxdiaglog clearly say that bf3 crash because PB wa002324.dll, so or u do not correct reinstalled PB or some software blocked it. how about Windows defender, are y try disable it?

i dont have bf3 installed and cant check exist this version PB dll in bf3, but bf4 this dll not have...

I'll give it another try and see what happens.  I think I made some progress as I used a program to completely wipe my Nvidia drivers off the computer and reinstalled the updated drivers from Nvidia website.  So far that seems to have made a huge boost to stability. 

I went back and reinstalled PB and followed the list you provided.  So far Battlefield 3 is still getting the same message when it crashes that it has stopped working, etc.  Battlefield 4 though seems to be running good now after I wiped the Nvidia drivers and reinstalled.  I am debating if a fresh install of Windows 10 would help anything in the long run?  As long as BF4 runs though it is all good till Battlefield 1 releases.

try to update drivers on my way 🙂:

- try to install windows anniversary update and other windows updates, restart PC

- download dxwesetup and run/install it as Admin

- download chipset drivers and run/install as Admin, restart pc

- delete nvidia gpu driver, restart pc, install this anniversary version as Admin with "clean install" option, restart pc

- check and close\disable all programs like this

- delelete folders C:\Users\[User_name]\Documents\Battlefield 3\ and C:\Users\[User_name]\Documents\Battlefield 4\

- try to play...

Also, press win+r, enter eventvwr.msc

Make "Save All Events as..." on this journals: Application, Setup, System, and give to me it

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@Cosm0curse wrote:

Hello,

I recently built a new computer with Windows 10 installed.  Sometimes I get lucky and can play a round of two without issues.  But since the start I have had Battlefield 3, 4, and Hardline do crashes saying that it has stopped working, etc.  I'm fairly new to the PC world and been away for a few years but tried to make sure I had all drivers updated, etc.  Tried do the repair on each game and running as administrator.  I am curious at this point if I should bite the bullet and find a copy of Windows 7 to use as my OS.  Any suggestions on how though I may enjoy these games on Windows 10?  Thank you much

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I run BF3\4 and even HL fine on two WIN10 machines so I don't think you'll need to roll back to Win7.  What are your PC specs, are you using any third party programs such as Raptr (specically the Plays.tv portion of Raptr), Razer Cortex, or MSI afterburner since those programs are known to cause issues? 

PC specs:

Windows 10 64 Bit Home

CPU: Intel 6600K 

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus VIII Ranger motherboard

Memory: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DD4 memory

Boot drive: Kingston 120 GB SSDNow V300 series

Storage: 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1070

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 Watt

Not currently using any apps.  I was using Asus AI Suite 3 for an overclock but have already reset that to normal settings it came with from the bios.