📢 UDP 5
I recently remembered another great game — The Finals — and thought it could help narrow down the investigation.
The Finals, made by former DICE developers, also uses a kernel-level anti-cheat (Denuvo) that works in a very similar way to EA’s Javelin. So I decided to test a simple theory: if the issue is truly caused by the anti-cheat itself, the game should crash there too.
And you won’t believe it — it did.
After about an hour and a half of playing, I got the exact same DirectX error as in Battlefield 6.
This strongly suggests that the root cause isn’t the Frostbite engine or the game itself, but rather a shared architectural flaw in how next-gen anti-cheats interact with modern GPU and PCIe systems at the kernel level.
This also explains why some players reported temporary improvements after updating their BIOS — these updates often include PCI Express behavior fixes, which could slightly change how the system communicates with the GPU under load.
A player under my Steam discussion mentioned that after upgrading from an RTX 3080 Ti (PCIe 4.0) to an RTX 5080 (PCIe 5.0), Battlefield began throwing DirectX errors almost instantly. When he reverted back to the 3080 Ti, the crashes disappeared.
That’s an important clue — though I can’t yet say what to do with this information, perhaps someone with more low-level or driver experience can shed some light.
At this point, one thing is clear:
We’ve already done more meaningful diagnostics than EA’s own QA department.
The problem is not engine-related, and most likely not even specific to Battlefield — it lies in the deep system-level behavior of modern kernel-mode anti-cheats.
Huge thanks again to everyone who keeps sharing logs, reports, and theories — this feels like a real breakthrough.
P.S. Before Denuvo Anti-Cheat was added to The Finals, I had over 150 hours in the game — without a single crash. Draw your own conclusions.
P.S.S. A thought just came to mind. What if EA Javelin Anticheat is actually Denuvo Anticheat, just rewritten specifically for EA's needs (on Frostbite)? This is also supported by the fact that players complain about the high CPU usage, which is exactly what Denuvo is “famous” for.
