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BuggedSince2K
Seasoned Newcomer
5 months ago

BF6 Crashing PC and rebooting. EA ADRESS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The only game with this problem !!!!

I’ve been having this issue since launch — it even happened during the beta. My PC completely crashes with a “Kernel Power” error in the Event Viewer. I’ve tried absolutely everything I could find on Reddit and here, but nothing has fixed it for me!

Here’s what I’ve tried so far: BIOS update, new PSU, disabling GameInput service, reinstalling GPU drivers (including full cleanup and redownload), checking every driver individually, running the game with DirectX 11 only, upgrading to Windows 11, undervolting my GPU, running stress tests on GPU/CPU/RAM (OCCT) — all passed with no issues. The crash dump always points to my GPU losing response with the application. 

I really don’t think this is a hardware issue in my case.
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
GPU: Radeon 7800XT

I’ve spent three days trying to fix this just so I can play one of my favorite game franchises with my friends. I’ve joined over 100 matches, but only managed to finish around 20 before my PC crashed and rebooted. Sometimes it happens at the start of a match, sometimes mid-game, or even right at the end — it’s incredibly frustrating.

I’m using the EA App and also had launch issues. At this point, I’m completely discouraged and even considering taking my PC to a repair shop. I’ve seen many others reporting the same problem — I really hope EA does something about it.

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4 Comments

  • Goose-KTK's avatar
    Goose-KTK
    New Spectator
    5 months ago

    i’m having this issue with all EA Games at the moment, this only happened on the 12th. before that it was perfect, i bsod on launch, mid game.

    they need to fix this asap

  • JhonWeak56's avatar
    JhonWeak56
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    I'm having the exact same issue, and I've basically gone through the same checklist you did. I'm on a 7945HX and an RTX 5060, and this has never happened in any other game. It only happens in Battlefield 2042/6, which really points to the engine. I'm a software engineer, so while I can't pinpoint the exact root cause, I can at least say it's not the EA app or Steam I've had the freeze on both, across both games. It's also not power draw I tried locking the game at 120 fps on the lowest settings, no change. I doubt it's Windows, but who knows since windows is hot garbage still, it's happened across multiple driver and windows updates although microsoft's engineers are absolutely dogwater at their job I doubt it's 100% related, although I've never had such issue gaming on Linux, but that's another discussion. It occurs in regular MP on any map or mode, and in RedSec too. I found no pattern, though for me it often happens right after dying.

    From what I can tell, the only realistic causes are things like this:

    The game might be sending invalid or unsynchronized DX12 commands that the GPU driver can't recover from, which can hard-freeze both AMD and NVIDIA cards.

    A shader or compute pass might be deadlocking the GPU, so the driver can't preempt it and Windows can't reset the device.

    The engine might be corrupting GPU memory or descriptors, which can instantly break the display engine or command processor and cause a black-screen freeze.

    It could be triggering a bug in the Windows graphics kernel (dxgkrnl, WDDM), which both vendors rely on, so a cross-vendor freeze makes sense if the game hits a bad path.

    Or there's a rare interaction with the anti-cheat kernel driver that ends up deadlocking the system and mimics a GPU hang.

    These are basically the only explanations that actually fit the symptoms.

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