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gohan237
8 years ago
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Crashes On Startup (Before Reaching Main Menu)

So I was able to play the game fine yesterday, but now every time I launch it, it crashes before even reaching the main menu. Actually my whole computer crashes... I have been trying to fix it for a few hours now, so any help would be appreciated. It has nothing to do with specs because I meet minimum requirements and even go over it a little..

  • III_JJB_III's avatar
    III_JJB_III
    8 years ago
    First thing to check when the whole system freezes at the first loading screen would be if the game tries to run on DirectX 12. To do that, navigate to the settings folder that should be located in
    C:\users\PUT YOUR USERNAME HERE\documents\Star Wars Battlefront II\.
    There should be a file named "Boot options". Open that with the Text Editor. If there's a line saying "GstRender.EnableDx12 1" change the 1 into a 0 and save it.

    This will deactivate DirectX12 and the game should launch again, if the freeze was caused by that, which it is for many people.

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  • adrianleighuk's avatar
    adrianleighuk
    6 years ago

    As others previous have said. When you get to that folder you'll see a settings folder. Double click on that and in there you'll find your boot file. 

    I had same problem. Freezing on loading screen and never getting to start game menu. In fact it completely locked my computer up and with no signs of a fault. Had to reset it everytime I tried to get it to run the game. Mine seems to be as advised, I had to turn off directx12. I have 2 x nvidia geforce 670's fitted running in SLI mode. From reading the replies it seems the geforce needs dx12 turned off if you have issues and the rtx cards seem to need it switched on. My guess only.

    Oddly mine ran 1st time and then not the next day. The way I got mine to work was by following the advise to get to boot file which I found in the settings folder. So one more folder extension on.

    When I opened the boot file in note pad, there was no info written in it. Infact all files in the settings folder was blank as though info had been erased.

    So I right clicked on each file in the settings folder one at a time and then selected restore file option. It then asked if I wanted to replace it with a earlier saved file. So I accept the earlier file. Please note I did this with all 4 files in the settings folder.

    Then I opened the boot option file in note pad again and found numerous lines of text. I changed directx12 option off by changing the last digit from 1(on) to 0(off) as suggested and saved it.

    Once that was done I made a copy off the settings folder and saved it into a new folder on my desktop should I need it later. It has worked the once since doing this. Hopefully this will work.

    So for some strange reason it seems to have wiped the file text held within the original files. So basically it is like the file structure is all correct, no files missing, but no text in the files themselves disappeared.

  • Hammy739's avatar
    Hammy739
    6 years ago

    Similar issue here I launch the game and get to main menu then the entire game lags out and crashes. I was able to get into a match but now once it boots I just crash out

  • ykdc4olhoda8's avatar
    ykdc4olhoda8
    Seasoned Newcomer
    4 months ago

    When I play the game in any mode as I start it suddenly exits to the Desktop. Please Help! It is really annoying I cant play.

  • crmsnn76's avatar
    crmsnn76
    Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I don't have the settings folder to get to the "BootOptions"

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