BF4 Crashes on Starup

Carbonic’s universal solution list:

I’ve posted this list because you’ve been lazy posting your question. And lazy questions require lazy answers  . This list will contain information on how to give more information or give you the solution itself. Hope this helps 

How to make a well made question:

• Please write descriptive (also the subject line) so the right people find your question and knows what it contains
• Tell if it has worked before, when it started not working and what did you do just before that!
• Post relevant log files, screenshots, descriptions, dxdiag, exact error messages, and all other relevant information(like platform) – even if it’s stupid and obvious (there’s a lot of clueless people on the internet, we don’t know if you are one of them  )
• Tell what you have tried in DETAIL and how you did it in DETAIL and what the results are, in DETAIL!

Check for current outages and bugs:

• Check the Origin server status: http://www.origin.com/us/status
• Check News and Official Announcements on Battlelog for outages and current problems

Common questions:

• Banned? Read this: ( https://help.ea.com/in/article/information-about-banned-or-suspended-accounts )
• Veteran status? This is gained from playing other Battlefield games. Play4Free, Heroes and 1942 is free to download and play and each give a veteran rank. Other games can be registrered at http://www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com/veteran. If that doesn’t work contact EA support.
• How to contact EA? Go to https://help.ea.com/contact-us . Fill in keywords then product, category and platform. Press ‘Find Solutions’ –>; ‘I Still Need Help’. Contact options will appear. If live chat/phone does not appear, it might be closed in your area at the moment and you might consider changing it to: ‘United States’ or something else in the language selector in the bottom of the site.
• Can’t access DLC/Premium? To find and handle your DLC right-click your game in Origin and click ‘show game details’ and scroll down to ‘expansions’
• Refund? You can do that under help –> history if you bought it within 24 hours ago, otherwise you will have to contact an EA Advisor at EA customer support.

Common mistakes:

• Can’t find your game? Make sure you have bought BF4 and not just Premium. Make sure you are logged into the same account as the one you registered the game on.
• EA doesn’t answer you? Answers HQ is a place where users help fellow users, not a place where you can expect EA to answer.

Things you should always try / make sure:

• Make sure your computer meet all the game requirements (http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield-4/faq )
• Try restarting your computer and network equipment (routers, switches etc.)
• Try another browser (Chrome/FireFox/(IE, although often the cause of errors))
• Try repairing your game in Origin (right click > repair)
• Try reloading your games in Origin by pressing “Reload My Games”
• Check if Punkbuster is running correctly and update it manually ( https://help.ea.com/in/article/punkbuster-technical-issues )
• Try setting bf3.exe and Origin as a trusted application in the windows(/other) firewall
• Update ALL your drivers especially the graphics card but also components like soundcards, network card, motherboard/chipset, headset and mouse+keyboard, to the newest version, if the problem came with a new driver then remove that driver and downgrade to the driver that worked.
• Try testing if the problem is still there if you perform a clean boot ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 )

Troubleshooting:

• Try flushdns to flush your dns cache ( http://www.wikihow.com/Flush-DNS )
• Make sure Origin doesn’t have connection issues ( https://help.ea.com/article/connection-issues-with-origin )
• Try cleaning your browsers’ cache and temporary files using CCleaner ( http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner )
• Try reinstalling Origin by manually uninstalling first ( https://help.ea.com/article/manually-uninstalling-origin ) + make sure it’s the newest version
• If you have a Realtek soundcard try disabling it in the BIOS
• Make sure your CPU/other is not overheating, check if all fans are running and record and post your temperatures here
• Try deleting the BF4 Settings folder in C:/Users/USERNAME/My Documents/Battlefield 4
• Possible connection problems? Try doing a UOtrace to EA’s servers to check for problems – https://help.ea.com/article/how-to-uo-trace – also do a pingtest.net and a speedtest.net and remember to post all the results.
• DirectX error? Try reinstalling DirectX
• Use Windows Eventviewer to look at the error in xml and copy/paste the solution here
• Run Origin and Battlefield 4 as administrator ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff431742.aspx )
• Go to the cloud button on BF4 and uncheck the “enable cloud storage for all games” box. Launch the game, quit it and re-enable the cloud storage box. Make sure to use the local data when the information box popping up.
• Network/Connection problems? Make sure you are the only one using the internet connection, especially make sure no torrent programs are running.
• If you use Windows 8 in another language than language than English, try switching it to us-english, some have reported that fixed their problem.

Other Specific Questions:

• How to redeem double xp codes - https://help.ea.com/in/article/How-to-redeem-double-xp-codes-for-Battlefield-4
• What is Premium - https://help.ea.com/in/article/what-is-battlefield-4-premium
• What is Fairfight and Punkbuster? - https://help.ea.com/in/article/fairfight-and-punkbuster-in-battlefield-4