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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 cont...
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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.

Rokebo73's avatar
Rokebo73
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

@DrKotasz2  ya could copy and past PROFSAVE_profile
into the documenst / bf2042 from the account (windows) ya logged in

Cheers

C:\Users\ACCOUNT_NAME\Documents\Battlefield 2042\settings

ACCOUNT_NAME name from the windows account ya did login !

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.

  • Rokebo73's avatar
    Rokebo73
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @DrKotasz2 Good for solve and info !!

    Game on !!

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