Game keeps crashing at Zen Sensei mission

Hey @FaktezZ

Sorry to hear about this.

Can you try these steps?

1. Disable the Origin in-game Overlay in the Origin Launcher

2. Clear Origin Cache: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/

3. Clean Boot: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/

Let us know if this helps.

Thanks 🙂

- iluminate

Still having issues here as well so I'll jump into this thread now. Tried all this and no go unfortunately.

Trying to be positive but this bug has halted my game completely, I haven't played a game with such a critical error in years... maybe I've just been lucky but its making it frustrating, like I'm back in the dark ages haha.

Anyway I'll try not to vent but hopefully we'll hear something soon. I have other games to play but its still unacceptable, imo, to have people waiting this long for a severe bug so early in the game.

I am going through the same problem. I simply can't finish Zen Sensei's mission because the game simply crashes when it sends the clones. It has already crashed on the first clone wave, the second, or the third. The CPU simply goes 100% on all cores, the game crashes, and the audio gets weird.

Just to give you an idea, I even played the game at 800x600 resolution to see if this problem stopped, but it happened just the same.

I came here just to make a post about this problem, and then I saw that you made this post, to my luck.

My settings are:

- i5 2320 3.0 ghz,
- 8gb of ram
- GTX 1050 2GB.

Unfortunately I already found that most of the problems with this game on the PC are not due to people's settings, which are usually always very good, the problem is that the game is poorly optimized and full of bugs.

Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighboorville on PC is, without a doubt, the worst PVZ experience I've ever had. Only headaches. The amount of problems is countless.

I have the same problem, 2 weeks ago I couldn't play the game because of an anti cheat bug and now my game keeps freezing after 1 match or some missions, my PC isnt the greatest, so I expected it wouldn't run at 60 fps constantly. But now it's just unbearable. The previous bug was fixed in like 20 min, but there were alot of people with that problem, I don't see that many people with this problem. I just hope they will fix this soon. If they can optimise the PC version it could be such a great game.

Thank you for the posts.

Can I check if you're playing fullscreen or Windowed when you get the crash, and if changing that has any effect?

I'll only add that fighting Gnomes in single player also causes it for me, same as with Zen Sensei - 20-30 seconds is usually enough.

@ArtHammerPiko Thank you. Can you post your dxdiag details too? We're interested in any commonalities between those folks experiencing this. 

@EA_David Sure, hope I didn't screw it up and this is what you're looking for

Here is my info, playing fullscreen borderless currently, will see if changing it up fixes it when i have a chance to jump into the game again.

I tested the game on DX12, then DX 11 (which is what I use), and tested the game in windowed mode (even at 800x600 resolution), and although the FPS was very high, the game still crashed in Zen Sensei. , CPU going 100% and audio gets weird

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Fun fact: Always when trying to get downtown with the game in 800x600 window resolution, the loading screen just crashed.