Battlefield 4 keeps crashing on PC [Jan 9]
I've been playing for about 3 hours and the game launches smooth, runs fantastic, but after 3 or 4 games it will crash. The audio will loop (sometimes) and the video will freeze. There doesn't seem t...
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I have the GeForce GTX 760 (more specifically the PNY VCGGTX7602XPB-OC), and I had been having the "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG" error for around a year, but I finally found a way to stop it. I had to download EVGA PrecisionX 16 and used it to underclock the video card by -50Hz, and I typically also drop the desired temp for the card to 78 degrees C (which also lowers the max power consumption). After doing this, the game no longer crashes with this error. I have played 5-6 times so far while doing this without a single crash. It's ridiculous that I have to do this to avoid crashes, but at least it stopped them. Hope this helps someone else.
Edit 8-13-2015: I have not experienced a single crash since underclocking the video card before playing. So this definitely fixed the crash for me.
I recently fixed my crash to desktop. I actual stopped playing for months as its was too frustrating!
1) Turn off the AA (battlefield4/settings/PROF file under users) via the file as I could not even start the game. Mine had both AA options set.
2) Also read on forums that mantle must also be off. This was off on mine.
3) I also did a full install of Bf4 and addons .... 22GB of downloads!
4) latest AMD drivers, my AMD drivers are current (not beta). Did not reinstall.
That worked for me.
I have MSI OC edition 8550 x2 (crossfire), AMD 8x at 4.3GHZ and all swiftech 1/2 pipe water cooled. So heat is not an issue.
It crashed with and without crossfire setup before and stock or OC settings.
BTW all steam games are fine its something with the Origin games (Bf4 and TitanFall)?
A good hint is to look at your event viewer in windows and see the crash info, mine was a AMD gpu driver dll which in-turn was having issues with AA being turned on.
Thank you for the information that is useful. I've come to the same conclusion that my overclocking is a problem but as it work OK for months before getting the DirectX errors then finally "BF4 stopped working" I'm sending it back for repair. I suspect they will say there is nothing wrong but I don't see why I should replace a card that cost nearly £300 12 months ago and why should I underclock a factory overclocked card?
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