Game is constantly crashing to desktop and crashing steam

I essentially gave up playing it. After playing almost 20 hrs without issue, suddenly I'm constantly crashing with no error message. Not only that, i haven't checked for posts on it yet but my audio is crackling and distorting all the time, especially in heavy crowds, but not always. Sometimes during a battle my sound goes wonky. I'm disappointed that ea hasn't responded to these issues as mentioned above. Think I'll play something else till this crap is resolved.

Update post patch 4: I honestly don't know if it's just me at this point or not but the game is still crashing and crashing Steam for me 😭. My friend has no issue with the game crashing on his PC so I don't know why my PC is being affected. EA_Illium tagging just in case Bioware is not aware that the game is still crashing for some people on PC...

Same here. Not sure if I should just wait until the next patch because it's been frustrating trying to just get the game to load after doing everything suggested.

it made my crashes happen during the loading screen instead of in game.

Me too.

Update post patch 3: Game is still crashing. Patch doesn't seem to have fixed anything for me. 

Yep.. I was crashing before the first patch but it was every few hours, so I didn't mind THAT much since I still got a good 50 hours of progress. For the past week though (after the first patch) I can't play for more than 2 minutes without crashing. I can sometimes get 10 minutes if I'm lucky but that's still ridiculous. I've given up for now, and as someone who was looking forward to this game for years & pre-ordered it and everything, I'm extremely heartbroken about it. I truly hope that Bioware/EA aren't ignoring us. I want to be patient, but there's a difference between simple bugs vs an actual inability to play the game.

I too have the DirectX error, as well as the nvldmmk event viewer errors. As soon as I close the game after it crashes I get a full system lock up, the weird part is if you look at the crash dumps in windbg it shows as an NT error code which is GPU driver communication, and ive seen other people post their crash dumps with constant mention of Denuvo token timeout strings, despite the game not having Denuvo. Very odd.

The most damning evidence is this error goes back years with the EXACT same error code in multiple frostbite engine games. So I highly doubt its hardware and if it is its certain configurations causing driver communication errors.

This is why I started getting so annoyed when people kept leaping on the "ItS yOuR hArDwArE" train or keep saying "They're probably working on it!"

No, it's not, a hardware issue, and we have 0 evidence that they are working on a fix. Hell, idk why they even have EA_Illium as a "community manager" if they aren't going to, you know, manage the community. I don't get why you wouldn't have something like a bug dashboard or even a pinned thread that lists out bugs and current statuses.

I've never seen a company of this size have this little communication so shortly after launch with such severe issues. All they're doing right now is making people more mad for no reason when they could just......comment on the issues?

It makes it seem real shady and makes me think more and more that they might not actually have any fix and that it's an issue inherent to Frostbite Engine that won't ever be resolved. I'd like to hope that's wrong, but.......radio silence

Exactly. No one should be making these kinds of changes and temporary (if they even work) fixes to play a game. It played fine before either of the patches and is unplayable now. All my other games in Steam play without issues.