Am I the only one here that actually enjoys this game?

Maybe you want to reread what he wrote. He never claimed that BSODs are exclusively triggered by hardware issues, infact, he mentioned drivers and services too. Interestingly enough though, my BSODs were infact all hardware related.

Huh.

You know, I get that threads sometimes go to weird places when you release them into the wild.

But I did not see "passive-agressive tech support" coming AT ALL.

Well, if in doubt, read the BSOD's crash dump, its error code will at least give you a rough idea of what actually went wrong.

That said, yes, I'm having fun with the multiplayer, because I have fun people to play it with regularly.

It's semantic insofar as it is functional to appropriately label things. If the game addresses a bug in - say -the graphics card driver, then it's up the the graphics card producer to fix it with a driver update. Yet if it's the game software causes some sort of exception, it would obviously be the game at fault. But, in my (PC) experience, there's only malware that does that kind of thing. It's extremely unlikely that a game from a producer like EA would cause blue screens.

I'm not saying it's impossible, yet highly unlikely: most blue screen problems on pc are caused by kernel trouble, old/faulty hardware, overheating, RAM and - of course - device driver bugs. There may be a possibility it's the game but chances are you need a new computer. And, believe me, I've been there quite a few times in my life, so I can understand the emotions this may cause.

I can't speak for consoles, of course, but since they're really just computers...

Which was the reason I needed to inquire further. Because that´s my experience too. Might just be that MEA is pushing the boundaries of his system, because it is the most recent game he has. OTOH, a bud of mine regularly has memory issues with MEA, in that the memory usage spikes up to 6g from around 3g. Yet, that hasn´t led to crashes since 1.05. So on side you have a user with frequent bsods. On the other you have a guy with ram issues and yet nothing, not even a crash. :srs:

I side with quiggles for this one.

Hey, I´m not ruling mea out as the cause of the BSODs. But unlike others, I´m also not ruling it out as merely being the trigger.

In that situation its 100% accurate, as my tit grabbing wookie friend up above hasn't done a good job of comprehending, is because frostbite is a seriously over-stressing engine. (and as a result, people think its a bad engine because their PC problems and or their PCs can't run them.)

I learned from wanting to play battlefield 4 at full specs my PC had issues, my brand new pc. Wasn't that frostbite was terrible, it was that my drivers were out of date and after an update, and change of a shytty mem stick, things were deliciously fun. Low system requirements will cause your game to crash if there is to much stress on your system, (or you'll have a beautiful 10 fps game) MEA just does a great job at being a bully to a PC even 2 years old.

BSOD are a system crash due to there being errors in a systems operation. Be it indirectly (and always indirectly) from a game or not. Your buddy crashing (I assume the game and not BSOD) is the proper way a PC handles game software mismatches and stress. With the patch things got smoother. RAM maxing out will just cause serious slowdown or complete stop of the game. BSOD on the other hand is always a system error. Let your buddy with BSOD know he doesn't have to spend a single coin btw to fix his PC (unless its hardware) All the programs I use are free and malware free online.

Bud only ever had crashes. No BSOD. Most of the time we were playing together when they appeared, with me typically being the host.

They haven't changed their stoolisms, they just used a different engine this time around.

Yeah, this.  ^

On the rare occasion that Bioware has said anything about CTD, crashes and sound bug, they have indicated that their hands are tied, because those are Frostbite problems.

They don't talk about it much, so I can't find the specific quote I was thinking about, but I'm fairly sure the major problems are in the Frostbite camp, based on the host of similar issues with DAI, and other Frostbite games as well as what I believe they have said at one point or another about this class of problems.