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About game crashes and possibly fixes

If your battlefield 1942 crashes alot, here is one of the things that can help with the problem, i remember doing this on my old win 7 computer and the game is superstable on that computer.
Now i have a new computer with windows 10, and i had totally forgot about this until i found a rapport in the logs. If your game crashes alot, you can also do a search in your computerlogs, type computer management in search bar (or right click on the icon "this pc" and click Manage) then event viewer/ windows logs/ applications then the action button and press find.
Search for BF1942.exe and see if you get any results. If you find an error, you can mark it with mouse and press Ctrl+C to copy them as to google on the codes. I found a hit on the "Exception code: 0xc0000005" . I took some pictures to illustrate the process, its not very hard and with some luck the game will run better afterwards. computer may need a reboot for the changes to take place.
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The fix i used tip nr 3 (DEP)
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Good luck and happy gaming.

Sunshine

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Oh nice! Hopefully it will solve the crashes that occur quite often when I tab out.

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Rly nice and useful. Will try it.
Thank you so much!

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iCQ

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Nice share!

The odd case is it differs from exe to exe. And in linux wine i not have had ANY SINGLE CRASH with ANY exe....

Also with win7 and simple server+simple modded exe there is A LOT MORE crashes. Seems tuia's code aint that slick, but oh well. It aint easy to debug and crack such a code.

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ValC

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Re: About game crashes and possibly fixes

Thank you!

bud

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Oh nice! Hopefully it will solve the crashes that occur quite often when I tab out.

It still does that for me occationally, but there is a catch, seems that if i have played for a while (maybe 10 minutes?) its less prone to crash when tabbing out, whereas if i join and tab out in 5 min or less its almost a certain crash.
I will see if i can isolate what is going on in the background, but i dont have any big hope for success, this game is notorious when it comes to crashing, even when it was released for free on origin it crashed for some players in the "default" state.

I played (unknowingly) for many years with something they called "the chipmunk effect"    https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r43777 … -and-sound

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I installed BF1942 on a some year old Laptop (Intel Pentium with integrated Intel GPU).

The Game runs not bad for this Laptop but the Windows GameDVR-Function was disturbing too much.

If i pressed Escape in Game the game hangs. Even with Alt-Ctrl-Delete it was not possible to shut it down.

Disabling GameDVR Function solved this problem 90%

Now, sometimes it's the same, but much less then before.

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bud

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Oh nice! Hopefully it will solve the crashes that occur quite often when I tab out.

It still does that for me occationally

This is wrong explained from me, the game doesnt really crash. Whats happening is that i cant get back into the game. If it wash a real crash, then i would be dropped from the server, but that doesnt happen. I can check the server and there is no problems.

So the game still running but i cant "get to it", this means i dont get that fault message for this case as its not really a solid gamecrash.

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I have the same at this Laptop with Windows 10.  (Deactivating GameDVR helped, but still.)

Just a small black Window, sound, game runs, but i can't get back to it.

Alt-Ctrl-Del does work, but i can't stop the game, because i can't click inside.

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Last edited by Arkos (2020-02-07 07:09:23)

bud

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I found some more info, its like windows "pauses" (or sleepmode) the game somehow, cpu goes to 0 and i found this.

one or more threads of BF1942.exe are waiting to finish network i/o

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Sunshine

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My game crashed a couple times, but nowhere near as much as it used to.

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I disabled "ASUS GPU Tweak Tool" since a week and i guess i had not even one crash since then.

I made this because i was reading somewhere about the same problem in other games with those Monitoring/Tweak Tools like "EVGA/MSI Afterburner"

https://www.google.ch/search?q=nvd3dum.dll+cx0000005

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Before Bf1942 crashed with this error message (Windows 7)

BF1942.exe
   0.0.0.0
   417564c4
   nvd3dum.dll
   26.21.14.3648
   5d8d40d7
   c0000005
   0077a63f
   17f0
   01d5d9f3bce195e5
   C:\Games\Battlefield 1942\BF1942.exe
   C:\Windows\system32\nvd3dum.dll
   0603b4e2-45e7-11ea-847f-bc5ff41cc637

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bud

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Re: About game crashes and possibly fixes

I have looked around a bit for a solution to the "alt+tab" crashing, but havent found any solution yet.
It is some specific setting with win 10, im thinking power saving because cpu goes down to zero, but in win 7 and earlier bf42 always use a whole cpu core even when alt+tabbed. There must be a way to get around this behaviour.

edit: later same day when i alt+tab the resolution got stuck to 800x600 such annoying game this is.

Last edited by bud (2020-02-17 21:06:59)

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Re: About game crashes and possibly fixes

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I have the same at this Laptop with Windows 10.  (Deactivating GameDVR helped, but still.)

Just a small black Window, sound, game runs, but i can't get back to it.

Alt-Ctrl-Del does work, but i can't stop the game, because i can't click inside.

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I have the same problem on Win10. How to fix it?

Arkos

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1. You installed it in another folder then Programfiles, (which is highly restricted)?

2. You have choosable 800x600 resolution for the inGame Menu?

3. Disabled Display Scaling for High DPI?

4. A Direct Link to the GameServer?

5. Just reading that it can happen also with Standard Windows 10 Grafic Driver. > Update

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I don't have this Laptop here atm. I gave it to a friend to use it, but i will get it back in some days.

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bud

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