Friends game crashes after me deploying in game.

I am a victim of this bug as well :-/

In some instances, seemingly at random, Battlefield 4 simply (without error message or similar) crashes to desktop when he spawns.

Regardless of whether I am already deployed or waiting to be deployed.

If I join the server while he is deployed, this can lead to the crash as well.

In the even viewer, the crash is logged like this:

Faulting application name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Faulting module name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000023c334
Faulting process ID: 0x1310
Faulting application start time: 0x01d670eaa84b0ade
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Report ID: 8919b783-1678-4b0b-974e-ad226e86cbe8
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Faulting application name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Faulting module name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000023c334
Faulting process ID: 0x2ce0
Faulting application start time: 0x01d670ea4d53394a
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Report ID: 1e591b62-ba5e-40f5-b615-63d0445e0833
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Faulting application name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Faulting module name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000023c334
Faulting process ID: 0x11dc
Faulting application start time: 0x01d670e9fcd69772
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Report ID: d58bd014-f823-4d73-a1fb-2325fdcb6c62
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Faulting application name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Faulting module name: bf4.exe, version: 1.8.2.48475, time stamp: 0x58ab1cc0
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000023c334
Faulting process ID: 0x2db8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d670e9d23fe325
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Report ID: 1d569290-4085-43e2-a262-3d1858ffc856
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

Reason: The CDN at akamai provides the DDS-Texture files for the users emblems. For some reason some servers respond with an HTTP Upgrade request, that will initiate a false payload. This usually happens 99.999% as plaintest HTTP.

Solution: Make sure the CDN will only respond with HTTP 100.00% at the time.

Edit: It's not an upgrade request. The provider sends a 0 byte payload instead. A DICE Battelog System Engineer is working at it. Thanks to DICE to make us happy again!

How do I do that then?

You simply can't. EA has to change it, but there is a temporary bypass that may have some side effects:

Add "127.0.0.1 eaassets-a.akamaihd.net" to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, to block the DNS to the emblems webserver.

Don't forget to remove it after some time and try again.

Actually one of my previous post was shadow banned, because it contained more detailed informations including ip-adresses.

Well, at least i was right with the corrupted payload, but i hope that the HTTPS Upgrade didn't cause much confusion  😇 

Thank you for looking into this bug and making us happy again!