New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on October 21, 2022) follows:
Battlefield 2042 arrived in November 2021 as the latest installment in Electronic Arts’ iconic first-person shooter saga.
However, since its release players have encountered multiple problems. For instance, error messages that prevent them from continuing to play or weapon attachments not unlocking, among others.
Now, many Battlefield 2042 players are facing constant crashing and freezing issues after the latest v2.2 update.
Battlefield 2042 crashing & freezing after latest update
According to multiple reports, the Battlefield 2042 v2.2 update is causing severe performance issues. Crashing and freezing can occur at any time after installing it, ruining the experience.
It seems the problem mostly appears at the beginning of a match or during the loading screen before entering a match. However, it can happen in other situations.
Official acknowledgment, potential workarounds
The EA support team is already aware of the issue and working on a fix. But there is still no ETA for the fix.
However, affected players have been testing some workarounds that have helped mitigate performance issues. First, you can disable the ‘shadow play’ option from the game settings.
The following workaround has also worked, but you will have to repeat it every time you run the game.
For NVIDIA GPU users who are dealing with performance problems, they can try downgrading to an older version of the drivers.
I have to do it each time I boot up the game….not exactly ideal but I can play. Source
For some players, disabling the ‘EA Overlay’ also helped improve game performance.
After that the game stopped crashing every launch. Source
Unlike NVIDIA hardware users, AMD GPU users can try updating their drivers.
Lastly, NVIDIA GPU users can try restarting the PC and turning off the ‘Nvidia GeForce experience overlay’.
We will update this story as events unfold.
Update 1 (October 24, 2022)
12:29 pm (IST): If the game crashes for you on Windows 10 and you have Nvidia 3070Ti graphics, then you can try the following workaround and see if the problem persists.
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