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4 years ago

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Battlefield 2042 Crashes after anticheat launcher

I need massive help. I have contacted ea 3 different times along with googling for hours to no progress. When I open the game through ea desktop, the easy anticheat launcher loads all the way, then it pops up a black window for a few seconds until that black window freezes and then the game crashes. I have tried reinstalling, installing through origin, opening with admin, reinstalling my GPU drives, logging in through a different admin account on windows, removing all my other running applications and plenty more and nothing is working. I've dedicated over 5 hours just to try and fix this. What's the issue?

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Slippydip
4 years ago
This work for me
1. Copied files from Origin install location to another folder
2. Uninstalled BF2042 from Origin app
3. Closed Origin with Task Manager
4. Installed BF with the EA App (Using the path I copied the game files too; didn't have to re-download the game)
5. Launched with EA app

It launched with no issue.
Hope this works for others <3

55 Replies

Slippydip
4 years ago
@SystemicProgress An EA rep told me the same thing and it didn't do anything to solve it. My post above actually did work (for me at least) and EA reps didn't even recommend to do it.
They're just copy/pasting from a script to make you feel as if they're actually helping. But really the issue lies with the Devs of Origin / BF2042.
ElPortablay
4 years ago
Good luck on that, I tried to get my refund through Steam where I bought the game but since I played more than 2 hours I was SoL. They got their money now they don't give a *. Been 2 weeks of this game being unplayable for me and this issue always happens with every game I have that uses Easy Anti Cheat.
119301704033-24
4 years ago
readed whole thread, nothing work.... look like i wasted my money
KingGiggidy
3 years ago
Not sure if anyone is still having this issue but thought I would share my solution that worked. My brother was having this issue recently and the cause was the anti-cheat software conflicting with some old files in an old hard drive. We disabled the old hard drive and it worked!
EA_Atic
DICE Team
3 years ago
Closing down the thread as the thread was related to lunch issues that has since been fixed.

If you are having start up issues please make a new topic and with the troubleshooting you have done.

Thank you.

/Atic