Re: BF2042 won't launch

Seems after removing my 2 back up SSD game did launch. Did keep ,1NVMe and 1 HDD.

I removed all my other drives except for my NVMe with Windows and BF - it finally launches! Nothing else has worked so far. 

I unisntalled it from my HDD and installed it on my C:/ drive so it now gives me the screenshotted error with htios link now:

https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/kingston/issues/errors/#service

 Details below.

GameID: 609 (32bit)
Windows Version: 10.0 (Build 21390)
Error Code: 30005
Process Exit Code: 0h
UUID: e4666b4c-950f-7cb3-2a2c-0eb7684cdfcc
Process list:
aac3572mbhal_x86.exe
acpowernotification.exe
aisuite3.exe
app_updater.exe
applicationframehost.exe
armouryaiofanserver.exe
armourycrate.service.exe
armourycrate.usersessionhelper.exe
armourysocketserver.exe
armouryswagent.exe
armsvc.exe
assysctrlservice.exe
asus_framework.exe
asuscertservice.exe
asusfancontrolservice.exe
asusupdatecheck.exe
atkexcomsvc.exe
audiodg.exe
backgroundtaskhost.exe
bdagent.exe
bdntwrk.exe
bdredline.exe
bdservicehost.exe
bdvpnapp.exe
bdvpnservice.exe
bdwtxag.exe
bf2042_launcher.exe
bzbui.exe
bzfilelist.exe
bzserv.exe
cefsharp.browsersubprocess.exe
chrome.exe
cmd.exe
conhost.exe
cortana.exe
csrss.exe
ctfmon.exe
dashost.exe
dbxsvc.exe
dipawaymode.exe
discord.exe
discoverysrv.exe
dllhost.exe
dropbox.exe
dropboxupdate.exe
dwm.exe
emedtray.exe
epicgameslauncher.exe
epicwebhelper.exe
explorer.exe
firefox.exe
flux.exe
fontdrvhost.exe
fsnotifier64.exe
gamemanagerservice.exe
googlecrashhandler.exe
googlecrashhandler64.exe
gystation.exe
hwinfo64.exe
jhi_service.exe
jusched.exe
lightingservice.exe
lms.exe
lsass.exe
mdnsresponder.exe
memory compression
msiafterburner.exe
nhasusu5svc32.exe
nhasusu5svc64.exe
nhasusu5uilauncher.exe
noisecancelingengine.exe
notepad++.exe
nvcontainer.exe
nvdisplay.container.exe
nvidia web helper.exe
nxclient.bin
nxd.exe
nxnode.bin
nxserver.bin
nxservice64.exe
officeclicktorun.exe
omni-cache-service.exe
omni-discovery-service.exe
omni-system-monitor.exe
origin.exe
originclientservice.exe
originwebhelperservice.exe
ovrredir.exe
ovrserver_x64.exe
ovrservicelauncher.exe
phoenixminer.exe
phpstorm64.exe
pnkbstra.exe
powershell.exe
processhacker.exe
productagentservice.exe
proxsign.exe
qtwebengineprocess.exe
razer central.exe
razer synapse 3.exe
razer synapse service process.exe
razer synapse service.exe
razercentralservice.exe
realtimesync.exe
realtimesync_x64.exe
registry
rogliveservice.exe
rundll32.exe
runtimebroker.exe
rzchromastreamserver.exe
rzsdkserver.exe
rzsdkservice.exe
searchapp.exe
searchindexer.exe
searchprotocolhost.exe
securityhealthservice.exe
securityhealthsystray.exe
services.exe
shellexperiencehost.exe
sihost.exe
skype.exe
slack.exe
smartscreen.exe
smss.exe
spatialaudiolicensesrv.exe
spoolsv.exe
startmenuexperiencehost.exe
steam.exe
steamservice.exe
steamwebhelper.exe
svchost.exe
taskhostw.exe
teamviewer_service.exe
textinputhost.exe
tixati.exe
traytipagente.exe
trustedinstaller.exe
unsecapp.exe
updatesrv.exe
usbclientservice.exe
wininit.exe
winlogon.exe
wmiprvse.exe
wudfhost.exe
xampp-control.exe
yourphone.exe

Yo, so at least in my case, what's disabling your game from starting is lightingservice.exe. I have to stop the service every time I play 2042 as the game detects it as a hack. There may be other services like that too, but for me, that's it. Sucks that we can't have RGB working just to play this game, so I hope they fix it. Hope this helps.

I still can't open and play on my main PC, I feel its the anti cheat detecting some program is a cheat and stopping it, but haven't figured out what.  I don't have Lightingservice.exe as previous mentioned. So its not that

The game does load completely on another PC I have but its not my main gaming PC, so annoying.  weeks and weeks later and still not fixed. Thank s EA

So this randomly started happening to me on Saturday having had no issues of this kind since early access. Now having spent the best part of 5 hours trying to get this to work I'm at my wits end.

Any advice would be gratefully received. dxdiag is attached.

Frankly I have a plethora of errors when trying to fix this, but the first error I was getting was "no qt platform plugin could be initialized", I have had a lot of the game simply not launching after the splash screen and another launch error of "The requested operation requires elevation" as well as "Too many computer have access this account's version of Battlefield 2042 recently. Please try again later"

Here are all of the things I've tried:

• Clean install of latest Nvidia drivers
• Run as admin (BF2042 executable)
• Run as admin (Origin executable)
• Run as admin (EA App executable)
• Relocated BF2042 to same SSD as EA app and Origin are on
• Uninstalled BF2042, EA app, Origin app and fresh install to same SSD.
• Cleared Origin & EA app cache
• Performed clean install of Origin
• Uninstalled EA app and tried to run via Origin only
• Create new Windows account
• Ensure 'owner' of folders is correct (Windows Security settings)
• Disabled Windows game mode
• Disabled all overlays (Discord, OBS etc.)
• Made sure I had up-to-date C++ Redist Packages
• Checked 2042 game files were correct (via origin repair function)
• Tried a clean boot
• Repaired Easy Anti Cheat
• Ran Windows System File Check
• Used DISM to repair Windows 10 image
• Added BF2042 and all of the Origin executables to exceptions for Windows Firewall
• Checked windows update
• Tried turning on windows ransomware protection
• Deleted the 2042 folder from documents
• "Reinstalled" DirectX
• Killed Lightingservice.exe in Task Manager
• Disabled VPN

Thanks.

EDIT: Turns out NordVPN's recent update (6.41.11.0) seems to be conflicting in some way. Disconnecting your VPN is not enough, you need to close the app and then check Task Manager and kill any lingering processes there.