DirectX Error - EA Madden NFL 25
I am experiencing a DirectX error that is causing the game to crash. The game runs fine within the menus but crashes immediately otherwise. No issues experienced when playing Madden 24. GPU is an Int...
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I was having the same issue, came here and tried all of EA's suggestions to no avail.
I found a solution that worked for me. Zero crashes since
- Reset your Nvidia GPU to default settings in Nvidia Control Panel
- search graphics settings on your PC, add Madden 25 if it is not already in the list, and select your laptop main GPU as the GPU Preference
- google Microsoft visual C++ and download X64 and X86. It will say already downloaded, but i will fix any files that are corrupted
- Restart Computer
EA sucks and won't even respond because they don't have answers to their own games issues. Hopefully this works for you
Thank you! I’ll try this tomorrow.
Hey @dasilentsnipa , thank you so much for giving me something new to try. I have an AMD GPU, not Nvidia, but I reset those settings, and followed all the rest of your steps but unfortunately my game still crashed.
@MasterOfQuackFu Did you set driver as the main driver in AMD app or did you do it through graphics settings? I think this game has issues with telling a laptop which GPU to use. You can also try turning ambient occlusion off in-game if it's crashing after a game starts
. I also added an exception for the game files in windows defender and a 3rd party app i use for security. If the game crashes on startup, it might be windows defender shutting it down. Also clear steam cache and EA app cache if you haven't already.
I never had to do this but you could try setting the game as CPU priority for the game to high in task manager> details... sometimes EA anticheat takes over too quickly and won't let you do this but its worth a try
Last thing is opening the game priorities in steam > general > launch options> type (-dx12) in the launch options window
Godspeed
