I've historically been late buying games and this is no different. Just bought BF4 yesterday for cheap, got it installed and made an origin account, but whenever I try to join a game the BF4 icon doesn't show up in the task bar until the same instance the "BF4 has stopped working" message pops up.
I've tried reinstalling and messing with all the Admin setting and Origin settings but nothing seems to work.

shameless bump attempt. I paid $7 for this game I wanna play it

See this discussion for setting compatibility mode.

Mike