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Anonymous

10 years ago

Solved

DirectX error on startup causes crash

I cant play the game any longer, starting it up will immediately trigger a directx error. Ive tried a whole list of things to fix it. Ive gotten 3 emails by 3 employees with about 20 steps that could...

Anonymous
10 years ago
So I just fixed the issue for me.
Had the exact same error message with a GTX 970.
I uninstalled curse and it seemed to run just fine.
Uninstall or disable any other programs with overlays (i.e. origin overlay, curse, etc.)
Until the next nVidia driver comes out I'd keep these programs disabled.

Anonymous

10 years ago

It may also be worth mentioning the game randomly managed to launch the other day, but after shutdown and startup later that day the same error popped up again. I havent been able to launch it anymore since

Anonymous

10 years ago

So I just fixed the issue for me.

Had the exact same error message with a GTX 970.

I uninstalled curse and it seemed to run just fine.

Uninstall or disable any other programs with overlays (i.e. origin overlay, curse, etc.)

Until the next nVidia driver comes out I'd keep these programs disabled.

proxos666
Hero+
10 years ago
@ndawg75

Yes I have also seen reports of curse overlay causing this error , glad to hear you have found your solution.

@Nodoubt42

When they got you to do a clean boot it was as per this link ?

Edit - have you uninstalled panda as a test to make sure it isn't related to this issue ?
Anonymous
10 years ago
@ndawg75 Thanks alot, this worked! Finally a solution!
- EA_David
  Community Admin
  10 years ago
  Thanks to everyone on the post, this will be something to look out for in the future for this and other Frostbite games.
  
  Cheers!
Uccello2
10 years ago
I had the same problem and just uninstalled curse and inmediatly it worked out! :P
- EA_David
  Community Admin
  10 years ago
  Wonnderful, thanks for another entry in the big "Confirmed" ledger @Uccello2
Anonymous
10 years ago
Yep that works and thx for the fix, but a less extreme method is to open Curse, go to Settings -> In-Game and disable the Star Wars Battlefront In-Game Overlay.
- LeeTheENTP
  10 years ago
  ^ That's what I did. I wasn't sure if it was a Curse, Battlefront, or Nvidia update that broke overlay compatibility, but from what I'm seeing here it looks like it was Nvidia. Let's hope this gets fixed, because I enjoy having the overlay in-game!