Hey, I started playing F1 25 on launch-day via Steam. But the game just keeps crashing.First it was a short blackscreen and back to desktop, like 10 times, until the game finally starts.Then I was ab...
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I had been having this same trouble since the game came out, but I've kept digging for potential solutions and I think I've found out what my issue was and hopefully it can help here. My game was always crashing somewhere between 1-5 minutes after startup and not providing an error message. As many have speculated, I believe this was the anti-cheat's issue. I found an Apex Legends post on their subreddit that's about 10 months old that has a list of applications that messed with that game's anti-cheat (also an EA published game). The list of applications are:
- AutoHotkey
- DS4Windows
- iCUE
- JoyToKey
- Keys2XInput
- Reshade
- MSI Gaming Intelligence
- Steelseries GG
- Daemon Tools
- THX Spatial
- Wireshark
I had both AutoHotkey and DS4Windows on my PC. I deleted both and I just went 25 minutes without a crash after trying F1 '25 again. If you're unsure if you have any of these items, I just used the search function within the "This PC" folder. AutoHotkey was also found within my control panel so you may want to check there.
I also have iCUE but I left it installed but did update it, not sure if that made a difference or not but figured it can't hurt to provide that info as well.
Hope this helps someone else!