Battlefield 4 causes my computer to freeze/crash. [ Edited ]

[SashaBi5]

Delet rapter. This program work very bad.

I you want normal test, go to test range.

[L8-Waffles]

I always uncheck Raptr, thus it's not installed on my machine. Sadly with the latest beta drivers (15.6) I still got an computer crash within 5 minutes of playing.

[Carbonic]

If you could link to your dxdiag uploaded to http://hastebin.com/ that would be great.

Also, have you tried turning your fans to 100% and playing with the cabinet open? Just to completely rule out overheating.

[L8-Waffles]

Dxdiag: http://hastebin.com/okawecoboy.tex
Playing with regular fan speed: http://hastebin.com/alibogelec.css (end of file = crash)
Playing with full fan speed: http://hastebin.com/recisoqabu.css (end of file = crash)

With or without full fan speed the temp. the minimum temp would be 55-60 with a maximum of 65. I've tried underclocking my GPU to 900Mhz with the same result and a slightly less temp.

And I prefer not playing with my cabinet open, as it's bad for my airflow. I have all the default fans that came with my CM II 690 Advanced and I have a Scythe Mugen 4 on my CPU, so I do have enough 'firepower' to cool all hardware.

[SashaBi5]

Sata cable from hard drive you need change him, use another cable.

[Carbonic]

I can see your Windows Defender is causing errors. This could be because the Windows installation just needs a format no matter if sfc.exe /scannow doesn't find anything. I could also mean there's corrupt files/sectors on your harddrives or you have Malware/virus on it. Is Battlefield 4 on the SSD drive? You might want to use the built in Windows tool for checking harddisks on all your drives just to be sure.

Lastly, I see you have a Razer Product, when you did the clean boot did you close down Synapse? Synapse has caused Battlefield to crash on some systems in in the past.

[L8-Waffles]

Alright, so I started checking my drives.

My C: drive which contains my Windows had no errors: http://hastebin.com/rotuyumiwa.vhdl

My E: drive which contains non-important files and games I don't play that often had a few errors: http://hastebin.com/nuxuyafudu.tex

I then rebooted and rechecked my E: drive, with now no errors: http://hastebin.com/yozowijizo.vhdl

But sadly, did not stop the crashes.

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I then started getting rid of all the Razer software I had (I didn't really need them, as my keyboard functions without any problems without Razer Synapse),

after a few uninstalls and cleaning up I tried Battlefield 4 without any succes.

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I started looking for malware or any viruses using Windows Defender itself and Malwarebytes, which resulted in 0 threats. I then got rid of Windows Defender (well, just deactivate it), this also did not prevent any crashes from happening.

Strangely, Windows Defender still pops up in my newly generated DxDiag: http://hastebin.com/ayasinihik.tex

Perhaps you have any more suggestions.

[Carbonic]

Hmm, we are beginning to go into the realms of the obscure.

Try uninstalling Punkbuster and then joining a server that doesn't run with Punkbuster. Just so we can rule that out as well.

[L8-Waffles]

After uninstalling PunkBuster and finding a non-PunkBuster server (which was rather hard to find) it still managed to crash, sadly.

[Carbonic]

I have a similar setup to you and know there's an update for your network card built into your motherboard, there should be a newer driver here:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTy...

I doubt it will fix anything but it's worth a try.

Since none of the above has worked the next thing I can think of would be to either

a) Format computer, start fresh

b) Check for obscure hardware issues

For the b part I once had a weird issue with a USB hub that somehow caused a game to run weird. I would start with disconnecting all unneeded hardware connected to your computer. Disable the extra monitor, printers, USB hubs, speakers etc. so there's only keyboard mouse and a monitor connected. Then disable all soundcards, video capture cards, etc  in windows.

If this doesn't work I once fixed a guys computer crashing issues once by removing the cables, memory, CPU+cooler, GFX etc., then I used compressed air to remove the dust and then I put the computer back together and the crashing was gone.