Hi there,I've been having this issue for the past 8 days, It happened right after I did my annual windows reinstall on my computer and have been troubleshooting ever since. What has been happening is when I attempt to open Battlefield 2042 it opens and loads the Easy Anti-Cheat screen, it will then attempt to launch the game but will instantly black screen and crash back to the EA App. I would like to stress that absolutely nothing changed hardware wise on my computer between reinstalling windows, it is the exact same physical system as it was before when it was working perfectly. I have done almost everything that I could find on the internet and other EA forum posts, I have reinstalled windows on my different drives, I have reseated and tested ram, I have gone through and updated all my drivers, I Have tried to repair and launch the game on both the EA app and Origin (Neither worked), I have unplugged all peripherals, re-updated my BIOS, disabled my XMP, launched in safe mode, repaired and reinstalled Easy Anti Cheat, Launched all in administrator, I have ran all the sfc and dism windows commands. Even an entirely fresh boot of windows with only my drivers and the game installed does not work. I struggle to believe that it is my system as its relatively new still and I had no issues at all with the game until I reinstalled windows last week.I have attached a DxDiag (As i saw this in other posts) and linked a short clip here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0L4BQ9eJ0) of what happens when I try to launch the game.Hopefully someone here has a solution!Thanks all.

Hey mate, I managed to fix it (Or atleast patch it) by literally disabling my Sata controller in my bios every time I want to play 2042 (Unplugging sata drives worked as well). Its a massive pain in the arse but it does seem to work. Ill go back and update my old posts as at the time I was too pissed off to actually go back to them and update it.Hopefully this works for you as well mate, Its utterly ridiculous that this sort of issue even exists in 2042, an issue that's been around since launch at that.

Product: Battlefield 2042Platform:PCPlease specify your platform model. PCAMD or Nvidia Model Number RTX 2080Enter RAM memory size in GB 32GB DDR4 3600 Are you using any software with an overlay? NoWhich part of the game is the issue happening in? Game MenuIn which game menu were you when the bug occurred? LaunchingPlease select your region AustraliaOn which server did this happen? OCE/NZWhen did this happen? (dd.mm.yy hh:mm) 06/02/2023Summarize your bug When I attempt to launch the game the Easy anti cheat window will load and close, then the 2042 windows will open, will stay black and crash back to either the EA app or Origin, both dont work.How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Launch the game, if it launches you dont have the bugWhat happens when the bug occurs? Game fails to launchWhat should be happening instead? It should launchHi there, I was advised to repost this on the Bug forum from the Technical Issues forum.Hi there,I've been having this issue for the past 8 days, It happened right after I did my annual windows reinstall on my computer and have been troubleshooting ever since. What has been happening is when I attempt to open Battlefield 2042 it opens and loads the Easy Anti-Cheat screen, it will then attempt to launch the game but will instantly black screen and crash back to the EA App. I would like to stress that absolutely nothing changed hardware wise on my computer between reinstalling windows, it is the exact same physical system as it was before when it was working perfectly. I have done almost everything that I could find on the internet and other EA forum posts, I have reinstalled windows on my different drives, I have reseated and tested ram, I have gone through and updated all my drivers, I Have tried to repair and launch the game on both the EA app and Origin (Neither worked), I have unplugged all peripherals, re-updated my BIOS, disabled my XMP, launched in safe mode, repaired and reinstalled Easy Anti Cheat, Launched all in administrator, I have ran all the sfc and dism windows commands. Even an entirely fresh boot of windows with only my drivers and the game installed does not work. I struggle to believe that it is my system as its relatively new still and I had no issues at all with the game until I reinstalled windows last week.I have attached a DxDiag (As i saw this in other posts) and linked a short clip here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB0L4BQ9eJ0) of what happens when I try to launch the game.Hopefully someone here has a solution!Thanks all.

@EA_Leeuw Ill give that a go now thanks.

you know what, i've got a collapsed raid array just sitting on some HDD's in my rig, it might actually have something to do with that. i unfortunately can't just disconnect my SATA drives as they're pretty deeply integrated with the software i use daily, but that broken raid array might be the cause of all my heartache. I'll give it a shot and report back. I can't be the only one stupid enough to run RAID 0 for the memes XD

you sir are a legend.I wasn't really too bothered to get round to fixing that array, turns out the twin drives, one stuck in RAID the other in AHCI was being picked up by EAC as a potentially cheat injection method.You have single handedly saved me a world of headache, it would've been months before i ran low on hard disk and needed to reconfigure those drives.So, Update for how i fixed my broken ahh computer.If you're coming from an older system and have collapsed or non-formatted disks installed that aren't in use, remove them or reformat them for the installation you currently have. the data is likely already gone for good anyways, if not obtain another drive of equal capacity and attempt to recover what you will, then format the old drives (this is what i had initially done before upgrading from my intel z170 rig to my AMD AM5 rig, thankfully saved 4tb of data, ended up losing 1tb to a dodgy installation of windows on an MBR m.2 SSD cause i am a colossal *)after erasing all remnants of my old RAID array and formatting the drives, lo and behold! not only is 2042 alive, but a whole bunch of other games i thought i'd simply lost to the void due to new pc teething issues.

2042 blackscreen and crash on launch (PC)

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Jak3Dark
3 years ago
you know what, i've got a collapsed raid array just sitting on some HDD's in my rig, it might actually have something to do with that. i unfortunately can't just disconnect my SATA drives as they're pretty deeply integrated with the software i use daily, but that broken raid array might be the cause of all my heartache. I'll give it a shot and report back. I can't be the only one stupid enough to run RAID 0 for the memes XD
Jak3Dark
3 years ago
you sir are a legend.
I wasn't really too bothered to get round to fixing that array, turns out the twin drives, one stuck in RAID the other in AHCI was being picked up by EAC as a potentially cheat injection method.
You have single handedly saved me a world of headache, it would've been months before i ran low on hard disk and needed to reconfigure those drives.
So, Update for how i fixed my broken ahh computer.
If you're coming from an older system and have collapsed or non-formatted disks installed that aren't in use, remove them or reformat them for the installation you currently have. the data is likely already gone for good anyways, if not obtain another drive of equal capacity and attempt to recover what you will, then format the old drives (this is what i had initially done before upgrading from my intel z170 rig to my AMD AM5 rig, thankfully saved 4tb of data, ended up losing 1tb to a dodgy installation of windows on an MBR m.2 SSD cause i am a colossal *)
after erasing all remnants of my old RAID array and formatting the drives, lo and behold! not only is 2042 alive, but a whole bunch of other games i thought i'd simply lost to the void due to new pc teething issues.
CrackConnolsseu
3 years ago
@Jak3Dark Good to hear it worked for you man 🙂
EA_Leeuw
Community Manager
3 years ago
@gorgorito1244, gotcha. Maybe a strange BIOS setting in that case, or an OC profile?
Rokebo73
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@gorgorito1244 got some system info to share ?
gorgorito1244
3 years ago
@EA_Leeuw

I disabled those 2 options in the bios and I was able to play without the pc restarting suddenly, the current problem is that it still consumes 100% of the cpu (Currently I have it activated)
EA_Leeuw
Community Manager
3 years ago
@gorgorito1244, awesome, thanks for the update.

Yeah, the CPU situation is being discussed here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Constant-100-CPU-utilization-since-Season-3-update/td-p/12072755.

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