Danger Close Games (the developer) was dissolved into DICE LA shortly after release. The final patch (v1.0.0.3) fixed multiplayer memory leaks but left this single-player crash untouched. EA later delisted the game from digital stores (2015), so no further fixes exist.
If you keep crashing at the exact same spot: Danger Close Games (the developer) was dissolved into
Portable GPUs rely heavily on cached compiled shaders to save battery and thermal headroom. The “Shore Leave” mission uses a unique post-process filter (haze/heat shimmer). When the mission ends, the game attempts to discard this filter and load the standard rendering path. On portable hardware, the shader cache often becomes corrupted mid-transition, leading to a fatal DirectX error (usually 0x887A0005). Portable GPUs rely heavily on cached compiled shaders
If you are on a Steam Deck or similar Linux-based portable: You included the word “portable” — this likely
You included the word “portable” — this likely refers to:
Frostbite 2 is notorious for inefficiently flushing image buffers. During the sniper mission, the game holds the high-res scope texture in memory while simultaneously pre-loading the next level’s assets. On a desktop with 4GB+ VRAM, this is annoying. On a portable chip with shared system memory (e.g., Intel HD 4000 or AMD Radeon 780M under 15W TDP), this causes an address overflow. The game asks for memory that doesn’t exist, and the OS kills the process.