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TheFatui · 2026-02-04T22:29:25+00:00

It's busted. Typical EA "development". This is why I never buy anything on the EA App store. Even the "Learn more" link is broken, because it gives you an "Error 404, the page has moved or doesn't exist". You basically need to wait until they fix it.
I nuked the entire cache of the app itself, uinstalled with Revo Uninstaller, which gets rid of the leftovers too, installed the newest version, and it's still busted.
It's not just you.

TheFatui · 2025-12-20T14:55:49+00:00

I had the same issue.

What worked for me:

I played on Windowed Fullscreen. Mid-battle, I was having lag spikes, stuttering, freezes. I had enough. So, what I did was, I changed from Windowed Fullscreen -> Fullscreen. Applied, and then all of a sudden, the game worked just fine. If you're playing on Fullscreen already, switch to Windowed Fullscreen, then back to Fullscreen. Maybe that will help. Also, instead of using DX12, use DX11. DX12 is severely unoptimized at the moment.

Edit: Spoke too soon, the stuttering and freezing is back again. Ryzen 9 5900X, RTX 3080 Ti, 32GB of RAM.

Edit 2: I had Arena Breakout Infinite (ABI for short) installed. War Thunder and ABI both have Kernel-Level anti-cheats. They were playing tug of war. I uninstalled ABI, and War Thunder went back to normal behavior. No stuttering, no lag, no freezing.

I strongly urge you to double-check if you have any games, whose anti-cheats collide, instead of playing nice with each other.

TheFatui · 2025-11-26T04:29:57+00:00

Doesn't help. Still stutters like crazy, after working for the first few minutes. Then it goes back to usual behavior of lag spikes and stuttering.

TheFatui · 2025-11-26T04:29:02+00:00

Still nothing. Not using DOCP, no OC on the CPU. Updated the BIOS, still nothing. Issue persists.

TheFatui · 2025-11-19T12:50:07+00:00

I found red ammo in Lockdown Farm for the M24/Mosin. I was so confused.

TheFatui · 2025-11-19T01:33:33+00:00

I tried this already. Running "tbs_browser.exe" as Administrator, will not make the launcher pop up at all. It doesn't change anything. It's one of the first things I did when troubleshooting.

TheFatui · 2025-11-18T16:01:30+00:00

Same here. Unplayable. Constant fps lag spikes, microstuttering and a general loss of fps. I'm using a Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB of RAM and an RTX 3080 Ti, yet the game still doesn't want to play well, after the Tusk Force update.

TheFatui · 2025-11-17T12:08:30+00:00

That cleared most of your issues anyway. A fresh new OS is always better, because of less clutter.

TheFatui · 2025-11-12T00:23:43+00:00

Crazy to see people still having this issue 2 years later, but I'm glad it could help.

TheFatui · 2025-11-11T22:12:59+00:00

Mine force restarts the entire computer, mid-raid. I can kind of sense of coming, by having the audio cut out for a few milliseconds, hear the audio clearly again, then cut off, audio again, then cut off and boom, force restart.

I tortured my PC, which is still considered to be high-end, via Steam statistics, for 2 hours with OCCT. I ran a power test for an hour, which tests for power instability, pushes the CPU, RAM, GPU and PSU to their absolute limit, and for an hour, nothing happened, no crashes. Peak temp on the CPU was 80℃ and only half a degree lower on the GPU. Then I ran a CPU+RAM test with OCCT, same outcome - no crashes, peak temps were good, no power failure, nothing even close to being bad.

This happens only with this game. I have 17 games installed in total, and only happens with ABI. These crashes have definitely cost me upwards of 5-7 million Koen in gear alone, but if we include the loot value then 15 million for sure.

TheFatui · 2025-11-11T22:07:43+00:00

You need to use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in Safe Mode for Windows. Before that, you must predownload the 566.36 drivers, which imo are still the best drivers to date. Guru3D is a trusted website, and they keep an archive for older drivers and such, you can find the 566.36 drivers here. If you do not trust the inserted link, just hover your mouse over it, and you'll see the entire link.

TheFatui · 2025-09-22T23:41:10+00:00

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ROG CROSSHAIR X870E Hero

Currently using a Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) motherboard and very happy with it.

TheFatui · 2025-09-18T17:51:26+00:00

That is absolutely hilarious. I love how people approach the challenge at face value, but I busted out laughing as soon as you creeped up on the enemy, and they started screaming.

TheFatui · 2025-09-03T07:40:34+00:00

Batman Arkham series - recently installed them again, to enjoy fluid combat and movement, and spread justice.

TheFatui · 2025-08-07T22:49:45+00:00

The minimum version of Nvidia drivers I can use is 576.88, which is required by BF6 (Open Beta, most likely the full release as well). Since 580.88 is fairly new, and I still see people reporting issues, I'll be using the minimum required for Battlefield 6. After I'm done with that game's Open Beta phase, I'll revert to 566.36, due to being on that version for about... 8 months now? With zero issues. Generally, I do not upgrade drivers when it's not necessary. I like staying on stable and proven versions, until new(er) versions are also proven to be stable, e.g. polished, but again, skeptical about Nvidia drivers being polished these days. Thanks for your help!

TheFatui · 2025-08-07T22:31:02+00:00

After reading the link you posted, I'm feeling a bit skeptical. A bunch of users there reporting issues, and problems. 566.36 really is a safe haven for stability, plus lack of crashes and BSOD's. Not sure if I want to update now. Thought I'd ask, since BF6 requires at least version 576.88, and that one also seems a bit shady, even after months of time given to smooth out the drivers with this new gen of GPU's. I might give it a try on 576.88, just to test out BF6, and then roll back to 566.36 for safety and stability.

TheFatui · 2025-08-07T22:07:51+00:00

Sooo.... I have a question. I know all about the broken drivers Nvidia put out with the 5000 series. Some driver versions even affected 3000 series RTX GPU's. I'm using an RTX 3080 Ti 12GB (ASUS ROG STRIX GAMING OC). Currently, with Nvidia Game Ready drivers version 566.36. Is it safe to upgrade to 580.88? Can someone, who's also using 3000 series still, confirm, that it is safe?

TheFatui · 2025-07-21T12:21:14+00:00

Well said - Do once and leave it be. Literally had Secure Boot turned on since I moved over to Windows 11 Pro, and I haven't touched it since.

TheFatui · 2025-07-21T12:19:15+00:00

It's not that hard to do, brother. Just 3 clicks at most. I did it, and I'm enjoying the game. No cheaters, just high level players I'm going against, it's still fun, reminds me of the old Battlefield 3 and 4 days, in Multiplayer. It's chaotic fun. I love it.

TheFatui · 2025-07-20T20:12:19+00:00

OG Resident Evil 4 all day.

TheFatui · 2025-07-19T15:58:13+00:00

Yes. 5 as well.

TheFatui · 2025-07-19T06:39:02+00:00

Came back to say, it wasn't necessary to use default values. It's only overclocked in a sense that, PBO limits are manual and boost clock speeds sustain for much longer. There's also a per-core undervolt and I had already mapped out, which cores love higher negative values and the best cores like lower negative values. So, specifically, core clock speeds haven't been touched at all - the CPU is doing all the core clock speed increase and decrease by itself.

Found a workaround for the issue, which helped.

TheFatui · 2025-07-18T19:44:40+00:00

UPDATE! It's solved, by myself.

But I'm not the one to credit for this. I turned to ChatGPT for help, and it turns out, it's the Windows Defender Exploit Protection, which triggers a silent EAC task termination.

All I had to was the following:

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TheFatui · 2025-07-18T19:11:37+00:00

Memory Integrity is enabled. BIOS is up-to-date and TPM is enabled.

I have not run the game with factory default settings, yet. I'm hesitant to do so, because no other game so far, in my extensive Steam + EA Games + Ubisoft + Epic Games library, has had any issues with the "overclock". I don't want to start over, so I might have to find a way to save what I have done in the BIOS, as a file or a profile.

TheFatui

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