Madden 22 Freezing Error (Steam-PC)
Over Christmas I bought Madden 22 for PC through Steam. The game always begins running with no issues, then once I get into Ultimate Team or another mode the game completely freezes. I'm pretty sure...
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Recently been able to launch the game, and managed to get fewer freezes running as Admininstrator. Still get freezes though, even with in game overlay on EA App and Steam turned off.
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| Program.sys (gameoverlayrenderer64!OverlayHookD3D3+0x229F5) |
Sometimes I can play for 30 mins+, but mostly it just freezes either in game, or loading into one. Administrator helped a little, but game is pretty unplayable. Here is a dxdiag.
Using -force -dx11 I was able to play 3 whole games in FotF before a freeze, so this appears to be slightly better, but doesn't resolve this issue.
To confirm, i've been trying the Challenges on Ultimate Team, but the first challenge track has a full game at the end of each chapter.
After about 10 attempts, I have managed to complete 4 games. Freezes are seemingly random in game i.e. before choosing a play, or during a review or after kicking a PAT or something.
Sometimes Madden freezes loading into a game...very frustrating.
Tried windowed mode. Froze loading into a game.
Have seem CPU engaged during the crash, i took this snip after waiting for 1 minute...OK, so in ~/Documents\Madden NFL 22\CrashDumps there is a whole ton of files here.
Here are just 3, most seem to point to some pointer exceptions or something?
...And of course I can't attach .zips or .7z files...
OK so after a LOT of experimentation, I seem to have better luck if I DO NOT TOUCH THE A button after a play, and wait for either a replay video, or the playbook to show on it's own. The crashing on load is just 80:20 whether it crashes or not, nothing we can do about that one. Also if a play card comes up after a play it's worth waiting for that to go away on it's own before pressing A. Yes, if the clock's running it's a bit annoying, but not as annoying as the game freezing half way through the 4th Q because you spammed the A button after a PAT or something.
I had the patience of a saint and didn't press any buttons. But still, freezes. "And he's gonna take it in, touchdown Pack-" and a freeze of my player celebrating 8s before half time.
Honestly, please any ideas at this stage would be gratefully received. Took months to get a game that actually boots, and now it's unplayable anyway.
