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8 years ago

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Battlefront 2 pc shuts off

I have seen a few threads about Star Wars Battlefront 2 shutting down people's computers. I've had the same issue and I think I've figured it out.

I turned on MSI Afterburner and noticed during loading screens my CPU temp would sky rocket to 100 degrees C, eventually causing my pc to turn off. Presumably to protect the hardware.

Lower grafics and resolution had no effect. All those great tips on the board had no effect. Then I limited the max fps. Hurray! The temperature stabilized!

I ran this on other games and had zero temperature issues with full fps. So, it's definitely a bug in Battlefront during the main menu and loading screens. So monitor your temperature and limit your fps until you get it just right.

What do you think EA? Your customers troubleshooting your products once again.

Falclore76
8 years ago
It was cleaned out a couple months ago when I replaced the SSD. Here's an update though. I played the other day for 2 hours, @70C CPU, 60C GPU with no issues....(fun game). Yesterday, same temps....20mins and pop, off it goes. So now I'm out of tweaks, it's not temp or FPS afterall. Far cry and hitman run just dandy. I'll have to stick to those. Thanks guys for your help.

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Falclore76
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6 years ago
Your specs are much better then mine. I'm guessing bf2 is such a big resource hog that it really tests your system. A year after i started this thread i bought a new system. Msi i7 1070 laptop. Bf2 runs just dandy on it. I wonder if i can finally play Crysis ;D...
Guitarman727
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6 years ago
Cheers for replying, glad you can play it without troubles! After a bunch of testing it turns out my GPU was the problem so am in the process of sending it off for RMA so Crysis Remastered will have to wait for me! 😉
SANS_UT98_YT
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6 years ago
@Guitarman727 I also have this issue! Whenever I try to play BF2, it will entirely restart my PC, usually during gameplay. Sometimes I even get BSODs (Blue screens of death). I only got 3 in total so far, and they each have different errors. Here's the list of the error codes.

BSOD 1: KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE
BSOD 2: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
BSOD 3: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

I have no idea as to why I got these. I have never had any such issues with any other game, and BF2 seems to be broken (to me at least). I would appreciate some help as well. My specs are:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x
PSU: Corsair 850w PSU
DRAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3.6 MHz RAM
GPU: Asus GeForce GTX 1650 (Overclocked) 4GB
Motherboard (if it relates): Asus ROG Strix B450-f Gaming

Thanks! I'm glad i'm not alone!
Guitarman727
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6 years ago
Hey, sorry you're getting crashing, I know first hand what a pain in the * it is. My problem was definitely my graphics card as I've since gone back to a GTX 970 (waiting for the RTX 3070 to come out) and can run the game with no issues at all.
You may have a slightly different problem as in my case I didn't get any error messages and didn't see a single BSOD. The closest I could get was 'Unexpected Shutdown' in the event viewer. Mine was definitely caused by AMD Graphics Drivers as since going back to Nvidia I haven't had any problems.
I would definitely test your GPU without the overclock to see if that resolves it (assuming you overclocked it yourself) and I would look in Reliability Monitor and Event Viewer to see if that can give you any more information. Beyond that normally when Windows starts to BSOD on me I just do a fresh install as it's less effort than trying to work out the problem! However if you have access to any other hardware, especially another GPU, I would definitely test that first as it could save you a reinstall! Hope you get it sorted