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.
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.