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DrKotasz2
3 years ago
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BF 2042 two win11 accounts same machine

I have bought BF 2042 runs fine. Win11, i7 13700k, 3060Ti

Created another user account on PC for my son, logged in to my EA account, the game complains about cloud data corruption, and pressing continue it loads the Easy Anticheat screen and hangs there. Then we see that BF runs in the background and does nothing.

I could survive with the fact that account sharing does not work within family, so I am ready to buy a second copy for my son's account but this is some technical issue with startup with Win 11.

We have BF1 and it happily starts in either my or his windows, and my or his EA account on the same machine, only BF 2042 dies, and insists to my windows user.

What can I do? I have seen tips about gamesave folder/file permissions, can I delete them to be recreated ... any idea appreciated.

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  • DrKotasz2's avatar
    DrKotasz2
    3 years ago

    I solved it.

    When launched the game as local win user, EA itself notified me in a popup that this game requires admin permissions.

    Which made me think why he asks as I gave admin rights to win user and set compatibility "run as administrator" for Easyanticheat executables and BF 2042 executables.

    I switched off UAC as it came to my attention that the "main" user in win11 is not notified that the application will act as admin, but all the other users get a popup, even if they are admin.

    Also I launched EA app with "Run as administrator" in most of the times but it did not help launching.

    So besides cursing Win11, in my struggle I decided to go through the "EA desktop" folder and gave the compatibility flag "run as admin" for each executables there. There are almost a dozen.

    And ta-daam the game has launched.   

    With some more hours of testing, I may check which one/ones are the culprit, but I think I will play now for a while, and leave some testing for EA.

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  • DrKotasz2's avatar
    DrKotasz2
    3 years ago

    The second Win 11 account is a local account.

    At the time of creation it was limited user, later when experienced that BF 2042 does not start, I promoted to admin account.

    No parent control is set for that login in Win11 or EA.

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @DrKotasz2 hmmm and if ya make a 3rd account with all priveleges ?
    And try it again, make sure to repair game in new (3rd) win11 account.

    update us !
  • pecmeserp's avatar
    pecmeserp
    3 years ago
    @DrKotasz2 Most likely (as it is) this restriction was created by an anti-cheat to prevent account sharing. Plus, since BF2042 is purely multiplayer, it's technically impossible for two different people to play from the same account. These games are not intended for "family sharing".
  • DrKotasz2's avatar
    DrKotasz2
    3 years ago

    We do not want to share the account if it is not possible.

    (It would make sense though like I can play on our Nintendo with the same game when my son does not use it, having my own progress)

    We just want to use one powerful PC to play the game in different times, keeping different progress records (and key bindings as I am left handed), even if I have to buy two copies.

    Currently it does not seem possible. I will try to create the second win11 account as admin and will post the result.

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @DrKotasz2 indeed ya need 2 copies, each with their own EA account !
    Otherwise its not possible to gain seperate progress.
    If ya just 1 copie , it can run only at 1 email (ea account). Progress will be stored online at EA.

    Ya can install 1 copy , and 2 ea accounts can use the same copy, thats np, but needs an seperate email/count to play with your own progress....!

    cheers.
  • DrKotasz2's avatar
    DrKotasz2
    3 years ago

    @Rokebo73 Tried on new Win 11 local admin account. Logged in to my EA, repaired BF2042.

    This way it does not complain about corrupted cloud data, but wants to start.

    And stops at the anticheat splash screen. That screen disappears after half minute, but BF2042 remains stuck as a background process. 

    (It actually happened previously as well, just I focused on the game itself)

    Now it seems clearer that the anticheat sw does not work on multiple Win 11 user account. (As BF1 starts happily.)

    Do you happen to have idea whether we can make anticheat work as well?

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @DrKotasz2  Start/launch the gameplatform as admin (make sure it doesnt boot with windows).

    Now test if BF2042 will luanch without any issues !


    You could also try to repair the EAC, in the installation folder ?:\?\EA Games\Battlefield 2042\EasyAntiCheat

    is the file EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe , run it as an adminstrator , repair it !

    Cheers

  • DrKotasz2's avatar
    DrKotasz2
    3 years ago

    @Rokebo73 Tried but no joy. 

    Local Win11 admin account.

    Switched off autostart of EA, restarted PC, checked that no EA and Easy anticheat service running.

    Launched EA as admin, repaired BF2042.

    Launched EasyAnticheat install from BF2042 folder as admin, clicked repair it reinstalled itself.

    Launched BF2042 the same hang.

    It does not complain about anything start EasyAnticheat, and that screen just hangs there for half minute.

    In the Background BF2042 process eats around 300MB and displays nothing.

    I also tried to set compatibility mode for anticheat and BF2042 processes to run as admin, but behaviour is the same.

    Bad luck.

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