Alright, SWBF2 on my PC is getting worse. Game worked good for first 120 odd hours then started kicking me out between every online multiplayer match for the follwing 9 odd hours now I cant even play an online game for 30 seconds without it crashing and kicking me out to the desktop!!! My gaming rig is fine, its brand new and was running the game perfectly fine for ages so I dont know what the problem is? EA have any suggestion? anyone else have this problem? i'm over it. almost seems like a waste of money buying this game for this to happen. All the other games I have on my PC run fine...

Seems I've found a solution... but lets see if EA will let me post this answer this time...seems they don't like to be criticized for their bad workmanship lolIt seems to be a DIRECTX12 issue and game updates.Here's what i'm doing. Go to \Documents\STAR WARS Battlefront II\settings and open "BootOptions" file with notepad.Then go to the line that says ".EnableDx12" and delete the 1 and put a 0 in its place so it reads ".EnableDx02" instead then save it.I have to do this every time before I start the game because if I don't it seems after I have been playing it it has been changed back...but if I dont change it it crashes as usual however when I do change it it works and so far I can play endlessly by doing it...Let me know how you guys go. hoping by continuously doing this I can keep playing it at least...

SWBF2 for PC crashing and getting worse!

41 Replies

EA_Atic
DICE Team
8 years ago
Hey @inglorious_NZL What kind of error message do you get?

/Atic
inglorious_NZL
8 years ago
No error messages just a straight crash to desktop everytime. It has been making dump files I found although I can't read them.
Anonymous
8 years ago
Same issue. Crashing to desktop. The game hates when I am in the menus now for some reason. It also unequiped all my star cards and weapons from everything.
Windows 10
i7-8700K
GTX 1080 Ti
32 GB Ram
NavarDerth
8 years ago
Let me guess: you also lost all Arcade progression?
EA_Atic
DICE Team
8 years ago
Hey @NavarDerth @Sinimaxx @inglorious_NZL,

Can you upload a dxduiag to me, so I can see what hardware and drivers you are using.

How to do a dxdiag: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

/Atic
inglorious_NZL
8 years ago
Sweet as. I've attached a dxdiag report it to this reply
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inglorious_NZL
8 years ago
Hi Sinimaxx, down right sucks ay. Least I know i'm not alone on this...I was kinda wondering that. Havent lost any of my saved game data yet thankfully but since the new han solo update its been kicking me out at the main menu sreen as well now.
Anonymous
8 years ago
🙂 Well at least I now know I'm not alone, only got the game yesterday and took four attempts to start the campaign as it kept crashing to desktop in the menu, only played through as far as Endor forest popped back to the menu and crashed again, definitely seems menu overlay issue.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I have the same issue since the Han Solo Update. The game crashes pretty often (with a bit of luck I can finish one round of GA...).
I always had dx11 enabled, so I tried to enable dx12, but that just made it worse (game even crashed in the main menu...) So I re-enabled dx11 and used the origin repair function, but that didn't help either.
Description of the crash:
the crash occurs in the trooper select menu (after u die) when the timer is at 0 and the game is about to spawn u - right at the moment where the spawn menu should disappear, maybe a problem with the "change of scenery" - happened on 3 different maps (death star, kamino, third one I forgot..), didnt want to keep playing after that. it just crashes to desktop without any kind of error message.
EmpressVinna
8 years ago
Same issue and tried the same method as TheInvisible1337. BF2 crashes - sometimes comes back to desktop, sometimes I have to manually restart pc and no error shown. I also noticed menu is really laggy just as the game opens. Blast mode sometimes doesn't even start and Heroes vs Villains crashes after merely 30-120 seconds, every single time. It also crashes in arcade.