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PrivatePud's avatar
3 years ago
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BF2042 won't Launch after latest EA app update

Finally got BF 2042 to run, and I get a message that the EA app needs to restart.  Now it won't launch.  Start EA app, select BF2042 to play, Season 3 Escalation splash screen opens, then closes, a blank window opens and closes, and then EA app opens back up and it just sits there.  Cleared EA Cache tried all the other tips from this forum, it just won't launch.

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  • Did those, this is a new box running Win 11 Pro with all the latest updates, same goes for the video driver,  System file checker and other tools verfied file integrity.  EA file verification came back clean.  I've been through these forums and have tried everything.  Nothing worked.  Months went by, never got it to run.

    Then, this month, NVidia released an update for my RTX 3080, and BF2042 ran!  Ran really well too.  I was enjoying it for about as week in a half.

    Then one day, I fire it up.  The EA app indicated that it had been updated and that the "EA app needs to restart".  BF2042 didn't run after that EA app update.  

  • After a frustrating weekend where I hosted a LAN party for some friends to play the last few days of Season 3 BF 2042, I finally figured out why two of us could not launch the game and were both crashing without errors and getting DX errors all weekend. 

    Uninstall Asus Armory Crate if you have it. BOTH apps (lite and full version) That was the problem. Not sure if it's BF 2042, EA app, or Easy Anticheat that has problems with it, but up until a few days ago it was not a problem because we both had it loaded and were able to play fine. 

    Of course, I figured this out this morning after all my friends have gone and it ruined my weekend.

  • PrivatePud's avatar
    PrivatePud
    3 years ago

    Got to play for several days, and now BF2042 is failing to launch.  No error message, no changes detected to software, but it could have updated.  But I'm back to failure to launch.

  • mkronen93's avatar
    mkronen93
    3 years ago

    I have the same issue. 

    After the splash screen it just goes back to the EA APP. 

    I have tried making .exe files running as admin. I have re-installed windows 11, and reformatted the drives so all drives were clean. 

    Any updates on this from your side? 

  • I've solved this issue by restarting the EABackgroundService  (run services.msc to get to the list of services and it will be listed there). This has worked every time so far.

  • After all this time still they hadn't fixed it. i brought the game which i cant play what kind of scam is this.

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