Quote: "Please use more paragraphs, your posts are giving me a headache."
Quote: "+1"
Understood, my apologies. Communicating is not something I do well! I will strive to do better in future
Quote: "Can you diagnose your network drivers to see if they are having issues?"
Not sure how I would go about doing that, according to device manager no issues detected. I have the latest available from nvidia which should be fine as my mobo is old, I also have the configuration in nv control panel all set to the correct settings to my knowledge. I have also completed the tests as per Seditious requests and all appears fine to me.
Quote: "What's the error you're getting? Does it just crash, or does it give you an error?"
Almost all of the time the game hangs on whatever screen/frame that is current with the mouse icon only visible in a relatively small area around the centre of the screen. Movement outside of this area and it disappears. When it is visible I can then exit to desktop but only if I press space bar, otherwise the only other way would be cntl+alt+del. By the time I get to the desktop I can see for a fraction of a second that a windows error window does pop up if I don't cntl+alt+del as I think hitting space bar is what ends it. Using cntl+alt+del I can view the error but I mostly use the other method otherwise I have to wait a while for my machine to recover resources. I can view these same error reports using the reliability history.
Prior to the most recent game patch I would occasionally get this error:
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bf4.exe
Application Version: 1.4.2.25648
Application Timestamp: 54e3fd7a
Fault Module Name: bf4.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.4.2.25648
Fault Module Timestamp: 54e3fd7a
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000c6a75f
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 4502
Additional Information 2: 4502f2508e1e8ee8c6fafa2879648263
Additional Information 3: 8477
Additional Information 4: 8477ecd6f59ed202e5b613e71675b171
Most of the time though I would get this error:
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\bf4_x86.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bf4_x86.exe
Application Version: 1.4.2.25648
Application Timestamp: 54e3fc51
Fault Module Name: MSVCR110.dll
Fault Module Version: 11.0.51106.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 5098858e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000e469
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Since the latest patch the frequency of this last error is every game when I run the x86 version of the game, so now I run the x64 version but this causes barely playable frame rates and more frequent crashes than the x86 version prior to the lastest patch. In all cases it makes no difference whether I am in a near empty server or a full server.
Quote: "Does Origin keep running after the game has crashed?"
Yes it is still running - every time.
Quote: "Does the browser give any indication on what went wrong (since you have to launch the game from within your web browser)?"
Rarely. If an admin(not auto admin) has kicked me for a reason they wished to share with me it will say but that hardly ever happens. When a crash occurs I get no message at all let alone a reason. Prior to the latest patch closing the browser once the game is launched has helped reduce the number of crashes.
Quote: "Do you generally have internet issues? Long ping times?"
No, unless of course the server is far away but I don't join those servers.
Quote: "Give both speedtest.net and pingtest.net a try and post the results; that will help us determine if it's connection-related."
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4230631856
http://www.pingtest.net/result/119594587.png
Quote: "Battlefield 4 is notorious for using a lot of CPU power during multiplayer. What's your CPU usage during multiplayer?"
Has never gone beyond 91%(I use cpuz to log) and temps never beyond 80 degrees when at this load. When crashes occur they can occur when cpu usage and temps are much lower.
Quote: "Almost every game I've ever purchased randomly crashes on every system I've had, routinely for some games/systems but more commonly only after several hours of continuous play. It doesn't seem to be EA related. I accept it as a fact of life and live with it."
I also accept this else I would not have put up with this for so long.
Quote: "Occasionally a reboot fixes the problem but some games on some systems predictably fail after a few hours of use. In some cases it's probably a simple case of something like a memory leak somewhere which is why a game might work on a newer system but fail after a few hours of use on an old machine."
I reboot every time I have exited the game to join a new server. Typically I play for just a couple of hours at a time - crashes permitting! After a crash I will also reboot.
Quote: "Sounds like you can get a few hours of play before it crashes. Is that the case? If so then it's hard to see an obvious problem with your machine specs."
Yes and no. Sometimes I can join a game and play 5 mins other times a couple of hours, on rare occasions several hours. Stability has been different between various patches. When I had BF2 I never experienced a single crash not even after many hours of playing.
These are other things I have tried methodically;
Disable origin in game along with any auto update checks
Ensured battlelog is up to date and ensured animated background is off
Malware scan(no errors/objects found)
Scan of system via command prompt for OS(sfc /scannow : no errors)
Latest drivers for mobo and gfx card
Checked my HDD for errors - none, condition is very good
Checked my RAM usage as I run 32 bit(x86) version of BF4 exe due to the fact that the 64 bit version stutters with cpu spikes at an unplayable frame rate(although less spikes since latest patch). RAM usage in total is always never more than 3.5 gigs total, page file unused beyond normal operation(around 300 mb for my system).
In game settings are all set to low/off.
Removed profile from BF4 in user directory.
Killed all nv stream processes for SHEILD
Repair of BF4 installation followed by punkbuster update(completed after every major change/reboot) *notably punkbuster will say its up to date even when done manually unless the repair installation option in origin has been used*
Both Visual C redistributables from installation as well as latest version from microsoft site(these I have done on separate occasions, the latest version being my latest attempt after trying everything else)
Direct X redistributable from BF4 installation as well as latest version from microsoft site(these I have done on separate occasions, the latest version being my latest attempt after trying everything else)
Fresh installs of both OS and game.