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Anonymous
9 years ago
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[PC] Battlefield 1 stopped working. Over and over and over again.

I'm having the issue a lot of other PC players seem to have. My game randomly crashes. Single & Multiplayer. I've only got to finish one match out of about 6-8. It froze almost every match. I beli...
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    Carbonic
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the detailes post @eurotrashness!

    I'm currently testing out a new workaround for people and you seem like the person that can test it for me. My theory is that the game crashes due to hardware geing used at 100% and that might cause some bug to crash the game. Crashes often caused by nvwgf2umx.dll (or the game itself) which is an Nvidia driver file which I saw crashing the game in your DXDIAG.

    STEP 1

    The workaround is quite simple, we need to lower the maximum FPS the came will render- I want you to create an empty text file called user.cfg in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\ (or where you might have your game saved) and in that file and add this text if you have a 144Hz monitor:

    gametime.maxvariablefps 145

    or this text if you got a 60Hz monitor

    gametime.maxvariablefps 61

    If you have another monitor take it's hertz frequency change the number above so it's Hz+1

    STEP 2

    If STEP 1 does not work try changing the values in the user.cfg file to lower values. Keep lowering them until the problem hopefully doesn't happen. I'm aware this will lower the quality of your experience as you will get lower FPS so see this as a temporary solution until Nvidia / AMD / DICE comes out with a fix, if this helps your game not crash it will help them fix the issue faster and you will be able to play in the meantime.

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Carbonic
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9 years ago

Thanks for the detailes post @eurotrashness!

I'm currently testing out a new workaround for people and you seem like the person that can test it for me. My theory is that the game crashes due to hardware geing used at 100% and that might cause some bug to crash the game. Crashes often caused by nvwgf2umx.dll (or the game itself) which is an Nvidia driver file which I saw crashing the game in your DXDIAG.

STEP 1

The workaround is quite simple, we need to lower the maximum FPS the came will render- I want you to create an empty text file called user.cfg in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\ (or where you might have your game saved) and in that file and add this text if you have a 144Hz monitor:

gametime.maxvariablefps 145

or this text if you got a 60Hz monitor

gametime.maxvariablefps 61

If you have another monitor take it's hertz frequency change the number above so it's Hz+1

STEP 2

If STEP 1 does not work try changing the values in the user.cfg file to lower values. Keep lowering them until the problem hopefully doesn't happen. I'm aware this will lower the quality of your experience as you will get lower FPS so see this as a temporary solution until Nvidia / AMD / DICE comes out with a fix, if this helps your game not crash it will help them fix the issue faster and you will be able to play in the meantime.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Appreciate the feedback. Testing right now. I'll let you know what happens.

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