Just an FYI, I've been all over the internet throughout the day and read multiple forums on this issue. Even over on NVIDIAs pages. I was having the same issue, about 5-10 minutes of play, then black screen, then game froze with DirectX Error message (Device_Hung). What I found was that most people that were having the issue had an OC'd GPU. Mine was OC'd but through some software that I had installed, I didn't actually change any settings manually, just had it do it's thing. Well I was having issues with GW2 freezing up on when I would have some graphic intensive moments, just like BF4, but without the error message. Well I got to thinking I'm only running a GTX 650 and only have a 430W power supply. On one of the forums someone posted that it may be the power supply, which makes sense. Basically the GPU was pulling so much juice it was causing issues and causing freezes in game. Well I came home today and turned my OC software off, booted up BF4 and ran about an hour and a half with no issues, even running on high settings. I know people have said under clocking, or setting their GPUs back to factory didn't work for them but it worked for me, so far. I will update after I play this evening. I will however be purchasing a new GPU and Power Supply very soon. My friend runs a 700W with a GeForce 670 and hasn't had an error message. Perhaps the issue is with peoples power options. I'm not super tech savvy but it makes sense. Hope this helps anyone out there, if not sorry.
UPDATE: Apparently didn't work, logged back in last night and same error. I did however revert my Drivers back to 331.40 Driver and played all last night and a bit this morning with no issues. Contacted NVIDIA with a solution to update my DirectX to determine if it's the driver, not sure how that is suppose to determine if it's the driver but I'm going to give it a go. Of course NVIDIA is saying its the game. I'm still skeptical, however I have read a few, and I say A FEW AMD users having this issue. More to follow.
RESOLUTION
Go to the BF4 folder in .\origin games\Battlefield 4\
Open .\_Installer\directx\redist
Right click on DXSETUP.exe and click "Run as Administrator"
complete the install, enjoy.
UPDATE
problem still occurrs. I reboot, the game runs and then crashes at the start of a new level just before the playable part starts. So far, it's been about 45-50 minutes of gameplay at a time. Could be time or value related.
So running that DXSetup made it worse. Now it crashes on launch.
What if your video card is factory overclocked, as is my 7970. Seems a waste to underclock from what the factory told you was the base specification for the hardware.
My 7970 runs factory at 1100 / 1450.
It has to be the game, I've never had this error beore in any other game.
