Game crashes entire PC

[★ Th0rn ★]

So I've been playing BFBC2 for some time now,
But I've encountered something strange.
Any time I ever join a multiplayer match, I will usually, 9 times out of 10, completely crash.
Not just my game mind you, this crash freezes up my entire computer and makes me force a manual restart.
It might happen right as I join a match, or I could be in the match for 40 minutes, it's quite random in terms of how long it takes until it happens.
I've done the usual, check graphic drivers and whatnot. Yet the problem persists and I have no idea what is causing it.
I feel as if its because of Windows 10, but I can't be sure.
Any ideas?

UPDATE: So even after changing the directX settings to run strictly DirectX9, I am still encountering this issue. No other game that in my entire collection of a few hundred games does this. Only Battlefield Bad Company 2.

[Capt Marvelous]

Did you verify the integrity of your game cache? If you have been playing for quite a while and it just started recently, it could be either corrupt files or you installed a new app that may be in conflict.

Also force the game to run under DX9 by changing the DX setting if you haven't already. This is usually the biggest culprit.

[ChairmanDrew]

Do you play any other games? Can you confirm it is only with BFBC2 that it crashes?

[★ Th0rn ★]

Ahhh, I didn't know about the DX9 issue, I'll be sure to check it and change it if necessary.

[★ Th0rn ★]

Originally posted by ChairmanDrew:

Do you play any other games? Can you confirm it is only with BFBC2 that it crashes?

Only BFBC2 does this.

[Capt Marvelous]

UPDATE: So even after changing the directX settings to run strictly DirectX9, I am still encountering this issue. No other game that in my entire collection of a few hundred games does this. Only Battlefield Bad Company 2. [/quote]


Then it's likely a software or app that may be causing it. Are you running anything like MSI afterburner, CPUID, AI Suite or any monitering software? There are some that are incompatibe with Punkbuster.

[★ Th0rn ★]

I do run MSI Afterburner actually, I wasn't aware that would be an issue with Punkbuster.

[ChairmanDrew]

Originally posted by Th0rn The Marked:

Originally posted by ChairmanDrew:

Do you play any other games? Can you confirm it is only with BFBC2 that it crashes?

Only BFBC2 does this.

That seems very odd that it would crash your entire PC. What are your hardware specs? Also, my first thought would be to do a HDD health check.

[★ Th0rn ★]

Originally posted by ChairmanDrew:

Originally posted by Th0rn The Marked:

Only BFBC2 does this.

That seems very odd that it would crash your entire PC. What are your hardware specs? Also, my first thought would be to do a HDD health check.

After conducting a HDD health check on all my drives, no errors, or issues, or anything was found. My computer is somewhat outdated AMD hardware from around 2014-ish running Win10.
I always assumed this would be caused by Win10, since its about as compatible as a sack of bricks and a window. That being said, even with my semi-outdated hardware, it still exceeds the reccomended hardware of BFBC2.

[engeel]

(repost)
Crashes, freezes

Some hardware monitoring programs running in the background may cause crashes, freezes. Some examples which may cause problems on some systems:
CPU-z
MSI Afterburner
EVGA Pricision X
ASUS AI Suite+

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=585694796

[Ltc. Kilgore]

Try to re-instal your previous Windows 10 version, it worked for me.

[the Lebowsky]

Did u solve your entire pc crash problem? Got the same here. Played bc2 Vietnam (after about a year) again and couldn't finfish a map without the entire freeze of my system. Even the reset button didn't work and i had to shutdown the whole system by pressing the on/off button. Win10 everything runs flawlessly (haven't had any freezes for years) except this bc2 crash!

[★ Th0rn ★]

No sadly, I still haven't discovered a fix.

[KOZMO]

Just out of curiosity and because same is happening here, did you find any solution for this issue?

[★ Th0rn ★]

Originally posted by KOZMO:

Just out of curiosity and because same is happening here, did you find any solution for this issue?

Nothing, sorry. I ended up just uninstalling altogether, haven't played BFBC2 since.

[KOZMO]

Sad to hear. Strange thin is that it only seems to appear on this game for some reason. I first thought about some hardware failiure - made stresstests like furmark etc. memtests - with no result. Im also out of clues!