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Re: EA Desktop APP can't detect already installed games

I have a 10 megabit per second download speed. Does that mean that instead of having a troubleshooting step to detect a game I've already downloaded, I must spend another 24 hours to redownload a 110 Gigabyte game because you forgot to allow changing Install locations? Turns out I don't have the time or space on my computer to do that, so please tell me there's a better solution to resetting my progress, wasting a day or two with deleting and reinstalling files and having no internet connection because as I said before, my internet can't handle a download of that size.

9 Replies

  • ColedYT's avatar
    ColedYT
    3 years ago

    I don't know how you guys think reinstalling is a solution. How can you tell people that "it isn't that easy" when it is already a feature in your old app, Origin.
    If you're going to come out with a new app and nuke the old one, you should at least make sure it has the same features??? Maybe even some new features? Otherwise what is the benefit?

  • Wow EA. Thats a bad joke, right? I have to install the new EA App to use the integrated EA Play in GamePass and it automatically uninstalled Origin.
    So i have to reinstall Origin (bless me i archive anything) do redetect an already installed game, cause the devs of the new app are to dumb to integrate something that was already in the old one and is a STANDARD!!! in every other launcher like Steam, GOG Launcher and so on?!
    Guess i'll pass on the EA Play games and uninstall the EA Launcher. Thats a big no go and hilarious. Fix this before i'll come back again.
    The bigger a company gets, the lazier it is. Its always the same.

  • B-hurts80's avatar
    B-hurts80
    3 years ago

    I am in this same boat and this is an absolute joke. My slow internet will take at least 18 hours to redownload this and Im not really down for that. 

  • K4MUI89's avatar
    K4MUI89
    3 years ago

    Just install Origin again, search for your game and start it with Origin...

    Tried it because i was curious if this still works, it does.

  • The EA app is a joke. I faced the same problem while downloading an 80 GB game. 96% was complete and it gave an error. My internet speed is 650 KBps it took me 3 days to slowly download it. Uninstall the app and move on to Steam.

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