Additional attempts that did not work:
-fixing firewall rules / turning off firewall,
-deleting temp files in windows and appdata directories.
-creating a new origin account and starting the game from there
Don't bother with any other troubleshooting steps. It's an EAC issue that's affecting a shitton of people(Epic's yet to acknowledge it though) and there are no permanent fixes yet.
One thing that might somewhat help is moving the game to your C: drive (same SSD/HDD as your windows installation). I'm able to get BF 2042 run with this trick but every 2-3 launches, it corrupts my game profile and crashes my entire PC.
Try some troubleshooting from the official EAC website:
https://www.easy.ac/en-us/support/
If you cannot fix it there, try reaching out to them with their form for technical support.
That way, if it is an issue caused by EAC themselves, they'll be made aware so they can start working on it.
I had to disable my 2tb regular spinning hard drive, EAC is scanning every drive and older drives take forever. I went from running poorly for 10 minutes after opening to less then a minute after disabling my other hard drive in Disk Management. U can right click the drive and set it to Offline. Not sure when they started scanning every file but its real rough for us with large drive capacitys.
