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'm having this exact problem and have for about a week now. I even reformatted and reinstalled Windows fresh, which helped the game achieve a higher FPS, however it is still crashing for me. It only happens in game, while I'm playing. It seems to be related to my character dying, or other events happening, however there's been instances where nothing significant has happened in game and it freezes, and the Windows pop up saying "Battlefield 4 has stopped working" shows.
[EDIT] Oh I almost forgot! BF4 also blue screens. It's crashed countless times, but since it started crashing I've gotten the BSOD mid game about 3 or 4 times.
Fix your game DICE. Especially after I gave it a second chance and bought premium. We're paying you top dollar for a triple-A game, and the support is terrible.
Here are my specs, but it doesn't seem like it'll make any difference until there is a patch.
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- Intel i5 3570K @ 3.4 GHz
- MSi GTX 660
- 8GB 1333 RAM
- Asus P8 Z77-V LK mobo
- MSi GTX 660
- 8GB 1333 RAM
- Asus P8 Z77-V LK mobo
Hi There, the crashes of BF4 drives me nuts as well. But I finally found a solution that works for me. And sharing is caring!
So here goes:
My problem: Freezes after couple of minutes requiring hard reset of computer. I have seen blue screens and even a red screen.
- did driver updates, bios update, everything.. - DID NOT WORK
WHAT DID WORK:
- installed a simple heat registration program to check what the F*%^^& happened during play. I used the free simple program CPUID HWMonitor. It simply tracks the temperatures of your computer (most importantly the GPU and CPU). It saves the peak temperatures as well and that was key. It turned out that peak temperatures of my CPU processor (I7-4790k) reached as high as 87C!
- CHECKED my BIOS on startup. My processor appeared to be overclocked when they delivered my computer. For a lot of software not a problem apparently, but for some it was (BF4 but also Adobe Lightroom with workload). So I simply set my frequency from 100 to 98. My processor is now running at 4200MHZ and my DRAM at 1563 Mhz. This probably just got the edge of the processor.
- And also installed MSI Afterburner to control fan speeds to let them kick in a bit sooner when gear his heating up.
PROBLEM FIXED
- played whole night without a problem. BF4 does not crash and my ADOBE Lightroom 6 is also stable when exporting/converting many files. Did not notice any real performance drops either.
HOPE THIS HELPS GUYS!
MY SPECS
I7-4790k
Windows 10
16 GB DDR Memory
AMD Radeon R9 200 series
ASUS MAXIMUS VII Motherboard - Republic of Gamer
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