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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Black screen on startup

I have installed the beta driver from nvidia.

Tried reinstall of game, repaired the install with 0 errors.

Tried running it as an administrator, tried running it in compatibility modes.

When checking task manager the game is hovering on 12-14% CPU usage. Memory locked at same amount.

Unplugged joysticks.

No overclock.

Sometimes I get the message from origin saying that I can press to see overlay. When it shows the screen frezes, like if the game crashed.

Checking task manager it still says running.

My specs:

GTX 680

i7 2600k

8gb ram

64bit win 7

xonar phoebus soundcard

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I found a fix after random tries.... run it in xp service pack 3 compability mode, and it the ting started!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I think I found a solution that has worked so far for me.  Here's what I did:

    • Turned V-sync off in game.
    • Used an external graphic card control program (EVGA Precision X  ver 4.0.0) to manually set Frame Rate Target to 60 fps.

    So far I have not had any more random crashes during gameplay.  Will update if this stops working.

  • xMaNGoZ's avatar
    xMaNGoZ
    12 years ago

    I had this same problem and couldn't find a solution anywhere but I have fixed mine now. I used Nvidia Geforce Experience to change the resolution because it was trying to start in 1280x720 and when I changed it to 1920x1080 it worked straight away.

    Just thought i'd post this since I there is no help from EA

    Hope this helps

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