Battlefield 2042 Crashing to Desktop at Times

bikemanI7 · Mar 27, 2023

Hello All

On Windows 11 Pro Desktop, sometimes when i open this game it crashes to Desktop, displays a black screen between rounds which forces me to open task manager and end task, and restart game to continue playing. Followed a EA forum info on possible fixes for that, and may have resolved the black screen between rounds issue, but still having issues with it crashing to Desktop even on first load or in a middle of a Round

System specs listed in Signature for Desktop, System is fully up to date.

*Planning a clean system install possibly in next 2-3 weeks to see if that solves anything or maybe sooner if i get the time to do that*

Then gonna make a nice clean system image, and stick to backup plan regularly

Video drivers are up to date, Game Ready Drivers latest version
PC dust cleaned out every month, usually last day or first day of the month, this month probably be last day or April 1st, depending on time

**Also do have Core Isolation on, Local security Authority, wasn't sure if i needed it on, but since it was available and had turn on options i turned them on manually**

FreeBooter · Mar 27, 2023

Open the Command Prompt as an administrator and execute the following commands one at a time.

Code:

Dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Sfc /scannow

Chkdsk C: /f

If the above commands won't solve the problem, perform clean boot.

In this guide, you will learn the steps to perform a clean boot on Windows 11 and Windows 10 to help you troubleshoot and determine conflicts in your setup.

bikemanI7 · Mar 27, 2023

Ok will get those done as soon as possible here, and report back results.

Should i also Chkdsk the Game SSD where Battlefield 2042 is installed?

D: Samsung 860 Evo 1TB Game SSD is where all the games are installed currently

C is just Windows, and some small programs

E: Drive holds Libraries like Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Video type files and Onedrive

*Stored that stuff on that drive as wasn't sure on storing the files on C:\ M.2 as was worried on too many writes when i originally did my last clean install*

FreeBooter · Mar 27, 2023

If you want you can and should scan Game SSD with Chkdsk command.

bikemanI7 · Mar 27, 2023

Ok Results of Chkdsk on the Drives coming up-- Dism Online cleanup image no problems found as well, SFC scan now no integrity issues.

Game did load and seem to work fine for the over 30 minutes i tested it, and will longer later tonight.

Code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1413]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Game SSD

C:\Windows\System32>chkdsk D: /F
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Game.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  130048 file records processed.
File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 877.73 milliseconds.
  6 large file records processed.
 Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.34 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.
 Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.32 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  14 reparse records processed.
  146262 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 1.44 seconds.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 18.67 milliseconds.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.47 milliseconds.
  14 reparse records processed.
 Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 1.75 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 1.64 milliseconds.
  8107 data files processed.
 Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 2.29 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

 976744447 KB total disk space.
 468533196 KB in 117890 files.
     34308 KB in 8109 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    225827 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 507951116 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 244186111 total allocation units on disk.
 126987779 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 2.35 seconds (2354 ms).

C it did when system restarted, and said No Problems found--Storage drive below

Code:

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  988672 file records processed.
File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 6.21 seconds.
  6107 large file records processed.
 Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 2.97 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.
 Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.64 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  300932 reparse records processed.
  1020178 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 33.56 seconds.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 169.28 milliseconds.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 2.49 milliseconds.
  300932 reparse records processed.
 Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 525.75 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 5.45 milliseconds.
  15754 data files processed.
 Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.48 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  38683144 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
 Phase duration (USN journal verification): 545.66 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

   3815429 MB total disk space.
 445920420 KB in 309070 files.
    186968 KB in 15755 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
   1209491 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
   3378597 MB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 976750079 total allocation units on disk.
 864920860 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 41.03 seconds (41038 ms).