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TheBeekeep3r
Seasoned Scout
8 years ago

Re: Battlefront 2 crashing PC hard

Same, here, PC freezes with looping audio.

Its random but I need to press Reset as the rig gets unresponsive. Does not occur with any other title.

I think its DX12 related as I did not expierience it with DX11. Will keep trying.

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  • Champion1138's avatar
    Champion1138
    8 years ago
    My game is randomly closing. Happens in the menus and in a round. Tried running as admin, tried compatibility mode, repairing the game, cleaning the registry, updating gtx drivers, updating windows, windowed mode, disabling origin overlay and cloud saving.
    Laptop runs like a champ, only my tower machine crashes.
  • IAmYeke's avatar
    IAmYeke
    8 years ago
    Hey mate, only one other option I can recommend, the dreaded uninstall and reinstall, if that doesn't work then escalate with EA, however make sure you fully uninstall the game then install it again
  • IAmYeke's avatar
    IAmYeke
    8 years ago
    You can either go through control panel or through origin right clicking the game. (some people just delete the files but that isn't a full uninstall.)

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Approved

    Having the exact same issue. Event viewer logs it as "kernal-power" under critical. Updated graphics drivers, no problems with similarly demanding games, etc. First time I've ever experienced this. Built this PC roughly a month ago. I can play single-player tutorial and missions, but multiplayer and campaign blow me up as soon as they start loading. Cannot reproduce the error outside of the game. Have also reinstalled btw. No dice.

  • Champion1138's avatar
    Champion1138
    8 years ago

    Used Origin to uninstall and re-installed.  Crashes are less frequent, but still occur.  I'm crashing maybe every 40 minutes.  

  • III_JJB_III's avatar
    III_JJB_III
    8 years ago
    If you didn't do already, the first thing to check 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.
  • Champion1138's avatar
    Champion1138
    8 years ago

    Did the reinstall, the issue persisted.  

    I tried turning OFF skype and I've been playing for 3 hours without a crash so far.

    Unfortunately Skype is the most reliable way to talk to my friends: Discord, Origin calls and the In-Game chat are only partially working for us.  Skype works for everybody but it will crash SW BF2.....

    EA has escalated my ticket but no one has contacted me yet (3 days).

  • Shatterhand2049's avatar
    Shatterhand2049
    8 years ago

    I tried that, and mine's already set to 0, so that must not be the issue for me.

    I have a feeling it might have to do with a recent Windows update, since it was running yesterday before the update.  I know I could just roll back the update, but it was a significant Windows update and I don't think that's a feasible option.

    This issue hangs my PC to the point where Windows completely shuts down.  I have to manually reset my PC to get back up and running.

    Windows 10 Home

    64-bit

    Intel Core i7-7700 GPU, 3.60 GHz

    16 GB RAM

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

    (Keep in mind that, with the above settings, the game was running as of yesterday without issue, so it's not a problem with my system's compatibility.)

    I noticed something in the Event Viewer on the two crash occasions:  An alert for "Display driver nvlddmkm", so I'm wondering if it could be a display driver problem.  I'll look into that further, but I hope to see tangible solutions sooner rather than later.

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