Hi everyone, I've been pulling my hair out over this issue for ages and finally started to do something about it. Whilst playing BF4 it will always crash, sometimes after a few seconds, sometimes after a few hours. The application crashes but the process hangs. No notification comes up saying the program has stopped working, I just get a black screen and then, when they come back on I am on the desktop and have to close the BF4 process manually.
I am running Windows 7 SP1 64-bit and the event log gives two consistent logs when this happens, both informational.
First:
"A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process (4)
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Desktop Window Manager - EventID 9010
[ Qualifiers] 16384
Level 4
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000 - TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-05-17T12:12:05.000000000Z
EventRecordID 128690
Channel Application
Computer ----------
Security
- Provider
- EventData
4 "
Followed by
"The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was disabled by a running application
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Desktop Window Manager - EventID 9013
[ Qualifiers] 16384
Level 4
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000 - TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-05-17T12:12:05.000000000Z
EventRecordID 128691
Channel Application
Computer -----------
Security
EventData "
- Provider
I've checked around online and a few other people have reported this with various games but I haven't found anyone mentioning a fix. I've read it could be a problem with AVG, running the game in borderless and the windows aero theme but no luck after disabling/installing. Drivers are all up to date and beta drivers don't change the problem. It's been happening for a few months now. DXDiagnostic shows no issues, reliability monitor shows no issues and there are no errors or warnings in the event log, just the two information logs I mentioned.
In terms of hardware that might be worth mentioning:
Intel 3820
Asrock x79 Pro3
Asus DCUII GTX 680
G.Skillz Ripjaw 1600MHz 16GB
If anyone can suggest something to try I would be super grateful!