Corrupt save file(s)

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The fact it's marked as solved is diabolical 

Hello: I just fixed my 2042. Here's what I had to do. I'm on a brand new machine, fresh install of everything. It actually played 2042 a number of times with out issue, Then out of the blue I get the dreaded "save files corrupt" screen. I installed, and uninstalled, and reinstalled, and uninstalled, everything etc.  Still no 2042. After much research I got serious. First I used Chris Titus utility to remove OneDrive. Then I went into Documents/Battlefield 2042/settings/PROSAVE_profile, open with wordpad. First look to see if a file "GstRender.CyclicCrashPrevention 1" is present. If not put it in where it belongs. Mine did not have this file. Then go back to PROSAVE and if there is a "PROSAVE - copy" there, delete it. Then go back to EA and right click on 2042 manage tab and do a repair files. Then get out of EA and reboot your machine.

OK, after thinking about this I come to this conclusion. When you get the "save files corrupt" and then it says "checking data" on that message in the upper left corner of that overlay. Then it says "continuing will overwrite the files". So this is the direct fix, I think. When it does that it is overwriting the files. Those files are in the Documents/Battlefield 2042/settings. When you do that you'll see the PROSAVE_profile file and the PROSAVE file and PROSAVE - copy file. You'll want to delete the PROSAVE file and then rename the PROSAVE - copy to PROSAVE. Then do a BF 2042 repair in the EA app.